Hacker News: RGamma

New comment by RGamma in "Why Create Next Palantir?"

RGamma — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:09:11 +0000

"We do what we must/ because we can./ For the good of all of us./ Except the ones who are dead.~"

New comment by RGamma in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

RGamma — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:48:30 +0000

The outlook on this, as so often, depends on personal finances.

New comment by RGamma in "Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B"

RGamma — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:51:54 +0000

Surprise hyperinflation. Check the breadshelves!

New comment by RGamma in "Mosquito Killing Micro-Drone"

RGamma — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:07:56 +0000

I think we're long past the the point where you'd need to distract from the actual value proposition of this tech. Hiding behind a malaria mosquito sob story is cringe. As a bonus you get to sport a cooler name, like "Anopheles Tactical".

New comment by RGamma in "Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login"

RGamma — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:41:11 +0000

Can't reproduce.

New comment by RGamma in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

RGamma — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:54:29 +0000

I'm kinda relaxed w.r.t. actual hostilities coming from Germany/Austria. The large pensioner populations and - still - a sizable part of workers understand that burning the house down doesn't improve anything. But it could become a political shitshow like in the US. Certainly we're going to get more deregulation, hopefully of the right kind.

New comment by RGamma in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

RGamma — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:31:26 +0000

The deindustrialisation -> rising populist right pattern is kinda similar in Lil' US (Germany); it started later and moves quicker. And we can't get by on software subscriptions.

New comment by RGamma in "Can we have the day off?"

RGamma — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:49:50 +0000

Maybe a lot of applications of computer technology merely represent civilizations' most intricate and expensive hobby?

New comment by RGamma in "We've made the world too complicated"

RGamma — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:22:08 +0000

The natural ("prehistoric") state used to be a low density distribution of mobile tribes, which sidestepped a lot of the problems that afflict civilizations, like pandemics and local resource exhaustion.

New comment by RGamma in "Rotten Dot Com"

RGamma — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:32 +0000

Bestgore, TheYNC

New comment by RGamma in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

RGamma — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:35 +0000

gpedit.msc

New comment by RGamma in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

RGamma — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0000

Like https://gamecopyworld.com :>

New comment by RGamma in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

RGamma — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:13:31 +0000

"Amusing ourselves to death" was eerily prescient. Now that the amusement stopped, what might happen next? Not the metaverse, that's for sure.

New comment by RGamma in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

RGamma — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:30 +0000

Fabric is the one place for all your data!

New comment by RGamma in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

RGamma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:07:35 +0000

They also use .microsoft now (e.g. for the M365 admin portal).

New comment by RGamma in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"

RGamma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:45:34 +0000

The obsession with constant content production combined with algorithmic, feed driven consumption frontends with terrible discoverability and intense bubblification lead to today's screaming contest that ruins our sanity. On average I find it much worse than the old infosphere (TV+print+radio) used to be, for producers and consumers. It's quite tragic, really.

Though I also notice awareness around this issue is rising (e.g. smartphone bans in school, initiatives like bluesky), which is good, I guess. All of this is still a society-wide experiment without control group.

New comment by RGamma in "Is it a pint?"

RGamma — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:33:19 +0000

Measuring beer is serious business in Germany to the point the EU commission had to comment on a rule change that supposedly forbade the usage of steins for foaming drinks (it didn't, but Germany wanted to be extra strict): https://www.bayern3.de/bier-steinkrug-eu-richtlinie

https://germany.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/klarstellun...

New comment by RGamma in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:16 +0000

Until the IP is flipped to another owner and the final squeeze begins. Gotta mirror this.

New comment by RGamma in "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:35:33 +0000

Yes, and yet we would do well to distinguish hobbies from necessities, like quality journalism. Not saying there's an easy fix, but there better be one.

New comment by RGamma in "We Have Learned Nothing"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:50:31 +0000

Yes, and customers are less informed than ever. RMS's "useds" (instead of users) comes to mind often in recent years. To clarify, I don't think one should considers it solely the user's fault, because user pedagogy is a shared responsibility, that needs to be offered and taken.