Hacker News: hbs18

New comment by hbs18 in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

hbs18 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:27:25 +0000

> Perhaps the biggest difference I see from millenials and gen z is that the degree in which they realize the difference between having earned the right to expressing your opinion and expressing your opinion.

This reads like the classic case of "I had it bad therefore everybody else should too"

New comment by hbs18 in "Ferrari Luce"

hbs18 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:30:25 +0000

They do need to be long but in a different way. ICE cars had longer hood/trunk overhangs, EVs have skateboard batteries with high belt lines (because the floor is thick) and very short front and rear overhangs with longer wheelbases.

New comment by hbs18 in "The user is visibly frustrated"

hbs18 — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:09:24 +0000

I think it's the same thing as showing mechanical sympathy towards other tools and objects. I've always slightly judged people on how hard they shut doors or how gentle they are with their cars.

New comment by hbs18 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

hbs18 — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:13:45 +0000

Surely the thermal paste will degrade at some point, right?

New comment by hbs18 in "Where the goblins came from"

hbs18 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:39:28 +0000

An LLM is a computer program, which isn't a human. You wouldn't excuse a calculator being occasionally wrong because humans sometimes get manual calculations wrong too.

New comment by hbs18 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

hbs18 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:58:56 +0000

I'm from Europe and I use it 99% of the time. I find the UI in satnav mode much better (cleaner and readable) than the one Google Maps has. The only time I use Google Maps is when I really want to find something that's not in Apple Maps or when I want to read reviews without fumbling with the web browser.

New comment by hbs18 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

hbs18 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:33:52 +0000

Not the person you're replying to but each have their time and place. When I have a lo fi playlist on I don't expect to feel exhilarated, connected to the crowd and the musicians.

New comment by hbs18 in "Car Seats as Contraception"

hbs18 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:55:49 +0000

Assuming the kids would be facing forward, wouldn't that require a helmet and a HANS device as well?

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:59:56 +0000

Lint was only ever an issue with my Lightning connector iPhone. Unfortunately it wasn't the issue with the USB-C phones, the ports were just worn out.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:00:48 +0000

They were an LG Nexus 5X, a OnePlus 3T and a Xiaomi Mi 8. The ports became loose on all of them over time, especially on the OnePlus where the cable would just fall out if you held the device upright, and in its final days the Xiaomi would need the cable pushed at an angle to make a connection.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:02 +0000

I treat my phones carefully, I've literally never cracked a screen on any of them, the same goes for handling the charging cable and port. I'm always quite gentle with it, never leaving it propped up by the cable or at a weird angle, and the cables I used were the original ones that came with my devices. Mainly because my phones spend a lot of time plugged in acting as a hotspot for half a week, so I try to minimize the harm I cause by the extra (un)plug events.

The Lightning port iPhone that I used for 3 years however handled my usage just fine (just tried it now and it feels just like it did new), and the USB-C one I've had for half a year seems to be holding up fine as well. These I used with a mix of cheap Aliexpress cables and the genuine Apple ones.

New comment by hbs18 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

hbs18 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:02:58 +0000

> I've never seen the male part of the female USB-C break, but I'm sure it's possible

I know anecdotes don't mean anything, but I have. Every USB-C phone I've ever had, apart from my iPhone that I currently use, ended up with having completely worn out connectors after two-three years of use. They stop holding cables in firm enough and start only making the connection when holding the cable at an angle.

New comment by hbs18 in "iPhone 17e"

hbs18 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:22:53 +0000

What obsession about making thin phones? iPhones are pretty thick and have been that way for years. The Air being an outlier, of course, but it's an intentionally thin phone in a lineup of thick and heavy ones.

New comment by hbs18 in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

hbs18 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:24:08 +0000

Which slavic languages have that? In mine I can't think of a single word for that other than kipuća voda which literally means boiling water.

New comment by hbs18 in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

hbs18 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:34:15 +0000

Have you ever used Windows 8.1? With a classic start button app the UI layout is the good Windows 7 one with the "modern" Windows appearance.

New comment by hbs18 in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

hbs18 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:55:49 +0000

As a non-native English speaker, pronouncing it scan-xiety (sken-ZAHyetee) feels correct.

New comment by hbs18 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

hbs18 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:18:39 +0000

The physical keyboard on your computer is also always in capital letters. Is that bad design too?

New comment by hbs18 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

hbs18 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:22:50 +0000

As a European, I never understood why you'd tip automatically. I get that waiters are allowed to be paid less, but I don't see why that would be the customer's problem.

New comment by hbs18 in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

hbs18 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:45:25 +0000

I'm not trying to make excuses for Grok, but how exactly isn't the user creating the content? Grok doesn't have create images on its own volition, the user is still required to give it some input, therefore "creating" the content.

New comment by hbs18 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

hbs18 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:58:53 +0000

It's not that bad actually. Over the years stuff like electrical installations, cables and random manholes often get retrofitted in an ugly way to existing architecture.