Hacker News: lucaspottersky

New comment by lucaspottersky in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

lucaspottersky — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:34:22 +0000

additionally, BK shows this terrible modal banner to "use our app instead". gross.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me"

lucaspottersky — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:11:07 +0000

their UX is terrible. any decent PDF reader beats it. no more for me as well.

Brazil intelligence agency's use of Israeli tracking software

lucaspottersky — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/20/brazil-intelligence-agency-tracking-software-investigation/481f8082-6f68-11ee-b01a-f593caa04363_story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37967602

Points: 1

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New comment by lucaspottersky in "NPM Is Joining GitHub"

lucaspottersky — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 13:11:26 +0000

WHAT. A. JOKE.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "How some good corporate engineering blogs are written"

lucaspottersky — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:34:37 +0000

tldr: fast track post approvals

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:09:22 +0000

> Why would you voluntarily give up that freedom?

i don't even need a word to answer that: $.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Ask HN: How do you manage your bookmarks?"

lucaspottersky — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:32:45 +0000

yeah. my bookmarks are basically for a quick access of things that i access over and over again, but that i can't reach out simply by typing in the address bar.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Dealing with Loneliness"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:55:14 +0000

https://youtu.be/mRtMfF131Kk?t=332

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Grafana Labs raises $24M"

lucaspottersky — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:43:38 +0000

I tried it 2 years ago. It was easy to get started, but not quite straightforward to extend it and use custom panels.

Also, it didn't support image uploads, you'd need to host them somewhere else if you wanted them to show up in a panel. rather inconvenient.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies"

lucaspottersky — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:41:19 +0000

cant read. paywall. nice internets.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "The exponential function is a miracle"

lucaspottersky — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:52:34 +0000

for ages we've been adding the miracle tag for things we don't fully understand.

just get used to it.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Sunsetting Python 2"

lucaspottersky — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:49:29 +0000

sounds like they should probably sunset Python 3 instead

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Regex Crossword"

lucaspottersky — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:51:03 +0000

should make the input 1st focus and jump to the next in fewer seconds (or after double enter)

New comment by lucaspottersky in "TypeScript vs. ReasonML"

lucaspottersky — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:43:15 +0000

> "And while having that familiarity with JavaScript is nice, it means that every quirkiness that we love and hate about JavaScript is still there in TypeScript

> "... ReasonML is everything TypeScript tries to be (and a bit more) without all that JavaScript weirdness."

yeah, but what makes the author think that __INSERT NEW LANGUAGE HERE__ would not have other 'quirkiness'?

New comment by lucaspottersky in "Show HN: Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:25:06 +0000

thats a lot of code

New comment by lucaspottersky in "John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]"

lucaspottersky — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:20:23 +0000

yeah, but he could take a breath every once in a while

New comment by lucaspottersky in "John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]"

lucaspottersky — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:57:04 +0000

> “Engineering is figuring out how to do what you want with what you’ve actually got”

same lines as... _life is figuring what to do with what you’ve got_.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "YouTube faces creator backlash"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:06:55 +0000

false. you clearly don't know what you're talking about, sorry.

youtubers are getting strikes for background music, using famous chord progressions, teaching music snippets, mentioning songs etc.

New comment by lucaspottersky in "YouTube faces creator backlash"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:54:21 +0000

I have compiled a few videos from youtuber music educators that I follow. The current situation is worse than most of us think. One of them, Paul Davis, even had a copyright strike for playing HIS OWN music. LOL! So ludicrous!

- Craziest COPYRIGHT STRIKE from YouTube ever?! (Paul Davis) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvH77m_3MVU

- What I want to teach, but can't, thanks to Universal Music Group. (Adam Neely) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryFmUjtwEY

- Why Record Labels STILL Suck! (Rick Beato) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTl9V8cjH0

New comment by lucaspottersky in "To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public"

lucaspottersky — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:28:42 +0000

I disagree. To break the Monopoly a new & innovative way to search needs to rise, not just a clone or "Google wanna be" like Bing/DuckDuckGo etc.

So, somebody gotta do what Google did 20 years ago.