Hacker News: apublicfrog

New comment by apublicfrog in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

apublicfrog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:19:38 +0000

What you say?

New comment by apublicfrog in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

apublicfrog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:14:28 +0000

Where in that link are instructions provided for someone to use it without a mobile phone? I see instructions for calling, but that still requires a mobile phone (or if we're being generous, a street with a payphone nearby).

New comment by apublicfrog in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

apublicfrog — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:17:01 +0000

> Maybe it's because I live in the Bay Area so the culture is affected by the proximity of tech companies. But my family in the middle of the country mostly seem to be on the same page, so I don't know how you explain that.

I can explain that. 100% of Americans add up to roughly 5% of the worlds population. As such, there are billions of non American users with very different viewpoints and opinions.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

apublicfrog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:32:14 +0000

Most of the world aren't American and we can afford our legal systems ;).

New comment by apublicfrog in "Revert "userdb: add birthDate field to JSON user records"

apublicfrog — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:04:53 +0000

If Spotify doesn't give you the controls you want... Don't use Spotify?

If my local park had a series of rotating knives and the council refused to do anything about it, I wouldn't let my kids go down there, supervised or not.

I agree parenting in the digital world is harder. You either learn how to do it to your standard or you don't allow the child to be part of that world if you are incapable or don't want to.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

apublicfrog — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:05:24 +0000

Don't pay and when you get a fine take them to court and state you don't have a bank card. There's jo wat a council can legally require you to enter into an agreement with a bank to use council run facilities, it's likely nobody's challenged them on it though.

Every council I've lived in has still taken cash for every type of council fee, despite their "official" statement being they don't.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

apublicfrog — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:26:53 +0000

That's a valid sounding argument. However many people with no strong view either way are producing functional, good code with AI daily, and the original context of this thread is about someone who has never been able to produce anything committable. Many, many real world experiences show something excellent and ready to go from a simple one shot.

New comment by apublicfrog in "The 49MB web page"

apublicfrog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:46:19 +0000

Using your analogy, if every restaurant in town had a problem where most people wanted to come in and get food for free (and it was an expectation in the industry) and people refused to go in and pay, everyone would be upset they could no longer go out to eat when there were none left. If nobody is interested in paying for their meal, you can't be shocked the ingredient and chef quality drops in turn.

New comment by apublicfrog in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

apublicfrog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:34:01 +0000

It got shut down in my country about 10 years ago.

New comment by apublicfrog in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

apublicfrog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:31:06 +0000

It's a great album, but the term was around long before it.

New comment by apublicfrog in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

apublicfrog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:29:22 +0000

Spotify has spent 5 years pushing podcasts and audio booms at me, despite me never clicking one and showing interest. Spotify has very little idea what I want, it seems.

New comment by apublicfrog in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

apublicfrog — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:25:41 +0000

I have an intrinsinc interest and have been tinkering, fiddling, hacking and learning for 30 years. I've done it for money before, I've I've always done it for fun every spare moment I have.

I've never heard of your man here. Does that make me a lesser from your perspective?

I'm sick of this arrogent gatekeeping. Why does someone have to memorise names, dates and achievements to qualify as someone who loves what they do?

New comment by apublicfrog in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

apublicfrog — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:42:46 +0000

Great fun, well done to the horrible person who made it. Apparently my RSS reader leaves the browswr live in the background, as the audio is still playing. Horrible to do on a mobile device. Worst level by far was 17.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

apublicfrog — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:41:01 +0000

Look where the slider sits initially at 75%, not the same as earlier levels ;)

New comment by apublicfrog in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

apublicfrog — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:40:14 +0000

Yes, this took me a very long time to work out.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Hostile Volume – A game about adjusting volume with intentionally bad UI"

apublicfrog — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:39:59 +0000

Much harder on a mobile device!

New comment by apublicfrog in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

apublicfrog — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:28:23 +0000

Thankfully most of the world ignores America and does their own thing.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

apublicfrog — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:22:55 +0000

The article mentions some sort of legal audit reasons that the author is of the opinion that any reasonably sized company needs. These features are apparently only on the expensive plan.

New comment by apublicfrog in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

apublicfrog — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:20:14 +0000

> Today, if I want Claude's help with something that came up in a Slack thread, I have to relay the context between Slack and Claude by copy-pasting. This is absurd. I am not a sub-agent!

Am I out of touch here, or is this a crazy entitled view? 'My close-to-free AI agent that can answer most things requires me to copy/paste and contextualise my questions!'. This is incredible compared to even a few years ago, and it's very fast and accurate.

New comment by apublicfrog in "We Will Not Be Divided"

apublicfrog — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:04:30 +0000

They can actually. Hence why they had it in their AUP.