Hacker News: TheAtomic

New comment by TheAtomic in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

TheAtomic — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:43:29 +0000

That free cash flow drop at AMZN is surprising.

New comment by TheAtomic in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

TheAtomic — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:56:12 +0000

It sounds nice but you end up with entrenched special interests that later oppose all regulation regardless of the consequences. We have pesticides you wouldn't want anywhere near your children casually used to control weeds on kid's playgrounds, insanely huge trucks that kill hundred each year, the food is garbage...the list is long and tiresome. Trust me brother, if I could live in the EU, I would.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

TheAtomic — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:31:07 +0000

This is really cool. Is there anyway to keep some people off my small part of the webverse?

Having read some of the comments, I'd happily use if there was a way to blast (prefarably with a Doom shotgun) some of the miscreants from appearing, but only on my site, and maybe some filters (slurs, etc) that auto-ban them that I can set. Other people could moderate as they will but I'm kind of tired of the toxic people ruining everything.

New comment by TheAtomic in "The desperation of NYTimes"

TheAtomic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:46:25 +0000

The fact that this somewhat banal article has climbed this far on HN tells you that the schadenfreude of seeing the NYT berated is high indeed.

~ just a guy trying to get by on $690,000 a year in Queens

New comment by TheAtomic in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

TheAtomic — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:23:22 +0000

Please don't.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

TheAtomic — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:26:02 +0000

same same

New comment by TheAtomic in "Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS"

TheAtomic — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:40:37 +0000

I love this. PowerMate was the ultimate fidget tool when not scrolling, editing, etc.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

TheAtomic — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:38:54 +0000

My father gave me this book when I was 12 or 13. It unlocked everything, sort of permission for my teen self to put himself out there. Years later, I've made friends all over the world, some have been in my life for more than 3 decades now, and I continue to make new ones basically by initiating a lot of conversations. I look for something to naturally lean into to start with. For example, I saw a guy in the coffee place with his work badge on so I asked, "coming or going [to work]." Kicked off a 30 min conversation about the economy (he worked at a pawn shop as it turns out and knew a lot about gold, regional poverty, etc). Saw him a couple days later and we picked right back up. The other thing I do is keep it soft focused on them, 100%, until they ask me about me. Nothing kills a conversation faster than someone with a conversational agenda, ie, an go-to opinion. Anyway, I wish more people would start random conversations - it really helps build community.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Fish oil may be hurting your brain, new study finds"

TheAtomic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:58:29 +0000

Sciencedaily is clickbait now? That headline is srsly misleading.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

TheAtomic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:10:33 +0000

"We want to sell surveillance services to the US gov. MSFT was hesitant so we gave ourselves room to do it without them."

New comment by TheAtomic in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

TheAtomic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:47:17 +0000

Agreed. I'm onboarding a couple of new players and see the issues again and again. I'm dropping the overall proficiency score as it just confuses things. skills and abilities just take awhile to become secondhand though.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

TheAtomic — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:16:26 +0000

I have a couple players that aggressively press for edge cases all the time. I encourage it, as it gives me the chance to push back with "ok, that's fine on flat ground but your in thick underbrush," which seems to be more immersive and encourages more roleplaying. Fun stuff.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

TheAtomic — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:20:05 +0000

The only comment on her post is some asshat telling her to grow up. I don't understand how a person can decide to take a cheap shot on an article about buying a DVD player but, there it is. Losers roam the internet like horse flies in Texas.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

TheAtomic — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:47:49 +0000

Isn't this the premise of Garfield's Ex Machina?

New comment by TheAtomic in "Apple Just Lost Me"

TheAtomic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:44:15 +0000

I wish Nvidia would drop a Linux laptop so we could all have a 3rd option.

I know, this exists in some form or another, eg Dell, but meh.

And I know Jony Ive / Altman are working on something but Altman, uhg.

New comment by TheAtomic in "What is agentic engineering?"

TheAtomic — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:15:56 +0000

Agents are ? and the answer is circular, "agents run tools in a loop." And this guy knows things?! No. BS.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

TheAtomic — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:26:04 +0000

10% of their workforce roughly.

New comment by TheAtomic in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

TheAtomic — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:25:16 +0000

This is wildly cool. I donated to a patient and now make a very small monthly donations. #this

New comment by TheAtomic in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

TheAtomic — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:08:25 +0000

LOVE H&CF, so good

New comment by TheAtomic in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

TheAtomic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:33:03 +0000

"We want to surprise and delight our customers" turned into fuck with and frustrate.