Hacker News: Steve16384

New comment by Steve16384 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

Steve16384 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:27:47 +0000

That depends. It might be going above-and-beyond your job.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

Steve16384 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:24:20 +0000

> An electrician doing an inspection and noticing and fixing big electrical issues in the installation, would be appreciated, even if the accidents didn't happen.

Not if nobody knew he'd fixed it.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

Steve16384 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:37:36 +0000

Great work. The gov.uk site is a beacon of light on the web.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"

Steve16384 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:20:09 +0000

Why is it that the larger the company, the less likely they'll have proper support?

New comment by Steve16384 in "Houses are for living, not for speculation"

Steve16384 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:45:19 +0000

I'm not sure what your point is?

New comment by Steve16384 in "Houses are for living, not for speculation"

Steve16384 — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:44:46 +0000

Several UK councils now charge double council tax (the monthly tax you pay for having a house) on second homes, exemptions notwithstanding.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Steve16384 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:14:07 +0000

Here in the UK it's currently exam season. One of my son's had a GCSE exam just today.

New comment by Steve16384 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

Steve16384 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:04:39 +0000

I can't help feeling that if you're turning JS off, you might as well turn off your computer to protect your data.

New comment by Steve16384 in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

Steve16384 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:24:57 +0000

> If retirement age was say 80 instead of 60, there would be 25% fewer jobs to go around.

By that logic, when the population was 25% less than it is now (~1980s), there was a job for everyone.

New comment by Steve16384 in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

Steve16384 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:58:19 +0000

It's taking "computer says no" to the next level. Computers do exactly what they're told, but who told them? The person entering data? The original programmer or designer of the system? The author of whatever language text was used to feed the ai? Even before AI, it was very difficult to determine who is accountable, and now it's even more obfuscated.

New comment by Steve16384 in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

Steve16384 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:21:42 +0000

Because lots of people, businesses and governments don't want to.

New comment by Steve16384 in "London to Calcutta by Bus (2022)"

Steve16384 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:04:26 +0000

Don't also forget the walk to get to the bus.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Meetings are forcing functions"

Steve16384 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:28:35 +0000

> set the agenda for the day

Were 90% of the agendas "working on the same thing as yesterday"? Did no-one know what they were doing that day until they had the daily meeting?

New comment by Steve16384 in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

Steve16384 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:05:13 +0000

Hobbyist gamedevs: I only have one project that isn't abandoned, and that's my next one.

New comment by Steve16384 in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

Steve16384 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:19:25 +0000

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

New comment by Steve16384 in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

Steve16384 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:14:05 +0000

Or someone starts with an Excel spreadsheet just to "keep track of a few things". Then before they know it, it has become a critical part of the business but too monolithic and unorganised to be usable.

New comment by Steve16384 in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

Steve16384 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:06:12 +0000

Pretty much every 8-bit computer game of 1987 or earlier (before the 128kB machines became popular) were < 40Kb? The Spectrum and Commodore combined probably had a library in excess of 50,000 games.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

Steve16384 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:56:22 +0000

But they didn't attribute it. Or does this not really matter?

New comment by Steve16384 in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

Steve16384 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:40:28 +0000

Did they use the same username/login every time?

New comment by Steve16384 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

Steve16384 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:08:19 +0000

Like the OpenAI deal?