Hacker News: kwertyoowiyop

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

kwertyoowiyop — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:35:54 +0000

Totally. A small motivated team working iteratively with the users of the current system. That’s a great way to work, regardless of the AI “hook.”

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

kwertyoowiyop — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:47:49 +0000

Great idea, and hopefully great results. But it’s written like LinkedIn “broetry” and that AI image at the top promises a fluffy article. Maybe expand a bit on some of the impressive tech described in the body?

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

kwertyoowiyop — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:05:13 +0000

Shush, how is anyone going to get promoted with that kind of talk!?

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps This Summer: Here's What to Expect"

kwertyoowiyop — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:45:19 +0000

Enshittification has made me hate the word “suggested.”

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

kwertyoowiyop — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:29:24 +0000

CS Lewis certainly got it wrong, if he believed that the greed of robber barons can ever be satisfied. I’ll take the moral busybodies, if I have to take either.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "I've Been a Public School Teacher for 20 Years. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids"

kwertyoowiyop — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:12:00 +0000

And the use of paragraphs vs. “broetry.”

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "I've Been a Public School Teacher for 20 Years. Trust Me: Homeschool Your Kids"

kwertyoowiyop — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:11:01 +0000

Go to their profile and read their other posts. Their “Tyler Durden” pic is a clue of what you will find.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "IBM Bob: AI Development Partner"

kwertyoowiyop — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:53:18 +0000

Can they be serious with that name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

kwertyoowiyop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:52:59 +0000

“Here’s the thing” is also a longtime cliche in podcasts, from the before-times when ChatGPT didn’t yet exist.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "The blame game: The Trump coalition is fracturing as Iran operation stalls"

kwertyoowiyop — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:03:41 +0000

It’s less appalling to believe that Trump’s worst decisions are made under duress.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert"

kwertyoowiyop — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:07:19 +0000

The movie is from the classic original story “Leinengen Versus the Ants”:

The Brazilian official threw up lean and lanky arms and clawed the air with wildly distended fingers. "Leiningen!" he shouted. "You're insane! They're not creatures you can fight--they're an elemental--an 'act of God!' Ten miles long, two miles wide--ants, nothing but ants!”

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful"

kwertyoowiyop — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:06:40 +0000

Welcome to Hacker News?

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Jim Allchin to Gates and Ballmer on the state of quality at Microsoft (2004)"

kwertyoowiyop — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:46:11 +0000

They should send that email again, to all their product managers and VPs.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Nvidia's moat is not what it used to be"

kwertyoowiyop — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:44:51 +0000

These days, half the HN posts seem A.I. generated, or at least edited. Am I overly suspicious?

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

kwertyoowiyop — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:19:47 +0000

The unreasonable effectiveness of cryptic titles

What we talk about when we talk about cryptic titles

Cryptic titles considered harmful

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Claude Code Down"

kwertyoowiyop — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:42 +0000

For older programmers: this is like when Stack Overflow would go down.

For really old programmers: this is like when Computer Literacy bookstore was closed.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "'The frontline is like Terminator': fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war"

kwertyoowiyop — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:48:26 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/04/fighting-robot...

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "The Subprime AI Crisis"

kwertyoowiyop — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:35:19 +0000

[2024]

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

kwertyoowiyop — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:29:16 +0000

One wonders what Jobs would think of Liquid Glass.

New comment by kwertyoowiyop in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

kwertyoowiyop — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:13:53 +0000

Me too plz. To quote (more or less) Harvey Pekar: “I’m trying to sell out, but nobody’s buying!”