Hacker News: halestock

New comment by halestock in "EFF is leaving X"

halestock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:51:59 +0000

There what is?

New comment by halestock in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

halestock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:50:42 +0000

Do you mean the flamethrower guitar? That was real.

New comment by halestock in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

halestock — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:52:24 +0000

It doesn’t.

New comment by halestock in "this css proves me human"

halestock — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:38:21 +0000

The pen is the material.

New comment by halestock in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

halestock — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:43:51 +0000

Some alternative reporting:

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mark-zucke...

New comment by halestock in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

halestock — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:06:55 +0000

There's a difference between "things you are interested in" and "things that will make you addicted".

New comment by halestock in "[dead]"

halestock — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:01:34 +0000

> The Moroun family - the American owners of the neighbouring Ambassador Bridge that also connects Detroit to Canada - appealed to Trump during his first term to stop construction of the new bridge, arguing that it infringed on their exclusive ability to collect tolls.

Ah, that’s why he cares.

New comment by halestock in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

halestock — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:23:31 +0000

> A subset of the population doesn't have self control? Ban it everyone. Even if it's a wildly popular form of entertainment

Like gambling?

New comment by halestock in "Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only"

halestock — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:28:28 +0000

You can only let that go so far, because at the end of the day you need to pay the military to keep you in power.

New comment by halestock in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

halestock — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:38:03 +0000

Ok sure, but now you’re just describing something completely different.

New comment by halestock in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

halestock — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:53:57 +0000

No, it depends on whether they have an ownership stake in what they’re funding or not.

New comment by halestock in "Every GitHub object has two IDs"

halestock — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:16:26 +0000

> The lesson is that you should stop caring about breaking people’s code who go against the documentation this way. When it breaks you shrug. Their code was always buggy and it just happened to be working for them until then. You are not their dad. You are not responsible for their misfortune.

Sure, but good luck running a business with that mindset.

New comment by halestock in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

halestock — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:02:33 +0000

It's fully supported as of version 139[0], so since ~June of last year.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by halestock in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

halestock — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:00:46 +0000

What?

New comment by halestock in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

halestock — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:14:14 +0000

You know AI is a great solution that will succeed on its own merits when people need to be told it's "inevitable".

New comment by halestock in "NYC Spends $200 Million on Cell Service for School Chromebooks"

halestock — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:30:14 +0000

Yeah but by the time that revolution is here, the contract will have ended.

New comment by halestock in "A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life"

halestock — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:12:03 +0000

How do any of those things fit that definition?

New comment by halestock in "MIT physicists improve the precision of atomic clocks"

halestock — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:36:59 +0000

I know that Google's Spanner[0] uses atomic clocks to help with consistency.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)

New comment by halestock in "OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple"

halestock — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:19:18 +0000

It was independent (I think it predates the CNCF actually), but was acquired by Apple in 2015 and disappeared until it was open sourced in 2018.

New comment by halestock in "Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected"

halestock — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:54:57 +0000

That is a discussion that inflation resembles a tax. And in any case, how does that refute the idea that taxation in general is not a solution? That’s like saying soda taxes are bad so we shouldn’t have income taxes either.