Hacker News: magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=magpi3Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 21 May 2026 01:24:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Google Declaring War on the Web"]]>He may have meant abdicated

]]>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:42:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215307magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215307<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"]]>There are always creative ways to present data. Dismissing the needs of a minority of people just because we don't share their visual impairment is lazy, and we can do better.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:19:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000373magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000373<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"]]>White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:41:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000023magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000023<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"]]>He mentioned in the article that his Kindle is not connected to the internet (didn't explain why), so this is a no-go for him.

]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:57:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563712magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563712https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563712<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Treason in the Futures Markets"]]>> Even if they found the culprits, what's a judge's verdict against a presidential pardon?

This is bad logic. A presidential pardon at least exposes the corruption, and exposing the corruption is more important than a prison sentence.

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:48:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553710magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553710<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Treason in the Futures Markets"]]>Maybe because the rot runs so deep in Washington that nobody really wants this to be a big deal. A little like the Epstein files: so many people would be caught up in the web if insider trading in DC were properly investigated that nobody wants to go there.

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:47:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553704magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553704https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553704<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]"]]>Yes

]]>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:19:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437551magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437551https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437551<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"]]>The bill also prevents senior government officials from betting on prediction markets if they are participating personally in the event on which they are betting.

https://www.merkley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/End-Predic...

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:40:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293095magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293095<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes"]]>But what happens when the bill comes in? That's my biggest fear. I heard on a recent podcast that it is a great time to be a micro-entrepreneur, and I think that's true right now because AI is so cheap. But AI companies are hemorraghing money. What happens to those micro-entrepreneurs when the price goes up? Are we going to live in a world where only large, rich corporations can afford to competitively develop things? Maybe so, but it is depressing to think about.

For the plebeians (like me), I think hand-coding skills will always be relevant and necessary.

]]>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:52:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196754magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196754<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes"]]>Or it could be an awful lot of productivity. We have to think bigger. What would the world look like if every programmer were a 10x (or whatever) programmer?

]]>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:47:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196698magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196698<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Keep Android Open"]]>In the 90s, you would have said the exact same thing about linux on the PC.

Free software ultimately has time on its side. As long as a project has enough mindshare to keep its momentum, it really is unstoppable in the long run.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100357magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100357https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100357<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Ashcan Comic"]]>As you noted, fan fiction is legal. You just can't make a profit from it, which I think is fair. Also, IP laws force people to come up with their own characters and their own twists on old stories. I would argue this is a good thing. Inventive ideas like Pokemon may not exist if people could just reuse other people's IP to make a buck.

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:42:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836152magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836152https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836152<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "AI Destroys Institutions"]]>> Purpose-driven institutions built around transparency, cooperation, and accountability empower individuals to take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo.

I am not sure if I am off-topic, but I am having a lot of trouble with this statement. Institutions are often opaque, and I have never belonged to an institution that empowered me to "take intellectual risks and challenge the status quo." Quite the contrary.

]]>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:40:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645454magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645454https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46645454<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"]]>Healthcare, schools, roads, generative AI. One of these things is not like the others.

]]>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:52:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439076magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439076https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439076<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "End of Japanese community"]]>It's someone asking to open up a communication channel after they (Mozilla) had already overwritten another person's work to the point that person is no longer willing to participate in the organization. What is there to talk about?

The volunteer was kind to list their grievances before bouncing. A lot of people would have just quietly quit.

]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:57:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834258magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834258<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse"]]>https://archive.is/NIBMJ

]]>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:46:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559002magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559002<![CDATA[We Warned About the First China Shock. The Next One Will Be Worse]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558996

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

]]>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:46:04 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/opinion/china-shock-economy-manufacturing.htmlmagpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558996https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558996<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "Solving SICP"]]>https://htdp.org/

How to design programs (mentioned in the article).

]]>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:49:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261690magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261690<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"]]>The only difference is that the money given is laundered through donors. I am an American, and I am very cynical.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:26:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756425magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756425<![CDATA[New comment by magpi3 in "TikTok goes dark in the US"]]>> Do you think Trump's being paid by ByteDance to lift the ban?

There is never a need to be that direct. Republican and Democrat donors tell politicians what positions to take. Trump doesn't need to take money directly from a company. He takes it from his donors, who in turn take it from the company in some form.

In this case, the theory is that billionaire Jeff Yass (an investor in Tik Tok) has "persuaded" Trump to flip his position.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/jeff-yass-billionaire...

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:53:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756263magpi3https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756263https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42756263