Hacker News: mvdtnz

New comment by mvdtnz in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

mvdtnz — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:16:25 +0000

Leading off with "they made me see a boob once" to demonstrate how evil they are is so funny.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

mvdtnz — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:54:30 +0000

What makes Deno more suitable for this than any other runtime? It's just executing JS code right? I wouldn't think this would leave any meaningful fingerprint.

New comment by mvdtnz in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

mvdtnz — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:21:07 +0000

Does it need to work offline? Seems like a niche use case.

New comment by mvdtnz in "StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta"

mvdtnz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:44:48 +0000

Is there some reason this can't be done in a browser? We need to stop feeding these app stores.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Gemini 4 Argon"

mvdtnz — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:19:10 +0000

More Cartmanland marketing. It's the best park ever, and you can't come!

Get lost.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Sonnet 5.5"

mvdtnz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:58:53 +0000

I can't understand it. Clearly someone cares because like you say the comments are always upvoted. But why anyone cares I simply don't know. It just feels like attention seeking behaviour to continue posting it.

New comment by mvdtnz in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

mvdtnz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:45:26 +0000

No. I don't want to stream a video from some dude on a mobile connection heading into a train tunnel. There's simply no upside for me.

New comment by mvdtnz in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

mvdtnz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:21:50 +0000

With no end in sight to the increasing cost of storage I can't imagine a worse time to put the burden of video storage onto users.

Even forgetting that issue, the last thing I want is to use some unknown, unpredictably changing residential connection for my videos. Google has invested in a powerful edge network so they can server my videos lightning quick.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

mvdtnz — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:45:12 +0000

One of the things I admire most about Basecamp is that they are a bootstrapped, profitable business. There's no shame in running a business this way. The world would be more resilient if more business owners grew sustainably instead of soaking up endless invester funding and losing money year after year before enshittifying in a desperate attempt to repay their overlords.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

mvdtnz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:14:06 +0000

Whether it's illegal or not is irrelevant to the comment I was responding to, which incorrectly claimed "He didn't manage to sell them. Everyone hates the tariffs".

He campaigned and won with tarrifs as one of his main policy points. Voters favour them. Americans get tarrifs because Americans want tarrifs. Deal with it.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

mvdtnz — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:55:42 +0000

He campaigned and won on tariffs. A plurality of Americans favor them, evidently.

New comment by mvdtnz in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

mvdtnz — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:34:17 +0000

Stop deploying software onto closed platforms. There's no excuse.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

mvdtnz — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:07:12 +0000

My Gemini app is still stuck at 3.5 Flash-lite and 3.6 Flash so I truly don't understand how Google rolls this stuff out. I don't use Gemini for anything serious so I'm not going to use the API, but it's my go-to for just searching basic information (replacing google search) because it's so darn fast.

New comment by mvdtnz in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

mvdtnz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:01:59 +0000

I'll believe it when I see it.

New comment by mvdtnz in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

mvdtnz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:01:42 +0000

Literally any? Really? Are you sure you're not looking at this through an Americancentric lens? The Google phone was never offered in my market, so second hand options are simply not available.

New comment by mvdtnz in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

mvdtnz — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:50:51 +0000

What do you mean "why"? For the exact reason he stated in his first paragraph - a serious regression impacting his workflow.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Jellyfin 12.0"

mvdtnz — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:26:27 +0000

It sounds like a real pain in the ass upgrade, I'm thankful I've put off trying Jellyfin this long.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

mvdtnz — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:30:57 +0000

I mean of course it was. Everything in this whole ludicrous space is a scam of one kind or another. It's amazing to me that this is still even a point of discussion. It's obviously a rug pull.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

mvdtnz — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:33:01 +0000

What do they care if there's a panic? They have "paused the sidechain". No one can act on their panic.

New comment by mvdtnz in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

mvdtnz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:13:43 +0000

Read the article to find out.