Hacker News: SlimyHog

New comment by SlimyHog in "The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand"

SlimyHog — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:52:56 +0000

> but this kind of thing can be gamed by competitors

What's preventing a competitor from creating an account?

New comment by SlimyHog in "Is "Who's on First?" Funny?"

SlimyHog — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:53:01 +0000

Yes it is funny...

New comment by SlimyHog in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

SlimyHog — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:46:10 +0000

Piracy sites also have webrips that never seem to be poor quality.

New comment by SlimyHog in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

SlimyHog — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:15:23 +0000

You don't have to store the media indefinitely

New comment by SlimyHog in "Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier"

SlimyHog — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:09:23 +0000

What does this even mean?

New comment by SlimyHog in "Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Fix One of America's Scariest Roads?"

SlimyHog — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:48:28 +0000

Just slow down then....

New comment by SlimyHog in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

SlimyHog — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:20:40 +0000

What websites? I've been using Firefox exclusively forever and the only times I've had to switch browsers was doing my passport application and I had to find a windows desktop to get that to work

New comment by SlimyHog in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

SlimyHog — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:47:23 +0000

Are you trying to imply that Jeff Bezos and Mark Zukerberg are counterculture in some way? What?

New comment by SlimyHog in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

SlimyHog — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:59:21 +0000

"instead of giving them pennies, let's give them nothing!!!"

New comment by SlimyHog in "On Google’s Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting"

SlimyHog — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:22:19 +0000

Firefox.

New comment by SlimyHog in "PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights"

SlimyHog — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:00:36 +0000

You realize that this part was a joke and didn't actually happen right?

New comment by SlimyHog in "Use Rails"

SlimyHog — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:27:59 +0000

This goes hand-in-hand with the idea of using "boring" technology. If it's mission critical, I'd rather be using something battle-tested than the brand-new hot tech. There's re tooling, more documentation and likely more search-able solutions to whatever problems you may run into.

New comment by SlimyHog in "Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later"

SlimyHog — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:35:16 +0000

I deleted my account once they killed 3rd party apps and whenever I visit I've noticed that the quality of comments is WAY worse than I remember.

New comment by SlimyHog in "How I search in 2024"

SlimyHog — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:44:55 +0000

I think they mean "before"

New comment by SlimyHog in "Kagi search reached 20k paying members"

SlimyHog — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:02:51 +0000

Since the browser extension only works on the FE, this just means you are hiding the site and receiving fewer results on a page.

New comment by SlimyHog in "I Have No Mobile-Friendly Pages"

SlimyHog — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 20:59:03 +0000

That site sure is something...

New comment by SlimyHog in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

SlimyHog — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 19:16:44 +0000

> Also, what's the deal with him not wanting to start a competitor?

In addition to what everyone else has said, he really has 1 month if he has any chance of siphoning off reddit users.

New comment by SlimyHog in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

SlimyHog — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:44:42 +0000

I can't even find this feature. I googled "for you" and got LMGTFY and related sites. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by SlimyHog in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

SlimyHog — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:41:45 +0000

I got banned from some subreddit that I've never visited for making fun of someone in /r/conservative, just because I posted there.

New comment by SlimyHog in "Code Blocks in Google Docs"

SlimyHog — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:29:21 +0000

Thanks for a reminder that this is releasing more generally, I use Google Docs for any investigation that I want to share out and have been using screenshots; being able to copy/paste the code will be much better.