Hacker News: Yhippa

New comment by Yhippa in "GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet"

Yhippa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:27:29 +0000

Is this considered "outside-in" GPS? That is, relying on satellites orbiting the Earth? Is there such thing as "inside-out" where maybe you rely on the images of the sky above? I guess without IR or other secondary scanning technologies, that would be difficult.

New comment by Yhippa in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"

Yhippa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:44:53 +0000

“Prove you are Alice by sending us enough information to impersonate Alice.”

New comment by Yhippa in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

Yhippa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:13:53 +0000

New rev source = spend more as opposed to reduce taxpayer burden?

New comment by Yhippa in "Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search"

Yhippa — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:11:08 +0000

My guess is that there are two different teams working on these.

New comment by Yhippa in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"

Yhippa — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:51:23 +0000

Reddit ended up gamifying for engagement/rage-bait instead of natural, authentic discussion.

New comment by Yhippa in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

Yhippa — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:45:32 +0000

What you described about exams is like how I approach most certification exams: go through a test bank of questions until I get 80% then take the real test.

New comment by Yhippa in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

Yhippa — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:32:18 +0000

I assume longer-term subs is what keeps the lights on at these firms.

New comment by Yhippa in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

Yhippa — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:58:22 +0000

Centralized decentralized code repos. It feels like an oxymoron.

New comment by Yhippa in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

Yhippa — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:14:01 +0000

Count me in the unlucky 37%. I job hopped for more stability in 2022. I got more comp but then proceeded to get 2% raises. I'm making less now adjusted for inflation than I did in 2022.

New comment by Yhippa in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

Yhippa — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:19:15 +0000

After a bad day of work I've noticed that driving a manual transmission car helps me from stewing about it as opposed to driving an automatic where my mind can wander more often.

New comment by Yhippa in "Did they ghost you?"

Yhippa — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:50:14 +0000

I recently vibe-coded an app in Codex and it has nearly the exact same style.

New comment by Yhippa in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

Yhippa — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:09:07 +0000

Clearly vibe-coded. Cool idea though. I can see what was leveraged from the Wikipedia data set.

Side question: why does Claude prefer dark backgrounds with low-contrast text?

New comment by Yhippa in "The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker"

Yhippa — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:06:29 +0000

> This is not a spending problem. Families spend less on clothing, food, and appliances than a generation ago, adjusted for inflation. [19] The increase is entirely in fixed, non-discretionary costs: housing, healthcare, childcare, education.

I bet the explanation for this is that non-discretionary costs got higher, so people pulled back on discretionary spending. I do wonder if maybe people intentionally pulled back on discretionary spending despite small wage growth over time and capture was performed by housing, healthcare, and childcare. Or incentives by the government caused it. I have no clue.

New comment by Yhippa in "I Love the Computer"

Yhippa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:11:10 +0000

This post resonates with me. I remember in Kindergarten getting my very first life experience with computing tech: grounding myself by touching the bottom screws of a Apple IIe. I've loved them in nearly the same way as OP.

I get the way he feels. I remember how special this stuff used to be because of how niche it was. It does feel a bit like the normies co-opted it but that is my personal and selfish view.

New comment by Yhippa in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

Yhippa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:06:50 +0000

> but on a more tired or rushed day

This has nearly gotten me before, and I got lucky.

New comment by Yhippa in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Yhippa — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:39:16 +0000

If you draft Tom Brady in the sixth round, you can win seven Super Bowls.

New comment by Yhippa in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

Yhippa — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:05:15 +0000

> Makes bank for 9 years > Quits > Takes the moral high ground on the way out despite highly profiting from all the things he's decrying

Pretty nice life if you ask me.

New comment by Yhippa in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

Yhippa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:32:14 +0000

They had some cool form factors too. I remember I had one of the phones with a landscape slide-out physical keyboard.

New comment by Yhippa in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

Yhippa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:31:26 +0000

Way more fun than JaCoCo (which I actually like): https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/

New comment by Yhippa in "The Last Technical Interview"

Yhippa — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:49:20 +0000

An equally rude and aggressive response.