Hacker News: plantain

New comment by plantain in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

plantain — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:39:46 +0000

Why do I need to age verify to read this?

New comment by plantain in "Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux""

plantain — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:22:32 +0000

AI is amazing at reverse engineering, especially if you can give it a live feedback loop.

New comment by plantain in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

plantain — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:01 +0000

Weird case of the software letting the hardware down. You did the hard part guys!

New comment by plantain in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

plantain — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:37:13 +0000

+1 almost all from the US.

The strongest signal is whether they use an eBank/app that has a one-click button to report transactions as fraudulent. The Apple card(?) seems especially prevalent.

New comment by plantain in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

plantain — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:39 +0000

Good. They treated their customers terribly and actions have consequences. I was double charged for a flight and they just refused to acknowledge it until I charged back, after which I assume they banned me.

New comment by plantain in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

plantain — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:01:39 +0000

In the short term, maybe. I don't think that's the case in the long run. They normalise the behaviour for others, even telling them about how to get around paying. I see strong clustering of the behaviour.

New comment by plantain in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

plantain — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:00:25 +0000

Then don't use it. Use BBC weather. The sense of entitlement is insufferable.

New comment by plantain in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

plantain — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:55:54 +0000

For many users it's just not true. I run a subscription weather forecast service for pilots, with a free trial period. A significant number of users reset their device every week to avoid paying 10 euros a month. These are aircraft owners.

New comment by plantain in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

plantain — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:43:01 +0000

I just do not understand how Azure has the scale it does. You only need to login and click around for a bit to see this is not a coherent system designed by competent people. Let alone try and actually build something on it.

Who are the customers? Who is buying this shit?

New comment by plantain in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

plantain — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:10:01 +0000

Have you never heard of fringe benefits tax?

New comment by plantain in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

plantain — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:37:31 +0000

Shocking how far ahead Claude Code is from Codex on the CLI front.

New comment by plantain in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

plantain — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:01:47 +0000

Water, still wet.

New comment by plantain in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

plantain — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:02:00 +0000

I used to hate Golang for not having generics and how verbose getting basic things done was. Then I read posts like this and realise, my god, Rob Pike was so, so right.

Do these people ever ship anything? Or is it just endless rearranging of deckchairs?

New comment by plantain in "Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets"

plantain — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:49:54 +0000

If they're smart they'll have multiple accounts with bets each way netting to ~0 on all kinds of topics, and just omit the losing trade on the information they actually have.

New comment by plantain in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

plantain — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:55:45 +0000

Visited Fiji and stayed in the "locals" area rather than in one of the tourist resorts. Everywhere I went, would get stopped by locals and asked how my day was going, where I was going, what I was up to.

Shamefully my tourist-shields were at maximum after experiences in Morocco/Ethiopia and similar, and many people I ignored and kept walking as fast as I could.

Eventually I found myself in a conversation I couldn't easily escape from and I realised... they're just being friendly. They were all just being friendly. I spoke to dozens afterwards and had nice little chats, with no motives, no scams, no sales, no brothers-uncle's shop that I must visit.

(I did get scammed in the taxi though, by someone who didn't make conversation :) )

New comment by plantain in "BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything"

plantain — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:53:28 +0000

Never figured out how to get the buildx cache to actually work reliably on ARM OS X. Horrible if you have to build x86 images regularly.

New comment by plantain in "Acme Weather"

plantain — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:22:39 +0000

Good luck getting ECMWF ensemble data for free.

New comment by plantain in "Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way"

plantain — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:34:56 +0000

That cost makes absolutely no sense. It takes one single day for a couple of people to install solar and batteries on a residential house.

New comment by plantain in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

plantain — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:03:04 +0000

Your expectations are wild. Most software engineers could not write a game boy emulator - and now you need zero programming skills whatsoever to write one.

New comment by plantain in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

plantain — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:21:12 +0000

I also wonder this - my best theory is getting institutional buy-in from all corners will help with the regulation going forward.