Hacker News: HugoTea

New comment by HugoTea in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

HugoTea — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:02:29 +0000

Rookie mistake

New comment by HugoTea in "I also filed the corners off my MacBook"

HugoTea — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:59:15 +0000

I love the animation on the background of your website. And I totally understand what you mean about using a tool, if it's too delicate to do the job, then it's not doing its job. Imagine buying a hammer and trying to keep it clear of scuffs, it's obviously going to impede your work.

New comment by HugoTea in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

HugoTea — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:27:15 +0000

Even if Valve holds a significant market share of the PC Gaming market, this is a harsh conclusion. There are other significantly more expensive and restrictive options, such as the Windows Store for Windows, or the Play Store for Android, or the App Store for iOS and MacOS. PC has much free-er and more accessible options for indie developers, like itch.io. It's probably the least monopolistic gaming market out there. The struggle of course is advertising and reach, not sure who the gate keepers for that were with TTD, maybe magazines?

New comment by HugoTea in "Learning another language appears to slow brain ageing by up to 13 years"

HugoTea — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:32:51 +0000

Conversely, I would not be shocked to see the vast majority of multi-linguals to be low-income immigrants.

New comment by HugoTea in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

HugoTea — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:12:15 +0000

>FFmpeg's AAC DEcoder is busted with regards to stereo PNS, and the bug may be in other AAC decoders too, so we work around it in the encoder. Since no other encoder used PNS, the bug was not found until now.

I don't know what PNS is, but I bet this has been bothering someone's niche use-case for 20 years

New comment by HugoTea in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

HugoTea — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:16:28 +0000

Do you have old 2000s era Argos catalogues? Argos is a shop in the UK, I've been tracking down old catalogues to see if my childhood CD player is in there, can't find evidence of it anywhere and so many were made. The catalogues are sort of rare but were given away for free, now people sell old ones on ebay

New comment by HugoTea in "Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition"

HugoTea — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:34:46 +0000

Very exciting good luck to them all

New comment by HugoTea in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

HugoTea — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:31:12 +0000

Or the Rust re-write rURL

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.