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New comment by ngcazz in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

ngcazz — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:57:45 +0000

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow's Chokepoint Capitalism dedicates a chapter to the mechanisms through which TM enforces a virtual monopoly over live music.

New comment by ngcazz in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ngcazz — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:05:28 +0000

Like glibly synthesizing a reimplementation of NextJS

New comment by ngcazz in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ngcazz — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:19:56 +0000

Revolution!

New comment by ngcazz in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

ngcazz — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:28:03 +0000

I feel like this has just accelerated what was the ideal scenario all along: high hardware prices push more people to rent

New comment by ngcazz in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

ngcazz — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:25:05 +0000

What kind of situation are we in that we need to didactically state this awfully trite point?

New comment by ngcazz in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

ngcazz — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:15:17 +0000

And cheap. You still get pretty drunk.

New comment by ngcazz in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

ngcazz — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:36:29 +0000

Norman Finkelstein is a notable example of this.

New comment by ngcazz in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

ngcazz — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:21:57 +0000

That's how I moved on to reassigning caps lock to escape on my computers.

New comment by ngcazz in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

ngcazz — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:42:02 +0000

The 80s and 90s were fun, with Atari, Commodore, DEC, SGI, Sun, HP, Next, even IBM all going at it. I guess widespread Wintel and internet access, plus Google going for commodity hardware for their servers sealed the deal - consolidation was the way forward, competition was dead.

New comment by ngcazz in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

ngcazz — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:56:20 +0000

Unlike most other projects of this kind that show up, I'm not sure how to feel about this. What did the author learn about the N64? What quirks did they fight? What do you get out ot just pointing the AI at a problem until it optimizes the solution to an acceptable point? I'd wager not a lot.

New comment by ngcazz in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

ngcazz — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:45:06 +0000

Weird line to draw, when the merger of the American tech sector and the military-industrial complex is in full swing. Palantir isn't the only company providing surveillance and economic viability to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

New comment by ngcazz in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

ngcazz — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:55:21 +0000

Almost as though they're conscious of how much of a dick move this layoff is...

New comment by ngcazz in "Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy"

ngcazz — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:06:22 +0000

Israel has done this to the Palestinians hundreds of times over since 1948.

New comment by ngcazz in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

ngcazz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:40:26 +0000

Customers require consumer legislation and protections, not further entrenchment of AI oligopolies.

New comment by ngcazz in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

ngcazz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:55:01 +0000

Plus, brain structure and physiology changes thoughout the interweaved processes of learning, aging, acting, emoting, recalling, what have you. It's not an "architecture" that we can technologically recreate, as so much of it emerges from a vastly higher level of complexity and dynamism.

New comment by ngcazz in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

ngcazz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:06:13 +0000

Absolutely everything. Did you see the coterie of CEOs behind him during his second inauguration?

New comment by ngcazz in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

ngcazz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:04:55 +0000

OP is just blaming someone for the audacity of having a morality.

New comment by ngcazz in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

ngcazz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:17:01 +0000

The quality of our work is too subordinated to business leaderships who see the forms of technical insurance we build into software development processes as fat, and are fundamentally opposed to doing things right. Besides solidarity this is the major reason for tech workers to unionize. We won't because we don't have any sense.

New comment by ngcazz in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

ngcazz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:04:30 +0000

Devs cannot reasonably be expected to have ownership over code that is generated overwhelmingly faster than it can be reviewed.

New comment by ngcazz in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

ngcazz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:07:19 +0000

Friend of mine is still rocking a 1st gen retina MacBook Pro (from 2012) for music production!