Hacker News: Fyrezerk

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Reddit lawyers win trademark battle over 'WallStreetBets'"

Fyrezerk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:41:45 +0000

I'm not sure I understand how this is enforceable. Surely Reddit can't claim trademark to every name used as a subreddit?

Reddit lawyers win trademark battle over 'WallStreetBets'

Fyrezerk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-lawyers-force-founder-redact-184500502.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774315

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New comment by Fyrezerk in "Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google"

Fyrezerk — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:45:47 +0000

Is this the only reply you can come up with in this post? Maybe some people want to have legitimate discussions on valuations.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:30:24 +0000

Do you not realize how much of modern society relies on cars and trucks as a mode of transport? It's asinine to think you can just get rid of them in most parts of the world and continue life as usual.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

Fyrezerk — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:59:32 +0000

I know several friends who prefer to be in the office because they need some amount of time away from their young kids. It's the equivalent of "them" time where they get an escape from child care for a few hours.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Win11Debloat is a simple script that removes pre-installed windows bloatware"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:31:46 +0000

The Linux hivemind on HN would say that's OK, but that mindset is also why Linux has such a dismal consumer base. There should be a video player built it by default, yes, but it should also be easy to remove if you so choose.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "GPT-4 API General Availability"

Fyrezerk — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:24:14 +0000

The hacker/builder ethos doesn't matter in the grand scheme of commercialization.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:25:17 +0000

>This customer is not only right, but is representative of a whole class of customers that you need to learn to win over.

That's not always true. If a certain subset of customers wants something ridiculous, they can either go elsewhere or learn to adapt. For better or worse, companies often times have the ability to drive public sentiment just as much as they have the responsibility to pander to it. When Apple removed headphone jacks from all their products they did so against a torrent of outrage, but fast forward 5-7 years and they absolutely made the right call. People learned to get over it.

Catering to bordering-on-harmfully-obsessive parents isn't always the best call.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits"

Fyrezerk — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:47:52 +0000

On the contrary, I see Reddit as being extremely difficult to replace, precisely because of those 17 years of investment by users. Reddit is a gold mine of information related to any topic you can imagine, and that information won't magically migrate to another platform without serious network traction by a large user base.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification"

Fyrezerk — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 22:21:47 +0000

In this particular case the CO2 mineralization is taking place in a wastewater slurry that comes from washing out cement trucks. The carbonated slurry is then re-used as an additive by cement manufacturers.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Cement's future could be a combination of carbon capture and electrification"

Fyrezerk — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:48:39 +0000

This article isn't very clear on the fact that CO2 can be re-injected back into the cement later in the production stage. I work with a startup using direct air capture tech to capture ambient CO2, store it, and inject it back into cement production. This has a massive offset in the CO2 produced during the calcination stage.

https://www.carbon-direct.com/insights/direct-air-capture-to...

There is also lots of work already underway on electrified calcination. Plenty of industries, such as carbon fiber production, already take advantage of electrified kilns in their production process. This tech just needs to be scaled up. As the article mentioned, cement manufacturing isn't exactly on the cutting edge of technology.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:41:34 +0000

I'm not entirely sure what that implies. It's in the consumer's best interest to check reviews of products when selecting something to buy. How else would you wade through competing options?

Furthermore, 4chan has no search feature so I don't know how that's even equivalent.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Hawker.social a Reddit/Twitter alternative that I launched earlier this year"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:55:34 +0000

Happy to check it out, but I'll say at first glance you need your landing page to include actual content. The barrier to entry is immediately too high if I can't go straight to the home page and start browsing posts. You'll lose out on a huge amount of traffic who get disinterested and close the tab, and the network effect is all about retaining all the traffic you can.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:30:32 +0000

Thanks for the anecdote on ad pricing. That's certainly concerning.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:06:21 +0000

My point, though, is where do we draw the line between antitrust enforcement because it serves the public's best interest, and enforcement that results in a net negative experience?

New comment by Fyrezerk in "Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:57:47 +0000

I challenge you to provide me a better resource than reddit for finding reliable product reviews and discussions for just about anything you can buy.

New comment by Fyrezerk in "EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling"

Fyrezerk — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:50:37 +0000

These rulings for a company of Google's stature/importance are always funny to me. How quickly would public opinion change if Google decided to just shut off their service in the EU for a day?

Monopolistic breakups that serve the public's best interest are one thing. But how many people actually care that Google might represent a monopoly? Does it actually affect people negatively if the result is a positive online user experience? The world runs on Google and forcing that to change seems like a step backwards at first glance.