Hacker News: osakasake

New comment by osakasake in "Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:54:38 +0000

Mamdani is an American politician. Why would comparing him to European standards make sense?

New comment by osakasake in "Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:52:37 +0000

Please don’t classify me as some sort of GOP supporter just because I am clarifying the parent post as to Mamdani’s self-admitted political classification.

New comment by osakasake in "Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:35:56 +0000

He’s not just left of center-right, he’s literally a “democratic socialist” which is far, far left. His tenant advocate literally has called for seizing of private property.

New comment by osakasake in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:20:29 +0000

If you want some more feedback, why are you using Cloudflare workers that presumably cost you money? You can retrieve all of the HN content with a regular PC pretty easily. I’m talking a single core with a python program and minimal RAM.

New comment by osakasake in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:00:44 +0000

This is factually incorrect. There’s no way that you are sampling ALL posts and comments because otherwise the average would not be 35 points. The vast majority of posts get no upvotes.

In addition, comments do not show the points accumulated so there’s no way you can know how many points a comment gets, only posts.

New comment by osakasake in "Google broke my heart"

osakasake — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:41:58 +0000

Google’s lack of support is a directly correlated to their monopoly. They are able to not pay for proper support staff because they don’t have any competition. They should be regulated to spend a certain portion of their revenues on support given how critical they are to people’s lives. You can’t rake in hundreds of billions while being a monopoly and then claim you can’t afford proper amount of support staff.

New comment by osakasake in "[dead]"

osakasake — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:36:54 +0000

A so-called news article that uses tweets as its primary source material is garbage and is utterly useless. They might as well be summarizing a family WhatsApp chat thread. I wish I could ban any article in my newsfeed that references tweets.

New comment by osakasake in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

osakasake — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:25:17 +0000

This is a great example of how free content was exploited by LLMs and used against oneself to an ultimate destruction.

Every content creator should be terrified of leaving their content out for free and I think it will bring on a new age of permanent paywalls and licensing agreements to Google and others, with particular ways of forcing page clicks to the original content creators.

New comment by osakasake in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

osakasake — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:33:15 +0000

“The job description says remote on HN, but it says hybrid Austin on the jobs page, but disregard that, it can be remote like I originally said. But also some teams are only going to be hybrid no matter what.

So some jobs are hybrid onsite and some are fully remote but even if i said just now that all jobs can be remote, some jobs aren’t really fully remote because I can’t envision it in my mind that they would be effective fully remote, even though I myself am fully remote.”

Did I understand what you wrote properly?

New comment by osakasake in "HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark"

osakasake — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:11:24 +0000

What are the chances that you develop cancer if you get infected by the worst HPV strain?