Hacker News: endemic

New comment by endemic in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

endemic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:02:32 +0000

Sorry, whenever I see a reference to a Mars bar, I have to post https://totl.net/VisibleMars/

New comment by endemic in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

endemic — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:26:08 +0000

"Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping"

New comment by endemic in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

endemic — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:44:09 +0000

I still have a Facebook account, and will occasionally log in (most recently attempting to sell something on their craigslist equivalent). The default content shown in your "feed" or dashboard is more than 50% engagement bait and/or slop. I attempted to start flagging those posts as "never show me again," but it soon became apparent that it was a Sisyphean task, and I just logged out again.

New comment by endemic in "GPT-5.6"

endemic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:19:23 +0000

The naming scheme is too "clever."

New comment by endemic in "Stop Using reCAPTCHA – It's Not a Real Captcha"

endemic — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:52:40 +0000

> they are about the most difficult to solve captchas I've ever done

Sounds like something a robot would say. Joking aside, I'd rather do a captcha that involves slightly more cognitive effort, rather than get trapped in a reCaptcha loop because I didn't select every last segment of a bicycle.

New comment by endemic in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

endemic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:02:54 +0000

> Non-replaceable batteries

Most batteries are replaceable. The difference is the level of effort involved.

New comment by endemic in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

endemic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:58:00 +0000

My take is they didn't optimize for something that a small percentage of users would have problems with.

New comment by endemic in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

endemic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:30:29 +0000

Yeah, he's definitely the cause of all our past and current problems.

New comment by endemic in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

endemic — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:22:05 +0000

So he has money.

New comment by endemic in "The Coming Loop"

endemic — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:01:47 +0000

What are you going to do? Asking for a friend.

New comment by endemic in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

endemic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:38 +0000

I mean, they're already subsidizing some of the phone services (e.g. maps) that users expect to have.

New comment by endemic in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

endemic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:31:57 +0000

> Microsoft is completely and utterly defeated.

All the way to the bank, apparently.

New comment by endemic in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

endemic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:48:40 +0000

I had the exact same thought about the brand crashing due to association with Facebook. Gotta juice them numbers, I guess.

New comment by endemic in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

endemic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:29:39 +0000

If it makes someone feel better about themselves, why not?

New comment by endemic in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

endemic — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:08:02 +0000

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

New comment by endemic in "DOS Zone"

endemic — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:52:36 +0000

That $7 isn't going to the developers.

New comment by endemic in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

endemic — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:20:16 +0000

Jobs really did make a lot of boneheaded decisions when running NeXT; this book just calls him out on it.

New comment by endemic in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

endemic — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:08:11 +0000

Funny, I'm the exact opposite!

New comment by endemic in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

endemic — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:44 +0000

> demand for a touchscreen on a laptop

My take is that consumers didn't want this; it was manufacturers trying to "add value" or sell something new. Same as the recent "AI PC" craze.

New comment by endemic in "Buying a retro game console"

endemic — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:53:22 +0000

Even with the latency/frame stuttering inherent in this sort of thing, it's been pretty amazing to re-play games with childhood friends who are now dispersed across the planet.