Hacker News: crysin

New comment by crysin in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

crysin — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:39:00 +0000

What’s your solution then to them being a monopoly? How would you meaningfully break them up? While they outperform the sales of Epic and Gog I’m not sure how they’re abusing their position or how they’re keeping others from entering?

New comment by crysin in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

crysin — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:45:15 +0000

I'd be very surprised if the "average" developer across the board was in fact not just a JavaScript / TypeScript only developer. I have no expectations or really even hope that the average developer I work with has ever written a line of assembly.

New comment by crysin in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

crysin — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:18:33 +0000

Their lives are probably not that more complex than others. They’re just neurodivergent or too task oriented in how they operate and need that structure to give them comfort and confidence.

New comment by crysin in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

crysin — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:44:08 +0000

Jewel-Osco: https://www.local881ufcw.org/about-us/#local-881 Meijer and Kroger: https://ufcw951.org/about/

New comment by crysin in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

crysin — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:07:47 +0000

I think you're making up a narrative in your head to support your bias against Disney here.

TASM 1 was definitely well received when it was released. It was tarnished by the slop that was TASM 2, which lead to Sony being able to come to a licensing agreement with Marvel Studios, to use Spider-Man in the MCU. I think it's an extreme stretch to think Disney had any nefarious doings in the public opinion of those movies, Sony did that to themselves and has proven time-and-time again they cannot make a good quality movie with their Spider-Man IPs.

The Rise of Skywalker is at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes, that was universally acknowledged to be terrible, even by the "critics". Disney definitely was also not able to silence or drown-out the absolute outrage by the cast and fans of the treatment of Luke in The Last Jedi.

Why would Marvel / Disney spend any effort sabotaging the DCEU when Warner Bros. was good at doing it all themselves? If Marvel was worried about DC stealing their audience, they would have focused more on movies like The Batman, not some c-grade antihero most people have no idea about? The Rock fostered a lot of the ill-will towards that movie himself.

I say all this but I also think it's accurate still to say reviews are trustworthy but I don't think they ever have been. I don't think this is some new phenomenon, just people are more aware of the corruption embedded in the system.

New comment by crysin in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

crysin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:52:25 +0000

And then what, be out out of a job because you were insubordinate? If you have the personal wealth and security to lose your job and possibly not have a new opportunity for the next year or so, then that's great. Not everyone has that security, and a roof over their head just may be more important than personal convictions about how to treat users.

New comment by crysin in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

crysin — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 08:15:56 +0000

This seems risky, I'm not a lawyer but BCC company emails to personal account seems like a nice way to pave a highway for the company's legal team to request court ordered access to your personal affairs.

New comment by crysin in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

crysin — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 02:16:52 +0000

At least in the US "most" most definitely did not have fiber, at best maybe FTTC.

New comment by crysin in "The different content TikTok and X showed an undecided voter"

crysin — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 23:22:36 +0000

And X is owned by a Trump propagandist.

New comment by crysin in "Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse"

crysin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:50:38 +0000

How did they write #2 to be more convoluted than it is? The way I read it literally describes my average experience for any "2FA" login.

New comment by crysin in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

crysin — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:40:44 +0000

This trope that kids are more vulnerable to the influence of social media is dangerous. Media literacy, social media literacy, and internet literacy are critical for all ages, as without it you could be 10 or 40 and be equally influenced by some "influencer" you watch daily videos from. There are plenty of adults who react just as equally as a child would. Age does not guarantee maturity or competency.

New comment by crysin in "A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates"

crysin — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:42:44 +0000

It's getting even dumber because these studio curated streaming services don't even have their entire library available on their dedicated service. Want to watch 2007 Transformers in the US? Well too bad, no one is actively streaming that one. Want to watch Transformers 2? Better have Max! Super frustrating as a customer.

New comment by crysin in "Warning: $14k BigQuery charge in 2 hours"

crysin — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:53:01 +0000

IANAL but this can be risky in the US still because if you're not careful and demonstrate a clear separation of your business funds and your personal funds it can let those pursuing you for money owed to pierce the veil, thus losing a huge benefit of the LLC.

Powerball: US man sues lottery after being told $340M win is error

crysin — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:17:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68343150

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439064

Points: 7

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New comment by crysin in "FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines"

crysin — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:13:54 +0000

Your original comment also was not in the spirit of the HN board.

New comment by crysin in "Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch"

crysin — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:42:22 +0000

I'm not a licensed Nintendo developer but off of my knowledge from the Wii U era...

The Godot game engine cannot include any of the Nintendo Switch SDK nor can your game include any of the Nintendo Switch SDK or APIs unless you are a registered Nintendo developer and have signed their NDA. You cannot share any of Nintendos proprietary code or information.

So you could share your source code for a Switch game, minus any code or SDKs specific to the Switch.

New comment by crysin in "You are never taught how to build quality software"

crysin — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:46:22 +0000

Got my MS in SE at DePaul University in Chicago. Wrote more UMLs for those classes than I’ve done in 10 years of actual software development.

New comment by crysin in "John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity"

crysin — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 23:31:30 +0000

Small studios absolutely will return to Unity. This whole debacle will be a faint memory a year from now, the marketing machine will continue and indie developers will become entrenched in Unity's C# ecosystem, build tooling, all-in-one package + asset store. Some indies won't return sure, but Unity will continue to maintain it's foothold with indie developers.

New comment by crysin in "US appeals judge, 96, suspended in rare clash over fitness"

crysin — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 03:34:29 +0000

Dumb question, and this is just me not Googling... but what do ATC do after their forced retirement at 56? That's still to young to retire, or will be for most people in the future and that's pretty late in someone's life. Are there natural progressions within the industry that they can move onto post being a controller or are they restarting from scratch in a new field?

New comment by crysin in "Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source"

crysin — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:23:05 +0000

While I don't know the Rust code, this isn't necessarily solely a Unity problem. Unity's C# API provides a lot of footguns that game developers tend to not think about in the near term. Lots of code bases I've seen in Unity don't do a good job of caching component instances, or just never opened the profiler to see their GC is off the charts. Unity can run really well if the proper thought and care is put into it.