Hacker News: midnightdiesel

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

midnightdiesel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:46:37 +0000

It seems like Anthropic is constantly changing the rules and pulling out rugs, and always entirely by surprise. I’m not sure if they’re incompetent or just careless, but I stopped paying them because of this a while ago, and my days are much more interesting and enjoyable using my own brain instead.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Arm AGI CPU"

midnightdiesel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:21:33 +0000

What a product name choice! I wasn’t expecting ARM to pivot to selling snake oil.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

midnightdiesel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:57:34 +0000

Enshittification strikes again. For a normal user, the software seems to be getting worse and more cumbersome, and the company seems to continue focusing solely on pushing business- and enterprise-centric features that I have no use for. They'd do well to offer a non-pro type subscription for users who don't want all of that. Instead, though, I and a lot of others will simply be canceling.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

midnightdiesel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:42 +0000

I wonder how long before this gets defunded too?

AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years

midnightdiesel — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 06:17:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KFJ2LFogYqzfGB3uX/how-ai-takeover-might-happen-in-2-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42988868

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by midnightdiesel in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

midnightdiesel — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:23:51 +0000

AirPods also drop audio quality severely when their mic is active, just as with Bluetooth. Apple hasn’t solved that in any way with some nefarious extension.

GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

midnightdiesel — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:59:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general-motors-self-driving-cars.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145062

Points: 172

# Comments: 184

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Ford to spend $1.3B to transform Canada factory into EV manufacturing hub"

midnightdiesel — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:13:12 +0000

They still need to spend at least as much on fixing their continual quality and software problems.

Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?

midnightdiesel — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 03:48:48 +0000

Article URL: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-not-put-tsmc-and-samsung-fabs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35310677

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume"

midnightdiesel — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 02:16:45 +0000

Being able to communicate clearly with high signal-to-noise is essential. When hiring, I’ve learned it’s often better to take a great communicator with less experience over a poor communicator with great experience.

Cover letters can be a helpful filter for this. In my experience a pithy cover letter is better than no cover letter. But no cover letter is better than a bull shit one.

You can bet that if I smell diarrhea of the chatgpt in a cover letter, it’ll get a fast pass to the bottom of the heap if not a direct route to the reject pile.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC"

midnightdiesel — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 23:40:43 +0000

Meanwhile Peter Thiel is off plotting his next gambit to fleece and destroy this country.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Ask HN: Why does the McDonalds' app require so many steps to order a Diet Coke?"

midnightdiesel — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:23:42 +0000

Irrelevant, and fountain drinks are only $1 at McDonald’s anyway.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Facebook-owned sites were down"

midnightdiesel — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:27:11 +0000

Hopefully it never comes back up!

New comment by midnightdiesel in "There is no evil like reCAPTCHA"

midnightdiesel — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:11:28 +0000

Google sucks nowadays. So much of what it does just makes technology and the web worse, not better.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Neuralink Live Stream [video]"

midnightdiesel — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:24:47 +0000

I'm glad this tech is starting to move along, but, boy, is this stuff at a crude and barbaric level. I can't imagine putting this crap in my head.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Apple Cancels AirPower Product"

midnightdiesel — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:38:49 +0000

Are there any official announcements about this? It seems odd for Apple’s leadership team to make statements about unreleased products to reporters like that without any other context.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archive"

midnightdiesel — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 22:52:10 +0000

This is great. I was just lamenting the lack of a nice tool like this, and I’m looking forward to seeing this develop.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers"

midnightdiesel — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:29:36 +0000

Ah, the imminent decline of Spotify. I’ve been wondering what was taking so long to get that going.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "What If Amazon.com Actually Is a Horrible Website?"

midnightdiesel — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 03:33:19 +0000

There’s no “what if” about it. Amazon.com’s UX has always been chock full of dark design patterns and incongruous UI choices. The same is true to varying degrees for many of their platforms and products. It’s not really a huge deal, although it is one of the big reasons I don’t feel like Amazon is very trustworthy.

New comment by midnightdiesel in "MaterialFox userChrome.css makes Firefox look just like the new Chrome 69"

midnightdiesel — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:50:20 +0000

This is a nicely polished theme that mimics the new Chrome chrome really well, and it includes a dark mode. I didn't realize Firefox themes could look this nice, and I hope we see more designs like this as FF gains attention.