Hacker News: ok_dad

New comment by ok_dad in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

ok_dad — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:24:44 +0000

Excellent now I have to find something else again. You can’t fucking trust anyone not to chase money these days.

Fuck bitwardens creators for selling out. I want them to know they fucking suck.

New comment by ok_dad in "No Man Is an Island"

ok_dad — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:31:07 +0000

Well I’m autistic so the way I learn about how to deal with feelings and emotions properly is through reading other folks stories.

I don’t know if I care about feeling better, exactly, I just want to know how to deal with the feelings and try not to destroy myself.

New comment by ok_dad in "No Man Is an Island"

ok_dad — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:19:26 +0000

Yea it’s probably deep seated horror at slowly being replaced. I’m not sure what I feel but ordering a clanker around everyday is exhausting both emotionally and intellectually. I would rather not even talk to the thing, but they fucking suck at software architecture no matter what anyone says. You can’t just leave them alone with a task because you get the worst designs 7/10 times. The other 3/10 scare me enough that I’ve started learning how to install solar and battery systems online.

I should probably read something about past instances of this; you mentioned coal miners and maybe hearing their stories will help us.

New comment by ok_dad in "Show HN: Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments"

ok_dad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:00:35 +0000

Magnets?

New comment by ok_dad in "Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python"

ok_dad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:48:55 +0000

Oh I get it hehe

New comment by ok_dad in "Why Pendulum had to write the most cursed "+" operator in all of Python"

ok_dad — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:55:17 +0000

Or they write a short article or a rough draft, and get the clanker to zhuzh it up. I've experimented with clankers doing writing for me, but they freaking suck so I refuse to do that any longer, and what I noticed is they tended to just change a lot of what I wrote but then extended the writing with no-meaning bullshit and removed all of the soul from my writing at the same time.

IMO: writing ~= thinking and if you let a clanker write for you then you'll forget how to think properly, so no one should be doing it.

New comment by ok_dad in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

ok_dad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:53:06 +0000

Yea, that is sad, just read up on it. Next thing you know it'll just be badges. If they were going to add electricity they should have gone for a full EV performance car, IMO. A PHEV is worse than either EV or ICE alone.

New comment by ok_dad in "All I wanted was a custom domain email"

ok_dad — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:46:30 +0000

Yea, Fastmail checks all the boxes, and is well-regarded around here as far as I know. I have used it for something like 7-8 years now and am very happy with it.

New comment by ok_dad in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

ok_dad — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:28:09 +0000

GR is gazoo racing, the Toyota performance line. From what I know it’s not just a badge.

New comment by ok_dad in "Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)"

ok_dad — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:51:08 +0000

Naval vessels are some of the most maintained machines in the world. They get hauled out for hull repairs routinely, or put into long term maintenance facilities for months while they are repaired. Probably second only to airplanes and space craft.

New comment by ok_dad in "I switched to Brave"

ok_dad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:26:06 +0000

Same but for Safari. I use it as my daily driver and rarely get issues related to unsupported APIs. Everything seems to work fine, the only issues I ever hit are related to the Apple VPN.

New comment by ok_dad in "SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]"

ok_dad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:00:13 +0000

I’m surprised that people expect no change over 30 years. Of course a show like SNL will change, it’s the cast of Theseus.

New comment by ok_dad in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

ok_dad — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:21:35 +0000

Why not link it here so we can all read their report

New comment by ok_dad in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

ok_dad — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:17:17 +0000

Yea but those mass lawsuits won't happen or matter until after midterms at this point, so even if they did illegal stuff in the end the votes will have been suppressed successfully. In a war, if you do a war crime, the dead are still dead even if the person who committed the war crime is accountable later. In politics, if they do a criminal act like this, they win an election and never have to account for their actions, because their side won and won't call them to account.

New comment by ok_dad in "Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git"

ok_dad — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:08:39 +0000

> I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!

Make it easy for non-technical users to also use this software. That will probably get you further along with gaining paid customers, IMO, because that's the hard part with something like this. It's easy for anyone who isn't used to `git` to use GitHub issues or something like Jira or Shortcut, but something tied to `git` or another cli tool is a hard sell for non-programmers, I think.

Make a program users can install on their MacOS/Windows desktop that interacts with a repository, without any need for the user to use `git`, or make a secure/hardened docker image that an org can run in their infra that links to repos and allows interaction via the web.

New comment by ok_dad in "Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production"

ok_dad — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:13:25 +0000

Well they’re paying for their extra time with the destruction of our planet we rely on to survive so fuck em

New comment by ok_dad in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"

ok_dad — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:04:40 +0000

Too bad having their names associated with this immoral politicking won’t cause them problems. An employee stealing a few hundred bucks would get a felony and probably never work a good job again. Founders stealing hundreds of millions from workers get to say whoopsie.

New comment by ok_dad in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

ok_dad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:41:43 +0000

They should do that anyways, plus their own, and then they can be like, “when America couldn’t afford it, we stepped in for them because were good people” and it would be strictly a PR win. As long as America didn’t just destroy the sample out of spite later, they could also act nicely and maybe we’re could all get along better.

New comment by ok_dad in "Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production"

ok_dad — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:38:23 +0000

Let’s waste precious energy to save 30 seconds twice a day. A remote control is apples to oranges here.

New comment by ok_dad in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

ok_dad — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:21:17 +0000

It would be cool if NASA worked with the Chinese agency to collect those cores using their rocket, it would be a win win.