Hacker News: emchammer

New comment by emchammer in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

emchammer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:59:00 +0000

It's a really uplifting break compared to all the other news coming out now.

New comment by emchammer in "Trump's signature will appear on US dollars"

emchammer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:36:04 +0000

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Donald Doctor President Trump, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the American Empire in America in General and Washington in Particular

New comment by emchammer in "What to Know About the Push to Display the Ten Commandments in Classes"

emchammer — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:31:38 +0000

If you’re referring to the Pledge of Allegiance, the original versions were a lot more neutral, the God part was a reactionary addition during the Red Scare, it even made believers uncomfortable at the time, and Jehovah’s Witnesses still don’t want to say it.

New comment by emchammer in "Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn"

emchammer — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:39:01 +0000

What welfare state? Do you mean the universal healthcare that they claw away at any cost, like Mitch McConnell onto the podium?

New comment by emchammer in "Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled"

emchammer — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:31:07 +0000

Leni Riefenstahl taught me everything I know about lighting and camera angles!

New comment by emchammer in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

emchammer — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:35:36 +0000

It’s easy to tell when these books are printed by a high-volume inkjet printer. They are not as pleasurable to read. It’s a certain fuzziness, like when cinemas first went to digital, and when planetariums got rid of their optical star projectors.

New comment by emchammer in "Magnus Carlsen Beats ChatGPT in Chess Without Losing a Piece"

emchammer — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:18:02 +0000

LOL

New comment by emchammer in "Apple iWork apps send analytics data when "Share Analytics Data" is off"

emchammer — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:00:21 +0000

Apple have fuck-you money, so they do pretty much whatever they want these days. But it looks good in the sizzle reels because they had good industrial designers in the past. Tim has a vision that he “truly believes” about AI or cameras in the earphones or something, so roll the dice.

New comment by emchammer in "Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years"

emchammer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:36:10 +0000

We literally cannot stop saying good things about him.

New comment by emchammer in "I Just Returned from China. We Are Not Winning"

emchammer — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:22:50 +0000

If we get used to vibe coding, then we had better get used to vibe salaries.

New comment by emchammer in "It's Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem"

emchammer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:27:35 +0000

It’s easier than admitting that it’s us who have a problem.

New comment by emchammer in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

emchammer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:21:38 +0000

If open source projects like Slackware Linux can keep it stable on zero budget with a zoo of components since before we knew what SRE was, then Apple can afford to have operating system specialists who know the whole system. It’s like they gave up and welded the jukebox closed because it was making enough money.

New comment by emchammer in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

emchammer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:15:52 +0000

Just ask this scientician.

New comment by emchammer in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

emchammer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:40:16 +0000

A lot of macOS needs that. There are some terrific ideas under the hood, but it’s as if people left halfway through implementing them.

New comment by emchammer in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

emchammer — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:04:28 +0000

Apple’s headphones adapter contains very high quality output and driver hardware. Their basic software usability quality problems simply shortchange everyone involved.

New comment by emchammer in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

emchammer — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:50:21 +0000

The M silicon is real, but Nokia, a company that specialized in rubber products, was doing low-power ARM 30 years ago, and the stage was set by His Jobsness with Mach binaries and Rosetta. Tim Cook was excitedly waving his hands in the last event video about some kind of evaporative cooling mechanism in the latest low-end iPhone. He has completely missed the plot.

New comment by emchammer in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

emchammer — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:18:23 +0000

I do not comprehend why all these platforms act as if they are doing a favor with the censorship.

New comment by emchammer in "You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates"

emchammer — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:43:16 +0000

It’s the same with Apple. Sure, their product is proprietary, but the producers are not the only ones with a stake in it.

New comment by emchammer in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"

emchammer — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:22:15 +0000

Apple doesn't even include stickers anymore?

New comment by emchammer in "The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar"

emchammer — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:01:43 +0000

It's a great phrase which explains how a company like Apple can take good ideas, implement the parts they like, and not give back.