Hacker News: magarnicle

New comment by magarnicle in "Car Seats as Contraception"

magarnicle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:27:15 +0000

Built-in 5-point harnesses in the back seats would be safer than car seats and far easier, but there is a whole industry working against that idea.

New comment by magarnicle in "Car Seats as Contraception"

magarnicle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:24:59 +0000

Really? I fit 3 seats in a Hyundai i30. Not a big or fuel-hungry car.

New comment by magarnicle in "Car Seats as Contraception"

magarnicle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:23:46 +0000

Only quite small cars would have this problem - we had to upgrade from a Honda Jazz/Fit for this reason, but only to a Hyundai i30.

New comment by magarnicle in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

magarnicle — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:40:20 +0000

They had that with the previous gen mini, but the new ones are too tall now.

New comment by magarnicle in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

magarnicle — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:09:06 +0000

Put it at foot level and kick it.

New comment by magarnicle in "LLMs can be exhausting"

magarnicle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:25:25 +0000

LLMs shift you from a software engineer to a management role, with all of the overhead that entails.

New comment by magarnicle in "Tony Hoare has died"

magarnicle — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:56:02 +0000

"The problem isn't the concept of 'null', but rather that everything can be null, which makes it impossible to distinguish between the cases where null is an appropriate and expected value, from the cases where null is a defect."

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-featu...

New comment by magarnicle in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

magarnicle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:20:22 +0000

Is it because "the news" has changed beyond what we are designed to handle. It used to be just local gossip, and every now and then you'd hear about the king having a son or something. Eventually things progressed to where you would get newspapers and TV telling you what's happening in your country and maybe some global news, but you would only get that once a day and space was limited. Now it feels like news sites dredge up every bad thing happening everywhere at every minute and give it a big headline, trying to convince you it is important to know.

New comment by magarnicle in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

magarnicle — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:00:20 +0000

What do you look for in Arts & Culture? I find https://www.getdailyart.com/ pretty great if you are mostly just interested in painting.

New comment by magarnicle in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

magarnicle — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:31:16 +0000

There are three pillars for the bleeding edge, aren't there? TSMC, ASML, and the Spruce Pine quartz mine.

New comment by magarnicle in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

magarnicle — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:13:13 +0000

I realise this comes across as a sarcastic defence of ads. It's sincere - I don't like ads but I want everything the provide.

New comment by magarnicle in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

magarnicle — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:39:07 +0000

Yeah I want my cake and to eat it too. I get annoyed when ads are irrelevant to me, and I get creeped out when they are too relevant.

I want to be able to browse the internet for free, where the sites have a sustainable business model and can therefore make high-quality content, but I don't want to have to sign up to a subscription for everything.

I want to be able to host websites that get lots of views, but I don't want that popularity to cost me.

Can someone please come up with something that solves all of these dilemmas for me?

New comment by magarnicle in "The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting"

magarnicle — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:56:35 +0000

That's quite close to the plot of Memento.

New comment by magarnicle in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"

magarnicle — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:16:18 +0000

I found this good, especially about getting "momentum": https://youtu.be/JsT3KPYJFl4?si=pUhJRnTEfj1t0J4y

New comment by magarnicle in "Everyone Is Stealing TV"

magarnicle — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:47:19 +0000

They very much do. There's an Australian streaming service called Stan that bought the rights to the English Premier League this year. They post highlights videos to YouTube.

Every single video they post is full of comments about how short the video is, how it didn't replay this or that important moment, and finishes with an ad for Stan.

Compared to 20 years ago where the only highlights you could get for free were in a news program that might spare 1 minute for just the most important match if you were lucky, these videos are incredible.

New comment by magarnicle in "Parking lots as economic drains"

magarnicle — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:17:21 +0000

I think you have to start a step back from cars: the people buying them. At least where I live having a large (and getting larger) 4wd seems to be a source of identity for them, and integral to their lifestyle.

New comment by magarnicle in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

magarnicle — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:01:43 +0000

I'm in a tiny part of the film industry. Bigger clients lend us licenses to Aspera and FileCatalyst when receiving files from them, but for our own trans-oceanic transfers I dug up an ancient program called Tsunami UDP and fixed it up just enough.

New comment by magarnicle in "My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)"

magarnicle — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:50:47 +0000

But the top of their game includes them make things up and getting things wrong. They always give their best, but they always include mistakes. It's a different trust proposition to a human.

New comment by magarnicle in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

magarnicle — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:01:16 +0000

Yes, the options presented were overpay for something or roll your own. Could you not try to find a better alternative first?

New comment by magarnicle in "What old tennis players teach us (2017)"

magarnicle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:05:09 +0000

It depends what you mean by "best players". Real Madrid have twice tried to just buy "Galacticos" - the generally-recognised superstar players - and cram them all into the same team, regardless of what position they were suited for. It didn't really work out like they hoped but it did get them a lot of attention.

They found more success when they bought the best team i.e. the best players in each position. Winning in football is difficult enough that you still need great tactics, management, experience, and luck to have actual sustained success. Money helps buy a lot of that, though.

But beyond Real Madrid your point is correct. More and more money is aggregating at the top, especially the English Premier League, and others are getting left behind.