Hacker News: cogogo

New comment by cogogo in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

cogogo — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:00:47 +0000

The year is 2026 and the only thing about coding that matters anymore is taste.

Edit: Thought about scare quoting “taste”

New comment by cogogo in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

cogogo — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:55:47 +0000

Off topic but I went to a local town’s medium-sized professional fireworks show this weekend and there were none of those small flash really loud fireworks that shake you to the core. Not even in the grand finale. Oddly they are what I enjoy most. Have they gone out of fashion or do they mess too much with pets?

New comment by cogogo in "Ship traces journey Spanish Armada sailors made in 1588"

cogogo — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:50:03 +0000

That wikipedia article is pretty clear that it is a myth and there is no genetic evidence of shipwrecked Spanish sailors having children.

New comment by cogogo in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

cogogo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:03:15 +0000

Great piece but definitely makes me even more annoyed by the obviously bootleg Calvin pissing stickers on pickups. And even further annoyed that my kids will never know the joy of a quality broadsheet newspaper, especially on Sunday.

New comment by cogogo in "Waymo Premier"

cogogo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:42:16 +0000

Me too but this feels like a step in a progression to being able to rent/share them.

New comment by cogogo in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

cogogo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:07:20 +0000

> If you don't personally find straws useful that's fine but why should something like that be dictated for everyone else let alone at such a high level of government and without a direct vote by the citizens?

That is cleary advocating for something as small straws being worthy of a direct vote.

Is there a reasonable expectation for government to be mathematically optimal in any possible way? Why should I not confuse your example as an example?

New comment by cogogo in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

cogogo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:30:20 +0000

Is that really a perfect example of a government failing to function well? In what country government does every action require a direct vote? Representative democracy is by definition imperfect.

Bet you can think of a better “perfect” example of a government failing to function well. It all depends on which government you are referring to but the best example to me would probably be a government needlessly bombing another country. Not a ban on plastic straws.

New comment by cogogo in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

cogogo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:51:08 +0000

Have to say I love the drink cap thing. It makes a lot of sense. The caps wind up everywhere so the regulation probably/most likely does some good (have not seen any data so who knows). But once you get used to it you appreciate not being able to lose the cap. Straws seem pretty useless to me in general so why not avoid plastic? but that is probably a me problem. Plastic on fruit is annoying as hell but it is not a mutually exclusive problem.

New comment by cogogo in "Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill"

cogogo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:32:17 +0000

I always thought that is from companies that get their hands on registration data. Or I could be wrong and it is the dealer itself selling it on not the manufacturer.

New comment by cogogo in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

cogogo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:25:51 +0000

I admire the commitment. I hope you stomp it. I am 44 and have lost the resolve to try new tricks in the sports I enjoy (skiing and kitesurfing). I wish I would but at the same time the downside risk is so high as a parent of 3 kids. Then I relax and take comfort in just straight up sending what I do know. And that is a privilege I hope to enjoy for as long as possible.

New comment by cogogo in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

cogogo — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:59:54 +0000

Frankly that is a bad comparison. Soccer is incredibly popular at a youth level. The talent pool is there and the money is there. How big is the Brazilian baseball economy? As the article states there is about $1.5bn in player value in the MLS. Not to mention that our top tier talent is usually exported to Europe where there is an order of magnitude more money available for the sport. My argument is we have a big talent pool of kids who want to be successful in soccer and we have not learned how to manage it at scale. The talent market of potential players is incredibly fragmented.

Edit: typos

New comment by cogogo in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

cogogo — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:37:47 +0000

I think that is a contributor to the problem but the real problem is we do not yet know how to develop talent consistently in the US. FC Barcelona is easily the world reference recruiting kids around 7-8 years old and building them mentally, physically and tactically into incredible players. Something like half or more of their current roster came through la masía at some point. And something like half the Spain world cup roster plays for Barcelona.

There are soccer academies in the US but it is still relatively new and we do not have a great development model yet. Youth academies are also fairly antithetical to how talent pipelines work for the established US sports.

New comment by cogogo in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

cogogo — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:22:07 +0000

It is all about control and bad leaders do not know how to lead without doing “drive bys.”

New comment by cogogo in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

cogogo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:06:37 +0000

I have been dying for a landline and making a “booth” with a corded phone in a weird nook of our tiny house. Still have not pulled the trigger because I keep going down a rabbit hole of old payphones vs crazy expensive industrial phones. I am weird about this issue but it is entirely so the kids can be home alone and call us or 911. The thing is out absolutely amazing neighbor tends to fill this gap. She does not babysit but is willing to be “around” just in case. Community matters so much.

Also super happy with the switch ii on our only tv. We know what they are doing and can play with them.

New comment by cogogo in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

cogogo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:34:41 +0000

I heard it in Boston and with initial reports saying it broke up over Cape Cod I was kind of surprised and just assumed a very big kaboom. There was a strong storm with 30knt wind from the North at the time. It makes a lot more sense that the shockwave was produced North of here at the NH border and travelled with the wind and the remnants falling East of here in the Bay.

New comment by cogogo in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

cogogo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:34:04 +0000

I am old enough to have had multiple career changes since starting on a major firm’s rates floor in 2008. These IPOs are tiny compared to the overall stock market and the stock market is absolutely tiny compared to debt markets. People consistently underestimate the size of the world economy or even their local economy. The world may look small from an orion capsule near the moon but almost every aspect of human society is bigger than most people can reason about. It is possible these IPOs have an outsized impact on sentiment for weird reasons. But it won’t be an actual outsized impact on capital markets.

Edit: I should add the AI bubble can absolutely burst but there is no reason to believe these IPOs are the end of the ride. If I knew I would be…

New comment by cogogo in "Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids and Failed Supernovas"

cogogo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:19:34 +0000

The idea of predicting an imminent impactor is very cool. I heard the boom from a confirmed bolide explosion on Saturday afternoon in Boston. It was cool. Would love to have seen the actual explosion but it was very overcast and may or may not have been visible in daylight anyway. I would definitely travel if I had a reasonable expectation of seeing one.

Edit: This was in fact visible - there is at least one video out there from much further from the likely impact in Cape Cod Bay

New comment by cogogo in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

cogogo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:09:44 +0000

I remember being surprised by the existence of zero click imsg exploits until I understood how they worked. Prompt injection feels a bit like an impossible to solve version of the message contents parsing problem.

New comment by cogogo in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

cogogo — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:41:08 +0000

I genuinely gave you the benefit of the doubt. I used duck duck go and searched several combinations of related terms and also asked chat gpt, “man”. And found nothing. Why would you quoting an “one-off llm answer” as a fact remotely be responsible? We all know how reliable that is. Why would you not cite your source in the first place “man”? This is straight up conspiracy theory BS but I wanted to understand where you were coming from and give it the benefit of the doubt. Nobody is changing their SSN to a vanity SSN and you know it.

New comment by cogogo in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

cogogo — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:09:51 +0000

Move fast, break things