Hacker News: belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=belkinpowerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 24 May 2026 21:06:05 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]>How are they supposed to assimilate if they have to leave the country to apply?

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:32:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253454belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253454<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Copy Fail"]]>This has frustratingly low information density for a technical writeup. The LLM output on the marketing page is whatever, but here it really feels like my time isn’t being respected.

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:21:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955492belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955492<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"]]>It starts out alright, and then ends with a pile of classic Claude-isms and an unreadable slop graphic. Like the author got bored of writing it halfway through.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:30:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655475belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655475https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655475<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File"]]>This is already how busybox works. These examples are taking it to a more extreme level but it's not _that_ crazy.

]]>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:05:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421778belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421778<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "[dead]"]]>I think this is the most an HN post has ever bummed me out, congratulations I guess.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:27:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117735belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117735<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Addiction Markets"]]>Sure, that explains vintage cards. I’m more confused about the demand for new ones.

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 02:40:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778831belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778831https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778831<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Addiction Markets"]]>The Pokémon card mania in particular is deeply weird to me. I play Magic at a local card shop a few times a month and it’s always full of people playing Magic, D&D, or various board games. I don’t think I’ve seen a single person playing the Pokémon card game. So who’s buying the valuable singles? What’s keeping the market afloat? It’s bizarre.

]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:05:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45776126belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45776126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45776126<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies"]]>The user base is the problem on Bluesky, at least for me. It’s full of well-meaning middle-aged people who don’t understand online discussion etiquette. Any non-political post that gets any sort of traction will get filled up with irrelevant bot-like (but real, as far as I can tell) political meme replies that barely make sense.

]]>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:40:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907014belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907014<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users"]]>I maintain an RSS reader for work and Cloudflare is the bane of my existence. Tons of feeds will stop working at random and there’s nothing we can do about it except for individually contacting website owners and asking them to add an exception for their feed URL.

]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:26:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866944belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866944https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866944<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Twstalker.com as a Twitter alternative front end"]]>I don’t think this is an EFF project, is it? The submitter is just using their Twitter account as an example.

]]>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 05:53:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753292belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753292https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39753292<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters"]]>It was. In the last year it’s become largely conservative, and not in a standard reasonable small-government, etc. way. It’s like reading Facebook posts from your dumbest uncle.

]]>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:39:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473658belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473658https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39473658<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use"]]>What part of Canada? I live in the Seattle area and visited Vancouver for the first time recently, and Vancouver was much visibly worse than Seattle in terms of open drug use and general sketchiness. Obviously there’s a lot of potential selection bias there in terms of what neighborhoods I visited there vs where I spend time in Seattle. But I was still surprised at how bad it was.

]]>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 03:29:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609035belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609035<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "UniFi Express"]]>“Inadequate” depends a lot on what you’re doing. I wouldn’t use any of this stuff in a datacenter but for a small business or branch office it’s totally fine.

]]>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:04:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504430belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504430<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Ask HN: Which co-location providers would you recommend in the US?"]]>How good is the pricing at Optic Fusion? I’m always wary of “contact us for a quote”.

]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:04:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279107belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279107https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38279107<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in ""You have a 27% 'AI' issue in here""]]>Nitter link, in case anyone else is hitting a login barrier: https://nitter.net/rustykitty_/status/1709316764868153537

]]>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:29:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767579belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37767579<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users"]]>Yeah, this is _the_ reason I started using Kagi. The default results aren’t significantly better than Google/Bing/DDG, but being able to block and boost domains is a killer feature.

]]>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:13:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007535belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007535https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37007535<![CDATA[RIP Metaverse, We Hardly Knew Ye]]>Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864844

Points: 20

# Comments: 11

]]>Mon, 08 May 2023 17:58:03 +0000https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864844<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Police don't trust Apple's Find My to retrieve missing MacBook shown next door"]]>Police, particularly in big cities, seem weirdly disinterested in doing their jobs. More recently I’ve seen people blame this on polarizing issues like protests or progressive DAs, but it’s been going on for longer than that. I honestly don’t know what the causes or solutions are.

]]>Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:58:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566741belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566741<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Factorio for Nintendo Switch is now available"]]>Exactly this. I use other people’s blueprints for balancers because I find those complicated and not particularly interesting, but for everything else I’ve deliberately avoided looking at other designs. Creating something mediocre and inefficient and then inventing better ways to do it is half the fun.

I also highly recommend playing with a non-engineer friend. It’s an interesting way to watch someone gradually develop an intuition for abstractions and service-oriented design.

]]>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:34:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375484belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33375484<![CDATA[New comment by belkinpower in "Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms"]]>This is really sad. NXT-G was my first programming language. Not sure if I’d be the same person I am today without that experience.

]]>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:26:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348936belkinpowerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348936https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348936