Hacker News: Steve16384

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?

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

Steve16384 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:07:04 +0000

Ideally it would be "don't buy from Oracle", but we don't get to affect those decisions.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Android Developer Verification"

Steve16384 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:04:21 +0000

Even once you've managed to verify, Google love throwing more challenges at you if you want to keep your apps in the store. "You need to declare your blood type or we will remove your apps in 30 days". I removed my apps myself as it was turning from a hobby to an unpaid job just to keep the apps in the store.

New comment by Steve16384 in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

Steve16384 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:49:29 +0000

I would imagine that most people who call are doing so because the "online help" can't help them. People want their problem fixed as quickly as possible, no-one wants to call a call centre.

New comment by Steve16384 in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

Steve16384 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:38:38 +0000

We need Universal Income.

New comment by Steve16384 in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

Steve16384 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:09:19 +0000

Reading some of the comments here, HN seems to have been invaded by Twitter users spouting their opinion as if it's fact.

New comment by Steve16384 in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

Steve16384 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:05 +0000

Do you have a source on that? All I could find was this that said America has the most, behind China: https://www.tooltester.com/en/blog/the-worlds-most-surveille...

New comment by Steve16384 in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

Steve16384 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:34:23 +0000

You should read the whole article: "A spokeswoman for Leicestershire police said crimes under Section 127 and Section 1 include “any form of communication” such as phone calls, letters, emails and hoax calls to emergency services." ".

New comment by Steve16384 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

Steve16384 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Bloody BBC, keeping to the facts again...

New comment by Steve16384 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

Steve16384 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:44:29 +0000

Since AI is taking a lot of the jobs and businesses are presumably generating just as much if not more profit due to lower wage costs, I think the world has to align to a new paradigm: a lot of people will be unemployed because the jobs just aren't there any more, but a higher tax on the rich companies can be used to pay for benefits for all the unemployed.

This is the new utopia.

New comment by Steve16384 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

Steve16384 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:40:54 +0000

California confirmed 100% safe.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

Steve16384 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:38:43 +0000

I've had this before, a few years ago, and a quick google at the time seemed to show that a fair few other people have. I'm in the UK, and about 6 months after buying something small from China (iirc), we got an £10 invoice for a "disbursement fee" from Fedex. It was very vague as to what the fee was actually for. I assume it was just a "scam" by Fedex to get more money.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

Steve16384 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:22:23 +0000

Or, the team that everyone takes for granted and/or the pointy-haired bosses assume their project must be pretty basic and anyone can do it.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

Steve16384 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:18:28 +0000

It's rare to have two engineers working separately but on exactly the same problem so their results can be directly compared.

New comment by Steve16384 in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

Steve16384 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:38:44 +0000

Obviously true, but LOTR is also obviously more mature than The Hobbit, which I think was OP's point.

New comment by Steve16384 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

Steve16384 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:36:16 +0000

It depends what the purpose of the Discord channel is. Is it for open and frank discussion, or for MS drones to discuss Copilot development. It's a cliche, but banning certain words smacks of 1984-style censorship.

New comment by Steve16384 in "The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph"

Steve16384 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:31:39 +0000

> The five minutes of inconvenience to you saves them meaningful time and money over the course of a day.

Assuming my time and everyone else stuck behind them combined is far less valuable than the truck driver.