Hacker News: HugoTea

New comment by HugoTea in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

HugoTea — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:43:31 +0000

That's lovely

New comment by HugoTea in "I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth"

HugoTea — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:20:59 +0000

If you think of the Loop system as a way of transporting people then it will obviously look insanely stupid.

But if you consider what it really is - an easy way to sell Teslas to cities for no benefit, then it makes perfect sense.

New comment by HugoTea in "I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth"

HugoTea — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:17:46 +0000

> A quick check of Google Maps showed the route we were taking, on city streets, took 6 minutes. As we emerged into the sunshine at Westgate, I checked my timer. Six minutes. I’d saved zero minutes.

Beautiful

New comment by HugoTea in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

HugoTea — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:02:53 +0000

I think a never-ending pool of young, fresh, and naïve graduates happy to sell their soul to make video games has been a strong contributor for low wages for a while. Any time someone gets too senior, just replace them with another graduate. Naturally, the product quality and timescale suffers too.

New comment by HugoTea in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

HugoTea — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:59:57 +0000

This is great news, unions not only improve working conditions, but also improve the final product by not having underpaid stressed staff with high turn-over. It's a good sign for the future product quality of any company to see workers unionise.

New comment by HugoTea in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

HugoTea — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:55:06 +0000

To be honest, CI has always been a massive risk, I'm a bit miffed at how blasé some people are about providing runners.

New comment by HugoTea in "What killed the Florida orange?"

HugoTea — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:19:31 +0000

I have no idea what Florida's weather patterns are

New comment by HugoTea in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

HugoTea — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:59:35 +0000

Think we've found the solution right there

New comment by HugoTea in "What killed the Florida orange?"

HugoTea — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:35:35 +0000

They mention it as a critical factor, the disease is spread by insects, which is spread by hurricanes. The areas they grow the oranges never used to get hurricanes.

> Hurricanes turned out to be a vector for spreading the little winged bug. The wind carried the psyllid all over the state, dropping it off in hundreds of thousands of acres of groves.

> It was the perfect storm. And then, of course, there were the actual perfect storms, the high-caliber hurricanes that, before climate change, didn’t come to the Ridge: Irma, Ian, Milton, massive cells, all direct hits on the groves.

New comment by HugoTea in "Woman with three deadly diseases has 'remarkable' recovery after cell therapy"

HugoTea — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:21:32 +0000

> At the time, she required daily blood transfusions and permanent blood thinning medication to control her illness.

Daily blood transfusions sounds like such a nightmare, I couldn't imagine.

> A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

Absolutely incredible, Auto Immune disease is horrific.

New comment by HugoTea in "Krafton CEO used ChatGPT in failed bid to avoid paying US$250M bonus"

HugoTea — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:16:37 +0000

Ignoring legal advice from your lawyers because you managed to convince the text generator that something is possible (even though it also advised against it) is really up there for Bad Ideas.

New comment by HugoTea in "Oracle accused of targeting employees with stock options in recent layoffs"

HugoTea — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:48:52 +0000

Comically evil company strikes again. There is no depth Oracle will not sink too, no funding they will not cut, no quality they will not sacrifice.

New comment by HugoTea in "How to turn anything into a router"

HugoTea — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:24:39 +0000

I suppose if you manage to get OpenWRT or something onto your switch you could use it as a router.

New comment by HugoTea in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

HugoTea — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:31:11 +0000

Licensing rarely makes sense

New comment by HugoTea in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

HugoTea — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:58:02 +0000

GrapheneOS doesn't give you root access, citing security issues it introduces. You could re-compile your own copy with root access, though not sure if we'll then be back to some non-certified OS that can't make payments...

New comment by HugoTea in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

HugoTea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:13:18 +0000

This applies to most Smeg products. Which is a shame, they used to be really good and long-lasting.

New comment by HugoTea in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

HugoTea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:03:48 +0000

This is the same for every internet service, and the primary experience when signing up to big centralised services like Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. If they think your account is suspicious in any way, instantly gone with no way to appeal, I've seen a number of friends experience this recently and they're not even outliers using a VPN or 'unusual' email or anything. At least with federated services, you have the opportunity to keep backups of your profile and sign-up with another instance whenever you want.

New comment by HugoTea in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

HugoTea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:03 +0000

You can, but you need to be on an instance, go to https://loops.video for that experience. joinloops.org is more of an onboarding site it seems

New comment by HugoTea in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

HugoTea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:58:56 +0000

This is the same philosophy as the creator, the sign-up flow does not ask you to select a server it defaults you to loops.video Maybe the app is different? I haven't tried it yet

New comment by HugoTea in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

HugoTea — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:16:22 +0000

All dozen of them :(