Hacker News: FriedPickles

New comment by FriedPickles in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

FriedPickles — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:52:22 +0000

The money still comes from somewhere. In this case, those index funds will be forced to trim holdings of other companies. So it's cannibalizing other parts of the stock market.

New comment by FriedPickles in "Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery"

FriedPickles — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:56:42 +0000

There are several errors here. When the eye ages, the lens stiffens, effectively decreasing the focal range. For nearsightdness, Lasik alters the cornea and moves the relaxed focal distance outward. It's possible that a nearsighted person wouldn't need reading glasses even as their focal range decreases, but would after Lasik.

New comment by FriedPickles in "FBI and DOJ Announce Operation Masquerade"

FriedPickles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:04:00 +0000

I don't disagree about TP-Link's security reputation. But I think they're an independent Chinese company, not a Cisco brand.

FBI and DOJ Announce Operation Masquerade

FriedPickles — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-conducts-court-authorized-disruption-dns-hijacking-network-controlled

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686967

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by FriedPickles in "MacBook Air with M5"

FriedPickles — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:54:39 +0000

I'll upgrade my M1 MBA when they do. I remember my Intel MBP running noticeably hotter when plugged in on one side vs the other, so maybe it's trickier than it seems.

Time Station Emulator

FriedPickles — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kangtastic/timestation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786183

Points: 241

# Comments: 59

New comment by FriedPickles in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

FriedPickles — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:56:27 +0000

Mostly I'm worried about bit rot, i.e. breaking changes in subsequent iOS updates. But your point is valid, I'll try Nintype again. It's extremely quirky and opinionated in an entertaining way.

New comment by FriedPickles in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

FriedPickles — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:50:35 +0000

> The best thing we can do is just report it via the feedback app and wait for a bug fix

iOS supports third party keyboards. Surely anybody this bothered by it should investigate those and pick a better option?

There was an absolutely mind-blowing keyboard which supported multi-finger swiping called Nintype, but development on it has stopped.

New comment by FriedPickles in "ChatGPT Atlas"

FriedPickles — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:17:17 +0000

Who is Avira and how'd they get OpenAI to ship their browser with 3 of their extensions preinstalled with full permissions?

China Regulators Eye Ban on Retractable Door Handles

FriedPickles — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://carnewschina.com/2025/09/05/chinas-auto-regulators-eye-ban-on-retractable-door-handles-report-says/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250150

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by FriedPickles in "Not paying with cash"

FriedPickles — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:53:27 +0000

Contactless Bitcoin lightning payments. Best of both worlds.

New comment by FriedPickles in "' largest' fusion fuel facility to be built"

FriedPickles — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:18:30 +0000

The article discusses only the peaceful uses. But tritium must also be constantly replenished in the h-bomb arsenal due to its half life of ~12 years.

US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'

FriedPickles — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 23:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7430kq7eyxo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327362

Points: 16

# Comments: 8

New comment by FriedPickles in "Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)"

FriedPickles — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:18:09 +0000

Hmm, why don't they make iodized flaky salt?

New comment by FriedPickles in "Subpixel Snake [video]"

FriedPickles — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:56:06 +0000

If you're as dumb as me and try to actually play this, note that the "Snake speed" value is inverted.

New comment by FriedPickles in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

FriedPickles — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:12:13 +0000

Yes. Or visit TikTok.com in the browser, even if their region is set to US.

New comment by FriedPickles in "Toyota rethinks its bet on hydrogen"

FriedPickles — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:08:01 +0000

Drive a Toyota Mirai while you can–this might be the only time in history to experience the hilarious quirks of a hydrogen car. Including the "dump h2o" button, which causes the car to, um, eject its h2o waste on command. Oh and if you're in San Francisco, take a ride on the free hydrogen powered ferry "Sea Change" (its waste comes out of the drinking fountain).

New comment by FriedPickles in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

FriedPickles — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:44:37 +0000

Calling these links 'magic' is an insult to magicians who spent years mastering actual sorcery. We're just passing around URL-encoded tokens.

New comment by FriedPickles in "NASA, Axiom Space Change Assembly Order of Commercial Space Station"

FriedPickles — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:41:29 +0000

I wonder if there's any useful heavy equipment aboard the ISS that could be transferred to the Axiom prior to separation and thus salvaged. It'd have to be stuff the ISS could do without for the remaining couple years of its life.

New comment by FriedPickles in "Plasticlist Report – Data on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods"

FriedPickles — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:32:49 +0000

One thing I'd like to see tested: I have a theory that reusable plastic containers leach out most of their chemicals early in their life, so the amount imparted to any food diminishes with each use. Under this theory, I save and reuse old plastic containers for a long time, and avoid new ones (especially single use). Could this be true, or misguided?