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New comment by coolestguy in "Show HN: A modern Music Player Daemon based on Rockbox firmware"

coolestguy — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:06:55 +0000

>Planned: Stream from Tidal

Yes please - Tidal's app is genuinely woeful and doesn't seem to use native API's in MacOS

New comment by coolestguy in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

coolestguy — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:01:43 +0000

If it's so easy, why haven't you done it?

New comment by coolestguy in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

coolestguy — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:54:34 +0000

The guy who oversaw the silicon change is the one who's likely going to be the next CEO

New comment by coolestguy in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

coolestguy — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:35:26 +0000

Sorry that you can't control other peoples lives & wants

New comment by coolestguy in "Sports Site Like Brustalist.report?"

coolestguy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:14:37 +0000

I'm looking for a sports aggregation site like Brutalist Report - does anyone know if this exists?

Sports Site Like Brustalist.report?

coolestguy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:14:37 +0000

Article URL: https://brutalist.report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45692569

Points: 1

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New comment by coolestguy in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

coolestguy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 21:23:25 +0000

"using the biggest software suite tailored for offices/IT environments is a red flag"

honestly the things i read here sometimes hahaha

New comment by coolestguy in "Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley"

coolestguy — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 03:18:57 +0000

>it was called "google without ads and seo spam"

... if you could talk to it like a human and have google search hold a conversation with you - sure. That distinction is a big big big difference though

New comment by coolestguy in "ChatGPT Pulse"

coolestguy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:59:03 +0000

>Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers).

You think a technology that allows millions of people all around the world to keep & trustlessly update a database, showing cryptographic ownership of something "the most useless technology ever invented"?

New comment by coolestguy in "In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs"

coolestguy — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:11:32 +0000

>Dehumanization seems to be the trend that the US is leading on right now.

Criminals have to want to stop doing crime before they can be rehabilitated.

New comment by coolestguy in "Fair Access to Banking"

coolestguy — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 03:17:16 +0000

That's exactly what ethereum is - you're able to move funds without permission, trustlessly, instantly.

New comment by coolestguy in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

coolestguy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:25:45 +0000

No you're right, thinking about laws & second order effects isn't a government thing

New comment by coolestguy in "Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off"

coolestguy — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:13:55 +0000

There are a lot of things that are a net negative to society but since we're not slaves, we're allowed to do things that can be fun but -ev if we choose to

New comment by coolestguy in "How to (actually) send DTMF on Android without being the default call app"

coolestguy — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:07:24 +0000

What's the feasibility of taking an existing default calling app & adding the real way to do DTMF, then making the user forced to use this app as the default calling app.

E.g. the calling app from AOSP, LineageOS or GrapheneOS

New comment by coolestguy in "Doctors Warn Accountants of Private-Equity Drain on Quality: You Could Be Next"

coolestguy — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:40:25 +0000

Theoretically, if those two firms are good at their jobs & also good at marketing (including referrals), then yes sure.

Realistically, 75% of professionals aren't worth their salt & so many people will just continue going to the PE firm controlled places since switching won't get them any better service & the 2 hold out firms in this scenario would pragmatically raise their prices.

New comment by coolestguy in "The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D"

coolestguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:31:33 +0000

That's not at all what a tax write off is. A tax write off is when you spend money, and it reduces your profit. You've really spent the money.

New comment by coolestguy in "The Consequences of Limiting the Tax Deductibility of R&D"

coolestguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:30:40 +0000

How does deducting R&D in software equal magic money? Isn't it just making the deduction timeframe the same timeframe as the actual expense/money paid?

It's weirder that you spend money on R&D today & then get a 20% for 5 years in a row, no? You've spend money, but also can't deduct it from your profit so you're both spending money and paying taxes on that money as if you had it.

New comment by coolestguy in "Yi 1.5"

coolestguy — Sun, 12 May 2024 21:10:03 +0000

No - 16gb of ram is barely enough to run regular applications if you're a power user let alone the most breakthrough computationally heavy workloads ever invented

New comment by coolestguy in "Robinhood Crypto Gets Wells Notice from US SEC"

coolestguy — Mon, 06 May 2024 22:21:31 +0000

>The idea that crypto assets aren't "securities" and thus not subject to SEC regulation is, and always has been, laughable.

Except, ya know.. the courts.

New comment by coolestguy in "M3 MacBook Air Supports More External Displays Than M3 MacBook Pro"

coolestguy — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:31:04 +0000

No - displaylink is a software solution & native hmdi/thunderbolt etc is a hardware solution.

Display link docks have their own chips in them