Hacker News: capital_guy

New comment by capital_guy in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

capital_guy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:54:11 +0000

This is the most broken rule in the history of time. Every thread

New comment by capital_guy in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

capital_guy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:57:21 +0000

This is the main thing that Android users have been saying is the differentiator for them using Android, and they're butchering it in multiple ways. Wild.

New comment by capital_guy in "New York could prohibit chatbot medical, legal, engineering advice"

capital_guy — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:39:44 +0000

The person that introduced this bill is not a lawyer. A former tech worker, actually.

New comment by capital_guy in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

capital_guy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:59:08 +0000

Maybe it's time for pitchforks.

New comment by capital_guy in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

capital_guy — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:30:00 +0000

I usually find these apple design nitpick articles tiresome but the gif of the guy grabbing at the plate was hilarious and also accurate about user expectations

New comment by capital_guy in "Eat Real Food"

capital_guy — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:04:05 +0000

the reason it's being _changed_ is obviously partisan politics.

New comment by capital_guy in "Our $100M Series B"

capital_guy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:05:41 +0000

I believe the fans are actually smaller. The rack is definitely quieter than other racks, but he says in the rear rack tour that it's quite hot. Check out these videos of it

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHbgjB0RQ1s [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJmw9OICH-4

New comment by capital_guy in "GCP Outage"

capital_guy — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:25:26 +0000

BigQuery is completely dead

New comment by capital_guy in "MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming"

capital_guy — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:26:40 +0000

For professional basketball, the statistical advantage of 3-point has completely warped the game. There are a lot of articles online about it

New comment by capital_guy in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

capital_guy — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:40:50 +0000

This is a point of hubris I see among SWEs very frequently, for some reason. People like to think they could make a better system, one that's black and white. The truth is the use of judgement and context is essential to a good legal system.

New comment by capital_guy in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

capital_guy — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:00:07 +0000

Finding a way to complain about your wife in a comment about an IDE is peak hacker news.

New comment by capital_guy in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

capital_guy — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:39:28 +0000

I guess if they integrate this then that will be the case, I'm not sure I'm convinced that much stuff is going on in dbt cloud that I can't do in dbt core.

A comparison that's obvious to my team is the release cadence of Metabase, which we also self-host. The frequent rollout of new features in Metabase is great and gives me more confidence in the product. But I'm not in the position to decide whether to cough up the $ for the paid version so I suppose it's moot.

New comment by capital_guy in "Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs"

capital_guy — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:15:40 +0000

Seems like a great pair. Especially the bit about static analysis instead of using string parsing.

Frankly, the dbt product hasn't really evolved much. I've been a bit disappointed with its lack of evolution toward this stuff organically. The "modern data stack" is in kind of in a magic position where they are working at very technical companies but the people using it are not SWEs who can build out the tooling themselves so they are just getting buckets of money without a really big value proposition. My team self hosts a dbt core workflow and it's been almost trivial to build out dbt's paid product ourselves

New comment by capital_guy in "The Origins of Wokeness"

capital_guy — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:26:35 +0000

The beautiful thing about essays like this is that they show you that the author has truly never known what he was talking about. Just a guy who stumbled through life at the right time. It’s a shame these people have so much power and influence. It could be wielded by people much more thoughtful and benevolent.

New comment by capital_guy in "Zero-based regulation made Idaho the least regulated state in the US"

capital_guy — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:29:55 +0000

This is just literal propaganda output by a think tank.

New comment by capital_guy in "IMG_0001"

capital_guy — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:51:06 +0000

I completely agree. There's something really jarring about watching videos from this time, where things were just more candid in a way that's hard to describe. I only clicked through a few videos and I was smiling from ear to ear. People dancing in a club, a guy riding a homemade little dirtbike in the countryside, babies playing and kids riding bikes. They feel like home videos. It's beautiful.

New comment by capital_guy in "Yes, it ‘looks like a duck,’ but carriers like the new USPS mail truck"

capital_guy — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:41:25 +0000

A crumple zone?

New comment by capital_guy in "FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect"

capital_guy — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:57:49 +0000

Amazing all the newfound lawyers in the HN section here pointing out "loopholes" in the rule and then getting corrected by the next commenter.

The FTC continues to do the good, thankless work of making good public policy. I appreciate it.

New comment by capital_guy in "Crokinole"

capital_guy — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:08:06 +0000

This is a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing!

New comment by capital_guy in "Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI"

capital_guy — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 18:30:53 +0000

> That's just how the internet works. Don't put something on the internet if you don't want it to be globally distributed and copied.

And if someone takes a picture of your artwork, or takes a picture of your person, and posts that to the internet without your consent? Have you given up your rights then?

My answer: Absolutely not.