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New comment by dieselgate in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

dieselgate — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:49:15 +0000

> People absolutely will not explore, click on things outside of what they have memorized, or even try basic troubleshooting steps out of fear of breaking things.

I agree with this in general but it can be tough for financial/business/order workflows where an irreversible change may be initiated. From the software perspective an audit log or Git-like history would easily mitigate these concerns but they usually don't exist. And "non-technical" users often just want to "know what buttons to click" to do their job.

To the point of the main article don't think I ever had the opportunity of using Windows 2000. Remember jumping from 98 to XP? Not sure about ME/Millennium either and if it's the same or a variant of 2000.

New comment by dieselgate in "Nobody clicks share buttons"

dieselgate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:23 +0000

At a previous job an "infinite scroll" experience was tested against many paginated pages and 0.2% is roughly the conversion rate of someone clicking through to the 4th or 5th page of results IIRC. They decided to not go true "infinite scoll" but rather add a "See More" button instead of pagination.

Anyway just interesting data points for what "0.2% conversion" looked like in my experience.

New comment by dieselgate in "Ask HN: I Need Help for a Product"

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:01:47 +0000

Dude just get a lawyer. There are plenty of places that can connect you to legal assistance and provide hourly rates. LegalZoom is a one place to start.

I agree with sibling post about the law subreddit but not sure how much the advice will differ.

I am also an LLC owner and have needed the same assistance. LLMs are not lawyers and should only be considered advice/research from a non-legal source.

New comment by dieselgate in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:52 +0000

The movie has definitely not aged well but was a "family favorite" growing up in the 90s...

Ask HN: Influence of Legend of Zelda in Backrooms Movie?

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:43:36 +0000

I watched the movie Backrooms last weekend and found it enjoyable. The biggest thing that jumped out to me was how similar it resembled Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time temple/dungeon layouts. Did anyone else have similar thoughts?

There was an early scene where the Backrooms character had to kneel down and crawl into a small knee-high opening leading into another room.

There were multiple scenes where a "grinning sun" wall figure is shown. There were some scenes where the rooms expand "into the wall" in a rotated way. And the perfect cubic cutouts of the floor and ceiling that occasionally lead to another room.

These were all the major things from what I can recall and almost feel like direct "ripoffs" from Ocarina of Time. I felt they were well done and have no intent of trashing the movie. While watching it just felt the director was probably a big Zelda fan.

Curious if anyone has thoughts here or if these are just coincidental stylistic choices.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507157

Points: 6

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New comment by dieselgate in "HN Comment Golf"

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:33:07 +0000

Antithesis to the stated HN guidelines of encouraging conversation and discouraging low effort one-word responses.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by dieselgate in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:24:30 +0000

The "Revenge of the Nerds" movie series follows this arc too - when them being oppressed to becoming the oppressors.

Elon Musk Is Colonizing Earth

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:22:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505326

Points: 6

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New comment by dieselgate in "The Future of Email"

dieselgate — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:10:51 +0000

With the recent articles about Proton supporting French right-wing candidates (from what I recall) individuals were mentioning how great Fastmail is as an alternative. That's my best guess at least

New comment by dieselgate in "Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?"

dieselgate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:59:22 +0000

Is it sort of how stainless steel still rusts... it just rusts, less?

New comment by dieselgate in "The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer"

dieselgate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:06:25 +0000

On a recent podcast episode Ezra Klein mentioned something like "when making agreements one should be able to accept the deal of either side" which is something that's stuck with me and is basically an elegant way of describing a win-win situation.

New comment by dieselgate in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:56:45 +0000

I am not unaware. The video I saw looked AI generated and until seeing the below YT link I did not believe the interview was real.

New comment by dieselgate in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:53:11 +0000

Perhaps the paddle wheel[0] will interest you, the spinning is used to calculate the velocity of the boat. Probably some other propeller or similar would be more practical - like a kicker motor that's easily lowered over the side. Just spitballing. I don't think it'd be worth it considering solar options. Even wind generators are not "super efficient" in comparison but I don't have data.

[0] https://www.westmarine.com/bg-h3000-paddlewheel-sensor-w-pla...

New comment by dieselgate in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:47:22 +0000

> there's always the risk for a rig failure.

Don't forget rudder and keel - especially if sailing off the coast of western europe...

New comment by dieselgate in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:23:32 +0000

> My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain.

Was surprised mine did not - usually a toss up with HN links. I don't get reasoning just "NONCOMPLIANT ACTION". It is interesting to have a flag telling you the domain is new, though

New comment by dieselgate in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:44:21 +0000

Usually people clam up and are not vocal during group meetings. I am not one of them but it's super common. 1-1s allow people to be more candid.

New comment by dieselgate in "'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings"

dieselgate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:39:58 +0000

There's no way to determine a "why" and there probably wasn't a single purpose in my opinion. The most interesting part to me, though, is how a lot of the hand "prints" include children.

New comment by dieselgate in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

dieselgate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:40:42 +0000

> 90% of the code is 90% of the work. The last 10% of the code is the other 90% of the work.

Don't think I've heard that one but certainly rings true to my experience.

Reminds me of "ninety percent of the game is half mental"

New comment by dieselgate in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

dieselgate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:14:47 +0000

The short segment I saw on reddit, I believe, of Ivanka talking about an island gave VERY strong AI vibes. Is this interview real and are there links? This is the first I've seen it referenced so haven't given it much thought.

New comment by dieselgate in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

dieselgate — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:50:20 +0000

I'm glad you made the comment because at the very least I learned a new German word (native English speaker and conversational in Spanish).

It's ironic to search for "alt meaning" and find a tertiary definition of "Pitched in the first octave above the treble staff; high" which would suggest more of the Spanish "alta" root rather than the Germanic root.

Now I'm curious how much origins are shared between Spanish and German.

Perhaps we can all agree English is a goofy language!