Hacker News: hootz

New comment by hootz in "Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

hootz — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:26:25 +0000

Would be great to have this, but as a TUI tabular editor.

New comment by hootz in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"

hootz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:02:30 +0000

Did it always have this music? I don't remember it having music.

New comment by hootz in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

hootz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:00:15 +0000

I don't know how to do that, so I will just get a normal phone and consider it permanently compromised.

New comment by hootz in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

hootz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:45:35 +0000

I would if I could even use their OS. Pixel phones are not available in my country and to import them is to pay 3x the amount I would spend on another phone.

New comment by hootz in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

hootz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:37:05 +0000

There are workarounds for all of those things up until the point of you suffering violence for just using any encryption. But if you are at that point, then your country is completely fucked.

New comment by hootz in "Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things"

hootz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:19:12 +0000

My nephew grew 7 cm in one year and 10 cm in another, so by 2040 he will be 4 meters tall!

New comment by hootz in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:58:54 +0000

Why would someone ever buy new, if that was the case?

New comment by hootz in "Jj jj jj jj jj"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:26:15 +0000

I thought this was spam, but no, it's just a fun hack to fix mistyped commands. Cool.

New comment by hootz in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:06:29 +0000

That leads to political disaster. Changing just myself has an almost unnoticeable effect on the collective life, while political organization, action and propaganda work much better, and those rely on arguments and persuasion.

Of course, the author seems to have a pretty individualistic mind, comparing the political nature of humans to startups and markets, and that will lead to disaster in my opinion. We cannot survive in the long-term like that.

New comment by hootz in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:02:33 +0000

DK Bananza is wonderful, a masterpiece. Pokémon Pokopia is also really fun as a recurring game you come back to every day or every couple of days to relax and build your village. I'm also enjoying Switch 1 games on it. Pokémon Violet, for example, lagged hard on Switch 1 but runs great on Switch 2.

New comment by hootz in "Machine Learning finds previously unknown ECG signal for cardiac death risk"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:57:46 +0000

Good job on replacing AI with machine learning in the title. If we say "AI finds hidden ECG signal", I believe most people nowadays will assume ChatGPT or Claude found it.

New comment by hootz in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:49:20 +0000

Always a great thing to hear. Well paid employees, good results, and I'm definitely loving their Switch 2 releases already.

New comment by hootz in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:39:06 +0000

To be honest, they are pretty cute, they don't deserve cancer.

New comment by hootz in "Single Dose of Frog-Derived Gut Bacterium Eradicates 100% of Tumors in Mice"

hootz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:38:12 +0000

It's our Nostradamus Prophecies, just like having an old Star Trek episode for everything that is happening today.

New comment by hootz in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

hootz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:21:15 +0000

Nah, it works, it's just a higher level of political abstraction, but we still tend to use left and right because those words seem to be accurate enough to be worthwhile.

We could use something like the political compass, but on that model we still tend to ignore the authoritarianism axis and just say everything to the left is the left and everything to the right is the right. Left is progressive, right is conservative.

New comment by hootz in "Claude Sonnet 5"

hootz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:16:18 +0000

Your US company banning usage of non-american models. Other than that, no.

New comment by hootz in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

hootz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:05:40 +0000

Amazing how we always have a Trek episode for everything.

New comment by hootz in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

hootz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:02:28 +0000

Yeah, I don't think human curiosity can be extinguished. It can be disincentivized, yes, but not extinguished. Nerds will always be nerds.

New comment by hootz in "Garbage for Humans"

hootz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:56:30 +0000

Hello. Unfortunately, due to our efforts to make agents first-class citizens, we are demoting your experience to second-class. I hope you understand. Thank you.

New comment by hootz in "Ask HN: Why don't bug reporting systems provide workarounds as rewards to users?"

hootz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:50:07 +0000

That would basically be customer support, and after a certain point companies start adding friction and reducing costs in actual human customer support.

With small companies you can do that, usually bug reports can be sent through email directly to a person that will review it, and you can just ask for a workaround once it is available. That won't work with bigger companies, though, unless they are unusually invested in customer support.