Hacker News: hatsix

New comment by hatsix in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

hatsix — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:09:26 +0000

This was an intentional fallacy for comedic effect, specifically "No True Scotsman"

New comment by hatsix in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

hatsix — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:07:20 +0000

Sadly, Italian officials know about tor and will do whatever they can to bypass geo restrictions. We got hit with a fine, this isn't speculation.

Texas has indicated that it will hold companies liable even if users bypass age verification via VPN or anonymizers.

This isn't the industry deciding that they really want age verification, this is the industry deciding that they don't want to face the potential litigation. Complain about the laws, not the companies following the laws.

New comment by hatsix in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

hatsix — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:55:16 +0000

There are several jurisdictions that require companies to ensure that age limits are not bypassed via VPN or anonymizers. This puts the companies in a catch-22, block all VPN and anonymizers access, restricting many people with no recourse, or applying the age rules unilaterally, restricting some teens, but giving recourse to adults using VPNs.

It is not, as you say, "a risk to the privacy and safety of all users", but rather just those marked as needing to verify.

Your hyperbolic rant is uninformed and tiring.

New comment by hatsix in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

hatsix — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:12:18 +0000

I've never had Microsoft read a message, initiate an AI generation, then attempt to inject that into my conversation.

Not to say they wouldn't try...

New comment by hatsix in "I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

hatsix — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:35:53 +0000

I've got four units already hooked up with esphome, but the branch box diagnostics is what I need... the unpredictable nature of multi zone units is infuriating. Why is one room 10 degrees above it's set point and still pumping out heat?

I've got my own devices and can make my own cables, if you're looking for someone to test things out

New comment by hatsix in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

hatsix — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:13:09 +0000

The danger is in the replacement. Confiding in others builds a web of trust. Talking about a break-up with a friend builds a relationship, and the next time that friend needs someone, they know you're an option. It's economics, borrowing and trading emotional support. AI as confidant destroys that economy.

New comment by hatsix in "Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics"

hatsix — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:35:01 +0000

Don't respond to a strawman argument with another strawman. The post you are responding to ignored the reasons given in the second paragraph. They're just trying to score points by preaching to the choir, not engage with the concern.

New comment by hatsix in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

hatsix — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:49:52 +0000

You haven't read his comment if you think that's what he said

New comment by hatsix in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

hatsix — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:40:51 +0000

no, inflation is the cost of goods rising because money is worth less.

This is capitalism, as demand increases, so does price, regardless of the cogs.

New comment by hatsix in "The Amazon Tax"

hatsix — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:29:01 +0000

right, you've spent most of your capital on product, and now you're competing with everyone else on $/ad.

Amazon, the store, has an incentive to show trending products, rather than items that sold well 10 years ago... if you already own the old standard, and you do a search and find it's still the highest in search results, you'll be unlikely to buy.

New comment by hatsix in "The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America"

hatsix — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:44:45 +0000

rhetoric all the way down

New comment by hatsix in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

hatsix — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:03:46 +0000

Some publishing for my kids, turn a pdf into a zine

https://zine-fold.com

New comment by hatsix in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

hatsix — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:31:55 +0000

Right to repair doesn't change any of that. Farmers were adjusting that screw anyways, that was the entire point. I'm not mad at farmers for doing it, I'm mad at John Deere at cheating the system.

New comment by hatsix in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

hatsix — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:24:43 +0000

This is fascinating. Do you know if there's something I can read that has this mix of timeline and technical detail?

New comment by hatsix in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

hatsix — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:58:54 +0000

The price you're objecting to is the heavily subsidized cost, it'll be 4x that in 12 months

New comment by hatsix in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

hatsix — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:57:10 +0000

This is such a weird take. From my 5 years at Amazon, the only people I saw "managed out" were engineers who were good, it even great, at the code part of their job, but trash at working with the team. Our hiring bar was notoriously high, and it wasn't uncommon for engineers who were leads at their startup to get hired at L5.

When I was Bar Raising for promotions, I didn't review their PRs, I reviewed their Reviews. I reviewed the PRs that mentioned those reviews to see what slipped by. I looked at non-crunch time to verify they were reviewing at least as much code as their teammates.

If I saw someone 4x-ing the amount of code, they had better be 4x-ing the reviews too... if all they were leaving was stylistic formatting comments, they'd never make it to L6, unless the only thing they were reviewing was L6 code.

New comment by hatsix in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

hatsix — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:36:46 +0000

if by 'revolutionize', you mean 'let everybody else spend time, effort and money developing the idea, and once they've proven the market they buy an interesting company in the space with tons of patents, shut down everything they'd done before and make their interesting and take credit for the revolution, meanwhile, their new presence in the area mutes actual innovation, because they use all of the oxygen in the room'... sure, yeah, they do that... but the revolution was coming whether Apple participated or not.

Apple is great at winning capitalism.

New comment by hatsix in "Siri AI"

hatsix — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:26:20 +0000

I'm glad someone is worried about Apple's money.

New comment by hatsix in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

hatsix — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:46:28 +0000

Does the carpenter who used to build custom fit cabinets with hand and power tools put in the same creativity when he just carries around a scanner, scans the area, the customers use software to select the layout, approve the work, then the CNC cuts out the wood, then all that's left is to put the screws in the holes and go home.

This isn't like the step from hand saws to power saws, and it's disingenuous to pretend like it is. This is what the startup machine has been doing to every industry... finding... "inefficiencies" and "optimizing" them.

New comment by hatsix in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

hatsix — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:14:12 +0000

it's probably because a scraper farm updated their services to latest, and there was a window where fingerprinting was unable to differentiate.

We had all of our Devs Pixels get blocked, and after talking to CF, it was because Internet archive was rebooted their scraping farm, all the devices stampeded and overwhelmed the known bot safeguards, and those tags were added across the board. CF gives sites the tools to tune what is getting blocked, we bumped the sensitivity down to 25 and haven't had many complaints (despite having a very vocal community)

The most common complaint is users' IP address getting blocked because of compromised devices