Hacker News: Dusseldorf

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The turbulent AI era is here"

Dusseldorf — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:18:55 +0000

The issue here is that they've changed Old Reddit to require a login going forward.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:53:47 +0000

My town in the US has something like this. Several portable toilet trailers that are typically stationed near public gathering areas all year round, and moved to accommodate large events. They're significantly nicer than porta potties, and are about on par with any public bathroom accessed from outside. They require the ability to either scan a QR code, or send/receive SMS. They've always been clean any time I've used them, and have some mechanisms to report cleanliness issues back to toilet HQ.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Amazon tax"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:39:25 +0000

Yes! It's very frustrating when I think I'm browsing several variations of a single product, only to realize that some of the results are a totally different product, the brand doesn't affect it either way. I'm fine seeing results for multiple trims if I didn't specify one.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:38:38 +0000

Does anyone know if there are any reasonable alternatives here if I don't want to create an ID.me account and hand my PII over to them? Do I just need to liquidate my positions and close my account out, or can I manage it offline via correspondence somehow? Seems absurd to have so quick a turnaround on this with no alternative options.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:06:45 +0000

might turn out that the next company they apply to is run by street urchins who don't take too kindly to the stereotype? or possibly humorless scolds who don't want their employees telling jokes in their free time?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:48 +0000

I think the reason people get angry about it is that it feels like an asymmetric ask. It feels a bit like saying "everyone needs to come I to the office because I like there to be people in the office, regardless of whether that's what they want." (not saying that's what you're saying here, just trying to shine some light on how it may be perceived)

New comment by Dusseldorf in "GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:25:16 +0000

"I got on pickpocketed on my last vacation, so now I travel with an old backup phone instead"

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:07:56 +0000

I think you may have switched the "of" and "on" when you read the original post. They're saying that the human body can negatively affect radio waves, not that radio waves have a negative effect on the human body.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:36:22 +0000

I'm glad your username specifies your location. My biggest pet peeve online these days is someone telling a story about "my country" but never specifying which country that is.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

or stay, and be subtly bad enough at your job to negatively affect the progress of the enterprise.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The worst job interview I ever had"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:49:52 +0000

Also a great way for candidates to filter out employers who play bizarre mind games and think personal trick questions are appropriate in an interview.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Language Models Need Sleep"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:44:01 +0000

Was it anthropomorphizing computers when they named "memory"? Seems to me like it's more analogizing for the sake of easy understanding. Sure, it's not literally the same exact mechanism, but it's certainly modeled after the biological concept.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:13:22 +0000

Finally, a cromulent argument to nuke the whales!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:19:11 +0000

"Print Error Detected"?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:01:29 +0000

They used that argument for years to avoid doing WoW Classic, and then it was wildly successful when they finally did. Seems to me like the inability to consider how they could work this into their ecosystem is yet another indicator of how far they've fallen since the golden era.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:55:38 +0000

It took me 5 rereads before I properly read "should" instead of "would", which totally flips the implication!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:17:37 +0000

Amusing to see how attitudes toward AI change over time. On page 6, part of the original text has a footnote apologizing to readers far in the future for outdated speculations, then mentions that future readers "may even be an artificial intelligence rather than a human, how wonderful!"

But just a bit before that in the foreword written in the present day, bars AI scrapers from reading or referencing the materials under any circumstances!

Anyway, this seems fantastic and I'll definitely be spending some time diving in.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:57:29 +0000

But unfortunately gambling ads are also to the US what pharmaceutical ads are to the US.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:48:09 +0000

Advertised or not, you can take my breaded mosquitos from my cold, dead hands!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:30:48 +0000

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but have you considered that you might need to improve your putting/unplugging habits? I used to have connectors and cords break after around that much time. Around 2018 or so I bought a new set of chargers and decent quality cloth sheathed cables. Because all my cords were new, I was much more diligent about carefully plugging and unplugging (no mashing the port, no flexing across the short axis, no yanking by the cord) and eventually a habit formed. Not a single one of those cords, nor any of the ports on my phones, have broken since then. Even the daily use ones next to my bed!