Hacker News: TheEnder8

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Delta"

TheEnder8 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:33:35 +0000

The name is terrible. Maybe this is vanity, but theres too many conflicting names. Delta airlines, delta dental, delta faucets, etc

New comment by TheEnder8 in "AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding"

TheEnder8 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:26:06 +0000

It shows that some measure of supervision is needed. That firing all of the coders, and unleashing bots is probably a bad idea (at least for the near future)

New comment by TheEnder8 in "The Monster Inside ChatGPT"

TheEnder8 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:59:21 +0000

I dont know why people seem to care so much about llm safety. They’re trained on the internet. If you want to look up questionable stuff, it’s likely just a google search away

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Worldwide power grid with glass insulated HVDC cables"

TheEnder8 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:38:34 +0000

It’s interesting. I think the real way to do this is gradually scale up. Crossing the ocean is hard mode. Instead start by something much shorter and land based. Then you at least have a stable platform to work on and can focus on the other hard problems

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data"

TheEnder8 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:21:43 +0000

The thing is, its not just Meta. It's anyone with a square inch of pixels that you can slap an ad on. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Meta gets a lot of flack, but it's easy to stop using Facebook. It's a lot harder to stop using Google or Amazon.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Amazon Closing AmazonSmile"

TheEnder8 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 01:34:21 +0000

This is really about cost-cutting. If Amazon felt it were about being spread too thin, the obvious solution is to make a short list of charities. Or increase the amount donated.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "What the eff Is Gemini?"

TheEnder8 — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:36:41 +0000

I hate to say this, but it’s a poor choice of names. It’s going to be overshadowed by the crypto company.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser"

TheEnder8 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:29:42 +0000

This seems more like trying to capture money. If this was about privacy, they could have just gone with duckduckgo.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)"

TheEnder8 — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 07:12:53 +0000

It looks to be decent at helping sensitive teeth, but not so much for cavities: https://aap.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1902/jop.2010...

https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/453622

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Tesla on autopilot crashes into stopped Michigan police car"

TheEnder8 — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:53:29 +0000

Given that Tesla has no PR department, you might be waiting a while for that

New comment by TheEnder8 in "New report on Apple’s VR headset: 8K in each eye, potential $3k price tag"

TheEnder8 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 06:55:51 +0000

This is an intentional leak.

Apple is trying to see what the reaction is. They've got some negative press recently for pricing things a little too high (say a $1k monitor stand or $700 wheels). They're watching to see what the reaction to the rumor is. If people say 'no one would ever pay that', then they'll dial it back a bit. If the reaction is 'eh, maybe for those specs', then full steam ahead.

Either way, they can just deny the leak as a rumor without any basis.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19"

TheEnder8 — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 20:18:53 +0000

I don't see how this is specific to tech firms? Why not any other company currently WFH-ing?

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Applebot"

TheEnder8 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 03:42:04 +0000

The context for this is that Apple is rumored to be starting their own search engine

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/27/apple-may-launch-...

New comment by TheEnder8 in "How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?"

TheEnder8 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 02:42:43 +0000

This misses the elephant in the room. Every major tech company is already pushing hard towards renewable and/or zero carbon. The problem isn't tech, it's the other companies (chemical, oil, agriculture, etc).

https://sustainability.fb.com/sustainability-in-numbers/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/

https://sustainability.google/environment/

https://news.microsoft.com/climate/

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition"

TheEnder8 — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 16:16:14 +0000

What makes you think the third party box is any better?

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America (2018)"

TheEnder8 — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:59:50 +0000

The unintentionally amusing part: "To continue reading... Subscribe or sign in"

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Ask HN: How do you take care of your hands?"

TheEnder8 — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:40:09 +0000

It's a personal thing. What works for one person might not work for another.

That being said, definitely invest in an excellent keyboard and mouse. If you are going to spend 8+ hours a day using it, make sure it's comfortable. I can't stand anything which isn't a mechanical keyboard. I have tried various funny looking ergonomic models but haven't found them necessary yet.

Also, don't overlook your chair and desk. They might be forcing your hands into an awkward position.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "AWS DeepRacer League"

TheEnder8 — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 05:10:09 +0000

I got a DeepRacer car at Reinvent, but three months later I still can't use it :(

Access to the DeepRacer section of the AWS console hasn't been made public, and I don't think there's any other way to program it.

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Kerbal Space Program Extension Now Available"

TheEnder8 — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:49:20 +0000

Steam store link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/283740/Kerbal_Space_Progra...

New comment by TheEnder8 in "Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online"

TheEnder8 — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 06:55:54 +0000

Serious for us, maybe. I'm not sure if it's serious for people that actually move stock prices. Intel is actually up since Spectre/Meltdown...