Hacker News: MetroWind

New comment by MetroWind in "Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers"

MetroWind — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:43:04 +0000

It's great. But I just play Beyond All Reason now.

New comment by MetroWind in "Passkeys are a trap"

MetroWind — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:40:56 +0000

Honestly I don't care about any of that. From my perspective, passkey = phone + app required. That's already a red flag big enough for me to not use them. If I put on my engineer hat, another problem I see is that most services seem to not be competent enough to implement it in a non-broken way.

New comment by MetroWind in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

MetroWind — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:18:01 +0000

People should own their credentials instead of storing it in someone else's computers.

New comment by MetroWind in "Lobbying is corruption"

MetroWind — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:16:41 +0000

Buying political favor is corruption.

New comment by MetroWind in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

MetroWind — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:44:53 +0000

Suuuurrreeeee

New comment by MetroWind in "A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE"

MetroWind — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:31:32 +0000

This is my favorite GUI style.

New comment by MetroWind in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

MetroWind — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:37:35 +0000

No it won't.

New comment by MetroWind in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

MetroWind — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:36:25 +0000

It's funny how the western world seems to believe every single decision in China is made by the government. You guys really give the CCP too much credit. China also has plenty of closed models just FYI. You never heard of them because they are only available to the domestic market.

New comment by MetroWind in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

MetroWind — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:29:17 +0000

At that point the US will complete its China conversion and turn on the GFW so you can't access Chinese AI services.

New comment by MetroWind in "In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life"

MetroWind — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:12:29 +0000

> You have been blocked from The New York Times because we suspect that you're a robot.

Ok then.

New comment by MetroWind in "Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi"

MetroWind — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:11:45 +0000

But... why?

New comment by MetroWind in "When did Google get so weird?"

MetroWind — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:05:22 +0000

I have stopped using Google search a looooong time ago.

New comment by MetroWind in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

MetroWind — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:10:57 +0000

Why is this such a big news? Apples has always been complying in China.

New comment by MetroWind in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

MetroWind — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:19:50 +0000

Lmao no worries. China will do it and the US can read the paper.

New comment by MetroWind in "OpenJev"

MetroWind — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:49:46 +0000

So the "Unsloppify site" thing just toggle between two AI-generate styles?

New comment by MetroWind in "I don't like passkeys"

MetroWind — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:45:58 +0000

It ultimately comes down to this: it is utterly dangerous and stupid to depend your accounts on third parties (including your phone).

New comment by MetroWind in "I think you should almost never use AI to write"

MetroWind — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:26:37 +0000

Unfortunately people don't usually "write", at least not in the sense this article describes.

> blog post, a research report, a memo, a thoughtful email, a novel

Normal people don't write blog posts, research reports (because normal people don't do research), or novel. They also don't write "thoughtful emails"; they just write low effort normal emails.

New comment by MetroWind in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"

MetroWind — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:34:13 +0000

I mean... of course it's the US. Who else could it be?

New comment by MetroWind in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

MetroWind — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:46:49 +0000

This can't be about LLM. They could just ban LLM PRs like many projects do.

New comment by MetroWind in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

MetroWind — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:43:09 +0000

The fact that this is downvoted tells a lot about the average level of political literacy on HN