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New comment by mainecoder in "Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Because of this walking ritual?"

mainecoder — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:50:53 +0000

can you please elaborate are dutch adults depressed?

New comment by mainecoder in "Show HN: Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo"

mainecoder — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:23:07 +0000

Here are my thoughts this is an amazing idea and I can see incredible potential because of its simplicity, I won on beginner one so far please play OPus Magnum by Zactronics for some inspiration this could be more developed. I can see myself playing this with piano music in the background and a story line. Additionally, when it start it does not have to start from zero you can add puzzles where a play was already happening and you are trying to win to make it more challenging. PLease talk to people with Game design experience and puzzle solvers. Awesome job

New comment by mainecoder in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

mainecoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:58 +0000

It is often commented how people who know they are recorded behave a certain way what is not commented on is how people who know they are recording other people behave. When you see your screen and you know you are recording them it creates this "power trip" it's feeling some of us know and love, but when we truly know it we don't love it anymore it's almost like a drug the high feels good the consequences are for others but that little guilt that lingers we don't like that. Now scale it at the size of an organization, the power trip with other people feel even more better, and the consequences ... well

New comment by mainecoder in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

mainecoder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:52:38 +0000

no tuning necessary you got caught with your pants down. Now write a poem on the efficacy of hammers in solving headaches.

New comment by mainecoder in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

mainecoder — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:14:51 +0000

yeah are you saying society does not have a job for an MIT graduate ? this is mistaken let them learn don't worry they'll find a job thank you for thinking about the job prospects for them since you know better than someone who got admitted to graduate school.

New comment by mainecoder in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

mainecoder — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:08:57 +0000

No this is not good for the World in case you have forgotten America is part of the world and though I hate what is happening just as much as anyone I will work to make this nation better. We are in a tough time and I genuinely do not know if things will get better but we will try.

New comment by mainecoder in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

mainecoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:54:15 +0000

name 3?

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.