Hacker News: paintbox

New comment by paintbox in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

paintbox — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:02:13 +0000

> US lost more planes to friendly fire and accidents than the enemy

Truly a force to be reckoned with.

New comment by paintbox in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

paintbox — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:40:55 +0000

What type of developer chooses UX and performance over security? So reckless.

I removed the locks from all the doors, now entering/exiting is 87% faster! After removing all the safety equipment, our vehicles have significantly improved in mileage, acceleration and top speed!

New comment by paintbox in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

paintbox — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:12:39 +0000

Dignity has no calories, though.

New comment by paintbox in "Why is Singapore no longer "cool"?"

paintbox — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:39:20 +0000

I used to be an occasional MR reader, but stopped visiting lately because of this. When it became obvious how the US presidential race will end (basically after assassination attempt) Cowen's tone heavily shifted. Even the facade of objectivity went through the window. Now most of his writing is spent on defending the indefensible. Shame, his early takes helped shape my world model.

New comment by paintbox in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

paintbox — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:51:04 +0000

If I found a folder with a hundred images of naked kids on your PC, I would report you to authorities, regardless of what pose kids are depicted in. So I guess the answer is no.

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:59:39 +0000

There's a reason I rarely see local subsidiaries of cool small companies from other EU countries - it's too complicated to open them, have a couple of local employees on a payroll, handle notarization, translations of documents, not to mention labor laws etc.

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:41:00 +0000

Energy is expensive because fossil fuels are destroying the only planet we have.

If a person is taking lifesaving medicine that unfortunately makes their skin itch, you wouldn't call itchiness "a problem which they have created themselves in the first place"...

New comment by paintbox in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

paintbox — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:32:29 +0000

Ease of incorporation is indeed not revolutionary, but is certainly a good direction.

What is revolutionary (in context of EU of course) is easier business operation across different countries, a real bottleneck for EU SMEs.

New comment by paintbox in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

paintbox — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:10:22 +0000

>I like the pelican riding a bike test, but my standards for what’s “good” seem higher than generally expected by others.

If you train for your first marathon, is your goal to run it under 2h?

We are all looking forward to perfect results, but our standards are reasonable. We know what the results were last month, and judge the improvement velocity.

Nobody thinks that's a good SVG of a pelican riding a bike - on it's own. But it's a lot better compared to all the other LLM-generated SVGs of a pelican riding a bike.

We judge relative results - you judge absolute results. Confusion ensues.

New comment by paintbox in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

paintbox — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:16:12 +0000

You have been able to buy milled flour for thousands of years, and will probably be able to for as long as there is civilization.

Betty Crocker would be lucky to survive another hundred years.

New comment by paintbox in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

paintbox — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:59:45 +0000

If entities comprising the union are not forced to compromise (and compromise by some type of majority is the most logical one), and want to pick and choose, then that is no union. And there can be no union like that.

New comment by paintbox in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

paintbox — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:26:04 +0000

>Food shipments are being restricted because it's not generally accepted that you have to feed your enemies while you're at war with them.

Funny way to put it. You do not feed the enemy, rest of the world feeds the enemy. You make all effort to prevent the enemy being fed, to starve the enemy to death. Starving the enemy is generally accepted as a war crime, but Israel disagrees. Oh yeah, and enemy in this case includes infants.

New comment by paintbox in "iPhone Air"

paintbox — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:10:41 +0000

"a supercomputer inside a camera that fits in your pocket" stopped being a novelty 15 years ago. We call it just "phone" now!

"lying flat on a table" is a critical feature for a device that on a daily basis lays on the table.

If it clanks and thuds every time you press it (and pressing it is the only way to use it) while lying on the table, then it is bad design that should be addressed.

New comment by paintbox in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

paintbox — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:48:42 +0000

It's a push to bring international financial systems up to date, there is no need to reinvent judiciary and executive institutions in this step.

New comment by paintbox in "Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s"

paintbox — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 08:41:11 +0000

It's a niche hobbyist thing, it is not meant to replace Steam as a platform.

New comment by paintbox in "Pixel 10 Phones"

paintbox — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:01:18 +0000

Where do you think it's supposed to get the data from? By digging through your trashcan? No access - no data - no feature.

New comment by paintbox in "Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court"

paintbox — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:48:42 +0000

From the article: "The jury ruled that Meta intentionally “eavesdropped on and/or recorded their conversations by using an electronic device,” and that it did so without consent."

If AWS wanted to eavesdrop and/or record conversations of some random B2C app user, for sure they would need to ask for permission.

New comment by paintbox in "Apple bans entire dev account, no reason given"

paintbox — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:13:08 +0000

There is no valid reason not to disclose that information to the user inside the rejection letter.

It's not as much a failure of Apple's legal department as it's a failure of the legal system where this is a-ok.

Doesn't matter what the app is - maybe user tried to publish an illegal app, but that should be clearly communicated. It's the civilized way.

New comment by paintbox in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

paintbox — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:35:48 +0000

I understand that search bar position is not changeable by theming, it's a Thunderbird team's decision, but it irks me to see it take up so much premium space. It was the same with browsers, it took many years and iterations to get where we are now (tabs on top, no wasted space) and I think those lessons should be carried over.

New comment by paintbox in "Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web"

paintbox — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:36:10 +0000

That's the point. It's a war on recentish industry standard to develop all projects using same tools made by/for huge organizations working on huge projects.

Same thing happened with microservice architecture.