Hacker News: b3ing

New comment by b3ing in "The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse"

b3ing — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:23:15 +0000

Church is one of the worst places to try to date and that’s not the purpose. The only purpose of church is worship, not socialization or politics or pushing an agenda or judgment

New comment by b3ing in "Cisco workforce reductions"

b3ing — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:45:07 +0000

They are still getting jobs non stop

New comment by b3ing in "What can singing mice say about human speech?"

b3ing — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:20:47 +0000

Prairie dogs have a language but it’s not as robust as ours as far as we know. But they have nouns verbs and adjectives

New comment by b3ing in "Meta employees protest against mouse tracking tech at US offices"

b3ing — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:05:13 +0000

It won’t happen, the last few generations have been brainwashed and have forgotten the past history of when people united together to give us the rights we have today which haven’t been added to since the 90s (the family leave act - which doesn’t even pay you it just keeps from losing a job)

There’s a reason they keep us fighting each other over race, culture wars, and other bs, because they know united our country would look so much different and they wouldn’t be able to make as much money

New comment by b3ing in "Googlebook"

b3ing — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:41:51 +0000

So eventually this will have ads everywhere right? Because selling all your info won’t be enough for google.

I can’t wait for local llms to get more powerful

New comment by b3ing in "Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator"

b3ing — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:57:21 +0000

Why would anyone care what the top 1000 voices in ai talk about? And it’s the users job to sift through that garbage?

This is like digg v3 all over again which killed the original site.

New comment by b3ing in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

b3ing — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:46:34 +0000

I would think earwax build up would increase with that

New comment by b3ing in "Rep. Crane Introduces Legislation to Pause and Reform the Broken H-1B Visa"

b3ing — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:23:29 +0000

Pay would have to go up to attract health workers in small cities, towns and rural areas

New comment by b3ing in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

b3ing — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:11:26 +0000

He might not have a Mac to test it on or care to code it. It’s open source, they work on what they want after all they don’t get paid. If he was donated a Mac and enough money in sure he might look into it

New comment by b3ing in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

b3ing — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:56:52 +0000

Cold applying by letters or just walking in and asking for an application

Applying to jobs posted in the newspapers

New comment by b3ing in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

b3ing — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:10:01 +0000

I'm sure the defense contractors wanted to sell the expensive planes that require more maintenance rather than drones

New comment by b3ing in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

b3ing — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:04:39 +0000

They picked jazzy samples instead of actually thinking about how each track should sound. Many definitely deserve pipe organ, violins, harp, guitar or something better than horns. I don’t think the NES had real instruments it was mostly square/sine waves, but it was done in a way you could imagine the pipe organ, etc.

New comment by b3ing in "Banning AI Art – Wallhaven"

b3ing — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:58:19 +0000

I guess if you really want ai wallpaper generate it yourself, but it also makes sense as they could get flooded with more than they want

New comment by b3ing in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

b3ing — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:09:01 +0000

I think there are like 4 or 5 apps like this but only 2 or 3 are using a fork

New comment by b3ing in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

b3ing — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:31:44 +0000

No tabbed browsing and if IE crashed it locked up Windows 95/98 with it. No 2fa, no comment spam, and Java applets that froze the browser for 10-30 seconds. No content creator bs just people making fan pages just for the heck of it before Wikipedia gobbled all that information

New comment by b3ing in "Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"

b3ing — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:34:14 +0000

In the US they try to get you off the phone after 5 min and you can hear it in their voice, I know there is a lot of traffic but still it doesn’t help

New comment by b3ing in "Ex-CEO, ex-CFO of iLearningEngines charged with fraud"

b3ing — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:17:19 +0000

Pardon coming soon in 2027

New comment by b3ing in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"

b3ing — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:10:01 +0000

They filled the gap when CD-R/CD-RW was crazy expensive and people needed more storage space. The cd-r/rw drives drives dropping in price killed it. I believe they later had a 200 or 250 mb drive, the Jaz. I think places that needed big storage used tapes.

New comment by b3ing in "Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026"

b3ing — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:51:32 +0000

H1b don’t care, they will take the jobs

New comment by b3ing in "The end of Star Trek is now official"

b3ing — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:12:52 +0000

Sci-fi often makes you question modern day society, Star Trek did that in many ways