Hacker News: datahack

New comment by datahack in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

datahack — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:02:30 +0000

Isn’t this just an attempt to build a two pizza team (across the company)? Or the whole “parking lot” philosophy that built Patagonia.

Don’t know if it will work with this weird arbitrary cap, because 15 is fine for some things and way too many for others.

Mandates do be like that.

New comment by datahack in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

datahack — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:21:44 +0000

This should be made illegal as soon as possible.

This is clearly and obviously the shortest possible path to a total surveillance society.

New comment by datahack in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

datahack — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:40:32 +0000

Cool. Hope they enjoy having one less customer.

New comment by datahack in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

datahack — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:46:06 +0000

Can we just get an option to turn it off? This is an insanely dumb workaround.

New comment by datahack in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

datahack — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:49:48 +0000

So, is rasping a subset of hacking now? Goodness.

New comment by datahack in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

datahack — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:50:13 +0000

This is woefully inadequate as a remedy. The dollar amount is minuscule and the remedy time limited. Seems like they just got a license to continue business as usual.

New comment by datahack in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

datahack — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:23:30 +0000

Ok. Someone explain to me why they would f themselves this hard with software engineers when they are absolutely winning. This just seems like a bad move.

Is it infrastructure? Are they unable to control costs?

Everyone else is spending like money is water to try to get adoption. Claude has it and is dialing back utility so that its most passionate users will probably leave.

I don’t understand this move.

New comment by datahack in "The bee that everyone wants to save"

datahack — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:29:49 +0000

I do very much dislike that the concerns of the domesticated bee are brushed aside in this piece, as they are quite legitimate.

It, of course, is trying to espouse that we protect the solitary and other wild bees, and I agree with them about that. It’s very, very important.

Nevertheless, this is a case of both not either / or being the right position. Why should we be advocating for one and not the other, or really in fact all flying insects, especially given their recent catastrophic declines.

New comment by datahack in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

datahack — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:43:11 +0000

We bought and tried their products several times only to find they were no different than a basic veggie burger or whatever. We couldn’t figure out what the hype was even about. And then I started reading about how their ingredient list wasn’t the healthiest.

Just seemed like just another weird Silicon Valley money bubble built on hype and vc cash instead of any kind of meaningful product differentiation.

Maybe I’m wrong, but that’s our genuine experience.

New comment by datahack in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

datahack — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:59:00 +0000

The majority of humanity is not meaningfully engaged even if they are active on social media platforms.

It has a long way to go.

New comment by datahack in "Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds"

datahack — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:46:35 +0000

That’s the kind of righteous sarcasm you can build a community on.

Take my upvote.

New comment by datahack in "Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record"

datahack — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:14:52 +0000

Wonder if we should coordinate doing it simultaneously in like 10,000 cities and towns?

New comment by datahack in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

datahack — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:34:22 +0000

I know this is only a partial answer, but I feel like Google is once again trying to build a product based on internal priorities, existing business protectionism, and internal business goals, rather than building a product that is listening actively to real use feedback as the primary priority.

It is the company’s constant kryptonite.

They seem to be, from my third part perspective, repeating the same ol’, same ol’ pattern. It is the “wave lesson” all over again.

Anthropic meanwhile is giving people what they want. They are really listening. And it’s working.

New comment by datahack in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

datahack — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:13:11 +0000

It’s not rocket science. Porsche discontinued the gas Macan in the EU, leaving the new all electric Macan as the primary option.

That’s the top seller. So… you end up with more electric than gas — because you don’t sell it.

New comment by datahack in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

datahack — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:42:47 +0000

Absolutely.

Ours are 10 years old, and the bearings wore out (well they were squeaking!) on the drum.

It took 20 minutes and a ratchet set to repair — couldn’t be easier.

It’s the best appliance we have ever owned. Can’t speak more highly of the company. Definitely the best on the market.

30 years is impressive!

New comment by datahack in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

datahack — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:20:32 +0000

Indeed. I think that’s an astute assessment. I listen to a massive variety of perspectives, and as a NATO member I think what they have to say is worth hearing at least. Thanks for your comment — appreciate it.

New comment by datahack in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

datahack — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:30:10 +0000

I’m learning about the “era of the nations” thinking from Hungary’s Balázs Orbán, via an episode of a podcast called the Winston Marshall show. YouTube just randomly suggested it to me.

I just rebuild a speed queen dryer that broke with spare parts from Amazon, which revealed a remarkably simplistic engineering. Very surprised by how simplistic the mechanism was. It’s incredible how over engineered most laundry systems have become.

Also spent some time digging into the integrations between Tesla FSD and rideshare services today. It’s remarkable how much progress has happened.

New comment by datahack in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

datahack — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:05:34 +0000

This is a case study in the failure of product market fit.

There is tons of room for a low cost, high quality small electric or hybrid pickup in today’s market.

Ford Maverick sales have been exceptionally strong, setting records in 2025 with 155,051 units sold in the US of A, up almost a fifth from last year.

Tesla needs to make a product that people want, and continuing to try to sell one they don’t want just won’t work. Why not pivot and build the truck people are asking for? Otherwise, this program will fail.

New comment by datahack in "An ounce of silver is now worth more than a barrel of oil"

datahack — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:28:10 +0000

Truly, it’s a miracle for manufacturing. I wish people would understand what a profound waste burning it actually is.

New comment by datahack in "Denmark sees US as potential security concern"

datahack — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:11:00 +0000

Yea, precisely. Same reason for the 51st state Canada comments.

You can look at all the reporting that’s been done, much of which is repetitious, but the smoking gun is here:

https://www.bsee.gov/newsroom/latest-news/statements-and-rel...