Hacker News: Sleaker

New comment by Sleaker in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Sleaker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:15:31 +0000

Steam dropped basically alongside team fortress.

New comment by Sleaker in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

Sleaker — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:26:59 +0000

I think this is assuming that the labor market knows how to identify the dirct value of devs. This already seems to be a problem across the board regardless of job role.

New comment by Sleaker in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

Sleaker — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:44:47 +0000

Isn't the whole thing sidestepping another issue? If the code was rewritten with an AI, then it becomes a non-copyrightable work? Hasn't this already gone through the courts? So isn't the resulting library de facto public domain, even if the maintainer wants to try and attach a license to it?

Edit: looks like an IP lawyer had this exact issue on the GitHub and it was closed.

New comment by Sleaker in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

Sleaker — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:42:36 +0000

Aaaannd get to claim the 100 as revenue to show investors that the company is performing better than if I had not made the deal, which also means that demand for the product stays inflated which also means I can keep my margins higher by not needing to discount my product.

New comment by Sleaker in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

Sleaker — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:21:15 +0000

Because the cost of doing business in those markets is probably more than what they could get for the product. And if they lower the price in that market, it might devalue the product line as whole and potentially causes brand damage.

New comment by Sleaker in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

Sleaker — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:59:58 +0000

I haven't seen what you're suggesting from a CEO at a large company that's primary business is non-software related. At some point in a businesses life theres an accumulation of so many disparate needs and systems that there can be many many layers of cross org needs for fulfilling business processes. This stuff is messy.

I think I saw it asserted that its easier for a new company, which definitely makes sense as you don't carry along all the baggage.

New comment by Sleaker in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

Sleaker — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:41:10 +0000

I'm at a large company that is building connections between all of its different financial systems. The primary problem being faced is NOT speed to code things, the primary problem at large companies is getting business aligned with tech (communication) and getting alignment across all the different orgs on data ownership, access, and security. AI currently doesn't solve any of this. Throw in needing to deal with regulation/SOX compliance and all the progress you think AI might make, just doesn't align with the problem domains.

New comment by Sleaker in "Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them"

Sleaker — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:57:34 +0000

Maybe a bit pedantic, but if you're streaming it, then you're still downloading portions of it, yah? Just not persisting the whole thing locally before viewing it.

Edit: Looks like this is a slight discrepancy between the HN title and the GitHub description.

New comment by Sleaker in "French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition"

Sleaker — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:20:57 +0000

I'm still not quite sure how UK law impacts the US. I was hoping for explicit examples of someone actually being removed from power because they were critical of the president. I think that would be pretty big news and the closest I have heard was one of the ex-military standing congresspeople being threatened with reduced military benefits, or legal action, but not actually anyone being removed from a position.

New comment by Sleaker in "French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition"

Sleaker — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:57:41 +0000

> Unlike the current situation in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority (and/or confronting armed police).

Not quite sure what you're referring to here, you can speak out all you want on political matters in the US. -Especially- in the context of criticizing the president.

New comment by Sleaker in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

Sleaker — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:36:32 +0000

For some larger meetings during the pandemic, managers started scheduling them 5 minutes after to give people time to join, but because people's reminders triggered at the same relative time all it meant was people started joining meetings 5 minutes later negating any perceived benefit.

New comment by Sleaker in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"

Sleaker — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:22:37 +0000

Absolutely and first iterations of steam hardware survey showed mostly XP users, but still 5-7% win 98 install base, which they maintained compatibility with for quite a while, that's just to say that I can see why they might not have used those specific windows APIs at the start.

New comment by Sleaker in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"

Sleaker — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:58:23 +0000

And steam was originally released to be compatible with Windows 98. windows 2000 wasn't widely used as a consumer installed OS.

New comment by Sleaker in "Iran Protests Enter Third Straight Day as Students Join In"

Sleaker — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:48:40 +0000

WSJ wont open for me, but was able to find it via MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-protests-enter-thi...

not sure where to pull that doesn't have tracking, not seeing it on archive yet.

New comment by Sleaker in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

Sleaker — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:44:25 +0000

Well.. that's because with ipv6 you're not technically on a lan everything is exposed by default unless you set it all up differently.

New comment by Sleaker in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

Sleaker — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:52:46 +0000

How does company X dependant on company Y product beat company Y in what is essentially just small UI differences? Can cursor even do anything that vscode can't right now?

New comment by Sleaker in "Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices"

Sleaker — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:29:09 +0000

Are you referring to the fact that 7up/Dr pepper are distributed by pepsico? They still have historically been independent from the big 2 as far as product branding since inception, most recently being owned by Schweppes.

New comment by Sleaker in "Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor"

Sleaker — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:14:46 +0000

At what point of optimization does it turn into 'real' high performance programming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

New comment by Sleaker in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

Sleaker — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:56:13 +0000

Someone posted a script for installing omarchy on cachy, but it didn't look like it had received updates recently and I reported an issue. Not sure it's being maintained at all unfortunately

New comment by Sleaker in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

Sleaker — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:23:47 +0000

I was dumb and rebooted without redoing the kernel install, otherwise I probably could have just rolled back and reran mkinit to get fixed but the bootloader entry had already been removed for the old kernel as I think I was also running some cleanup commands, and when I booted to reduced mode I had no network to try and recover so I just decided to reinstall. Helps having a separate drive for files. Didn't have to worry about a backup or anything so it went smooth