Hacker News: liquidise

New comment by liquidise in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

liquidise — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:25:41 +0000

I have an opposite reaction for what I assume are reasons we agree on.

Social media has been a transparent race to the bottom for many years. The sooner it is shittified beyond repair the better. AI flooding content to them should help speedrun its descent, or maybe I’ve giving the average user (above child age) too much credit.

New comment by liquidise in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

liquidise — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:55:15 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It should be the link in the OP frankly.

New comment by liquidise in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

liquidise — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:18:34 +0000

The Gorsuch concurring is quite the read, but wish more Americans internalized its final paragraph (excerpts below).

Yes, legislating can be hard and take time. And, yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises. But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. ... But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today’s result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.

New comment by liquidise in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

liquidise — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:30:32 +0000

Unhook[1] has been my go-to for this. Gives full customization over shorts, recommendations, comments, etc.

1a: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...

1b: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtu...

New comment by liquidise in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

liquidise — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:02:53 +0000

At a big enough scale, previously large differences are effectively 0.

50k/mo is 600,000/yr vs 360/yr at 30/mo. Thats existential for a 1MM/yr company. Neither register on a balance sheet for a 1B/yr company. They are both closer to 0 than being a major cost.

New comment by liquidise in "Why is the sky blue?"

liquidise — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:00:29 +0000

Your blog layout, particularly on desktop, is brilliant.

New comment by liquidise in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

liquidise — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:03:07 +0000

Lived in Denver for the last 15 years and own a company. You couldnt pay me to have office space in Denver simply by virtue of i'd rather spend commuting time doing something more fun. This applies to just about everyone i know here as well. Many come to Denver for the outdoors and the activities, commutes cut into that time.

New comment by liquidise in "US, for first time in 50 years, experienced negative net migration in 2025"

liquidise — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:16 +0000

People making both the "they are a draw on the system" and "they are taking all the jobs" arguments confuse me.

You can be anti-immigration, but you should pick one.

New comment by liquidise in "Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc."

liquidise — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:58:04 +0000

“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago.

Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (probably still buggy) code today.

New comment by liquidise in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

liquidise — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:50:10 +0000

Yes. You can install firmware updates over usb.

New comment by liquidise in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

liquidise — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:12:06 +0000

Good news for blue collar workers, tough for investors. The bean-counting dream of LLM's and Robotics remains, but until ChatGPT is placing your order at Mcdonalds drive-thrus and Amazon is laying off warehouse associates en masse, i'd say that last 5% is still taking 95% of the time.

New comment by liquidise in "How I block all online ads"

liquidise — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:34:38 +0000

SponsorBlock became an instant, install-everywhere extension for me the same way UBO had. I'm amazed how few know of it considering its value and elegance.

New comment by liquidise in "How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones"

liquidise — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:00:29 +0000

"I saw the best minds of my generation..."

New comment by liquidise in "Monotype font licencing shake-down"

liquidise — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:56:10 +0000

I'm not typically sensitive to AI-sounding text but those image captions leave me understanding others' issues with it.

New comment by liquidise in "$19B Wiped Out in Crypto's Biggest Liquidation"

liquidise — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:41:05 +0000

> How is BTC not the exact opposite of gold?

If BTC is the exact opposite of gold, it follows that Eth, Ripple, USDC, etc are all more gold-like than BTC. I'd be interested to hear why you believe that to be true.

BTC is a coin with longer investments and does not fluctuate as much as other cryptocoins (by %). It has a known supply (past, present and future) and predictable mining rate. It has a known finite future supply cap.

To be clear i don't believe BTC is a perfect gold analog. But if you have to pick the "most gold-like" digital asset, it would make my short list.

New comment by liquidise in "$19B Wiped Out in Crypto's Biggest Liquidation"

liquidise — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:13:58 +0000

Gold fell on Friday and recovered over the weekend. BTC certainly remains a more speculative asset than physical gold, but the comparison is not as unhinged as you make it sound.

New comment by liquidise in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

liquidise — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:44:27 +0000

Are you familiar with any? I know people who bet on sports for a living and one of their biggest operational challenges is keeping accounts unbanned long enough to make consistent income.

New comment by liquidise in "Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?"

liquidise — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:20:55 +0000

I haven't any help to offer, but want to say that this post along with reading your site the other day has shown a level of composure and resiliency that i aspire to.

Good luck getting your access back.

New comment by liquidise in "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?"

liquidise — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:20:36 +0000

Disabling “Ambient Mode” in the settings helps cpu usage a lot on my intel MBA.

New comment by liquidise in "All clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity"

liquidise — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:09:00 +0000

All my music gets copied into OS X's Apple Music, which still supports iPods. Other repliees are arguably better alternatives these days.