Hacker News: hotstickyballs

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.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

hotstickyballs — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:59:30 +0000

I’m willing to sacrifice your rights if it means that there’s less incentive to steal my phone

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

hotstickyballs — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:57:20 +0000

It’s not just Apple, lots of federal programs in US require a DUNS number.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from Anna's Archive"

hotstickyballs — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:59:43 +0000

Just give the AI something worse that would happen if it doesn’t call these functions.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome"

hotstickyballs — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:05:44 +0000

I can guarantee you that some smart person actually thinks that the opportunity size is measured as a fraction of the pharmaceutical industry market cap.

New comment by hotstickyballs in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

hotstickyballs — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:38:44 +0000

Both transportation and shelter are important to earn money

New comment by hotstickyballs in "Time Series Forecasting with Graph Transformers"

hotstickyballs — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:24:49 +0000

Sounds like prophet with extra steps