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New comment by mainecoder in "Friendship Recession"

mainecoder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:38:15 +0000

Especially Post-Covid it is made more worse, also from there is reason to believe more men are lonelier than ever since in general women have more friends than men when there is a friendship recession the men you had 2 or 1 friend will be alone. The lack of third places is another commonly cited reason this is especially true in the US where any place to hang out is optimized to get your money and get you the F*@# out. Additionally, there is also a class thing in the US people not working "corporate" jobs like those in retail/walmart hourly workers are doing overtime or tired to do other things. This is also responsible partly for the current "gender war" the lack of intermingling of men and women in groups if there are not men groups and women groups there will not be this mixed group thus it's not even an us vs them its me vs him , me vs her .... Birth rates are down things are going bad and now using falling birth rates as a reason they want to restrict the rights of women in the US, a deliberate calculated effort is underway with funding political lobbying, policy prescriptions etc the ultimate goal is control they don't give a damn about falling birth rates or gender relations or women or men for that matter.

New comment by mainecoder in "Amazon rewards loyal Kindle devotees by closing the book on old e-readers"

mainecoder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:21:46 +0000

This is why having the actual pdf is better, if you can't have it offline you don't own it digitally, if you can't give it to another person or copy it or modify it then you don't own it to it simply attached to your account even with offline access.

New comment by mainecoder in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

mainecoder — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:28:30 +0000

well if you are waiting for the monopolies to be broken don't wait they will not be broken monopolies are here to stay, capitalistism for the rich and socialism also for the rich they best thing you can do is be rich yourself

New comment by mainecoder in "The U.S. borrowed $50B a week for the past five months, the CBO says"

mainecoder — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:41:59 +0000

As long as the military is more powerful than its creditors its fine

New comment by mainecoder in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

mainecoder — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:52:29 +0000

Are we just going to forget that the Switzerland is the place where capitalists many(in my opinion or some if you want) keep their money.

New comment by mainecoder in "Flashpoint Archive – Over 200k web games and animations preserved"

mainecoder — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:04:09 +0000

Nice game I played a few rounds

New comment by mainecoder in "Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley"

mainecoder — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:50:50 +0000

First it is not manipulation please read the terms of service and user consent on this issue. Second this is standard practice A/B testing is universal and companies do a holdout experiment all the time it is also called Withholding test.

New comment by mainecoder in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

mainecoder — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:24:22 +0000

why don't you criticize the arguments his making instead of the person, he is basically saying hire people with autonomy not people who need motivation.

New comment by mainecoder in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

mainecoder — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:37:19 +0000

please if you consider taking my idea of a novel provide me an email let me email you.

New comment by mainecoder in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

mainecoder — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:48:06 +0000

All I know is that RUST will lose skill issue and C will win

New comment by mainecoder in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

mainecoder — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:04:43 +0000

we shall C the resolve of the RUST maintainers they are working on borrowed time ....

New comment by mainecoder in "The Military Almost Got the Right to Repair. Lawmakers Just Took It Away"

mainecoder — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:34:17 +0000

What will happen when the greed of defense companies outweighs the needs of the country for defense? can the defense companies continue overcharging the US government and being drunk on their profits lag behind and lagging behind lobby for the requirements of the US military to be out of date(which is already happening as we see requirements persist that still look like they are from the 1970s in an era where low cost drones, and cheap loitering munitions do not exist, era only way to track a fighter jet is long range radar that distributed camera and ir camera tracking does not exist that fighter jets have true stealth.)and once that lobby works they become over budget and late on delivering on those requirements. This thinking that the defense companies can slumber and we will still be ok is erroneous and will result in us getting humbled in the conflicts to come (having nukes will not make us impervious)

New comment by mainecoder in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

mainecoder — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:10:36 +0000

Did they really have to tell their programmers this ? (see Page 52) AV Rule 174 (MISRA Rule 107) The null pointer shall not be de-referenced.

New comment by mainecoder in "Launch HN: Phind 3 (YC S22) – Every answer is a mini-app"

mainecoder — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:16:15 +0000

Awesome job is it possible to have predefined specing features and perhaps a layout as well for instance if I need a specific layout, font , order , certain UI elements it could be for accessibilitys' sake or preference , can you make the internal code used for app creation be configurable insuring security of course.

New comment by mainecoder in "Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner"

mainecoder — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:24:48 +0000

What if I told you that China has more influence over the EU than it has over the Kamer der Staten-Generaal( the Dutch parliament), thus they are using the EU to pressure the dutch. The irony is that European Sovereignty is respected when all the countries of Europe are able to make their own sovereignty respected i.e. it is each of the individual states making their own sovereignty respected that actually elevates the sovereignty of Europe, the EU by pressuring, disregarding and relegating the sovereignty of the member states devalues the collective sovereignty of Europe. Additionally adversaries need only focus on having leverage over EU officials and the EU officials will do their bidding for them.

New comment by mainecoder in "Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner"

mainecoder — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:09:11 +0000

Additionally I forgot to mention the withholding of shipments from China of the finished product that served as a public(visible) leverage.

New comment by mainecoder in "Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner"

mainecoder — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:51:16 +0000

Well the Chinese are powerful and without the help of the US the Netherlands can't do much. Additionally, the process of moving discrete semiconductor production to China is already underway. Production in Hamburg will stop sometime in late 2029 and the R&D center in Nijmegen, Delft will close done late 2028. The US should have helped the Netherlands but now it is over the Chinese won this battle and fairly easily they did not need to use much of the leverage that they had. The commentary by EU officials shows that they used a top down approach using the EU to pressure the Dutch.

New comment by mainecoder in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"

mainecoder — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:50:00 +0000

Rust allows us to collect paycheck rewriting code, rewriting code is so much easier since you do not have to think much about the underlying business you already have the code it's purely technical also you can just collect paycheck rewriting code for quite a while since most code bases are large easy money if you already know rust.

New comment by mainecoder in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"

mainecoder — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:44:12 +0000

My friend told me he likes writing rust because he loves doing things that have already been done his senior pushed management to rewrite in rust and got approved after 2 months, he jokingly told him I guaranteed us a job for the next 3 years rewriting will take time. One paycheck collection strategy push Rust -> get adoption -> rewrite code (now memory safe yay) -> collect paycheck rewriting . In the meantime others will write memory unsafe code for you which is new and provide you a paycheck guarantee and the rust compiler helps you take your time when rewriting you can read the old code while it compiles.

New comment by mainecoder in "U.S. agencies back banning top-selling TP-Link home routers on security grounds"

mainecoder — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:44:17 +0000

Why does this have to be a political issue the TP-Links hardware and software can be examined, this is not a difficult process that would need the greatest experts on earth a simple examination should show whether data is being sent to China or if there is any security issue that can be spoken of so far nothing. Might as well say sanction then because we need to make a distinction between a technical security flaw or economic and political reasons, if the security flaw is not articulated then it's safe to assume it is political.