Hacker News: megablast

New comment by megablast in "UK government launches fuel forecourt price API"

megablast — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:07:43 +0000

Encouraging car use is exactly the sort of things governments should not be doing!!!

New comment by megablast in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

megablast — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:00:45 +0000

How is stock performance any indication of a company having too many managers.

New comment by megablast in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

megablast — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:08:49 +0000

The designers at Apple have a lot to answer for. It’s as if we can no longer trust Apple to make new versions better.

New comment by megablast in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

megablast — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:42:51 +0000

Anything that makes the world worse for car drivers is a huge bonus for The planet.

New comment by megablast in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

megablast — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:50:29 +0000

You think the factory decided this?

New comment by megablast in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

megablast — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:10:13 +0000

If they let you use siri to change settings it would be very useful. Instead I have to search fro hard to find options.

New comment by megablast in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

megablast — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:03:20 +0000

Perfect then, don't buy it.

> Also nothing wrong with just having a shelf with things you like to look at.

I completely disagree.

New comment by megablast in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

megablast — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:00:13 +0000

You should see what their patent office researchers get up to.

New comment by megablast in "Show HN: Every single torrent is on this website"

megablast — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:33:22 +0000

Thank you captain obvious.

New comment by megablast in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

megablast — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:49:44 +0000

This is not how funding works.

New comment by megablast in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

megablast — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:24:19 +0000

> AFAICT it's because 5 doesn't stroke their ego as hard as 4o.

That’s not why. It’s because it is less accurate. Go check the sub instead of making up reasons.

New comment by megablast in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

megablast — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:31:56 +0000

Not unheard of = incredibly rare.

New comment by megablast in "Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server"

megablast — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:17:42 +0000

Getright!

New comment by megablast in "Do not download the app, use the website"

megablast — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:53:41 +0000

Is it? You can't easily tell with iOS apps because the container might be that big, but the app on your phone is a fraction of that. The container might contain multiple versions.

New comment by megablast in "Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation"

megablast — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:14:46 +0000

> They don't say "manufacturing personnel failed to ...", they say "Boeing failed to provide adequate training, guidance, and oversight necessary to ensure that manufacturing personnel could consistently and correctly ...".

Doesn't this mean it should happen a lot more?

New comment by megablast in "Why English doesn't use accents"

megablast — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 02:31:53 +0000

> mean different words too not just the sound. Where I used to go to school 10 miles away they don't understand if I speak my dialect because it's a different region.

Like what? You have to give us examples.

New comment by megablast in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

megablast — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:25:58 +0000

> your browser history may be used as evidence in a criminal case

Pretty sure google searches have been used in murder trials before, including the mushroom poisoning one going on right now in Victoria.

New comment by megablast in "Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

megablast — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:06:55 +0000

Except we have a lot more missionaries than mercenaries now. Right? So who won?

New comment by megablast in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

megablast — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:07:50 +0000

> In some way, this is how 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles will never be exactly 1000 pieces.

What??

New comment by megablast in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

megablast — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:42:26 +0000

That is not true. You can rate them on booking.com or on google or tripadvisor.