Hacker News: Pxtl

New comment by Pxtl in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

Pxtl — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:52:46 +0000

> We regulate gambling because it's a specific thing

Except when it's called "prediction markets" and therefore it isn't.

New comment by Pxtl in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

Pxtl — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:48:25 +0000

I'm not sure how turning into crabs is going to help us download more RAM.

New comment by Pxtl in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

Pxtl — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:46:10 +0000

On a macro level you're correct. On a micro level, I miss the pre-pandemic, pre-AI era before stuff got expensive, before Russia invaded Ukraine, before the Israel/Palestine strife went into overdrive, and before the US declared war on Iran, Canada, Greenland, and Minnesota.

New comment by Pxtl in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

Pxtl — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:15:40 +0000

That's the chief differentiator you're giving up when you give up on github vs a self-hosted forge. And the network effect of the CI pipelines should not be discounted since it means actions published anywhere on GH are automatically available for use without any import or install step.

Yes, you could feasibly split off the CI from the git+PR service, but you'd still want it to be federated.

New comment by Pxtl in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

Pxtl — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:30:21 +0000

That would be good for following, but I'd worry about contributions. Single-sign-on would help but if you're going to ask the user to create a new username+password to log a bug you're not going to get bugs from anybody except your most hardcore users.

Also, unified dashboards/notifications are so useful (even though Github's notification UI is a bit mediocre, imho).

New comment by Pxtl in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

Pxtl — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:48:49 +0000

A big thing with Github its the unified functionality across most of the OSS world - that we can search across all projects, leverage pipeline actions from other projects, and easily have a single dashboard for our own contributions and interests across all projects.

I'd hate to see a move to forge balkanization lose this functionality. But this would not be heavyweight data to federate. So are there any forges with a good story for federation?

New comment by Pxtl in "Asus Bike Booster"

Pxtl — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:19:12 +0000

I mean I agree but those aren't zero-skill install like this.

New comment by Pxtl in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

Pxtl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:01:24 +0000

There's a fundamental question: Is it legal for the government to blanket a public space in cameras and do whatever they want to the data that they collect from those cameras?

Is it legal for a private entity to do the same with their owned space (like a plaza or mall or office tower)?

Focusing on license-plate-readers seems like car-brain is causing the author to miss the forest for the trees.

New comment by Pxtl in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

Pxtl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:13:00 +0000

I was thinking same but C#.

New comment by Pxtl in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

Pxtl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:07:13 +0000

Laws are for poor people

New comment by Pxtl in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

Pxtl — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:09:54 +0000

Honestly I wouldn't be so cranky about this if it were proper government based ID instead of creepy Thiel companies doing it.

And if it was mostly about posting content anonymously instead of even reading these sites.

New comment by Pxtl in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

Pxtl — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:20:55 +0000

Fediverse all the things.

New comment by Pxtl in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Pxtl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:34:07 +0000

Oddly they don't ever seem to prosecute the sites that profit from selling them. Funny, that.

New comment by Pxtl in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Pxtl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:57:28 +0000

I mean, did you have to connect it to the internet though? Did it not just have a dp/hdmi port?

New comment by Pxtl in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Pxtl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:36:15 +0000

kodi on an rpi5?

New comment by Pxtl in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Pxtl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:34:11 +0000

Of course, what they're missing is that laws are for poor people.

Amazon will be notified they sold something illegal and will take it down and ban the seller who will immediately launch a new store under a new name.

The purchaser, on the other hand, will be fully liable for whatever horrible thing they bought.

New comment by Pxtl in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

Pxtl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:32:15 +0000

> major e-commerce providers like Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg and others continue to sell hundreds of different models and brands that bundle unofficial versions of Google’s Android operating system and are frequently marketed (via online influencers) as a way to access a broad array of streaming services and live broadcasts without a subscription.

This is why I giggle when people talk about ending Section 230 in the USA (or various international counterparts thereof).

The largest companies on Earth are happily selling hacked piracy spyware botnet garbage. Not just hosting malicious posts for free like Section 230 protects, but selling illegal physical devices and taking a cut of the profit and excusing it with a pathetic whack-a-mole moderation system. It's already illegal and the law has already failed.

Sean Parker's mistake was that he wasn't rich enough.

Laws are for poor people.

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians

Pxtl — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-appears-to-endorse-giving-more-votes-to-wealthy-canadians-9.7286688

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089131

Points: 9

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New comment by Pxtl in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

Pxtl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:10:52 +0000

So maybe the better question would be how many concurrent actively-thinking/working agents it could handle?

New comment by Pxtl in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

Pxtl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:30:26 +0000

> There is no golden rule to all of this but finding out what makes sense is a fun exercise.

"Fun" as in you're years into a project before you fully accept that you made the bad call.