Hacker News: hotstickyballs

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:34:08 +0000

That's why anything that goes against the long-established corporate culture aren't likely to stay around for long.

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

hotstickyballs — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:35:01 +0000

Someone tag Apple in this thread and shut them down please

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

hotstickyballs — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:34:57 +0000

That's not shame, the LLM did not mope about for days before deciding to pick itself up again and go to work.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

hotstickyballs — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:31:32 +0000

The web is going to become China, which is a collection of walled gardens

New comment by hotstickyballs in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

hotstickyballs — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:04:28 +0000

This is called proof of stake

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:51:31 +0000

That’s not true. If you want to have a job at a prestigious institution then the research committees are pretty consistent in their biases.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:52:18 +0000

Driver support eats directly into driver development

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

hotstickyballs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:08:49 +0000

It’s not illegal, just stupid because. Because plaintiffs can use this as evidence that they can police their own platforms

New comment by hotstickyballs in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

hotstickyballs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:33:17 +0000

Then you’ve never been to China

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"

hotstickyballs — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:41:53 +0000

If there’s no way to tell between a good customer and a bad customer who does the wrong thing then the difference doesn’t matter

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

hotstickyballs — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:52:06 +0000

Direct action is literally their policy

New comment by hotstickyballs in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:59:07 +0000

That directly goes against the earlier post where you said you lived in a particularly nice part of town

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

hotstickyballs — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:32:41 +0000

TVs tend to incessantly ask for internet access, especially android ones.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Steam Machine"

hotstickyballs — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:01:16 +0000

Turns out the problem with mobile was windows all along!

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

hotstickyballs — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:16:49 +0000

Personally it felt quite natural once you start to work on real software projects.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

hotstickyballs — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:16:26 +0000

That's the job of a (good) manager.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:52:07 +0000

Main Street sells pizza but VCs sell Ponzi schemes

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

hotstickyballs — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:04:32 +0000

The biggest assumption is that it assumes only a single path to intelligent life.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "US cities pay too much for buses"

hotstickyballs — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 03:14:53 +0000

I disagree with the characterization of structural corruption. Every rationale actor will seek to capture all the benefits and pass on the risks. The real corruption is when decision makers know that they can’t be held responsible through corporate or political structures. See also [moral hazard](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard)

New comment by hotstickyballs in "iPhone Air"

hotstickyballs — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:31:21 +0000

If compute power is the deciding factor server vs edge discussion then we’d never have smartphones.