Hacker News: gamegod

New comment by gamegod in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

gamegod — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:45:24 +0000

Giving the oil companies, some of the richest companies on the planet, MORE money is a benefit? Is that your idea of good governance? You don't think there's better uses of that money that's coming right out of your pocket and everybody elses?

New comment by gamegod in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

gamegod — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:32:16 +0000

if you're rich enough, you too can buy the US government

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO"

gamegod — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:38:03 +0000

I stumbled across this a few weeks ago via Google or Kagi. One problem I have with a lot of AI tooling today is that I can't tell if it's a legit product, or just a toy that somebody vibe-coded in a day. AI can easily crap out a website that looks like this.

This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.

One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)

New comment by gamegod in "TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers"

gamegod — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:12:33 +0000

If this is a business, which it sure seems like it is, then this is such a messed up idea. Exploiting whistleblowers and the whistleblowing system for profit. And they're trying to incentivize whistleblowers with money too.

Whistleblowers take all of the risk here, and only get 20% of the proceeds. Seems like a pretty shit deal, besides being confoundingly greedy.

There already are people you can trust, who aren't anonymous, who are professionals bound by ethics, and who aren't out to sue for profit: Journalists. investigations@icij.org

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

gamegod — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:29:44 +0000

We don't use American English in Canada either.

New comment by gamegod in "Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App"

gamegod — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:29:15 +0000

> How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)

New comment by gamegod in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

gamegod — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:04:56 +0000

Bragging that your program is faster than anything written in Python is a low bar, lol.

Also, it seems like a sign that even Python tooling needs to not be written in Python now to get reasonable performance.

New comment by gamegod in "Insanity: Locked Out (2020)"

gamegod — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:19:51 +0000

Here's what happened to the Sidewalk Labs building: https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/10/torontos-bright-hope-inn...

New comment by gamegod in "Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?"

gamegod — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:33:27 +0000

As others said - use your network. Making a post on LinkedIn and trying to get your network to reshare it could help a lot.

New comment by gamegod in "Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back"

gamegod — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 01:35:30 +0000

It's absolutely abhorrent that you think combating the effects of racism in the healthcare system is political. Do you also believe that about sexism in the healthcare system?

New comment by gamegod in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

gamegod — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:58:53 +0000

Did you put rate limiting rules on your webserver?

Why was that not enough to mitigate the DDoS?

New comment by gamegod in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

gamegod — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:10:58 +0000

What kind of monster doesn't give us WASD or at least ctrl to shoot?

Awesome captcha though :)

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer"

gamegod — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:38:31 +0000

I appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking. I'll rephrase as a workflow question: After I make a design in your editor, I'll want to reuse that for future emails. Is there a way to load a saved design back in (that I previously made in your editor) so I don't have to redesign every email from scratch?

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer"

gamegod — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:55:36 +0000

Looks awesome. Is there a way to load saved templates?

New comment by gamegod in "Rogers networks reliability and resiliency assessment after 2022-07-08 outage"

gamegod — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:11:28 +0000

That's a pretty broad, borderline-racist statement, and I think you should consider deleting it.

New comment by gamegod in "Canada imposes 5% tax on streaming to fund local news, diverse content"

gamegod — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:06:44 +0000

That's how US media would like to portray Canada (socialism bad!), but we're doing just great over here and making pretty decent decisions for ourselves. We don't get everything right at first, and we're way behind on our green transition, but we'll get there in the end.

This new tax complements our CanCon rules [1] which help protect Canadian artists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: I made a free app to calibrate your turntable by simply playing a song"

gamegod — Tue, 28 May 2024 16:03:41 +0000

Yeah, but he gets great time-on-site engagement numbers by doing that. Somebody give this guy a job in Silicon Valley!

New comment by gamegod in "Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)"

gamegod — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:47:06 +0000

WebRTC data channels use SCTP, which ain't nothing! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8831

(SCTP over DTLS, that is...)

New comment by gamegod in "Tencent WeChat is now a GitHub secret scanning partner"

gamegod — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:32:06 +0000

It's because this site is dead and more than half the comments are written by bots. On average HN article, like 75% of the comments make absolutely no sense.

New comment by gamegod in "SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD"

gamegod — Sun, 22 May 2022 16:01:45 +0000

This software is low key the best open source CAD software. Although it looks ancient, it's under active development and has a much lower learning curve than FreeCAD IMHO. It's a really good fit for the skill level of someone who has a 3D printer. I've designed dozens of parts for my printer and random crap around the house with Solvespace. It's a very useful tool.