Hacker News: allarm

New comment by allarm in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

allarm — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:54:19 +0000

Well, there's really no need to come up with such complicated (and not entirely accurate) analogies here. It's actually very simple. Paying Google is bad. Not paying is good. That's it.

New comment by allarm in "Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike"

allarm — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:15:35 +0000

> a*hole

Asshole.

New comment by allarm in "The senior engineer death spiral"

allarm — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:45:07 +0000

It must be hard to be you. There are so many racists around.

New comment by allarm in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

allarm — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:01:21 +0000

Oh, my, indeed! That's gonna traumatize the poor dude for life.

New comment by allarm in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

allarm — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:58:39 +0000

But this isn't perceived as emphasis at all. If I wanted to emphasize something, I'd be more likely to use something like *bitch* or something along those lines. Replacing a letter with an asterisk comes across as self-censorship, which is pretty silly - just use a different word if you're that uncomfortable with swearing.

New comment by allarm in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs"

allarm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:08:55 +0000

You're just mixing up completely different things and thinking you're saying something meaningful. In reality, you're just confusing yourself and those around you.

New comment by allarm in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs"

allarm — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:06:09 +0000

> Layer-3 only

huh? 1.2.3.0/23 is a valid host address, it doesn't have to be Layer-3 only or whatever. it's just basic subnetting.

New comment by allarm in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

allarm — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:28:02 +0000

Too late for that!

New comment by allarm in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

allarm — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:26:05 +0000

E.g. Netflix doesn't let you to stream 4k video in browser afaik. So no, it's not a good option.

New comment by allarm in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

allarm — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:24:45 +0000

I don't think we can do anything substantial. So I'm going to just use this "suboptimal" solution.

New comment by allarm in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

allarm — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:36:54 +0000

Use Apple TV for that.

New comment by allarm in "1Password Replied to My Disappointment"

allarm — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:16:02 +0000

Oh you don't say )

New comment by allarm in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

allarm — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:44:59 +0000

Lol even after 6 days you haven't posted any supporting information, so who's misinforming here? :)

New comment by allarm in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

allarm — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:04:47 +0000

That's also a sign of mental laziness.

New comment by allarm in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

allarm — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:25:40 +0000

The purpose of reading is to challenge your mind, literally the cognitive load. If slang from 20 years ago is preventing you from reading a book, that’s a sign of mental laziness.

New comment by allarm in "Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" faster than US Government"

allarm — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:12:00 +0000

That's true. And that's exactly why we should blame Google's employees - they are the ones to blame for what's happening.

New comment by allarm in "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]"

allarm — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:50:35 +0000

I don't disagree, but no one forces you to be a jerk. Don't act surprised when you receive a pushback for that.

New comment by allarm in "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]"

allarm — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:05:55 +0000

It didn't "came off that way". You literally decided to speak up about something that has nothing to do with you.

New comment by allarm in "“It works better in the app”"

allarm — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:19:58 +0000

I'm pretty sure there are some here on this forum as well. Fell free to log out and never come back.

New comment by allarm in "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)"

allarm — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:56:39 +0000

Huh? From RFC1123:

2.1 Host Names and Numbers

      The syntax of a legal Internet host name was specified in RFC-952 [DNS:4].  One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit.  Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax.

It's from 1989. ICANN was founded in 1998.