Hacker News: atomicUpdate

New comment by atomicUpdate in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:56:37 +0000

This is why all the “everything is too expensive” complaints fall on deaf ears. The fact that these companies are used by so many is an easy indicator that all the “K-shaped” doomerism is just that.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:24:29 +0000

You already valued your own labor at zero by giving it away for free. How is taking something you give away for free suddenly considered "stealing"?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Waymo in Toronto"

atomicUpdate — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:13:42 +0000

In what world is the technology for an autonomous car “repulsive”?

It seems like you’re into using new technology like AI, based on the success you’ve had using it:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162724 > I've recently been into AI and orchestration and have set up some pretty neat systems and side projects :)

Or maybe you think autonomous cars are as evil as AI:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49644738 > There is no room for nuance. AI is capitals access to our labour. It's evil. The end.

Your views on technology sure are interesting, to say the least.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

atomicUpdate — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:02:50 +0000

Interesting. Everyone that read the article also heard that.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

atomicUpdate — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:23:46 +0000

Why stop at a free password manager? Why not free food, clothes, cars, and everything else while you’re making demands?

Or is it just software that has zero value to you because it’s intangible and you intentionally ignore the time and effort other people spend on it?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

atomicUpdate — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:51:24 +0000

No, it just shows they will kowtow, not that there will be any consequences if they don’t.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:18:10 +0000

Meta is. That’s very clearly stated in the article and literally no one is disputing that fact.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:16:15 +0000

> Yeah... as a US citizen and taxpayer I think I'd like that $4 billion back.

It was never yours in the first place. It was their money they kept, not money given to them by the government. I don’t know why this distinction is so difficult for people.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

atomicUpdate — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:13:11 +0000

It’s kind of funny that all of the complaints about optionality apply equally to Vulkan. Google even created the same profile solution with “Android Vulkan Profiles (AVP)”.

I suspect Vulkan suffers from the same design by committee problem, which similarly caused it to miss seemingly basic features in the base spec that then need to be filled in with extensions and also made it too difficult for developers to want to move too.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

atomicUpdate — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:50:18 +0000

Considering Intel has vulkan video disabled in Mesa for recent chips, I’m guessing very little.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-Disable-New

New comment by atomicUpdate in "The Voice of Google"

atomicUpdate — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:39:25 +0000

It was sanctioned by the CEO. How much was their job actually at risk?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

atomicUpdate — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:06:01 +0000

Apparently they live in a nursing home in 2020 still, because no one else is dying of covid anymore. Especially not young or healthy people within the last few years.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

atomicUpdate — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:03:01 +0000

> They’d even distrust “stand further apart” if the wrong person said it.

They shouldn’t believe it no matter who says it. The entire concept of “social distancing” was completely made up and had no science behind it. It belongs in the same bucket of nonsense as “mask up between bites.”

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

atomicUpdate — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:56:53 +0000

Enforcing a healthy diet and exercise would have a vastly larger impact than any seatbelt laws in terms of reducing health care costs. Seatbelts and smoking always seem to be about as far as the advocates are willing to go though.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:50:15 +0000

What is a speed light camera?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

atomicUpdate — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:21:28 +0000

> When code is expensive to produce and is likely to stay in production for many years it's obviously important to review it very carefully. If code is cheap and can be inexpensively replaced maybe we can lower our review standards?

I don't care how cheap it is to replace the incorrect code when it's modifying my bank account or keeping my lights on.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:30:07 +0000

This is the same thing as `git rebase-update`, available in Chrome's `depot_tools`, which deletes merged branches.

Beyond that, this is just OP learning how `xargs` works.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:50:56 +0000

If my car’s brakes have a design flaw and don’t stop my car reliably, I don’t expect to have to keep paying for my car to get them fixed. The manufacturer’s warranty covers that, and bugs in your software fall into the same bucket.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:35:44 +0000

> Their standards forever dropping

And yet their standards still haven’t dropped low enough for Linux to be an acceptable replacement. I don’t think that’s a knock on the Windows user, but an indication that Linux desktop (and its replacement applications) still isn’t user-friendly enough for most people.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:02:01 +0000

I expect the formatter/linter to be run as part of presubmit and/or committing the code so it doesn't matter how it's edited and saved by the developer. It's strange to hear of a specific IDE being mandated to work around that, and making quick edits with tools like vi unsupported.