Hacker News: donkers

New comment by donkers in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

donkers — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:08:32 +0000

Way to dunk on a whole group of people there. As an engineer turned PM, some of us are intelligent and logical and don’t want to do this stupid shit. And some engineers should never be PMs, I’ve seen some real disasters where engineering tried to play that role.

New comment by donkers in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

donkers — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:49:16 +0000

I’m pretty sure turning off the bus is something the bus driver can do. It’s not like buses were wildly roaming around before cellular networks were invented…

New comment by donkers in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

donkers — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:17:47 +0000

And marketing folks would be involved in getting the product into directories, search, magazines, etc. What is it that you think marketing people do? They don't write ad copy all day.

New comment by donkers in "EM Eavesdropping Attack on Digital Microphones Using Pulse Density Modulation"

donkers — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:21:59 +0000

There’s a whole countermeasures section in TFA that describes a clock-based mitigation for this if you bothered to read it.

New comment by donkers in "Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window""

donkers — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:36:31 +0000

Al dente pasta has a lower glycemic index than more cooked pasta (which logically makes sense), thus it can be better for you in that context.

New comment by donkers in "All clocks are 30 seconds late"

donkers — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:35:40 +0000

This is true unless you look at something like a Seiko Spring Drive, which has a completely smooth second hand sweep, although it’s not entirely mechanical (and maybe only watch nerds care about this)

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/does-spring-drive-have-an-...

New comment by donkers in "Tidal Lays Off Staff as Dorsey Pushes for "Startup Mindset""

donkers — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:42:57 +0000

Last.fm, BluOS integration (and lossless of course)

Last.fm with Apple Music requires third party apps and there’s no BluOS integration at all (admittedly a more niche use case)

New comment by donkers in "Google says it won't follow Amazon's lead with a return-to-office mandate"

donkers — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 21:36:48 +0000

I wouldn't call it fraud, but it is probably violating the terms of the employment contract. I know it is for my company (I bet people still do it anyway)

New comment by donkers in "Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web"

donkers — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:52:46 +0000

It’s not a staffing thing. They’re fundamentally getting away from storing your location data to avoid having to deal with law enforcement requests and other problematic things.

New comment by donkers in "Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web"

donkers — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:50:30 +0000

They are trying to get out of having to fulfill law enforcement requests because they have this data. If it’s only on-device (i.e. no web-based view) then Google can’t give law enforcement data they don’t have.

New comment by donkers in "People say they can't get their money out of Yotta Savings (YCombinator 2020)"

donkers — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:22:35 +0000

What? Andreessen Horowitz isn’t a person.

New comment by donkers in "Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals"

donkers — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:08:57 +0000

That Toyota code was a total mess and NASA missed a few things. Take a look at this report from a CMU prof.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31236303

New comment by donkers in "Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable"

donkers — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:08:06 +0000

Your comment made me try this out on wolfram alpha. Kinetic energy of 1 gram with velocity of 0.1 C is 452.78 gigajoules. Energy of the Hiroshima bomb is 6.3x10^13 joules. It would take 139.14 grams of matter at a velocity of 0.1 C to have the kinetic energy equivalent to the energy released by the bomb. So wow, yes, stopping even a small amount of stuff at those speeds is no joke.

New comment by donkers in "Hair sample that put a man in prison turned out to be dog hair"

donkers — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:28:08 +0000

According to this[1], only one exec is getting paid and the rest get $0 compensation. So top-heavy but maybe lots of people want to help?

[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/822...

New comment by donkers in "High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan"

donkers — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:43:09 +0000

From the study you linked:

"A likely explanation of the inverse association between pregnancy and myopia progression is the higher exposure to outdoor activities in pregnant women during their maternal leaves. Time of outdoors physical activity of 6.9 vs 5.2 h per week (P=0.002) in pregnant woman compared to non-pregnant woman."

Outdoor activities - the same thing as in the Wired article that's noted to slow down myopia progression. I don't think this study supports what you think it supports.

Also myopia didn't reverse, the rate of increase merely slowed down in the pregnant women.

New comment by donkers in "3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js"

donkers — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:28:04 +0000

Ahh, thanks! Somehow didn't think to try that instead of just clicking and dragging.

New comment by donkers in "3D Map of Shinjuku Station in Three.js"

donkers — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 21:53:57 +0000

I'm not able to rotate or manipulate the view except to zoom in and out on Chrome on a Mac, but I can rotate and do all kinds of fun stuff with this page with Safari on my iPhone. Am I just missing the keyboard commands to get this to work properly on a desktop?

New comment by donkers in "Apple is officially no longer selling the newest Apple Watch in America"

donkers — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:10:52 +0000

This has some context on Google’s exit from China. They refused to censor the search engine to China’s liking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#2010–2016:_Giving...

New comment by donkers in "Google Makes over $92B per Year by Owning Android"

donkers — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:31:44 +0000

So they’re supposed to run all the infra and services for apps as a charity?

New comment by donkers in "Tell HN: Microsoft.com added 192.168.1.1 to their DNS record"

donkers — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:21:32 +0000

Same here with 1.0