Hacker News: martin82

New comment by martin82 in "Kobo can run apps now"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:43:38 +0000

Does Kobo still crash regularly? Mine crashed several times daily on my Kobo reader and I gave up on the app and the device and moved on to Supernote and just reading PDFs on it.

New comment by martin82 in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:31:56 +0000

I think the damage that Meta has done not only to children, but to all human beings alive and online today, cannot be put into monetary terms.

Meta should be destroyed and forced to stop all operations immediately. I think it would be quite an interesting wake-up call when we would then realize that... nothing of value was lost and the world will just go on - just a little bit saner and happier.

New comment by martin82 in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

martin82 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:23:14 +0000

And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok?

Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?

New comment by martin82 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

martin82 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:46:59 +0000

Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.

New comment by martin82 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

martin82 — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:23:53 +0000

All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.

New comment by martin82 in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

martin82 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:24:45 +0000

I basically have to hit the edit function in Signal and correct typos in Every. Single. Thread. Every. Single. Day. It is infuriating.

This has been going on for years, so I guess when this guy claims this started at iOS 17, it seems to make sense.

The iOS keyboard really really is utterly broken. I'm glad it's not just me. I was already wondering if I should schedule an appointment with a doctor and check if I have early onset dementia or something.

New comment by martin82 in "Facebook is cooked"

martin82 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:08:25 +0000

I have scrubbed my account completely clean years ago and never use it for anything. When I log in once a quarter or so, just to check if someone sent me a message via the Messenger, all I see is soft-porn on my timeline.

New comment by martin82 in "Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]"

martin82 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:03:30 +0000

German here. Root beer does INDEED taste like toothpaste. Disguting. :)

We Germans drink Malzbier, which is equally unhealthy, but at least it tastes somewhat OK.

New comment by martin82 in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

martin82 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:10:13 +0000

I have updated as soon as possible and I if you asked me, I couldn't tell you what is different now. Everything I do on a daily basis still works exactly the same. If there are some weird more rounded corners somewhere now, I don't consciously notice them. The glassy effects look cool but after a week you don't even think about them any more.

New comment by martin82 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

martin82 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:28:41 +0000

Why should ads be a moat???

People hate ads. I have changed from ChatGPT to Grok and have felt absolutely no difference in my usage patterns, just getting better answers.

Every competitor has cloned ChatGPTs UI/UX and API, so hopping between competitors is a no-brainer. There is no moat.

New comment by martin82 in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:17:13 +0000

Keychat or Whitenoise.

New comment by martin82 in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"

martin82 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:12:56 +0000

That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.

New comment by martin82 in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

martin82 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:59:55 +0000

That's a very diplomatic way of saying "we burnt all this money but we have not the faintest clue about how to proceed"

New comment by martin82 in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

martin82 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:45:28 +0000

We can do something about it:

Just not use those services. X is addictive, but otherwise utterly unnecessary. It seemed useful about 8 years ago when you could get tech insights form industry veterans on a daily basis and then use them in your own company. Those days are long gone.

Just. Don't. Use. Those. Services.

Easiest life-hack ever for a happier and more productive life.

New comment by martin82 in "The disguised return of EU Chat Control"

martin82 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:31:24 +0000

At this point I 100% see the EU as a failed experiment and I would love to witness a mass exodus of the slavic countries, and then Germany and France. Burn this thing to the ground. Nothing good came out of it.

New comment by martin82 in "Steam Machine"

martin82 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:56:41 +0000

Seems like this is very under-spec'd in terms of RAM. I have my doubts that this will run modern games at acceptable performance.

New comment by martin82 in "Steam Frame"

martin82 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:12:33 +0000

People warn to not hold smartphones near the head for too long due to too strong signal strenghts...

Is it not a concern to strap such a powerful defive that receives super strong signals right onto the head for hours??

New comment by martin82 in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

martin82 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 05:10:45 +0000

This sounds it will be a milestone recorded in the history books in the chapter of the accelerating downfall of the US empire into hyperinflation...

New comment by martin82 in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

martin82 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:07:45 +0000

There is no reason take statins, ever. They will destroy your muscles, then cause diabetes and thus indirectly kill you. They will prevent a heart attack by... four days.

If biomarkers are elevated, the question must always be, "why is this elevated", and "is there a natural change in habit and diet that can reverse this elevation".

Artifically lowering the marker with a drug is like pasting duct tape on a leaking pipe - the leak is still there and it will likely quietly get worse over time and then eventually kill you anyways.

I find it unbelievable that our society swallows any drug without second thought. You body produces cholesterol on purpose. There must be reason why it produces it. "Ah well, who cares, let's just throw in a wrench and make it stop producing the cholesterol" and hope for the best...

New comment by martin82 in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

martin82 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:00:43 +0000

The opposite. Those children who are barred to own phones are forced to actually seek out an actual social life.

The digital illusion of a "social life" that smartphones create is neither social, nor living.