Hacker News: nesky

New comment by nesky in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

nesky — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:23:26 +0000

Cost kind of stops the government from sending goons right now, sure some governments do it but, it's costly at scale.

New comment by nesky in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

nesky — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:40:36 +0000

The flip side here is if I could use an iPad to replace the MacMini on my desk and connect to a monitor with the same support my Mac does I'd most likely have a top end iPad Pro as opposed to my mildly spec'd MacMini M2 and iPad Air M1. I'd literally spend MORE money on that 1 iPad than both existing iPad and Macs I have today.

New comment by nesky in "Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates"

nesky — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:27:01 +0000

Never considered this before but I'd be curious if the delivery apps have data where they can tell which drivers are using this tactic.

New comment by nesky in "Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American"

nesky — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:15:32 +0000

What state has drivers license numbers the same as your social security number?

Investors, worried they can't beat lawmakers in stock market, copy them instead

nesky — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 13:36:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/01/congress-stock-trading-trackers-pelosi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40562498

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by nesky in "VW is putting buttons back in cars"

nesky — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:58:50 +0000

I have a 2021 Mazda and I can't say enough good things about it's infotainment interface. The dial and 5 buttons on the center console behind the shifter is wonderful, I can glance at the screen while using the dial and I know what each of the 5 buttons do across the system. I've been in a few vehicles from Honda, Toyota and Chevy and the Mazda is multiples better at interacting with the system while driving.

New comment by nesky in "The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices"

nesky — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:42:23 +0000

> "I hate being back: My gear at home is better, I have to work in uncomfortable clothes and at a room temperature that makes me sweat within minutes. I have to work in an N95 mask since we are packed in small 4 person cubicles and COVID numbers are still too high in my area. I'm spending more on gas and wasting time in traffic. I'm eating worse quality food. I keep getting interrupted by exactly those sames guys that took the 2 year vacation. I feel hard to concentrate and I'm angry all the time so my output has suffered."

We start back at the office next week and this sums up exactly why I have no interest in going back full time.

New comment by nesky in "Twitter Bot To Monitor Stock Trades Made by U.S. Lawmakers"

nesky — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:47:29 +0000

Wasn't the bot that tracked Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein banned? Curious to see if this goes the same route.

New comment by nesky in "CD sales grow for first time since 2004"

nesky — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:54:48 +0000

I purchase the physical books as well ones I bought on kindle or audiobooks that I think will age well, want to read again or want my kids to peruse at some point. Scanning a library on a kindle just isn't the same.

New comment by nesky in "Jonathan the 190-Year-Old Tortoise Was Photographed in 1886 and Today"

nesky — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 13:22:14 +0000

Has any research been produced around animals in general that live this long? IE: what about their genetics/life encourages this longevity?

New comment by nesky in "Kraken Is Down"

nesky — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 21:09:54 +0000

Do you have any preference towards a Ledger, Trezor or other?

What we're doing about our plastic problem

nesky — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:16:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patagonia.com/stories/what-were-doing-about-our-plastic-problem/story-72799.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865509

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nesky in "Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating"

nesky — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:40:23 +0000

If it's not happening in my back yard then it can't possibly be happening anywhere else. That's the level of delusion we're dealing with.

New comment by nesky in "Some VPN apps and ad blockers have been spying on users' phones"

nesky — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:42:32 +0000

I've come to appreciate the lists and details from privacytools.io on tools related to user privacy.

New comment by nesky in "Nearly 1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday"

nesky — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:23:38 +0000

Will teaching basic financial skills in school actually help? We teach basic health skills like nutrition and exercise but look at America as a whole, we're unhealthier than ever yet we still teach health in school. We can teach basic financial literacy but I don't think by and large it'll change anything.

New comment by nesky in "The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense"

nesky — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:06:23 +0000

If you have 1M people around the world checking into a VR camera atop a car going around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 200MPH you need bandwidth and image quality. I want to see what the driver see's in near perfect image quality and be able to look around when he goes wheel to wheel around a turn. The entire layer of crap that's fed from whatever service, NBC, ABC, ESPN, etc will flatten and the consumer will be able to watch the event as if they were in the action themselves. 5G will help in driving that engagement.

EDIT: Given how crazy America is about football, my guess as well is the NFL could sell millions of VR related tickets to the Superbowl in a similar scheme. The hitch in my opinion is commercial breaks will ruin the experience if commercials as they're broadcasted today happen in VR - people will want to plug themselves into the action with no obstructions.

New comment by nesky in "The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense"

nesky — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:58:15 +0000

5G will need it's iPhone moment.

In my opinion that will be gaming, sports and live events in cutting edge quality VR applications. If consumers can buy a 'digital ticket' and watch the World Cup, Superbowl, Indy 500, Le Mans, etc. in whatever cutting edge quality exists at the time in VR you'll have that moment. You'll be able to buy digital season tickets for the NY Yankees right on the 3rd base line (your friends will be there next to you represented by their memoji or the like so you're still watching the game with your buddies), buy a ticket for an Indy Car race and be able to watch the race in VR as if I was sitting in Alexander Rossi's seat from start to finish. The next question is how much will I have to pay to not have commercial breaks...

New comment by nesky in "Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data"

nesky — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:48:38 +0000

Don't recall what specifically I was doing at the time but was maybe 7 or 8 years ago my computer got a virus and took me close to a week to fully gain control of my machine again. Only time I got actual warnings from Defender about something it couldn't erase.

New comment by nesky in "Leaked documents expose Avast antivirus subsidiary selling web browsing data"

nesky — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:22:51 +0000

Doubling down on this, I do the same and have had maybe 1 instance where Defender didn't catch something in what seems like the last 10 years I've used it almost exclusively for 'virus' protection.

Verizon Onesearch Privacy Search Engine

nesky — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.onesearch.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22066350

Points: 2

# Comments: 0