Hacker News: brink

New comment by brink in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

brink — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:04:33 +0000

Agreed. Greed is consuming everything before our eyes.

New comment by brink in "Using AI to reverse engineer hardware"

brink — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:35:36 +0000

Can't help but feel that AI is the killing of the golden goose. We thought it would kill jobs, but it may just end up killing entire industries.

Intellectual property incentivized many and laid many golden eggs, but why would someone toil to create a new algorithm to solve a problem if someone else is just going to steal it in hours?

But who knows, maybe imploding the software industry is a good thing. I may lose my house in the process, but I think we could all get back to touching a little more grass.

New comment by brink in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

brink — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:53:52 +0000

This is lovely. I really hope society returns to chasing beauty again. We need it.

New comment by brink in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

brink — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:52:44 +0000

What's so bad about it?

New comment by brink in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

brink — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:46:32 +0000

The price is in the hardware.

New comment by brink in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

brink — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:33:06 +0000

Either the investors know something we don't, or the market is irrational.

New comment by brink in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

brink — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:10:18 +0000

I also have found that AI has not lived up to many of its promises and have dialed back what AI gets control of. My projects were turning into unmaintainable messes. The people who say coding is solved aren't paying attention.

New comment by brink in "10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years"

brink — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:17:10 +0000

Stocks historically haven't performed well during periods of high inflation.

New comment by brink in "Gemini 4 Argon"

brink — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:15:17 +0000

You're just parroting a headline. They did not actually make a profit in Q2 when you take all of their expenses into account.

New comment by brink in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

brink — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:51:33 +0000

Humans are inherently religious, whether you see it or not. We all worship something.

New comment by brink in "Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless"

brink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:43:36 +0000

What does that have to do with the conversation here?

New comment by brink in "Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll"

brink — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:17:47 +0000

One of the reasons people don't drink anymore is because they don't go out with their friends that much.

We're a very lonely generation.

New comment by brink in "Grok 4.7"

brink — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:25:47 +0000

Same, Astra is extremely RL fried, and nobody is talking about it. I used Astra for a few days on my personal project, and load times went from less than 3 seconds to almost 30 seconds because it kept using the wrong sync primitives and bad architecture overall.

New comment by brink in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

brink — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:30:32 +0000

It's endless comments like this that make me feel like it's the minority that's sane, which reaffirms the author's point.

New comment by brink in "SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods"

brink — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:09:19 +0000

Is it for a sustainable future, or just extracting maximum value from the user?

New comment by brink in "Show HN: A marketplace where AI agents buy services from AI agents"

brink — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:41:03 +0000

Agents are relatively easy to influence. What's to stop them from being prompt injected to hand over all of their money?

New comment by brink in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

brink — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:37:11 +0000

What would it take for them to add a spring to the hinge? I would love a foldable that opens with a flick of the wrist without the need to pry it open.

New comment by brink in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

brink — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:09:37 +0000

This has little to do with NY governing NY. NY was attempting to govern Kalshi in other states, which it doesn't have the authority to do.

New comment by brink in "How to run latest Vegas Pro 22 in Windows 7 x64"

brink — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:24:55 +0000

My computer freezes for 2-3 seconds when I try to open the volume panel and there are ads everywhere on Win 11. It's like Microsoft wants to wipe every good memory I've ever had with past Windows experiences and just accept the present.

New comment by brink in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

brink — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:23:31 +0000

Mozilla if you're listening - now's your chance; please bring it back. We actually have a reason to switch now.