Hacker News: highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=highway900Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:59:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"]]>This is fear that humans will stop software development. Think about it, the backbone of modern enterprise is open source. What if maintainers just stopped, the free ride big tech has had would be left with the slop the maintainers have to deal with now. Which without checks and balances would introduce vulnerabilities.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:18:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684794highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684794https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684794<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"]]>Who is the competition or why is there no competition? Surely disrupting this industry is possible?

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:40:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955663highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955663<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Be wary of Bluesky"]]>All software has trade offs. The “for you” feed is ran on a home server, this is already imho a better situation than other systems. This could be cut off. But it could also be stood up again.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:27:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106154highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106154https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106154<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Theft of 'The Weeping Woman' from the National Gallery of Victoria"]]>The timing of the post suggests this episode was the genesis

]]>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:34:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997343highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997343https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997343<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"]]>> This isn't putting anyone out of work. The games simply would not be made in the first place.

The opposite is also true. Games that should never be made are being made due to the rubbish that can be generated by these tools. Observe the generated samples on the landing page, they are literally just copying street fighter. These tools are so useless without ripping off the hard work of humans. The deluge of slop is a signal to noise problem.

]]>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:32:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44206101highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44206101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44206101<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite"]]>This is the business. I highly recommend this solution. Streaming queries via duckdb or polars will use little to memory and be lightning fast for very large datasets.

]]>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:01:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895955highway900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895955https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895955<![CDATA[New comment by highway900 in "Ask HN: Where do you find new interactive art/free games online? (like flash)"]]>itch.io

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