Hacker News: lowlevel

New comment by lowlevel in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

lowlevel — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:26:25 +0000

I laughed, but then I saw the l. Nice job though...

New comment by lowlevel in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

lowlevel — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:02:02 +0000

Maybe just so they can count office usage as Copilot usage.

New comment by lowlevel in "Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening"

lowlevel — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:04:14 +0000

Over and over again, we see there is no one willing to call a spade a spade.

New comment by lowlevel in "Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri"

lowlevel — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:19:48 +0000

... and has widely been regarded as a bad move.

New comment by lowlevel in "Bank of England flags risk of 'sudden correction' in tech stocks inflated by AI"

lowlevel — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:42:14 +0000

…about time the bullshit walks.

New comment by lowlevel in "No_color: Disabling ANSI color output by default"

lowlevel — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:20:45 +0000

I have been disabling colour for 30 years… and it’s always a pain in the butt. Glad to see this acknowledged at least.

New comment by lowlevel in "Rivian CEO Doubles Down on Decision to Not Offer Apple CarPlay"

lowlevel — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:29:04 +0000

I’ve had four cars with air play/android auto now… never even tried it,

New comment by lowlevel in "Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on refrigerator screen"

lowlevel — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:16:03 +0000

Samsung doesn't make anything good in the way of appliances anyway... so, pretty easy to avoid this bs.

New comment by lowlevel in "Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions"

lowlevel — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:31:15 +0000

I had one blow up on me on the highway... but I can't really give it up...

New comment by lowlevel in "Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions"

lowlevel — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:27:37 +0000

This is happening on other cars with electronic door handles too... not just Tesla.

New comment by lowlevel in "Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions"

lowlevel — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:21:51 +0000

I figued this was coming when I paid more for the outgoing 2020 GTI instead of the 2021.. but I didn't think it would take 5 years. Nice to see them acknowledge that they made a mistake.

New comment by lowlevel in "Most IT companies fail to serve security.txt for RFC 9116 in 2025"

lowlevel — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 04:59:29 +0000

Yeah, you will get all kinds of email claiming your insert nonsense tech buzzwords you don’t even have are open to vulnerabilities that don’t apply or exist and they will cc your boss looking for a bogus payday.

New comment by lowlevel in "$1.5B Bybit Hack – How the biggest hack in history happened"

lowlevel — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 05:20:12 +0000

It was designed to explicitly avoid recourse. What you want is the traditional banking system, with COBOL and oversight.

New comment by lowlevel in "Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?"

lowlevel — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:41:06 +0000

I for one don’t blame you for panic posting … so much is turning to shit these days…

New comment by lowlevel in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"

lowlevel — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:56:33 +0000

well, now you KNOW ai is worthless.

New comment by lowlevel in "Elon Musk's DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL"

lowlevel — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:16:06 +0000

No need to check. It isn't.

New comment by lowlevel in "SoftBank Is Betting Billions That OpenAI's Agents Will Automate Work"

lowlevel — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:44:15 +0000

This made me smile but I was thinking more along the lines of honour, conscientiousness, consideration, truth, knowing with conviction... common sense/etc. There are areas where this stuff is not appropriate but there is an unwillingness to hear that.

New comment by lowlevel in "The demise of software engineers due to AI is greatly exaggerated"

lowlevel — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:40:40 +0000

I watched one of the new hires burn 8 hours in chatGPT trying to make excel do something that took me five minutes. Not worried for anything but the economy and the environment.

New comment by lowlevel in ""Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar""

lowlevel — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:13:16 +0000

It’s actually Auto Incorrect.

New comment by lowlevel in "Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop"

lowlevel — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:45:18 +0000

I don't think distracting drivers with ads in their jeep even when stopped is safe or even acceptable...