Hacker News: a12k

New comment by a12k in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf"

a12k — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:52:16 +0000

I paid for YouTube Premium and still got ads, though fewer. So I cancelled. Are they now offering YT Premium ad free?

New comment by a12k in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

a12k — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:48:58 +0000

Interesting. If you can DM me the username and email associated with the account, I can look into this and get it fixed for her.

New comment by a12k in "Can a Geothermal Startup Vaporize Rock to Drill the Deepest Holes?"

a12k — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:31:58 +0000

I feel like you’re underestimating the power of SV moving fast and breaking things to learn quickly. Your attitude is why we’ve stopped hiring SMEs and PhDs in my underwater space launch / space elevator bio startup.

New comment by a12k in "X.com Is Down"

a12k — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:27:30 +0000

Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?

New comment by a12k in "Buy European Made. Support European Values"

a12k — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:28:43 +0000

> Many Americans exist that do not carry the opinion of their government, as do many Russians.

I can’t speak for Russia because I have no data, but most Americans don’t carry the opinion of this government.

New comment by a12k in "Apple introduces iPad Air with powerful M3 chip and new Magic Keyboard"

a12k — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:19:29 +0000

I would definitely buy an iPad Pro that had regular MacOS on it like a MacBook. Otherwise I have had an iPad for about ten years and it’s been collecting dust for about 9.5 (will sell a cheap iPad 1, DM me!).

New comment by a12k in "Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll"

a12k — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 02:33:41 +0000

This sort of project reminds me of the old internet. I love it.

New comment by a12k in "Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18f employees"

a12k — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:45:00 +0000

18f was self funded by billing agencies for cost savings, basically. It was basically free for the gov, and made up of highly technical people, many of whom came from top flight Silicon Valley or SV-adjacent companies. That is to say, neither cost nor technical skill nor efficiency were issues for 18f, which means that this wasn’t axed because of their cost…

New comment by a12k in "FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:16:04 +0000

For the most part you have exactly the same levers to pull at people in the United States, sans voting in elections, but most Americans don’t even do that, and some specific things that require a physical presence, like protesting at the White House specifically.

Setting aside that you can do things about this and effect change, caring about something isn’t the same as being able to affect that thing, so your reasoning “people outside the US don’t care because they can’t do anything about it” is a bit off.

New comment by a12k in "FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of SpaceX"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:39:55 +0000

If you don’t care because you’re outside the US, you’re a fool. All of this will affect you.

New comment by a12k in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:59:26 +0000

> Calm down...You're behaving in a histrionic way.

This sort of condescension is characteristic of people who hold the opinions you do. The rest of your post is complete nonsense.

New comment by a12k in "A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:52:00 +0000

“Bozo” is pretty lightweight for someone actively trying to destroy the foundations of this country’s government and democratic policies.

New comment by a12k in "Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:31:09 +0000

If the article was compellingly written I guess I would have gotten to it. But the author is a bad writer and uses tricks reminiscent of “read this list, item #9 will shock you!”

No thanks.

I opened another article someone posted by the same author and now that I know they write like this, u couldn’t make it through the first paragraph. Absolute trash.

New comment by a12k in "Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code"

a12k — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:14:59 +0000

Maybe, but I disengaged partway through (right after “I’m not going to bury the lede” and seeing there was a bunch more engagement filler immediately after, burying the lede). I will not read prose written like this.

New comment by a12k in "Every .gov Domain"

a12k — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:34:28 +0000

They’re all listed in a csv at cisa, or at least a lot of them.

https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data

New comment by a12k in "The dream of offshore rocket launches is finally blasting off"

a12k — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:58:46 +0000

Texas is just a much better and cheaper option. It retains the upsides of sea launches (being able to select location, being far from people) without the downsides (being out in the water vs landlocked). They can also take advantage of US infrastructure and legal stability, which are downsides noted in the article about equatorial locations, while retaining the upsides of those areas in the form of not needing to worry about pollution, and very malleable state laws. Basically Texas is as good as it gets if you’re amoral and running a company with large externalities.

New comment by a12k in "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids"

a12k — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:48:50 +0000

Are you a child between the ages of 3 and 5? Because that's the typical age of a participant in the marshmallow test. This is like scoffing a kid not finding something on Dora the Explorer.

New comment by a12k in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

a12k — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:21:41 +0000

Like what?

New comment by a12k in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

a12k — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:16:34 +0000

They probably meant “should,” not can’t.

New comment by a12k in "The FAA’s Hiring Scandal"

a12k — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:50:53 +0000

So easy. Should we also remove college attended or extracurriculars to avoid flagging potential demographic details like attending an HBCU?