Hacker News: missingdays

New comment by missingdays in "How to earn a billion dollars"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:06:40 +0000

What did she give away for free and how can I get more of it?

New comment by missingdays in "How to earn a billion dollars"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:00:53 +0000

If you ask any of those questions to people directly involved, the answer is the same for all 4: money

New comment by missingdays in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:21:11 +0000

But there's DROP TABLE in both the title and the comic, so it must be relevant

New comment by missingdays in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:06:37 +0000

A guesthouse in Osaka is 31k USD?

New comment by missingdays in "Write for One Person"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:40 +0000

https://blog.plover.com/math/PM.html

New comment by missingdays in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

missingdays — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:54:35 +0000

Living your life = sucking on candy?

New comment by missingdays in "Colonization of Venus"

missingdays — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:32:11 +0000

What it would be much cooler

New comment by missingdays in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

missingdays — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:55:25 +0000

Windmills were invented more than a thousand years ago though

New comment by missingdays in "The Self-Cancelling Subscription"

missingdays — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:19:50 +0000

> Your limbic system is very very complex and is naturally in a state of working. No human intervention.

It has evolved over millions of years. The evolution included billions of variants that didn't work and died before being able to reproduce.

And even then, are you saying everyone's brain is perfect and never needs any external intervention?

New comment by missingdays in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

missingdays — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:20:08 +0000

> the usual refactoring tools of modern IDEs are insufficient

Cursor doesn't have refactorings, so

New comment by missingdays in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

missingdays — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:32:43 +0000

Are you aware of how cows are actually killed?

New comment by missingdays in "Will you heed my warnings now?"

missingdays — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:32:27 +0000

That's one way to completely reframe the story to fit the narrative you want to push

New comment by missingdays in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

missingdays — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:26:47 +0000

> Customers who think only about themselves and noone else.

When was this ever different? And do you expect it to ever change?

New comment by missingdays in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

missingdays — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:07:03 +0000

> ChatGPT equalizes intelligence

Citation needed

New comment by missingdays in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

missingdays — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:28:44 +0000

That's my point

New comment by missingdays in "SDL bans AI-written commits"

missingdays — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:14:13 +0000

> I don't scoff at people eating meat, let them be.

Why not let the animals be?

New comment by missingdays in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

missingdays — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:12:39 +0000

Most websites still don't

New comment by missingdays in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

missingdays — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:57:43 +0000

So if someone broke into your house, murdered you, and stole all your money, you would die peacefully, knowing that the thief will be prosecuted?

New comment by missingdays in "The Importance of Being Idle"

missingdays — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:18:39 +0000

> Address how it makes you feel and the argument being made.

Why are you telling other people what to talk or not to talk about?

New comment by missingdays in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

missingdays — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:44:57 +0000

So, you have already fixed all the bugs and now just cruising through life?