Hacker News: digitalengineer

New comment by digitalengineer in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

digitalengineer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:46:36 +0000

And where would Silicon Valley be without CERN, that created the www?

New comment by digitalengineer in "GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries"

digitalengineer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:06:46 +0000

Just... wow... Thanks for the link. He did indeed! 2021 "The situation is nothing short of a national emergency. Congress should treat it as such... " And it only got worse. I'm guessing he gave up...

New comment by digitalengineer in "GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries"

digitalengineer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:13:13 +0000

“The GoFundMe CEO hopes younger donors, who are often more values-driven, digitally native, and community-oriented, will push giving higher and faster.” I can’t believe it. THIS is what he hopes for? He is not stating he hopes his country can get out of this mess? Or researching what his company can do? He’s just looking after his cut.

New comment by digitalengineer in "I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections"

digitalengineer — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:03:39 +0000

Correct! That's why I use "Under new management" https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/under-new-managemen...

New comment by digitalengineer in "What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?"

digitalengineer — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 07:10:39 +0000

inefficiency? It's part of the experience. I'm not in a restaurant or café to drink as fast as possible. I'm there to socialize as well. Waiting a bit is not a bottleneck, but a feature. (If I wanted speed, I'd take the drive-through).

Analysing Tech Layoffs (Which function in tech was hit the hardest)

digitalengineer — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://causl.substack.com/p/analysing-tech-layoffs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41623019

Points: 2

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New comment by digitalengineer in "LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool"

digitalengineer — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:58:36 +0000

Correct. So not ‘everyone’ is opted in by default. Just the people without privacy laws…

New comment by digitalengineer in "Korea's birth rate drive struggles to sway 'YOLO' generation"

digitalengineer — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:17:37 +0000

I'm sure this has nothing to do with it: "Asia’s Most Overworked Country Wants to Improve Work-Life Balance—By Raising Work Hours" and they are raising the cap on overtime! https://www.vice.com/en/article/south-korea-69-hour-work-wee...

New comment by digitalengineer in "Show HN: AI User Persona Generator"

digitalengineer — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:43:29 +0000

I see a bright future ahead for companies that actually perform qualitative research with real users.

New comment by digitalengineer in "We are turning into subscription slaves (2023)"

digitalengineer — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:46:55 +0000

I totally agree. Vulture capitalism.

New comment by digitalengineer in "We are turning into subscription slaves (2023)"

digitalengineer — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 10:49:52 +0000

The argument is often made you can get the ‘better’ product if you pay for a ‘product-as-a-service subscription. Even for simple hardware like say a washing machine. Sure you can get the cheap one, but I’ll break almost immediately after the warranty expires and it will use so much more water and energy… or you could get the efficient one that won’t break down, because the company selling those wont have to worry about their quarterly sales.

New comment by digitalengineer in "Cummins Fined $1.6B for Diesel Defeat Devices in 630K RAM Trucks"

digitalengineer — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:50:20 +0000

There's Volkswagen, that had diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested and changed the performance to improve results. These engines emitted nitrogen oxide pollutants up to 40 times above what is allowed.

And there's there's this. This is INSANE if you ask me. It's modifying a diesel engine where the sole purpose is to emit an excessive amount of black smoke. It's a form of 'f*ck you anti-environmentalism.

New comment by digitalengineer in "Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row"

digitalengineer — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:13:54 +0000

Small correction: it’s awful for a poor person to live in debt. If you are quite wealthy there are lots of ways to borrow money and it’s all good!

New comment by digitalengineer in "Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics"

digitalengineer — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:57:25 +0000

GA4 is actually the simple version of GA. Lots of stuff is hidden. So it looks lol Google did exactly what you wanted )‘simplified Analytics service’). However, if you want an even simpler solution: Matamo is totally free as well.

New comment by digitalengineer in "For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching"

digitalengineer — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:43:19 +0000

" If we look at what goes on in other countries, the U.S. stands out as the anomaly. When other countries allow homeschooling, they regulate it much more strictly. They demand that parents show they are qualified to teach and that they turn in the curricula they plan to use. Other countries impose home-visit requirements, which are both a protection against child maltreatment and also a check on whether the parents are actually providing the education they say they are." The Harvard Gazette: "A warning on homeschooling" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/law-school-pr...

New comment by digitalengineer in "Twitter Could Become Irrelevant"

digitalengineer — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:04:54 +0000

(Re)tweeting conspiracy theories comes to mind:

“ Within hours of the attack on Paul Pelosi, conspiracy theories deflecting blame for the assault on the husband of U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi were already swirling online.

It didn’t matter that authorities said Paul Pelosi was alone when the suspect broke into the couple’s San Francisco home. Or that investigators said they didn’t believe the two men knew one another.

It didn’t even matter that the suspect, David DePape, confessed to investigators that he broke into the Pelosi home to target the speaker.” https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-elon-musk-...

New comment by digitalengineer in "Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom"

digitalengineer — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:55:07 +0000

"1996: The Israeli secret service finds that a cell phone can be used for things other than chatting with friends. It also makes a pretty nifty little bomb for disposing of an enemy, which is what happens to Yahya Ayyash on Jan. 5, 1996 when he tries talking on a booby-trapped phone " https://www.wired.com/2007/01/introducing-the-cell-phone-bom...

New comment by digitalengineer in "AI and the Automation of Work"

digitalengineer — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 08:30:04 +0000

It's also very... American to not think mention the absurdity of machine guns at airports, even in the hands of humans. Even if lethal force is required, would you want a security person (not a trained policeman) to "start blasting" and spraying bullets with a machine-gun?

New comment by digitalengineer in "APPL $3T valuation isn’t far off – but no thanks to Vision Pro, argues Bloomberg"

digitalengineer — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:24:04 +0000

> Many of Apple's product launches have not moved the stock price, even though it continues to dominate global markets. Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/12/history-appl...

New comment by digitalengineer in "Money is the megaphone of identity (2020)"

digitalengineer — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:34:05 +0000

"I decided to take a 50% payout... and somehow I feel... happier?" American working in The Netherlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw0gJgMhaqo