Hacker News: ahsteele

New comment by ahsteele in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

ahsteele — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:31:33 +0000

Did you write this? Do you have a link to the entire essay? I enjoyed the excerpt.

Zombies, Run and Marvel Move maker lays off majority of staff

ahsteele — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:41:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/629678/zombies-run-marvel-move-six-to-start-layoffs-fitness-tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365805

Points: 2

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New comment by ahsteele in "IP addresses through 2024"

ahsteele — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 05:57:52 +0000

It’s really hard to even comprehend how large IPv6 is. I have found that extreme examples tend to help people get there. Here are some I’ve used in the past.

There are enough IPv6 Addresses for 4.77 x 10^28 for every living person.

If each IPv6 address was a grain of sand…

That’s 2.39 × 10^18 of addresses per person, or roughly enough sand sized addresses to equal about 1.8 times the volume of earths ocean per person.

At sand scale all IPv6 addresses would take the volume of 12 sols.

Conversely, all the IPv4 addresses in this sand scale would slightly over fill an oil drum.

From “IPv6 Addresses: Big Numbers, Big Solutions”: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1365362

Oh, WoW

ahsteele — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:55:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/c/24235606/world-of-warcraft-legacy-mmorpg-blizzard-2004

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869705

Points: 4

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Student was punished for using AI–then his parents sued teacher, administrators

ahsteele — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:50:40 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/student-was-punished-for-using-ai-then-his-parents-sued-teacher-and-administrators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41865694

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahsteele in "Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico"

ahsteele — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:51:13 +0000

Do you have a link?

New comment by ahsteele in "The DVD Journal Dimming the Lights (2007)"

ahsteele — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:41:11 +0000

I discovered the DVD Journal website tonight and read their last entry. It serves as an excellent snapshot of technology trends as of late summer 2007. Notably, it doesn't mention smartphones, even though the iPhone was released earlier that summer, but iPods are discussed. Additionally, the website's design features, such as nested tables for layout, an image as a background, and the use of image alignment attributes, are notable.

The DVD Journal Dimming the Lights (2007)

ahsteele — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:41:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dvdjournal.com/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40082278

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahsteele in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

ahsteele — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:08:35 +0000

Yes, exactly.

New comment by ahsteele in "Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)"

ahsteele — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:47:22 +0000

I’ve been using Google Voice this way too since 2011. Recently I have been considering porting my number out as the iOS app has become incredibly slow to the point of almost nonfunctional. Have you had a similar experience?

New comment by ahsteele in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

ahsteele — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:57:28 +0000

What are some approaches have you used to measure your productivity?

New comment by ahsteele in "Scientist on Japan's atomic bomb program tells his story (1995) [video]"

ahsteele — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:30:07 +0000

I would include Command and Control on a list of essential nuclear history reading. Specifically US and post WWII but fascinating and enlightening.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(book)

New comment by ahsteele in "The City of Seattle accidentally gave me 32M emails for $40 (2018)"

ahsteele — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:23:54 +0000

Archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231024164822/https://mchap.io/...

New comment by ahsteele in "Film Review: BlackBerry"

ahsteele — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:29:50 +0000

The book does. Have not seen the movie to know for sure but I believe the movie ends around 2008 or 09 at the time of the Storm’s release and before the QNX acquisition.

New comment by ahsteele in "Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email"

ahsteele — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:18:13 +0000

Yes I would say that working in the United States at a Federally Funded Research and Design Center https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ffrdclist/ are great companies if only you can get into them.

Return to Office Mandates

ahsteele — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2023/03/09/return-to-office-seemed-inevitable-new-study-shows-companies-already-reversing-course-careers-remote-work-gleb-tsipursky/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35084524

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Kindle novelists are using ChatGPT

ahsteele — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 05:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/23520625/chatgpt-openai-amazon-kindle-novel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34124617

Points: 24

# Comments: 5

New comment by ahsteele in "Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts"

ahsteele — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 18:35:37 +0000

What RSS reader are you using?

New comment by ahsteele in "Whatever happened to Six Sigma?"

ahsteele — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 20:53:39 +0000

Your thoughts on agile development are spot on. Eventually "agile" will become a bad word snickered at the same way waterfall is.

New comment by ahsteele in "iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking"

ahsteele — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:17:57 +0000

How much of what is outlined in this article is hyperbole? It makes a great piece to take down iOS security given the pedestal it often rests on, but I can’t tell if the shift in thinking that the author is arguing for is justified.