Hacker News: OnionBlender

New comment by OnionBlender in "Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget"

OnionBlender — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:31:27 +0000

What doe striking gold here mean? What "speculative explorations" are you having the agents do?

New comment by OnionBlender in "Solving Factorio Quality"

OnionBlender — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:54:06 +0000

This is why I got bored of Dyson Sphere Program. Once you travel to other solar systems, all you get are resources that let you skip certain production chains. The proliferator spray then made direct insertion inefficient.

The planets in Factorio have new buildings, new mechanics, and certain resources are cheap while others are more scarce.

New comment by OnionBlender in "The new Firefox design is here"

OnionBlender — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:04:31 +0000

The Add Bookmark popup is so small and cramped trying to choose which folder to place the new bookmark.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Meta VR Glasses"

OnionBlender — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:51:46 +0000

Anyone else notice Zuckerberg say "Super Intelligence" multiple times during the Meta Connect keynote?

New comment by OnionBlender in "The senior engineer death spiral"

OnionBlender — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:41:09 +0000

You created a new account just to post this twice?

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?"

OnionBlender — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:26:49 +0000

https://hcker.news has multiple dark mode themes.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: Anyone still coding like 2021? Where do you work?"

OnionBlender — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:53:33 +0000

Were these take home assignments or live coding? It sounds weird to interview someone just to watching them use an AI agent.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development"

OnionBlender — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:10:32 +0000

Spector has acknowledged that. Reminds me of this funny opening line.

> "There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2

New comment by OnionBlender in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

OnionBlender — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:19:31 +0000

There's a kickstarter for "MemoMind One". Glasses with display and no camera.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1963472698/memomind-one...

New comment by OnionBlender in "Severance"

OnionBlender — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:34:06 +0000

I know this is a joke, but this is why my coworkers and I were muted during the meeting we were laid off.

I received a meeting invite the night before for 9am with two HR people and some middle manager above me that I never met. It was obvious what the meeting was going to be.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?"

OnionBlender — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:36:23 +0000

Did you enable to filter? Here is a link with AI excluded.

https://hcker.news/?ai=exclude

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?"

OnionBlender — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:20:50 +0000

https://hcker.news has an optional AI filter. I don't know how accurate it is.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release"

OnionBlender — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:44:12 +0000

My main gripe was fixed in this patch. Planting and harvesting with the agricultural tower can now be controlled with separate conditions. So now there is a better way to avoid wasting so much fruit and therefore, reduce spore pollution.

New comment by OnionBlender in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

OnionBlender — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:41:12 +0000

How is hitting the library an act of rebellious defiance? Getting a library card requires an ID and proof of address. The library then tracks which books you've signed out. Unless you're reading the books inside the library without signing them out.

New comment by OnionBlender in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

OnionBlender — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:10:28 +0000

If you haven't already, you should read John Romero's autobiography "Doom Guy: Life in First Person". There are some details from "Masters of Doom" that Romero disputes.

New comment by OnionBlender in "It is an amazing time for programmers"

OnionBlender — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:28:31 +0000

This is my life. I drive to the office 5 days per week to sit in a tiny windowless room. I have meetings with Europe in the morning and meetings with India in the evening. The rare time I need to talk to someone in the US, they are in a different building so we talk through Teams.

New comment by OnionBlender in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

OnionBlender — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:53:20 +0000

What niche market? I work for a hardware company writing C++ code and my company literally has a dashboard for managers that shows employee's token usage. My manager warned me that my low usage will reflect poorly on me during performance reviews later this year.

New comment by OnionBlender in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

OnionBlender — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:41:27 +0000

I prefer "Elder Millennial".

https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/boomer-shooters

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun"

OnionBlender — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:57 +0000

I had thought about creating something like that for finding comments for articles. For a given article, display links to comments for HN, lobsters, reddit, etc. However, I feel I already waste too much time reading comments. I shouldn't make it easier and more tempting.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months"

OnionBlender — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:02:44 +0000

Why link to twitter post about a Fortune article? Just link to the article.

https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-s...