Hacker News: duderific

New comment by duderific in "Apple at 50"

duderific — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:02:10 +0000

It's wild to me that at 83 years of age, he still wants to do gigs like this. Pretty sure he doesn't need the money.

New comment by duderific in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

duderific — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:33:09 +0000

My 11 year old son plays Fortnite almost daily. He plays other games too but Fortnite is what he plays with his friends online.

New comment by duderific in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

duderific — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:33:31 +0000

In our current system, the only defenses against corruption:

- Standards and norms, which obviously the current administration doesn't give a rat's ass about

- Failing that, Congress has to step in and impeach and convict. This won't happen because the Republicans have completely rolled over

So, here we are.

New comment by duderific in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

duderific — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:10:02 +0000

Remember when everyone said Facebook would be dead if they started running ads

New comment by duderific in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

duderific — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:41:43 +0000

I quite literally couldn't stay awake for Andor. Five minutes into each episode I was out cold. Saying it's a "slow burn" is quite the understatement.

New comment by duderific in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

duderific — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:15:14 +0000

For the Fox News crowd, which is most of his supporters, they are likely not even aware of these transgressions, as they are not reported there. Or, if they are aware, they are happy to see Trump enriching himself, because, own the libs or something?

New comment by duderific in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

duderific — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:03:29 +0000

It's the job of the Congress to hold the executive branch accountable, with the ultimate endpoint being impeachment and removal if necessary. Unfortunately, the Senate republicans are completely sold out to the cult of Trump so there will be no relief from that quarter.

New comment by duderific in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

duderific — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:18:37 +0000

I haven't checked on this in a long time, but IIRC, the insurance company will always blame the person in back in a rear-end collision, for just this reason. A rear-end collision should always be avoidable.

New comment by duderific in "Software Survival 3.0"

duderific — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:59:12 +0000

AI doesn't "want to" control air traffic. It doesn't have any desire or ambition. That's what the humans are for.

It is merely a tool like a hammer. The hammer doesn't build the house, it is the human who wields the hammer that builds the house.

New comment by duderific in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

duderific — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:00:46 +0000

We've noticed this in our neighborhood. Once a year we host a few families before going out trick or treating with our kids. We buy a bunch of pizza so everyone can eat and don't ask for the other families to kick in.

We were hoping the other families would reciprocate, and maybe invite us to some of their gatherings (especially two families who hang out together quite a bit.) So far it hasn't happened at all, they just receive our graciousness and move on immediately.

New comment by duderific in "It’s been a very hard year"

duderific — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:51:40 +0000

I guess then, that he is relying on his customers not discovering that there are options out there that will do this for them, without a "middle man" as it were. Seems like shaky ground to be standing on, but I suppose it can work for a while, if he already has good relationships in his industry.

New comment by duderific in "It’s been a very hard year"

duderific — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:15:20 +0000

Waymo is doing very well around San Francisco, which is certainly very challenging city driving. Yes, it doesn't snow there. Maybe areas with winter storms will never have autonomous vehicles. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of utility created even now.

New comment by duderific in "I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset"

duderific — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:11:34 +0000

Seeing images like that are always a good reminder that LLM's don't actually "know" anything.

New comment by duderific in "Shop Sans is a typeface for curved text paths"

duderific — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:50:28 +0000

Bit of an aside but that site is truly awesome. Good to see some real design chops out there. I could browse those fonts for hours.

New comment by duderific in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"

duderific — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:36:22 +0000

I had a colleague who I sensed was giving me the cold shoulder. Just kind of cutting off attempts at friendly conversation, whereas before our relationship had been fine.

As the author suggests, instead of just letting it fester, I caught him at an opportune moment and asked him if I had done anything to upset him (I suspected maybe a not-tactful-enough code review may have been the culprit.) He just denied that anything was wrong, other than that he wasn't sure how to relate to me because our circumstances are so different (I'm quite a bit older than him and have a family, although it hadn't been a problem before.)

Unfortunately this interaction just made our relationship even more awkward, and it never recovered. He ended up leaving the company about six months later.

In summation, simply getting things out in the open is not necessarily the cure-all the author suggests it is.

New comment by duderific in "Where do the children play?"

duderific — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:11:36 +0000

As another data point, my son was 5 when the lockdowns hit and missed the end of his kindergarten year and the entirety of first grade. He's doing fine.

My daughter was 18 months and went back to preschool at age three. She's also doing fine.

In fact I don't know any of their peer group who I would consider to be "having a terrible time adjusting to school and normal social interaction" which could be directly tied to Covid. There were some kids who had already been identified as having developmental challenges, and that hasn't changed.

New comment by duderific in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

duderific — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:43:31 +0000

It looks like it's using an LLM agent to do the actual work of editing the site.

New comment by duderific in "Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web"

duderific — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:41:42 +0000

99% of users of FB would never hear of this extension, nor know what to do with an extension, nor care to even consider that they could improve their experience.

New comment by duderific in "Zed is our office"

duderific — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:15:06 +0000

Also the typeface, kerning and line heights are a bit - unconventional, which doesn't help the readability

New comment by duderific in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

duderific — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:49:25 +0000

> In the cafeteria, Ryan Tripathi, 16, was paging through “Lord of the Flies,” which he said is slow-going. “I'm just not used to reading,” he said. “I’m usually on my phone.”

Damn, that hits pretty hard.