Hacker News: dsparkman

New comment by dsparkman in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

dsparkman — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:21:23 +0000

I know that I personally have a handful of personal local only apps under development, that in the past I would have reached for a web solution.

New comment by dsparkman in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

dsparkman — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:07:40 +0000

That explains why ChatGPT has been running like shit all weekend. In the desktop app on Mac, it could not even complete a response. On the web, it would hang before you could input anything.

New comment by dsparkman in "Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you"

dsparkman — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:46:31 +0000

Yeah, most of these companies park their cash outside the US to avoid having to pay taxes, then borrow money in the US against their assets/stock. It worked great when interest rates were essentially zero. Not so much now.

New comment by dsparkman in "Apple Rankings"

dsparkman — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:42:31 +0000

Yeah, these rankings are bogus. Snapdragon is far superior to Honeycrisp.

New comment by dsparkman in "Amazon completes its $8.5B acquisition of MGM"

dsparkman — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:57:39 +0000

I vote for more Stargate! It is a franchise that has just be languishing for far too long.

New comment by dsparkman in "How to turn your car into a tiny camper"

dsparkman — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 12:45:01 +0000

Try looking at the site with uBlock Origin turned on and the article is missing important details, since the affiliate links aren't being inserted. Makes for a hilarious read.

"This is why the first thing I got for my CR-V was a . They are, as far as I know, the first and only all-terrain tire built specifically for crossovers."

The whole article is like that.

New comment by dsparkman in "Why can't you get the data used to create the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?"

dsparkman — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 05:21:06 +0000

The CPI is a propaganda tool. It is designed to keep the real inflation hidden to make it seem that inflation is not a real thing to worry about. Because it is formulated in secret, they can manipulate it to give a fairly rosy picture. The published CPI never panics.

New comment by dsparkman in "Bill allows U.S. publishers to team up when negotiating with Facebook, Google"

dsparkman — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:40:52 +0000

Nothing like some good old-fashion collusion.

New comment by dsparkman in "Facebook Australia: PM Scott Morrison 'will not be intimidated' by tech giant"

dsparkman — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:05:03 +0000

Facebook should just pay the link tax. They then need to add a link insertion fee for the media outlets, when they are the ones creating the links. Don't pay the fee, don't get any links. Make the fee 3-4x the rate of the link tax to cover added expense of everyday users sharing links.

New comment by dsparkman in "26 Years of Delphi"

dsparkman — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:48:47 +0000

I had Spinel Clean and Tidy that let you clean-up your registry and various temp files that were left all over the place back in the Win95 era. Also Spinel ScreenPik which was a screen capture utility.

New comment by dsparkman in "26 Years of Delphi"

dsparkman — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:32:05 +0000

Delphi, ah the memories. I use to make a fair amount of money in the late 90s making shareware applications with Delphi. It was the most productive I have ever been as a developer. But, the world moved to web fairly rapidly, so I had to move on to the web.

New comment by dsparkman in "H.R.127 – Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act"

dsparkman — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:59:08 +0000

I will never understand how everyone forgets the first part of the second amendment. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State". That pesky regulated Militia part that everyone skips over. Since the only "regulated militia" in the United States, currently, is the National Guard, that seems to state that you can't infringe on their ability to posses and carry fire arms.

New comment by dsparkman in "Comic Mono"

dsparkman — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:31:56 +0000

The ! glyph has some issues. Other than that, I like it.

New comment by dsparkman in "Twtxt Is a Self-Hosted, Twitter-Like Decentralised MicroBlogging Platform"

dsparkman — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 17:49:06 +0000

Is it just me or are all of these "new" micro blogging platforms just trying to recreate RSS feeds. You take a few pieces of relatively simple tech and wire them up and you have solved the "decentralized social media" problem. RSS, Webmention, Webfinger, and WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub).

Create a better "RSS reader" that is more Twitter timeline interface and less email "folders" and you have it.

Also for the love-of-god can we dump the hokey @username@hostname mentions and just use username@hostname like the internet at large has used for decades. username@hostname is NOT only for email addresses.

New comment by dsparkman in "U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of big tech firms: lawmaker"

dsparkman — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 03:21:28 +0000

If the CCP wanted to cause chaos in the US, they would stop container ships from leaving China bound for North America.

New comment by dsparkman in "Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases"

dsparkman — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 23:14:03 +0000

They will require you to only accept Apple Pay in your restaurant, or you will have to remove your app from the app store. :)

New comment by dsparkman in "Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy"

dsparkman — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:49:56 +0000

If a business is purchased by a private equity company, it is not long for this world. Private equity is all about strip mining a business.

New comment by dsparkman in "Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work"

dsparkman — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:42:58 +0000

Florida purposely built a broken system under Governor Rick Scott. It was engineered to make sure that as few eligible people could access it as possible. It is socially and technically engineered to make it so that people give up trying to claim the unemployment benefits they are entitled to. Florida used the system to keep their unemployment numbers artificially low coming out 2008 recession.

New comment by dsparkman in "Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work"

dsparkman — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:35:09 +0000

Really the "small government" party likes to use crony "capitalism" to line the pockets of the "private-sector" with as much tax payer dollars as they can.

New comment by dsparkman in "Ben Smith on the rise of Substack and independent journalists [video]"

dsparkman — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 14:05:42 +0000

I would say most of what passes for journalism, is no longer journalism.

Journalism is about passing on the who-what-when-where-why. Factual information to the public. You see very little of that these days. Too many opinion in basic article.