Hacker News: hateful

New comment by hateful in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

hateful — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:27:59 +0000

Winning arguments and solving problems are two different skillsets. And the US Congress is mostly people with the former. Not to say that winning arguments doesn't help when choosing a solution, but it is very different.

New comment by hateful in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

hateful — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:43:07 +0000

The same thing happens to me - I call it a low-res tan because it's all pixelated.

New comment by hateful in "The Religion of Speed"

hateful — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:07:45 +0000

I realized early on that sometimes management thinks that if you don't look stressed than your not taking it seriously enough. Phrases like "I don't feel that you have a sense of urgency" really messed with my head back then.

New comment by hateful in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

hateful — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:47:56 +0000

I have a old keyboard (Ensoniq SQ1-Plus) where the battery doesn't work right (even when changed) and I was going to put ML Studio on a Raspberry Pi or Mini PC with a USB MIDI device to record. But this thing is exactly what I'm looking for.

When I want to record for real, I'm going to use my DAW. But I want a way to quickly record tracks and this looks pretty great.

New comment by hateful in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

hateful — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:07:30 +0000

With me (I have ADHD), I would never be able to listen to an audiobook alone, I would zone out and day dream one paragraph in. But If I'm playing a game on my phone, I can listen and pay attention for hours.

New comment by hateful in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

hateful — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:53:53 +0000

Not sure where I first heard this, but I say it to my team all the time: "Programming is thinking, not typing"

New comment by hateful in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

hateful — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:12:41 +0000

The only thing I liked when I did use Facebook was the "wall". To be able to post on a friend's wall semi- publically where their friends can see it. Most other Facebook clones have had the idea of tagging, but it wasn't the same. (E.g. Google+)

New comment by hateful in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

hateful — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:27 +0000

This may be pure conjecture, but my first thought is always that it might be a marketing ploy by the AI companies to make their products seem more advanced than they really are.

New comment by hateful in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

hateful — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:05:43 +0000

I would imagine, in this example, that the fact that you put in the numbers yourself gives you a mental map of where the numbers are and how they relate to each other, that having AI do it for you doesn't give you.

You could stare at a large sheet of numbers for a long time, and perhaps never get the kind of context you gained by entering them.

Additionally, if there was a mistake, it may not be as noticeable.

New comment by hateful in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

hateful — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:22:51 +0000

It felt the same way when AOL bought Time Warner.

New comment by hateful in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

hateful — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:50:56 +0000

I don't have a reliable source, but I've heard that the original script had the machines use us for our processing power, not our energy, but that the studio thought it sounded too complicated and had them change it. Of course, changing it makes it make ZERO sense.

Some not so reliable sources I found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/q2i0by/is_it_true_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/plotholes/comments/11khig/comment/c...

New comment by hateful in "XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites"

hateful — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:26:31 +0000

I used to use XSLT all the time, but I had forgotten all about and haven't used it in years. It was perfect to do a quick SQL query with "for xml auto" and then add an XSLT stylesheet to it. Instant report.

New comment by hateful in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

hateful — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:15:57 +0000

I also do the text file thing. I use EditPad Pro. The only additional thing I've done is create syntax coloring in any file named 'tasks-*.txt'.

I added simple things like: - Color anything ending in a ? green, so when looking at a list of notes, so I know where the questions were. - Any line beginning with an all caps word is highlighted (e.g. TODO: ) - Any line ending in a : is highlighted light blue (e.g. title) - Any Line Containing "Error" is red

I do suppose I could be using Markdown, but I've had this going for 20 years now.

New comment by hateful in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

hateful — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:33:42 +0000

I've always had this idea that perhaps the whole universe had already collapsed into many black holes and perhaps each galaxy was actually formed via hawking radiation. Then our galaxy came out of Sagittarius A*.

New comment by hateful in "I just want to code (2023)"

hateful — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:37:02 +0000

> I watched an Amazon Prime knockoff of Silicon Valley called Betas

Not sure you can call it a knockoff if it came out a year earlier!

New comment by hateful in "MS Paint IDE"

hateful — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:24:40 +0000

But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi - and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move the server, then disable it - that might be something?

I know having a redundant server is better - but there's something to it.

Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about them moving a server from one building to another without unplugging it or something.

[Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]

New comment by hateful in "Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us"

hateful — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:09:17 +0000

This is the same thing the media did with "hacker".

New comment by hateful in "Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms"

hateful — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:04:54 +0000

My phone NEVER connects properly and if I want to use it for streaming, I have to spend 2-3 minutes connecting it every time. This has always been the case. Past 3 cards, past 6 phones.

Now-a-days I load up a small flash drive for the car with a small sampling of what I want to listen to. I have another one at home and "Swap" them from time to time with new things. That way it's not overloaded, doesn't take 2 minutes to load up. So it's very much like a mix CD or the mp3 CDs I would burn a couple of decades ago.

New comment by hateful in "In the beginning, there was computation"

hateful — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:41:44 +0000

I don't think the author was referring to thinking or consciousness itself, but things like the processes within cells and the replication of DNA.

New comment by hateful in "When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others"

hateful — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:10:27 +0000

A related thing that happens a lot is when the demo is way slower than it was when you were testing it. But at least this one can be explained by screen sharing applications adding latency to your refresh rate. It really is slower when you share your screen!