Hacker News: GiveOver

New comment by GiveOver in "The lost joy of music piracy"

GiveOver — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:18:55 +0000

One thing I like to do on Spotify is to make a "Blend" playlist with a friend whose music taste overlaps with mine slightly. Not for its intended use of creating a playlist for you both to listen to at the same time, but instead I find it's useful at pulling your recommendations out of the safe zone (and towards the taste of your friend). Sounds a little bit dystopian that I'm cutting my friends out of the friend-recommendation part of music discovery, but if I find a new artist I like I usually make sure to mention it to the friend.

New comment by GiveOver in "Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux"

GiveOver — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:31:39 +0000

I always struggled with Apex Legends on Linux. It didn't pre-load shaders, which led to a very jittery experience for the first round or two. Even after that you still get jitters here and there when it needs to load something new. It wasn't worth doing every time there was a new update.

New comment by GiveOver in "If AI chatbots are the future, I hate it"

GiveOver — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:52:47 +0000

I prefer that feature massively. Being on hold sucks, you can't fully commit to doing another task because you need to listen out for the fuzzy elevator music to switch to a human voice. Even worse when the fuzzy music switches to a recorded human voice every 30 seconds to remind you you're still on hold.

Having a call back means I can forget about it and go on with my day until they call me.

New comment by GiveOver in "British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim"

GiveOver — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:04:25 +0000

I notice every time somebody gets a new phone because it says "Your safety number with x has changed" but whenever I've spoken about it with friends, they have no idea what it means. An additional sentence could help here, such as "You might want to double check that you're really talking to x" or the classic "It's possible someone is doing something nasty". Although I understand that this would definitely scare a lot of people, maybe even push them into thinking Signal is insecure.

New comment by GiveOver in "Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?"

GiveOver — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:18:32 +0000

I too hate the DJ. Not sure why they're trying to push it, the existing system of "daily mix" and "discover weekly" playlists work well in my opinion.

New comment by GiveOver in "Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less"

GiveOver — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:01:16 +0000

I found it bizarre that "weather-independence" was one of the least important metrics. I commuted by bike for years and it's miserable in wind and rain. The numbers of fellow cyclists varied massively depending on the weather.

New comment by GiveOver in "Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists"

GiveOver — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:34:14 +0000

I suppose the argument wouldn't be about how their revenue is distributed, rather that they should be charging more for their subscription (which is, in my opinion, insanely cheap). They're able to keep it that cheap because they're underpaying artists.

New comment by GiveOver in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

GiveOver — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:10:51 +0000

I think gaslighting will soon be redefined as being slightly dishonest or unhelpful in any situation.

New comment by GiveOver in "Ask HN: Why are today's consumers not discerning what is ad and what is not?"

GiveOver — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:00:13 +0000

You could say this about anything. My shampoo bottle is an advertisement to buy the next bottle. My car is an advertisement for other people to buy the same car.

New comment by GiveOver in "All the stupid startup/app ideas I've had so far"

GiveOver — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:46:46 +0000

::-D

New comment by GiveOver in "Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies"

GiveOver — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:45:09 +0000

It's Shamook, the person mentioned in the article.

New comment by GiveOver in "It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974"

GiveOver — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:07:03 +0000

One of those tweets prompted me to type "cat /dev/random" to see what happens. Mild panic as I was assaulted by a million lines of rapidly scrolling random text. Not sure what I expected.

New comment by GiveOver in "Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]"

GiveOver — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 09:59:11 +0000

The video repeatedly quoted that 25% revenue stat for Taylor, but that didn't sound so high to me. I'd have preferred to see a comparison with similar companies

New comment by GiveOver in "Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones"

GiveOver — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:32:05 +0000

Compared to how many of those numbers have Whatsapp (1750), it's more popular than I'd have guessed. 1 Signal user for every 18 Whatsapp users

New comment by GiveOver in "Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations you have experienced?"

GiveOver — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:13:11 +0000

Still have all my ISOs backed up somewhere, and a .txt file with the serial codes in. You never know!

New comment by GiveOver in "I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers"

GiveOver — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:00:52 +0000

'Fn' on the bottom left and 'Ctrl' to the right of it. ARGH!

New comment by GiveOver in "What happens when scientists admit error"

GiveOver — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:35:57 +0000

I agree. I write code all the time and I've never had a single bug. She was careless