<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: VoidWarranty</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VoidWarranty</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:54:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=VoidWarranty" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reqs are likely a side effect of how the application is built and the fact that its made by a solo dev.<p>I find it more pleasant to do UI within the context of a video game renderer than to bother with ui libraries and native hooks.<p>You only have to deal with windows enough to get you a rendering context: then you can do everything in your walled garden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998207</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Term limits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:26:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889942</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's not be pedantic.  Its quite obvious to anyone not living under a rock what "anti-vaccine" means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:16:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889784</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am a terrible person to ask.  My employers get their money's worth from me: I genuinely like my work and regularly work more than 8hrs a day.  I also work in a field with others who, with some exception, do the same, so its strange for me to see "normal people" clock out on the dot.</p>
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<p>It absolutely is.  
The funding for it, not the product itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884921</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard to motivate people to work on things that destroy society.  Money helps.<p>Want to see how motivated Meta employees are?  Watch how fast their offices clear out at 5pm on the dot.</p>
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<p>Same.<p>I assumed this happens on any employer machine anyway.  If not specific mouse movement and keystrokes then file access and connected devices.  I honestly don't understand the outrage.</p>
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<p>Careful.  The venn diagram bubble depicting your statement overlaps heavily with the anti-vaccine bubble.<p>Its a bit naieve to claim that cleaning one's home will result in an extinction of enough microbes so as to be threatening to our immune system.</p>
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<p>You're right about the reqs.  A lot of the menu screen behaviors were traditions borrowed from arcade games and big box demo kiosks.  The idea is that your game must do "something" if idle for a long period of time without someone officially "starting" it.</p>
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<p>Sometimes I think we're being argued against by LLMs.  Critique of your example while missing the entire point of it.</p>
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<p>Not to be insensitive about the humanitarian and economic situation, but, I am curious why there are data centers in that region at all?  It just seems horribly inefficient from a cooling and electricity standpoint.  Not to mention water.<p>My pessimistic assumption is that Amazon said "yes" to handouts from regional government efforts to be relevant in tech, and that those data centers dont really matter to anyone but local politicians and monarchs who believe they have a seat at the table.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642591</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Despite many people such as you and I yelling at random hippies and hillbillies online, they continue to call everything "morels".  Reread my comment again: it is true that people colloquially misname dangerous species.  I cannot help this.  I can only point this fact out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545586</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Superstition/caution.<p>They aren't 'difficult' to cook.  They are dangerous to eat if uncooked (and thus undercooked).<p>While true morels themselves can be dangerous while uncooked, there are similar looking species that are both less and more dangerous.<p>Species of Gyromitra or "false morels" like Verpa Bohemica will commonly all be called "morels":  both as an intentional cultural colloquialism or simple misidentification.<p>Depending on which hemisphere you live in, some Gyromitra species may be more dangerous than true morels.    They can also be more dense and harder to cook thoroughly.<p>Most mushroom species will cause an upset stomach if undercooked.  Drying is an effective way of reducing both dangerous and uncomfortable compounds.  It's suggested for morels out of an abundance of caution, but it is not a necessary step.<p>(Note that not all compounds are destroyed! "Magic mushrooms" are famously traded dry for example!)<p>The advise to add an additional preparation step also increases the chance someone will notice the wrong species hiding in their ingredients.  Undesirable species can have overlapping habitats and climates so its not uncommon for a careless or ignorant forager to pick the wrong thing.</p>
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<p>The store is quite a cost.  They also have a billion engineers working in every different direction contributing to UE.</p>
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<p>Both claims are hyperbole.<p>Reality remains in the middle, but there are plenty of examples of either extreme right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:05:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359044</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wisconsin runs mostly on coal power plants.  It's a terrible place to build data centers.<p>My guess is that the locals have proven themselves easily dazzled by the contract dollar amounts and arent thinking about the future.  Remember the FoxConn debacle?  That was WI.</p>
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<p>I think you're projecting your own biases here.<p>They "can't help" make the conversation about Trump because they have a public image to maintain.<p>If your image and following are on BSky, then it's not an echo chamber to address the crowd in kind with its nature. That's just good branding.</p>
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<p>Thanks!  I'll check this out!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45552794</link><dc:creator>VoidWarranty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45552794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45552794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VoidWarranty in "The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Got any recs for contractors in the area to do the work?<p>What should I get done?  (ranch 2 story built in 90s).  Cost to expect?  Been having bad luck lately with bids and sketch contractors.  Takes a lot of effort to sift through.</p>
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<p>So uh, I'm the first person in my family to break the cycle of poverty.  I have nobody I trust to follow advise with money.  I do all the 'standard' boring investment strategies (401, index funds, roth, etc).  I don't bother with crypto (scams).  What does one do if stagflation is coming?   Float more cash?  Buy real estate?</p>
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