Hacker News: TheSockStealer

New comment by TheSockStealer in "RIP Cybertruck"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:05:16 +0000

I just checked and prices are going to have to come way down. Who is buying a 2024 Cybertruck for $70k+?

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:02:02 +0000

I think "recycling" cybertrucks in this manner, basically to reuse their batteries, may give them a more practical afterlife then when they were a truck.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Why are Soviet math textbooks so hardcore in comparison to US textbooks? (2017)"

TheSockStealer — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:27:49 +0000

This exactly reminded me of the Bulgarian Weightlifting System. You get a large group of students and put them through a high-frequency and high-load system that breaks nearly everyone.

Whoever survives to the end will be a world champion.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "How to Attend Meetings"

TheSockStealer — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:45:41 +0000

Everyone having a common understanding of the state of the world is important and not always efficient, or even possible, to do it async. Ideally, everyone would have good response times on messages and emails, always write clearly, but this is the real world, and you can't guarantee that. Often, tickets bounce back and forth between people for weeks when a quick meeting will answer things quickly. Sometimes this is best to happen in Status meetings IMO.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

TheSockStealer — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:42:10 +0000

I didn't even notice! That is amazing.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

TheSockStealer — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:46:06 +0000

Name a better use for AI than this website? It is impossible. At least according to my AI Idea Gauge - https://anycrap.shop/product/ai-idea-gauge

New comment by TheSockStealer in "GPT-4o"

TheSockStealer — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:02:11 +0000

I also thought the screwups, although minor, were interesting. Like when it thought his face was a desk because it did not update the image it was "viewing". It is still not perfect, which made the whole thing more believable.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Wealth shown to a pixel scale (2021)"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 14:03:02 +0000

It worked for me and I think this is actually really informative.

However, vertical scroll, please

New comment by TheSockStealer in "This needs some heavy checking... (line 1029)"

TheSockStealer — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:32:35 +0000

Used like this, it is not much different than a try-catch block

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Something weird is happening on Facebook"

TheSockStealer — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:13:35 +0000

Some of these questions are similar to those questions you would see in an identify verification challenges. What is your first car, pet name, city you were born in. I am not saying this is the "only" answer, but could be one of them.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "[dead]"

TheSockStealer — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:28:05 +0000

She grabbed one brain of someone called "Abby." I think their full name was actually "Abby Normal"

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:46:54 +0000

Exactly

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:46:25 +0000

I am not saying that I believe or agree with any of this just that I can see this valid research being twisted to fit a very toxic narrative that already exists.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Testosterone, a key hormone in the context of Covid-19 pandemic"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:06:46 +0000

I can see this information playing into some troubling right-wing tropes about masculinity. Basically, if you are an Alpha (High T) you won't get sick, but if you are a weak Beta (Low T) you will. Therefore, if you get sick from Covid and you are a man, you are weak and somehow deserve it.

I hope this does not play out like this and everyone is rational and compassionate, but I doubt it.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language"

TheSockStealer — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 20:25:08 +0000

People who write Go are Gophers. People who write in Rust are Rustaceans. People who write in Beef are Beefeaters? Carnivores?

Asking the tough questions here.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Waking up early serves capitalism"

TheSockStealer — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:22:22 +0000

This is both a hilarious and awesome idea. Too bad that 2 people in my family wake up early and two are better at staying up. On second thought, I bet we could become a bi-coastal family.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Adobe to Acquire Magento"

TheSockStealer — Tue, 22 May 2018 00:18:38 +0000

They have actually had a partnership/integration for ~2 years. Basically it comes down to using AEM as the "Glass" in front of Magento. Basically just using Magento as an API and doing all of the front-end with AEM. I know there are a couple of big sites that have gone this direction, but I think the M2 API is still not feature rich enough to make it work easily.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "Introducing Network Service Tiers"

TheSockStealer — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:38:21 +0000

Nice find.

What is the ping time from India to Iran? That is a long trip for a packet.

New comment by TheSockStealer in "What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage"

TheSockStealer — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:03:49 +0000

This begs the question if using one tool is not sufficient, is using a specific selection of tools each with their own strengths, will give a better result?

New comment by TheSockStealer in "U.S. chicken prices may have been artificially inflated for years"

TheSockStealer — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:07:58 +0000

I assume (not knowing anything about the industry), is that there is a ton of capital required to enter the market. Combine that with a substantial amount of regulation and it is a difficult market to get into. Besides, even if you did join, you are better off selling at the "monopoly" price even if you don't sell all of your product.