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New comment by ad_hockey in "Cryptocurrency lawsuit: Ethereum Foundation required "suicide pledge""

ad_hockey — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:06:57 +0000

You can have "this mandate is so important to our mission that we want you to leave if you don't agree" or you can have "some of this mandate is literal and some is just jokes"

You can't have both.

New comment by ad_hockey in "F.02 Decommission"

ad_hockey — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:23:43 +0000

I think I'd have had second thoughts when I realised the robots had to be flown to Finland, but I'm glad they went ahead with it :)

F.02 Decommission

ad_hockey — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:57:27 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfAh5oQDPDM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932079

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New comment by ad_hockey in "2DWillNeverDie"

ad_hockey — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:01:46 +0000

That's fair. I haven't played Metal Gear Solid for a long time but I did replay Deus Ex a few years ago and it still holds up. The low resolution is a bit of a problem but it's not a barrier.

Early 3D on the PC was better than on the N64, though. The low draw distance and blanketing everything with fog was pretty horrendous in a lot of games.

New comment by ad_hockey in "2DWillNeverDie"

ad_hockey — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:17:10 +0000

This style just ages well, doesn't it? I still play Zelda: Link to the Past every few years but I can't play Ocarina of Time even though it's probably the better game. That early 3D with the fogging and pop-in and muddy textures just doesn't hold up, but pixel art is timeless.

New comment by ad_hockey in "We've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out"

ad_hockey — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:46:57 +0000

It would be very difficult for any TV show or film to meet this bar for non-fiction, because even if the footage is real there's still an edit.

The Senna documentary[1] is in the grey area. It's entirely composed of archival footage - no reconstructions, no talking heads, no voiceover. But the filmmaker has still chosen which footage to include and omit and in what order to construct a narrative. I don't think that neatly falls into fiction or non-fiction in your model.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424432/

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

ad_hockey — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:22:33 +0000

Somebody asked about that on the GitHub thread. You can donate at https://liberapay.com/zedeus or https://patreon.com/nitter.

They also take crypto (see Donations section in the project readme)

New comment by ad_hockey in "Generic Methods in Go 1.27"

ad_hockey — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:56:56 +0000

I haven't seen that in the large codebase at work, for what it's worth. The thing that's surprised me about generics in Go is how rarely they're needed in practice. Very nice to have in the right place, but the vast majority of our source files still get along fine with plain old typed maps and slices.

New comment by ad_hockey in "Go 1.27 Interactive Tour"

ad_hockey — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:37:37 +0000

As of June last year[1] the Go team have pretty much drawn a line under this issue, with a very small amount of wiggle room to possibly reopen it at some point:

"For the foreseeable future, the Go team will stop pursuing syntactic language changes for error handling. We will also close all open and incoming proposals that concern themselves primarily with the syntax of error handling, without further investigation.”

Personally I'm OK with this, I didn't see any of the (many) proposals as a definite improvement. They all had trade-offs.

[1] https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

New comment by ad_hockey in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

ad_hockey — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:33:15 +0000

I don't know. My knowledge is largely based on the caption of that photo :D

I would guess it's just uniform world record pace, and it's up to the runner to use their own strategy - stay just in touch with the light for the first three laps and overtake it on the fourth, or something.

New comment by ad_hockey in "British runner Josh Kerr breaks world record for mile which stood for 27 years"

ad_hockey — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:04:37 +0000

Yep, they have that as well. You can see it in the photo here: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/18/josh-kerr-make...

New comment by ad_hockey in "Show HN: Bored People Chat – Anonymous global chat room"

ad_hockey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:47:02 +0000

I'd get rid of the animated emotes, they're a bit obnoxious. They pop up right over the part of the screen you're trying to read and don't add any value.

New comment by ad_hockey in "Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years"

ad_hockey — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:03:57 +0000

I was surprised not to see Sensible Soccer here, it was massive in the 90's (at least in the UK). Turns out it was never released as an arcade cabinet. I think they missed a trick there, it was arcade style and a lot of fun in two player mode.

New comment by ad_hockey in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

ad_hockey — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:03:13 +0000

Disagree on that vibe. The museums are usually free in London, for example. Haven't seen that in many other cities.

New comment by ad_hockey in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

ad_hockey — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:57:26 +0000

As you have it there, "but" would mean the latter is an unfortunate consequence or side-effect of the former, and you're getting both. Whereas "than" would mean you're getting the former and not the latter.

New comment by ad_hockey in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

ad_hockey — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:06:02 +0000

(Assuming you meant "than" rather than "but")

You could argue the opposite, it's social media that's creating a society of adults wearing mental diapers. This article is excellent: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...

And this is worth a skim: https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/internet-baby-boomers-m...

New comment by ad_hockey in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

ad_hockey — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:45:35 +0000

FYI you can also play it in the browser, although it's the DOS version: https://playclassic.games/games/simulation-dos-games-online/...

New comment by ad_hockey in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

ad_hockey — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:12:46 +0000

Minor point, but one of the complaints is a bit odd:

> curl -X POST https://backboard.railway.app/graphql/v2 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer [token]" \ -d '{"query":"mutation { volumeDelete(volumeId: \"3d2c42fb-...\") }"}' No confirmation step. No "type DELETE to confirm." No "this volume contains production data, are you sure?" No environment scoping. Nothing.

It's an API. Where would you type DELETE to confirm? Are there examples of REST-style APIs that implement a two-step confirmation for modifications? I would have thought such a check needs to be implemented on the client side prior to the API call.

New comment by ad_hockey in "Fuzix OS"

ad_hockey — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:42:35 +0000

The GitHub repo also seems to be archived.

New comment by ad_hockey in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

ad_hockey — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:36:46 +0000

It depends on your plan, but Google[1] and Anthropic[2] at least provide indemnity against this. Haven't checked the others. Still not a situation you want to find yourself in, though.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/p...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/expanded-legal-protections-ap...