Hacker News: matty22

New comment by matty22 in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

matty22 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:21:57 +0000

Korea has an amazing system for getting help. Every table has a little doorbell on it. If you need something, you click the button and a server comes. Otherwise, no one bugs you. I wish that sort of system would take off here.

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:26:39 +0000

Working on documenting all of the publicly available stained glass possible. No fancy tech, just vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. If you know of stained glass in your area, please add it to the map!

https://stainedglassatlas.com/

New comment by matty22 in "Map of the world's great castles and fortresses"

matty22 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:02:40 +0000

As someone who runs something similar, but for stained glass I'm going to go against the grain here and commend you on your data set. I think a lot of posters here are unfamiliar with how time consuming gathering these datapoints can be. It's mostly by hand, mostly by randomly searching or scrolling through Wikipedia, stumbling upon a partial data set, or physically traveling and having first hand knowledge that a place exists. How were you able to put together such a GREAT dataset?

You could add the facility for visitors to add their own locations or submit them for review. That way the people who "know something is missing" can add it themselves.

New comment by matty22 in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

matty22 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:29:13 +0000

"The only solution to traffic is viable alternatives to driving." - NotJustBikes

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:37:59 +0000

I'm working on hunting down as much publicly accessible stained glass and mapping it. No exciting libraries or frameworks, but if you know of some great stained glass in your area, please document it!

https://stainedglassatlas.com/

New comment by matty22 in "AI is a technology not a product"

matty22 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:31:13 +0000

If they could get "Hey Siri, play 'Song Title' by 'Band Name'" to open the Music app and play the song I ask for, that's the extent that I give a damn about AI being introduced to iOS.

New comment by matty22 in "Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security"

matty22 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:14:21 +0000

I'm not confident that any of us will ever see lower prices due to green energy. Why would the power company who currently makes $XX billions of dollars per year ever provide that same service for $(XX-YY) billions of dollars per year when they could pocket the cost savings themselves and pump up their stock value?

Aside from privately owned solar/wind/battery on your own home, there's no evidence that I've seen anyway that indicates when utilities move to more green energy generation that those savings get passed on to customers. Perhaps, there are examples out there somewhere.

New comment by matty22 in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

matty22 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:10:35 +0000

I'm guessing there's a sizable portion of the HN crowd that are millenials. Millenials who have paid the costs of the Boomer/GenX generations absolute destruction of the "American Dream" for their own benefit. They climbed the ladder and pulled it up behind them leaving millenials holding the bag.

That same set of millenials are now visiting that treatment upon Gen Z. We are building AI that will eviscerate the remaining middle class, raise electricity rates to a level where many people will not be able to power their homes, and poisoning the air and water so that portions of the world will become unliveable.

Gen Z is justified in being upset with millenials. We used to be the victims, but we've become the abusers.

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:20:10 +0000

Documenting all publicly accessible stained glass as possible. App is built with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Nothing fancy!

https://www.stainedglassatlas.com/

New comment by matty22 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

matty22 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:12:01 +0000

I mean…FAFO? He’s an egomaniac pushing a technology that is objectively negative for anyone not already a billionaire. I have no issue with more Molotov cocktails being chucked at his house, or OpenAI offices, or data centers around the world.

Sam Altman being removed from the equation would make the world an objectively better place.

New comment by matty22 in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

matty22 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:11:43 +0000

But...who will rake the forests to prevent the fires?

New comment by matty22 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

matty22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:12:37 +0000

Stained Glass Atlas (https://stainedglassatlas.com/) - working on mapping/documenting as much of the publicly accessible stained glass as possible. No fancy tech (vanilla HTML/CSS/JS). Anyone who knows of great stained glass in their local area is welcome to come add to the data set!

New comment by matty22 in "Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat"

matty22 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:07:23 +0000

Read the history of just about any political revolution in history. Eventually, those oligarchs at the top find their heads in the guillotine.

New comment by matty22 in "AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines review"

matty22 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:33:43 +0000

The irony of someone using AI trained on stolen copyrighted art to generate "art" and then wanting to copyright said "art" is hilarious.

New comment by matty22 in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

matty22 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:28:17 +0000

Yeah, but does it have CarPlay yet? It's a complete deal breaker despite Rivian being essentially the only company who offers a BEV pickup truck of a reasonable size.

New comment by matty22 in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

matty22 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:35:13 +0000

I don't think it is accurate for the opposite reason. If my wife and I made what the "living wage" was for two working adults, we'd be living with her parents. It is laughably low for the cost of living in this area.

New comment by matty22 in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

matty22 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:13:12 +0000

It's a simple cost/benefit analysis that (rightly) causes the massive AI backlash. For the average Joe, non-tech worker, the cons of AI are:

* Higher electricty bills.

* 5-6x cost of RAM, GPUs, and other computer components

* Data centers popping up in their backyards

* An internet inundated with slop

* Slop beginning to infiltrate the video game industry and other creative industries

* AI being used to justify gutting entry level jobs for a generation already screwed by larger, long horizon economic forces

* Grok enabling the creation of revenge porn and CSAM with seemingly no repercussions

* Massive IP theft on a scale previously unheard of

* Etc.

The pros of AI are:

* It can summarize text and transcribe audio decently well.

* It can make funny pictures of cats wearing top hats.

* ???

New comment by matty22 in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

matty22 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:03:30 +0000

Not to mention that the LAST place I want an all-consuming, privacy-destroying data beast is anywhere near my health data.

New comment by matty22 in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

matty22 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:01:59 +0000

From the Oxford English Dictionary:

4. Designating the original or traditional form of something that has a digital or computer-mediated counterpart.

5. colloquial (chiefly humorous). Esp. of a person: unaware of or unaffected by computer technology or digital communications; outdated, old-fashioned.

New comment by matty22 in "Games Workshop bans staff from using AI"

matty22 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:34:18 +0000

In a perfect world, AI would be used to reduce the amount of work humans must do, to free up their time to make more art. Not used to replace human expression with soulless slop generated from art stolen from other artists.

That's why there's less backlash against AI that writes code and more backlash when the video game industry uses it for creative assets.