Hacker News: mrWiz

New comment by mrWiz in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

mrWiz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:21:46 +0000

If you read the rest of the comment you’ll find it’s about their employees rather than their clientele.

New comment by mrWiz in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

mrWiz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:07:24 +0000

Chickens are very effective at removing ticks, but “just” getting some chickens is a little bit more work than tossing tubes outside.

New comment by mrWiz in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

mrWiz — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:52:06 +0000

Mostly no. Dead leaves that were just lying on a trailer without getting cleaned in advance and bits of decorative plants that broke off are probably the worst offenders.

New comment by mrWiz in "Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain Campaign"

mrWiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:51:32 +0000

I use MacOS and iOS for home home devices and Windows for work, and use Strongbox on the Apple side with KeePassXC on the Windows side and sync them using DropBox.

New comment by mrWiz in "Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?"

mrWiz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:54:56 +0000

The obvious answer is because VNAs are heavy and the person who would otherwise have to carry it isn't the person who has to pay for a replacement.

New comment by mrWiz in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

mrWiz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:33:23 +0000

How'd you conclude that artists are doing fine? That doesn't match my experience or observations at all.

New comment by mrWiz in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

mrWiz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:27:16 +0000

Until a few years ago merchants were not allowed to charge credit card fees. In that case, online fees make a legally-allowable proxy for credit card surcharges.

New comment by mrWiz in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

mrWiz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:28:31 +0000

This position sounds bonkers to me. I don’t care at all about who I sit next to on a plane but like to see concerts with friends.

New comment by mrWiz in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

mrWiz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:03:14 +0000

I’m surprised to hear that it was such a common failure. I used plenty of lighting devices back in their hay day and plenty of USBC devices since they became common. I don’t tend to treat those devices gingerly and have far more issues with USBC than I ever did with Lightning, even accounting for the fact that lots of devices have USBC but only phones and mp3 players had lightning.

New comment by mrWiz in "15 Years of Forking"

mrWiz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:42:50 +0000

My naive fix would be to disable extensions from accessing form field data without explicit approval. Hell, add different approval boxes for read, write, and hidden-text.

What am I missing?

New comment by mrWiz in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

mrWiz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:57:26 +0000

I think that "it's better to know" only really holds up if the scope / context is also included. To put it in concrete terms, I'd amend your statement like this:

Kagi indirectly funds the Kremlin's regime by paying for Yandex API access.

New comment by mrWiz in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

mrWiz — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:42:20 +0000

Is it OK to comment on and critique the message, though?

New comment by mrWiz in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

mrWiz — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:47:43 +0000

All they have to do is pretend to be a concerned neighbor who wants to help give mutual aid and hope that someone in the group chat takes the bait and adds them in. No further convincing is needed.

New comment by mrWiz in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

mrWiz — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:46:15 +0000

It's even easier than that. They're simply asking on neighborhood Facebook (and other services too, I assume) groups to be added to mutual aid Signal groups and hoping that somebody will add them without bothering to vet them first.

New comment by mrWiz in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

mrWiz — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:52:57 +0000

> In general, considering the overall cost of the measures, I would think that there is a valid reason and that "it does not make sense at first glance so it's just a security theater" does not hold.

What’s your sense of the overall cost of the measures? It’s not clear to me if you’re saying that high or low costs help justify them.

New comment by mrWiz in "VW is bringing physical buttons back to the dashboard with the ID. Polo EV"

mrWiz — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:47:32 +0000

There's a strong argument that you should never be plugging in USB devices while driving but it's hard to argue that you shouldn't adjust the lane centering settings while in motion.

New comment by mrWiz in "All of Apple's services are abysmal"

mrWiz — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:56:30 +0000

Apple Music got extremely slow for me in (atypical, granted) situations that used to be perfectly snappy. I keep recordings of a radio show in my Music library, with the whole series tagged as a single album, each "episode" as a separate disc, and each half of the episode as its own track. This makes it easy to scroll through, browsing to pick what I want to listen to. But now with 26 Music has been chugging whenever I open the album - it takes ~20 seconds before it starts responding smoothly again. I'll concede that having 1000+ discs within a single album isn't a normal use-case, but this has worked properly for the last decade before they screwed it up.

New comment by mrWiz in "Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic"

mrWiz — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:25:05 +0000

In practice they tend to substitute A with B, and B is often times even more destructive (black market fentanyl rather than medical opioids, or just inhalants).

New comment by mrWiz in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

mrWiz — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:58:03 +0000

Where can you buy just the cardboard cover?

New comment by mrWiz in "Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams"

mrWiz — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:52:25 +0000

I'm also curious about this. They're coming to Minneapolis next year, so apparently they're confident in their ability to figure out cold / unpredictable weather (in urban conditions at least).