Hacker News: footy

New comment by footy in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

footy — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:52:03 +0000

he is richer than any of us, but he doesn't strike me as someone who is even remotely content.

Those two things are not the same thing.

New comment by footy in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

footy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:54:23 +0000

Cockroaches make me uncomfortable, but I would not say I fear them. As a kid I was the designated person in the family to deal with all manner of bugs and just whatever.

Except for whatever reason, I am absolutely terrified of moths and butterflies. I don't want to be touched by either of those ever and I don't want them inside my house. I can appreciate butterflies are pretty and colourful and all that but I still don't want them to be near me.

New comment by footy in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

footy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:09:11 +0000

this is bizarre. I lived in my last apartment for almost 9 years and it was great for the first 7.5 of those.

Things did start going downhill when it went from being owned by a local, private family business to a publicly traded American corporation, but I don't blame that on time. And my apartment _itself_ was fine, it was the common areas that were degrading.

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

footy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:53:45 +0000

I live in Canada (many dark months) and am a woman who knows many women and I've never known anyone to wear a vest with a light on them. I do own a hat with a light that I use when I'm walking to the gym in the dark so that drivers will see me, but so do many of my friends and it doesn't seem to be gendered.

I also fail to see how facial recognition would be analogous to lights in terms of safety or frankly anything else.

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

footy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:19:39 +0000

_Careless People_ should be required reading for anyone buying this crap.

New comment by footy in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

footy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:28:36 +0000

maybe we just work at very different companies but I've never interacted with HR beyond onboarding and asking questions about benefits. I can't say I felt dehumanized by either of those things.

New comment by footy in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

footy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:03:10 +0000

the casual dehumanization of people you don't like is bizarre

New comment by footy in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

footy — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:13:37 +0000

I'm 39 and the post resonates with me too. I think it's more a temperamental or values thing than an age one, but I might be wrong.

New comment by footy in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

footy — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:32:49 +0000

They were polled, on election day. Most Americans want this, or didn't care enough to stop it. Potato, potahto.

New comment by footy in "The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust"

footy — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:18:55 +0000

I've been to 45 countries and agree with the person you're talking to.

New comment by footy in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

footy — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:13:47 +0000

I'm Canadian and I can tell you this was always part of Project 2025, which was extremely obviously the plan all along.

So I don't know. Assuming the American voter can read and and access to the internet, it's kind of pathetic to imply they couldn't have known

New comment by footy in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

footy — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:52:02 +0000

> though there isn't really any serious dispute about it factually

citation sorely needed

New comment by footy in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

footy — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:26:07 +0000

This is an interesting comment for me because if someone said that to me I'd lose all respect for them I think.

New comment by footy in "Google, I Dump Your Ass"

footy — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:14:22 +0000

I use kagi outside the USA.

New comment by footy in "Hating AI Is Good"

footy — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:01:37 +0000

> twice is not enough, apparently.

what is this a reference to?

New comment by footy in "Why I don’t vibe code"

footy — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:56:24 +0000

I live in Southwestern Ontario and I think cars are crazy.

New comment by footy in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

footy — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:57 +0000

imagine using that rocket ship analogy in a world where OceanGate happened. You don't get on a moving ship without asking questions.

New comment by footy in "Google changes its search box"

footy — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:52:47 +0000

Google has been going downhill for a decade now.

I've been paying for Kagi for like four years. I like it but also resent that it's something I pay for now when I remember how good Google was 20 years ago.

New comment by footy in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

footy — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:23:50 +0000

you can really tell the people building these tools spend a lot of time alone. I work from a home office 90% of the time and I wouldn't want this to be my workflow. I don't want to talk to my computer, I want to listen to music while I work, and I want to not sound deranged and disturb everyone around me when I am working from a coffeeshop or the open-plan office or the airport or the train or whatever.

and that's aside from the obvious privacy problems.

New comment by footy in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

footy — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:15:12 +0000

This is a pretty gross privacy violation but it's also just... So depressing.