Hacker News: atrus

New comment by atrus in "Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon"

atrus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:53:34 +0000

No, because the Soviets have to in on faking the moon landing. They were also landing a spacecraft at the same time as the landings. To fake the moon landing you'd also have to fake the entire cold war.

New comment by atrus in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

atrus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:21:49 +0000

Syncthing? I'm taking 'offline' to mean 'not requiring the internet', which means you can have plenty of computers!

New comment by atrus in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

atrus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:43:12 +0000

They did though! From what I understand from people who made those profitable games is that Facebook funded, either though investments or grants most vr games out there. Even ones not owned by the company (like beat sabre, batman, deadpool, etc).

The problem is, like someone else mentioned, the company itself. Facebook is a middleman company. other people make stuff, showcase it on one of their properties (insta, marketplace, whatever), and then go back to the people actually doing stuff.

New comment by atrus in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

atrus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:34:20 +0000

Despite the shock at the amount of money meta spent on their version of the metaverse, I don't think they spent nearly enough to accomplish their vision.

Meta, to the detriment of the market, tried too early in the VR lifecycle to own the market. They basically tried to become the iPhone and Apple in the year 1990.

Tell me, do you believe any singular company in the year 1990, with 100B to burn, would be able to create the iPhone, in any of its varations? Absolutely not, there too much research, too much to invent, too much to program and not nearly enough talent and money for one company to manage.

New comment by atrus in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

atrus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:43:46 +0000

Even sites with that option already (like wikipedia) still report being hammered by scrapers. It's the full-funded aligned with the incompetent at work here.

New comment by atrus in "Ask HN: Is it still worth pursuing a software startup?"

atrus — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:16:46 +0000

Good luck. To have something that a regular family could use would require remote access from the company for troubleshooting, updates, maintenance.

So you get all of the downsides of cloud hosting (company employees can still remote in), with none of the upsides (all the hardware is now geographically distributed, instead of one big building) with the privilege of paying for it instead of being "free" like facebook/google.

New comment by atrus in "Meta's ads tools started switching out top-performing ads with AI-generated ones"

atrus — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:27:59 +0000

Honestly? They might. A game I play (Torn.com) started using AI and over dramatic ads, and they outperformed (higher signups, and higher retention) the more traditional and even player created ads.

The owner expressed surprise and frustration over it, because it kinda sucks that's what works.

New comment by atrus in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

atrus — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:36:42 +0000

You're not. You feel obligated to send a thank you, but don't want to put forth any effort, hence giving the task to someone, or in this case, something else.

No different than an CEO telling his secretary to send an anniversary gift to his wife.

New comment by atrus in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

atrus — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:40:23 +0000

Convienence. Consoles are popular because you just plop down, hit the on button and play (in theory).

And while people don't care how much spy/adware their computer is, they do care when frequent notifications, popups and updates interfere with what you're doing. Nothing more annoying that having a windows notif steal focus from a game you're playing through steam link in the other room (personal experience).

I'm so glad that they've improved steam and link on linux so much, having to run it on my s/o windows computer was a pain.

New comment by atrus in "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"

atrus — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:53:20 +0000

It's a cool idea, but the lack of a space between regular words and words wrapped in a is driving my typo-radar nuts

New comment by atrus in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

atrus — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:07:44 +0000

So many underscores for usernames, and yet, other than a newly created account, there was 1 other username with an underscore.

New comment by atrus in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

atrus — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:18:33 +0000

Or even not locally!

New comment by atrus in "Tom Stoppard has died"

atrus — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:21:34 +0000

While I get you're trying to highlight jkr's anti-trans opinion, both can be true. You can be an asshole, while also being subject to other assholes behavior.

New comment by atrus in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

atrus — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:56:06 +0000

Steam DRM is entirely optional. Blame the publishers for DRM.

New comment by atrus in "Using Generative AI in Content Production"

atrus — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:49:42 +0000

It's true, before copyright existed, no one made any art at all, and they certainly weren't paid for it. Thanks to copyright, the large majority of artists have been well and fairly compensated for their work.

New comment by atrus in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

atrus — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:19:18 +0000

It was at a point where they were going to fast to stop or land safely. At that point you're just trying to pick the best place to crash.

New comment by atrus in "Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym"

atrus — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:56:20 +0000

I see a lot of complaints about the font, and I'm just curious what makes it so hard to read? Is English your second language, I know reading Japanese for me in different or (worse!) handwritten makes it 10x harder for me to read. Are you just not used to a handwritingish font, and only read more typewritery fonts? Older than me (35+)?

It just feels weird that a perfectly legible font has multiple complaints, and I don't understand why or how?

New comment by atrus in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

atrus — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 01:04:45 +0000

The vast majority of people.

New comment by atrus in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

atrus — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:55:39 +0000

A possible challenge, yes, but there exist 1500w, standard outlet hpwh, and it's a lot less common to not have any power near a water heater.

New comment by atrus in "ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving"

atrus — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:33:13 +0000

I wouldn't find it amazing, there are so many new models, features, ways to use models that the minute you pause to take a deep dive into something specific, 43 other things have already passed by you.