Hacker News: pickleglitch

New comment by pickleglitch in "US Debt Clock Live"

pickleglitch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:21:29 +0000

The inclusion of DOGE's bogus "savings" data renders this whole thing suspect to me.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Meta Smart Glasses Owners Too Scared to Wear Them in Public"

pickleglitch — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:00:06 +0000

Good.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Trump notifies Congress of new war against Iran"

pickleglitch — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:24:11 +0000

Oh, I see. So, it's not another forever war. It's just the second of an unlimited number of short, 2-month wars. Got it.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

pickleglitch — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:14:49 +0000

What gives you the idea that they want to distribute the gains from AI equitably?

New comment by pickleglitch in "Ask HN: I want an app to block luddites from my life"

pickleglitch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:55:12 +0000

I would suggest you begin by researching the actual history of luddites.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Remote Attestation"

pickleglitch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:27:02 +0000

I didn't even finish the article because this sort of thing pisses me off too much.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

pickleglitch — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:30:01 +0000

I hope they lose and it bankrupts them. I'd like to see Zuckerberg thrown in prison. However, I would like to know what happens that $1.4T? Like, do the states that sued just add it to a slush fund? How would it be used to help mitigate the damage they have done?

New comment by pickleglitch in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

pickleglitch — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:43:15 +0000

This is only part of the picture. Part of the reason houses are so much larger today is cultural, but I would argue a larger part is that economies of scale scale make it more profitable to build larger houses, so that's what developers build.

Also, the average cost of raw, undeveloped land in 1970 was about $197/acre, or about $1690/acre in today's dollars. Today the average cost of raw, undeveloped land is about $4,350/acre.

All of the other costs associated with building a house are higher as well. There are more regulations, materials are more expensive, etc. Labor is probably the only part of the equation that isn't much different after adjusting for inflation.

So it's not just that we all decided to buy larger houses and that's why they are more expensive. There are a lot of structural issues at play.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

pickleglitch — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:57:16 +0000

The median monthly rent for houses and apartments in the U.S. in 1970 was $108, or around $930 in today's dollars. So, in today's dollars, that would be $11,160/year. Median household income in 1970 was $9,870, or $84,714 in today's dollars.

Median rent in the us today is around $1,750, or around $21,000/year. Today's median income in the us is around $89,000. So, housing cost has nearly doubled, while wages have only risen by about 5%. And that's just housing. I'm sure the math for healthcare and education costs is even more grim.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Tesla remotely disabled the €6,200 FSD feature I had used for months"

pickleglitch — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:28:42 +0000

I will surely get down-voted for this, but at this point if you buy a Tesla you get what you fucking deserve.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Fox to buy Roku"

pickleglitch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:16:39 +0000

What's extreme about trying to live your values?

New comment by pickleglitch in "Fox to buy Roku"

pickleglitch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:42:08 +0000

Jellyfin is great, but it is solving a different problem entirely.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Fox to buy Roku"

pickleglitch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:39:33 +0000

I like the laptop idea, I'd go with Linux instead of Windows, and even then I think it would be a challenge to get it working well with a remote. Nvidia Shield is just Android TV, which means handing Google all your data. Of course, Apple TV means handing Apple all your data, but that seems like maybe the least bad option. I don't know, I'm just tired of all of this shit.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Fox to buy Roku"

pickleglitch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:15:49 +0000

So now the same corporation that owns Fox News is going to own Roku? No thanks. Guess it's finally time to switch to a custom Android TV box or Apple TV. Or roll my own, but I've tried that and found it pretty difficult.

New comment by pickleglitch in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

pickleglitch — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:49:53 +0000

They require your name and address, so they will have a nice database of anyone who dares voice an objection.

New comment by pickleglitch in "AI will consume as much water in 2030 as 1.3B people"

pickleglitch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:18:52 +0000

What if you wrap them in bacon and deep fry them? Deep-fried bacon petaflops are a Thanksgiving tradition in my house.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

pickleglitch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:14:37 +0000

Yeah, no. I don't give a fuck about port forwarding to make a remote machine look like it's running on my localhost. I don't want to cede any more of my computing needs to the cloud than I absolutely have to. I like to own my hardware, not rent it.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

pickleglitch — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:11:32 +0000

It's been many years. But today I just wouldn't buy a set that had too many single-use pieces. If I were still Legoing, I would probably just hunt craigslist or facebook marketplace for people selling lots of random bricks.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

pickleglitch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:27:40 +0000

For me, when I was into legos, the answer would be: take it apart and add the pieces to my larger collection, from which I can build whatever I want.

New comment by pickleglitch in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

pickleglitch — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:30:22 +0000

You can pry localhost from my cold dead hands.