Hacker News: fckgw

New comment by fckgw in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

fckgw — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:22:07 +0000

Which reversed in about 6 months and now eggs are are their lowest prices in nearly a decade.

New comment by fckgw in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

fckgw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:33:14 +0000

Flock is popular with 1) local police departments and 2) local city councils who don't want to upset the police

It's pretty unpopular with mainly everyone else.

New comment by fckgw in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

fckgw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:50:27 +0000

If you roll up on a bicycle with a hat and sunglasses then probably not!

New comment by fckgw in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

fckgw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:49:20 +0000

I would be against people standing on every single corner taking video of other citizens 24/7 and handing it over to a private company, yes.

New comment by fckgw in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

fckgw — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:59:35 +0000

If your answer to "How does AI benefit me?" is "Well a lot of people made money" then I'm afraid you've lost the plot.

New comment by fckgw in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

fckgw — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:53:48 +0000

How do I directly benefit from this supposed "growth"? Seems like its just making things worse for most people.

New comment by fckgw in "Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000"

fckgw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:47:35 +0000

What does .xyz TLD have to do with this? The TLD is .sexy

New comment by fckgw in "Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000"

fckgw — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:44:57 +0000

Wouldn't the merchant's proof be the two emails they sent regarding the upcoming renewal with charges listed?

New comment by fckgw in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

fckgw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:25:57 +0000

They have the ability to tear the whole thing down to guts and screws. They absolutely do replace the case, glass and battery and sell as refurbished. They already do complete case swaps on their Macs.

New comment by fckgw in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

fckgw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:21:51 +0000

It's not common (I think average upgrade cycle on iPhone is a little more than 3 1/2 years now, and getting longer every cycle) but it's not unheard of. The iPhone hold value well enough that you can often trade it in at something like a $200 discount and just get the new one.

Considering the cost of a battery replacement, it's not the worst value proposition in the world.

New comment by fckgw in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

fckgw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:33:46 +0000

They still have a 12mo lease term if you want to upgrade yearly.

New comment by fckgw in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

fckgw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:31:57 +0000

You can still just buy it. This is another payment option.

New comment by fckgw in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

fckgw — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:30:18 +0000

The new Apple Upgrade is also 0%, but has lower monthly payments and a balloon payment at the end, like a typical lease. It's not just cost / 24mo.

New comment by fckgw in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

fckgw — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:33:52 +0000

> You can still wash the panels but I suspect it won't be necessary if there isn't too much dust accumulation? Isn't rain supposed to wash away the dust? What am I missing here?

In places where solar panels are used the most, like the Southwest US, there isn't much rain to speak of. Panels get a lot of dust accumulation from Feb-Nov typically, just when they're needed the most.

New comment by fckgw in "Which streaming service was that on again?"

fckgw — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:26:47 +0000

> There are probably a few ways to improve things. Cross-platform search should be standard by now. A shared watchlist across services would help.

Apple tried this with the TV app on their AppleTVs. It was supposed to pull all your subscriptions into one interface, searchable, with tracking and watchlists and all that good stuff. One unified app to all your content.

Then Netflix said they weren't going to play ball, so most others refused too, and now it works with only like 1/3 of streaming services out there.

New comment by fckgw in "Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre"

fckgw — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:02:12 +0000

The space required to install enough solar panels, especially in the places these things are going (like Ohio, where it's NOT ideal for solar generation), would far, far outsize the data center itself by a significant magnitude.

New comment by fckgw in "Decoy Font"

fckgw — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:50:29 +0000

Have you no whimsy?

New comment by fckgw in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

fckgw — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:44:06 +0000

Motorcyclists don't usually kill an entire generation of people when they T-bone a mid-sized sedan in an intersection. That's the problem.

New comment by fckgw in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

fckgw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:55:06 +0000

It's not a "policy" it's a constitutional right.

New comment by fckgw in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

fckgw — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:27:08 +0000

I don't think it's a "problem" that justifies taking the rights away from millions of Americans, no.