Hacker News: admissionsguy

New comment by admissionsguy in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

admissionsguy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:21:00 +0000

for the record, my newish mac shows the display settings fine when i type display

New comment by admissionsguy in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

admissionsguy — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:23:41 +0000

TIL there is a search bar triggered by CMD+Space. After 15 long years.

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:26:02 +0000

No a bad thing if you desire the corporate power to eventually become the main force shaping the world :)

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:01:59 +0000

Hard imagining well designed web app bottlenecked by server-side processing that is not offloaded to database, or done via bindings to libraries written in compiled languages.

New comment by admissionsguy in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

admissionsguy — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:52:10 +0000

> solutions written in dynamic programming languages like PHP and Python are always woefully slow

True as it may be that they are slow, I doubt it's caused by the use of dynamic programming languages.

> The money should be secured immediately that cannot be touched by the upcoming governments. It should increase taxes. Independence has a price. We as Europeans should be ready to pay it.

You do you, but increasing taxes to build products to replace products built by private enterprise sounds like a 180 degree opposite of what Europe needs to prosper.

New comment by admissionsguy in "4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin"

admissionsguy — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:41:16 +0000

Is this what life in Europe has come to?

New comment by admissionsguy in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

admissionsguy — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:04:29 +0000

Aeron chair - nothing special, could have done with a 10x cheaper ikea chair

New comment by admissionsguy in "Who Watches the Waymos? I do [video]"

admissionsguy — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:15:10 +0000

Can't they get out and kill the Ubers already instead of sitting in the lot? (half-serious, but I have been wondering what are the reasons they don't just push the price towards zero during low hours?)

New comment by admissionsguy in "Prototaxites"

admissionsguy — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:02:28 +0000

So is it the kind of thing that Voynich manuscript describes?

New comment by admissionsguy in "FTX insider Caroline Ellison has been moved out of prison"

admissionsguy — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:58:07 +0000

there are some but they required this amount of processing https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/06/business/caroline-ell...

New comment by admissionsguy in "Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?"

admissionsguy — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:04:11 +0000

It's just aging. If you were aware of tech climate in the 2010s, means you are past 30 years old and getting jaded. Young people are very enthusiastic about the AI.

New comment by admissionsguy in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

admissionsguy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:58:09 +0000

Isn't falling for virtue signalling charity donations more of a twattery?

New comment by admissionsguy in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

admissionsguy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:45:04 +0000

Sounds like he is a refreshingly honest person

New comment by admissionsguy in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

admissionsguy — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:34:46 +0000

> Illiterate incoming freshman are the product of the public middle and high school systems, not the university system.

That doesn't matter for the op's point. Students starting from this base won't get good in 4 years.

New comment by admissionsguy in "European Commission plans “digital omnibus” package to simplify its tech laws"

admissionsguy — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:24:21 +0000

I actually see a large stream of people moving to the US. Europe is doomed.

Ask HN: Why do designers have repugnant websites?

admissionsguy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 13:11:34 +0000

Very weird unsightly fonts either too small or too large, ugly colors, and broken navigation making it nearly impossible to see their past work (which in any case tends to be presented as some weird artsy shit).

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865339

Points: 15

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New comment by admissionsguy in "Ask HN: What's a Purchase You Regret?"

admissionsguy — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:11:19 +0000

100 euros claude subscription not nearly useful enough

New comment by admissionsguy in "What the hell have you built"

admissionsguy — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:07:36 +0000

Is there any good reason to switch from mysql to postgres though?

New comment by admissionsguy in "How the AI Bubble Will Pop"

admissionsguy — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:48:05 +0000

When your work consists of writing stuff disconnected from reality it surely helps to have it written automatically.

New comment by admissionsguy in "How the AI Bubble Will Pop"

admissionsguy — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:44:41 +0000

So just the “it’s different this time” mentality shared by all bubbles. Some things never change.