Hacker News: Neil44

New comment by Neil44 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

Neil44 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:01:24 +0000

Oh come on, if a company is placing job ads to comply with the letter of this law in 2026 they're 100% exploiting the process Vance outlines and would undoubtedly try to exploit whatever the replacement process was as well.

New comment by Neil44 in "The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients"

Neil44 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:38:56 +0000

I have cookie bite hearing loss which is very gradually getting worse (48). I'm told genetics and not much can be done. I can empathize with the isolation. I'm often happy to sit back and just enjoy the atmosphere without necessarily hearing everything. But then sometimes it becomes awkward.

New comment by Neil44 in "High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days"

Neil44 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:54:01 +0000

Truckers aren't just rolling around out there for their own enjoyment they're transporting the goods we all use every day, on pretty thin margins at that. I guess if you're trying to indirectly tax the users of trucking then OK.

Roads are subsided by people - what else would they be subsidised by, aliens?

New comment by Neil44 in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

Neil44 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:30:16 +0000

I didn't realize that Dodos only lived on Mauritius. I thought they were everywhere for some reason. I guess little meat footballs that can't fly were never going to colonize the planet.

New comment by Neil44 in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

Neil44 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:14:37 +0000

Yeah he doesn't want people delaying purchasing decisions

New comment by Neil44 in "Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)"

Neil44 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:28:07 +0000

Well Great Lakes Works is still operating, and you can still buy Stratus ftServers, how nice is that after all this time?

New comment by Neil44 in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

Neil44 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:49:15 +0000

That would be very cool. I wonder if you could get it through legislation though. I think all the legislation is based around reciprocating IC engines.

New comment by Neil44 in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

Neil44 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:38:14 +0000

Can confirm my 11 year old says 'thats so AI' and means it as a slight insult.

New comment by Neil44 in "The softness of metal"

Neil44 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:01:07 +0000

Anecdotally my friend who works at the bar at a music venue said the rock and metal fans are always the chill-est and easiest going.

New comment by Neil44 in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Neil44 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:15:26 +0000

I suppose it's theft in so far as you're deriving value from something that others labored for. I think that sticks in peoples throats. You can go to the library and do that already, gain knowledge, start a business or whatever. But the scale feels impersonal and monstrous in comparison.

New comment by Neil44 in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

Neil44 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0000

I understand the sentiment and partly agree. But also, the original has not gone anywhere. You're free to accumulate knowledge in the old way just as before. So maybe it's not theft of knowledge that we should be angry about, it's something else harder to define.

New comment by Neil44 in "Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls"

Neil44 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:03:18 +0000

In the UK you can get agile tarrifs now where the price changes through the day according to demand and supply predictions. There's an API you can use to control chargers, heaters, bitcoin miners etc.

New comment by Neil44 in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

Neil44 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:48:46 +0000

Ironic that an article about a CDN was hugged to death. The free plan with a couple of caching rules could have sorted that.

New comment by Neil44 in "Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information"

Neil44 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:02:48 +0000

I wonder if it's for firing lines over to a shipwrecked vessel, to assist with getting people ashore.

New comment by Neil44 in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

Neil44 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:45:46 +0000

As usual it seems any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'.

New comment by Neil44 in "Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone"

Neil44 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:56:36 +0000

Fact check, the conservatives want to block the expansion into outer London. Reform wants to end them all.

New comment by Neil44 in "Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone"

Neil44 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:01:23 +0000

I'm obviously supportive of less pollution etc etc but looking at the actual graph results I wouldn't describe them as 'stunning', the needle barely moved. But of course, they have to have something to make headlines after spending so many million on the study and who knows how many billion on ulez. I'm not one of these anti ulez people I think it's good. But you can imagine the pressure to spin tepid results into headlines.

New comment by Neil44 in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

Neil44 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:09:05 +0000

Windows absolutely does have this problem.

New comment by Neil44 in "Pixel Watch 5"

Neil44 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:56:43 +0000

Same my 4 year old Huawei watch still goes 2-3 weeks. It seems to be the devices with simpler OS's that last longer and the wearOS and apple equivalent struggle to do more than a day or two.

New comment by Neil44 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

Neil44 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:08:21 +0000

I graduated in 2000 and remember doing the oral defence. It wasn't a huge deal. You already have a personal relationship with your tutors and they are familiar with you and your communication style. They are not the Gestapo.