Hacker News: fishingisfun

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

fishingisfun — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:11:36 +0000

that doesnt happen lol

New comment by fishingisfun in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

fishingisfun — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:46:34 +0000

just like israel. even india is similar

New comment by fishingisfun in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again"

fishingisfun — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:49:54 +0000

btw how good are any of these tools for embedded programming? we need a new era for hardware enthusiasts. my dad made plenty of fun things in the 80s but it was at the tail end of the newess that came from radiokits and other gadgets that flooded the market due to the uchip

New comment by fishingisfun in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

fishingisfun — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:56:24 +0000

the lives lost though. the children killed.

New comment by fishingisfun in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

fishingisfun — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:56:54 +0000

the loss of X to close programs is sad. I dont like the new design philosophy of clicking out the card to close things

New comment by fishingisfun in "I’m joining OpenAI"

fishingisfun — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:24:43 +0000

then explain why google paid 33 billion for a 5 year old israeli cybersecurity startup

New comment by fishingisfun in "I’m joining OpenAI"

fishingisfun — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:17:25 +0000

good for you. make that money

New comment by fishingisfun in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

fishingisfun — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:00:52 +0000

dont count warehouse works and corp folks in the same bucket. thats like mixing commercial and residential real estate markets in one report without diff

New comment by fishingisfun in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

fishingisfun — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:48:50 +0000

also incredible that america is safe enough for a billionaire to do this alone without security

New comment by fishingisfun in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

fishingisfun — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:18:08 +0000

they left willingly. Iran still has jews and a grand Rabbi. Many Jews moved to israel for economic reasons.

New comment by fishingisfun in "Ask HN: Most Valuable Jobs of 2025?"

fishingisfun — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:18:45 +0000

no one can guess

New comment by fishingisfun in "Ask HN: How to stay focused and motivated working from home?"

fishingisfun — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 23:47:28 +0000

... man this hurts deep but truth of the matter is that we need jobs to pay bills and not be homeless. I totally agree with you though

New comment by fishingisfun in "What went wrong with the Texas power grid?"

fishingisfun — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 04:09:04 +0000

willing or not, they had AMI sold to them in some cases for a 25% increase. This 20% for a winterized solution is a no brainer

New comment by fishingisfun in "Computer System Engineering"

fishingisfun — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:21:09 +0000

i love how you put it. all of this micro organization and "filing" for ease actually makes it harder to follow. Give me a 2 hour youtube videos with stamps and i'll find what im looking for

New comment by fishingisfun in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

fishingisfun — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 04:16:46 +0000

great profile

New comment by fishingisfun in "Ask HN: Is there a note taking app you're 100% happy with?"

fishingisfun — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 06:39:46 +0000

notepad.exe

New comment by fishingisfun in "Games people play with cash flow"

fishingisfun — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:23:14 +0000

I agree. I can use the example of flappy bird for this. Overnight development teams pumped out 3d versions of his game with better controls than the original. Sometimes timing is important for small players because other teams can take your idea and execute better and faster once they know the market is there for such a program or product.

New comment by fishingisfun in "Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms"

fishingisfun — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:53:09 +0000

the gems are hidden in small subs

New comment by fishingisfun in "Ask HN: Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?"

fishingisfun — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:04:48 +0000

connect the use of the internet with something physically outside.

example : use youtube tutorial to learn a real skill like fixing a car. Then you'll like internet again

New comment by fishingisfun in "Amazon Review Scam"

fishingisfun — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 22:28:10 +0000

so many brands on amazon are just junk. the whole concept of branding is worthless because the same stuff is being sold by "different" brands. i rather stick to known names