Hacker News: hahamaster

New comment by hahamaster in "The Om Programming Language"

hahamaster — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:30:31 +0000

The only two letter combination that is not already used by another language.

New comment by hahamaster in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"

hahamaster — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:14:23 +0000

The shopping centre where I shop frequently (Europe) has a large outdoor parking space and every 20 meters or so there's a little kiosk where you can return the cart. People do because it's actually easier to return it than to worry about crashing into it when you're getting out of the parking spot. From time to time an employee goes out and collects all the carts from kiosks and gets them back to the shop. I don't know if it's the same way in the US, maybe some people don't return it simply because they parked too far from the entrance.

New comment by hahamaster in "Apple M5 chip"

hahamaster — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:15:30 +0000

Or, better yet, asked people what they want: whether the phone should crash or slow down when the battery is choking.

New comment by hahamaster in "Apple M5 chip"

hahamaster — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:35:54 +0000

Disable transparencies in Settings then. Simple.

New comment by hahamaster in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

hahamaster — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:30:55 +0000

Me too. Complete silence, headphones but recognized random words before I had a chance to say anything.

New comment by hahamaster in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

hahamaster — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:21:08 +0000

Tried it is Safari, frustrating, confusing, spent some time figuring it out and closed the tab. I didn't say anything but the app kept "recognizing" some random words and "answering" tutor's questions... looks like pre-alpha version.

New comment by hahamaster in "Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after"

hahamaster — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:07:19 +0000

10 PRINT "ChatGPT 7"

20 PRINT "What?"

30 INPUT A$

40 PRINT "Why?"

50 GOTO 30

New comment by hahamaster in "The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)"

hahamaster — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:50:46 +0000

I think it was so popular in the Balkans because A) it was hilarious, B) people could actually watch it (on state TV, with subtitles). B is as important as A. Seinfeld would probably become very popular too, but no one could see it in the Balkans at the time.

New comment by hahamaster in "Don't force your kids to do math"

hahamaster — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 01:57:55 +0000

I tell my kid that math is a language. You learn to speak it, just like you learn to speak any other language, slowly, by listening, understanding, speaking, intuitively recognizing patterns, rules and exceptions. When you start to become fluent you translate problems into math and solve them. At school they keep trying to make them memorize useful phrases, like a tourist that goes to Paris and learns how to say "where's the bathroom", "hello", "would you like to sleep with me", "thank you", "goodbye", etc.

New comment by hahamaster in "GIMP 3.0"

hahamaster — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:27:20 +0000

It's probably a lot of work.

New comment by hahamaster in "GIMP 3.0"

hahamaster — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:28:56 +0000

It's super easy, don't listed to hypersensitive people who can't stand two seconds of sales pitch. The same goes for the Economist, when I unubscribed the rep asked me if I'd like a 50% discount on a yearly subscription, I politely declined and that was it. One advantage of this is that you can easily pretend you're canceling in order to get a big discount. Some people just love to complain about every little thing.

New comment by hahamaster in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

hahamaster — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:39:23 +0000

It's a problem because it's done by a Chinese company and not an American company.

New comment by hahamaster in "Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume"

hahamaster — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:12:49 +0000

Why isn't there an XML or JSON format widely used for CVs? It would make sifting through CVs so much easier, plus it would make CVEO (CV engine optimization) a thing.

New comment by hahamaster in "C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte"

hahamaster — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:56:21 +0000

You insist that we should all agree on something but you don't specify what.

New comment by hahamaster in "WebP: The WebPage Compression Format"

hahamaster — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:55:58 +0000

On iPhone you can set Low Data mode for all cellular data (and also for specific wifi networks).

She might have kept tapping Sync at the bottom of Photos even though iOS itself pauses it when in Low Data mode. iCloud Photos and video syncing is a data killer if you're on a holiday abroad, my wife takes hundreds of photos and videos a day, imagine what it does to data.

New comment by hahamaster in "AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription"

hahamaster — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:16:21 +0000

> how many developers are now considering whether iOS support for PWAs is good enough to sidestep this crap entirely.

It's hard to make any money on a PWA.

New comment by hahamaster in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

hahamaster — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:31:49 +0000

Especially “r”, horrible.

New comment by hahamaster in "Susan Wojcicki has died"

hahamaster — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:29:06 +0000

You're very wrong. Most people put in her position would be a disaster and they would either leave quickly or would be kicked out. Lots of people at Google left or were fired because they were crap, and they were definitely not randomly picked up from the street. She stayed and wasn't fired and that's because she was of the highest caliber.

New comment by hahamaster in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

hahamaster — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:15:43 +0000

I prefer prices per 100g because I mostly buy food that's under one kilo. I'm sure they show prices per 100g just to make them look cheaper but in my case I actually prefer it this way.

New comment by hahamaster in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

hahamaster — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:50:57 +0000

Someone at CrowdStrike got fired for this. I'm curious to know who this person is.