Hacker News: aarond0623

New comment by aarond0623 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

aarond0623 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:07:19 +0000

Unless it has changed, the posts are in random order; they aren't the latest, which makes the ones you see basically worthless.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Sam Neill has died"

aarond0623 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:58:21 +0000

The part I liked in Event Horizon was Laurence Fishburn's character seeing the logs of the crew going crazy and immediately turning it off and saying, "We're leaving."

Probably the smartest decision made in a horror film. Time to get out of Dodge.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

aarond0623 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:08:04 +0000

The prices are set largely by what consumers will tolerate. If everyone else is raising prices so consumers expect that, why wouldn't you do it, too?

New comment by aarond0623 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

aarond0623 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:42:38 +0000

Per the article, the bulb only had 4 MB storage and the idea is that each bulb's library would be a reflection of its creator. So there is no one list. Put whatever you want on it.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

aarond0623 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:40:33 +0000

> This firmware comes pre-loaded with several books that are out of copyright and in the public domain, as an example.

These are just public domain books provided as examples. You can put whatever you want on it.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

aarond0623 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:33:20 +0000

Almost the entire article is about turning a light bulb into a Wi-Fi hotspot/web server, and your takeaway was, well actually, _The Color Purple_ is not technically banned.

Unless I missed something I only spotted two book examples since that wasn't the focus of the article.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll"

aarond0623 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:41:07 +0000

It wasn't for one particular case. There were 3,000 lawsuits filed using it.

And frankly a three year statute of limitations for sexual assault is ridiculous.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?"

aarond0623 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:00:28 +0000

What mods do you use with SimCity 4? I've been wanting to get back into it and was looking for something like a mod pack without having to download a bunch of individual assets, but it doesn't seem to exist.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

aarond0623 — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:43:19 +0000

It is my understanding that we don't really know how this is pronounced and that this is just another instance of the Tetragrammaton [1] that is normally rendered as LORD with a few exceptions like this. This could just as easily be Yahweh instead of Jehovah.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetragrammaton

New comment by aarond0623 in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

aarond0623 — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:57:29 +0000

They chose to do make content about one of their fellow classmates they knew would be harmful and shared it with others. It doesn't matter how aroused they were. If you're aroused, there's petabytes of porn literally all over the Internet.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

aarond0623 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:01:42 +0000

The insider trading is pretty obvious right now.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

aarond0623 — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:22:58 +0000

Also kind of a weird complaint given how tied to Gnome Fedora is. Yes there are other spins but Gnome is the default DE.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

aarond0623 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:47:57 +0000

He succeeded in opening a strait that was open a month ago in exchange for higher gas prices, destroying a nuclear program he himself said was already destroyed a year ago, killing an 86-year-old leader who would be dead in a couple of years anyway, no regime change, billions of dollars wasted, and dead American soldiers.

Such great deal making, love it.

New comment by aarond0623 in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

aarond0623 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:32:19 +0000

Normally not unless they travel on public roads. If it's just used for farming it doesn't have to be registered.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

aarond0623 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:09:20 +0000

It's not even a competent textbox. Try to scan barcodes into it for example, or use it with Autohotkey. It has some sort of buffering issue and lags horribly whenever characters are input faster than a human.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

aarond0623 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:17:05 +0000

This is confusing to me. You value the time to return the cart more than €1, but not more than €0?

New comment by aarond0623 in "State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments"

aarond0623 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:16:08 +0000

The first amendment says "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech."

It's not a right granted to only certain groups. It's a restriction on what Congress, and by extension the government, can do.

New comment by aarond0623 in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

aarond0623 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:56:46 +0000

> I still don't get what you think is "newsworthy", or what "should" be reported on.

That people die from heart disease and cancer, especially when they get older, is common knowledge. That's what makes it less newsworthy versus a local homicide story that is not common knowledge.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Bring true randomness to Spotify with Fisher-Yates shuffle"

aarond0623 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:30:43 +0000

Ironically, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of this article by a Spotify engineer that has since been taken down:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230410041435/https://engineeri...

EDIT:

> We noticed some users complaining about our shuffling algorithm playing a few songs from the same artist right after each other.

...

> Since the Spotify service launched, we used Fisher-Yates shuffle to generate a perfectly random shuffling of a playlist.

...

> The algorithm is now rolled out to everyone using our desktop client and other clients will follow soon.

Everything old is new again.

New comment by aarond0623 in "Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 miles"

aarond0623 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:04:48 +0000

I've made that mistake before and the "plastic bag" cut my brake lines. Now I try to avoid anything in the road that shouldn't be there.