Hacker News: kingnight

New comment by kingnight in "Japan's Creepiest Station"

kingnight — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:45:12 +0000

Nice find. Agreed. The concrete bunker isolation in this clip is an entirely different vibe that's interesting on its own, doesn't need the horror color grade.

New comment by kingnight in "Ways of Seeing by John Berger"

kingnight — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:08:48 +0000

I wish the bbc would rebroadcast or release it in higher quality than the YouTube uploads from over a decade ago. It’s so great, I’d love to _see_ it in high def.

New comment by kingnight in "Cloudflare lays off new hires"

kingnight — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 02:29:29 +0000

Zoom was probably already recording on behalf of the employer

New comment by kingnight in "The Death of Personality (2017)"

kingnight — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 20:24:30 +0000

Curious what you are referring to. I often try to find the optimal calendar app, and while I know Fantastical isn't it for me, I am curious if there is an overarching story/reason why that I'm not aware of.

New comment by kingnight in "Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed"

kingnight — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:20:55 +0000

I have some daguerreotypes from this period that are in worse condition. Must do better underwater than in air...

New comment by kingnight in "NeXTSpirit: high-res NeXTSTEP Icons for macOS"

kingnight — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:45:53 +0000

Not sure if that's totally true. I've changed a bunch of icons w/o disabling SIP and I'm on the latest OS.

New comment by kingnight in "Windows 11 available on October 5"

kingnight — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 16:08:29 +0000

How on earth are microsoft/windows.com images still low resolution. It really stands out and detracts from the visuals they're trying to sell.

New comment by kingnight in "An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming"

kingnight — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:21:39 +0000

Fair enough. I would extend not generating clicks as an example of my point but I do think I tried to too narrowly explain why things are the way they are without reflecting on other alternatives too much.

New comment by kingnight in "An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming"

kingnight — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:20:31 +0000

Great point. Agreed. My comment above has too narrow a view.

New comment by kingnight in "An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming"

kingnight — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:40:41 +0000

Without flogging corporations, the public won't be able to act on their bad behaviors.

Imagine if there were no articles written about Amazon, or Airbnb, and instead there were only article written about exploitation of workers or skirting the hotel laws as bad things that are happening (either in theory or out there in the wild). In that case, the public won't actualize it or internalize it enough to take action with who they vote for, and in turn elected officials won't bother taking action because their constituents don't know/don't care and so it's not important for them either.

New comment by kingnight in "John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel"

kingnight — Tue, 25 May 2021 16:26:11 +0000

Answers to your questions might be in the Smithsonian mag article here:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/forgotten-dust-b...

New comment by kingnight in "Urbit Precepts Discussion"

kingnight — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:04:05 +0000

An overly complex web service and web app :-)

That's my takeaway from getting it up and running as an end user for a bit.

New comment by kingnight in "An upcoming story about Coinbase"

kingnight — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 04:49:44 +0000

Disappointed as a customer to see this nyt-is-bad preemptive pr defense and no substance action, as I guess as fits their mission statement, than a critical assessment of flaws etc. and description of improvements they’ll make going forward.

New comment by kingnight in "The Strange Disappearance of Cooperation in America (2013)"

kingnight — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 01:05:10 +0000

I think the parent makes a very astute point and this response is handwaving away a huge amount of undeniable social change that is being dismissed.

New comment by kingnight in "Super-spreading wedding demonstrates Covid-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings"

kingnight — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:17:46 +0000

What's the death rate right now? How many people have died over the norm?

New comment by kingnight in "A U.S. Election Twitter Network Graph Tool"

kingnight — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 17:56:47 +0000

It's been almost a decade from when I remember first clicking through an account exactly like this.

Twitter has shown they absolutely care not for the discourse.

Long term, platforms that do well on this front will overtake FB/Tw, because real users don't want this garbage.

New comment by kingnight in "Halide Mark II"

kingnight — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:54:33 +0000

While I disagree with the opinion of the application, and think the response to the gating/requirements for use is unfair, there is good feedback for the developers of Halide, and app developers in general to chew on in this comment.

For an app that wants to save photos for the user, how do you do this permissions gating without irritating the cursory view by skeptical user?

For an app that wants to make sure you don't lose any metadata/exif (including location) how can you do that without raising eyebrows for location permissions.

How can you communicate the value prop to convert a subscription? I think the app does a great job for existing users in providing a 1yr automatic subscription (would have thought parent comment would get this) but I also am confused, and will be confused, when that time is up I think.

Halide is a incredible application. One of my favorites. I don't use it as much as I could benefit from it because of the problem of it not having the same immediate access as the native camera app does, but also it does not include Live Photo capture which for me and moments with friends and family is essential. That said, it's the best built app I have on my phone, the best design, provides path to incredible photography results, and I will continue to pay for it.

New comment by kingnight in "Uber Drivers Sue Company over Pressure to Support Prop 22"

kingnight — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:39:08 +0000

> Is that good user interface design, or is it more of a dark pattern? Do you like when apps do this?

No it's not good user interface design, not only because it's annoying af, it doesn't achieve the goals it sets out to do.

New comment by kingnight in "To Eleventy and Beyond"

kingnight — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:36:07 +0000

Eleventy is really terrific.

I am able to build out my site either by leveraging a number of 'smart ways' to do it that all static site generators do ... templates, markdown to html... but I can also be lazy and custom write html/style per page, per directory, to get some art-directed type page out fast.

I feel like there was a tiny learning curve with the docs to get from 0 to 10 ... but from 10 to whatever is really great fun.

New comment by kingnight in "iSH Shell"

kingnight — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:49:53 +0000

It is likely the only way to stay active as much as possible in the background so the process doesn't get killed.