Hacker News: hatsix

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

New comment by hatsix in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

hatsix — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:16:34 +0000

This impersonates a person on a platform which has generally prevented that... so people will be more likely to have a conversation, as they don't expect it to be a bot. The fact that they'll have to rotate out iMessage accounts so the message history will kill any possible gain from the deception.

What I don't understand is why a business would want to bifurcate their messaging stack... this is a solution that only works for half of their customers... for a business that doesn't have an app.

New comment by hatsix in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

hatsix — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:31:13 +0000

Nonsense. there are way more accommodations for people who wouldn't have had a place 20 years ago... those accommodations have changed what a "standard IC" is. There never was a place for run-of-the-mill geniuses who couldn't be bothered to spend a few hours researching P2P (Person to Person) protocols. They were always pushed off to small companies where the risk was much lower. This hasn't, won't, and shouldn't change. If that makes you salty, I got some things I'd recommend you research.

New comment by hatsix in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

hatsix — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:23:34 +0000

You reheat pizza in the microwave? I hope someone cooks salmon in your microwave!

New comment by hatsix in "Killed by Apple"

hatsix — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:39:42 +0000

Or acquisitions where they immediately killed the product... RIP FingerWorks TouchStream

New comment by hatsix in "Mythical Man Month"

hatsix — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:40:04 +0000

I've found that I can have 10x output, so long as I don't expect anyone to review your code...

New comment by hatsix in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

hatsix — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:05:08 +0000

would your argument be similar if I told you that everyone in the economic first world is influenced by signals beamed down from space?

no? You think what I wrote is just a scary way to frame GPS? Maybe that's because you're part of the conspiracy!

New comment by hatsix in "Laws of Software Engineering"

hatsix — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:13:52 +0000

I know it's not software-engineering-only, but Chesterton's Fence is often the first 'law' I teach interns and new hires: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/

New comment by hatsix in "NASA Force"

hatsix — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:35:56 +0000

Yes, but this President has decided that he can move money around or just not spend the money, regardless of the budget, and this Congress has let him.

New comment by hatsix in "Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness"

hatsix — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:17:06 +0000

Costco has a double threat going on... bulk discounts plus a great warranty. because they have so few skus, they can afford to give each product more attention than any other Brick & Mortar store, to say nothing about Amazon and Etsy

New comment by hatsix in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

hatsix — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:18:45 +0000

nah, their feed became algo driven just like FB... im constantly seeing things that I have no relation to

New comment by hatsix in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

hatsix — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:51:24 +0000

I'd have been ok if things fell more in their direction... I'm not saying "clear win", but a middle ground that had the machines do the things they're best at while letting humans do the quality work.

New comment by hatsix in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

hatsix — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:04:23 +0000

The reports don't have to each be audited... reduce the auditing to twice a year, increase reporting to monthly... if your report requires remediation, you her bumped to quarterly audits

New comment by hatsix in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

hatsix — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:03:21 +0000

I would trade in my ambition, though.

New comment by hatsix in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

hatsix — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:18:22 +0000

Personally, I can't handle glossy displays, trying to read with reflections gives me a headache. Most other manufacturers offer both glossy and matte, except for Apple, because they know better.

New comment by hatsix in "iPhone 17e"

hatsix — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:20:24 +0000

"Didn't sell very well" = "Sold better than most Android phones that year"

New comment by hatsix in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

hatsix — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:19:46 +0000

Google wants usage that earns them street cred, not usage from bots who will never evaluate the output. They're all fighting tooth and nail to acquire customers, both free and paid... they didn't want their giveaways to be burned.