Hacker News: freak42

New comment by freak42 in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

freak42 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:17:31 +0000

I can't it covers half of my mobile screen and it doesn't seem dismissible.

New comment by freak42 in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

freak42 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:34:43 +0000

We're not talking about ice cream.

New comment by freak42 in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

freak42 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:17:05 +0000

But that's not what's happening: People took the always free offer, but the offer they took ends now for them not just for new users.

New comment by freak42 in "How to Exist"

freak42 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:23:00 +0000

That doesn't work.

New comment by freak42 in "What Big Food Did to Ice Cream"

freak42 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:08:27 +0000

I do care. Of course I know it can't be proven. But you could know the author,bwhat do I know. I just don't understand why people claim factual knowledge when they don't. It rubs me the wrong way and rightly so.

New comment by freak42 in "What Big Food Did to Ice Cream"

freak42 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:01:25 +0000

But you wrote that it's a fact? That's not just a "general feeling"?

New comment by freak42 in "What Big Food Did to Ice Cream"

freak42 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:38:08 +0000

Why was this written by a LLM?

New comment by freak42 in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

freak42 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:18:32 +0000

All your points completely miss the point of the article, no?

New comment by freak42 in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

freak42 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:43:15 +0000

There are 6 (!) posts about this in the last 15 days, can we not let it rest a bit?

New comment by freak42 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

freak42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:19:29 +0000

Farm land isn't wild.

New comment by freak42 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

freak42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:19:13 +0000

There is less and less wild left over.

New comment by freak42 in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

freak42 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:52:12 +0000

absolutely!

New comment by freak42 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

freak42 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:51 +0000

What is the charitable way to look at it then?

New comment by freak42 in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

freak42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:16:02 +0000

For personal reasons I am avoiding all Samsung products and over the years it seems like I unintentionally dodged one annoying issue after another.

New comment by freak42 in "US Diesel prices surpass $5.38"

freak42 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:58:47 +0000

Then build railway systems

New comment by freak42 in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

freak42 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:18:59 +0000

... for North America.

New comment by freak42 in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

freak42 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:12:13 +0000

I'm sorry but starting a 40MB download unprompted on a website is a bit rude, people roaming abroad might have half their data used up in 5 minutes or pay loads for this.

New comment by freak42 in "Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation"

freak42 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:17:33 +0000

How can I block ppl on hn?

New comment by freak42 in "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction (2024)"

freak42 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:24:50 +0000

I wish there was one sentence here somewhere that tells me what this is about.

New comment by freak42 in "The Checkerboard"

freak42 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:29:49 +0000

But this is verbatim what the article saud, you should have read it: "This checkerboard pattern allowed the government to keep all the undeveloped sections in between and wait for them to go up in value before turning around and selling them to developers."