Hacker News: ponker

New comment by ponker in "Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)"

ponker — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:04:06 +0000

This is one thing I definitely find with AI coding. I'm building all kinds of software not that I couldn't have built before, but I couldn't justify the effort before.

New comment by ponker in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

ponker — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:48:21 +0000

What does Mozilla do these days?

New comment by ponker in "alpr.watch"

ponker — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:29:47 +0000

For an alternate perspective on these drones, see this interview with rapper "DreamLife Rizzy" where he talks about how these technologies have made it impossible for him and his associates to do crimes in San Francisco

https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/sf-rapper-dreamllife-r...

New comment by ponker in "Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself"

ponker — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:54:24 +0000

Oh, like these corrective consequences/accountability?

https://www.peoplesworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/pjim...

"The system is working as it should."

New comment by ponker in "Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes"

ponker — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:33:15 +0000

I searched for “cubeb” to find recipes which use this spice. It was changed to “cubed” with no way to revert.

New comment by ponker in "Longbets: A bioerror will lead to one million casualties by Dec 2020"

ponker — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 05:30:48 +0000

Why are these famous guys only betting $400?

New comment by ponker in "DoorDash from Application to IPO"

ponker — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:05:03 +0000

There was a company that did this called Munchery.

New comment by ponker in "Expanding Fuchsia's open source model"

ponker — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 19:45:17 +0000

So they are available when you have a project to ramp up quickly, and so they don’t work at a competitor.

New comment by ponker in "A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers"

ponker — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:52:00 +0000

Couldn’t the waves originate elsewhere where it’s BF8? What’s going to stop a wave in the open ocean?

New comment by ponker in "A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers"

ponker — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:50:36 +0000

But given the “General Average” concept you could have received a bill for many times the value of what you shipped.

New comment by ponker in "A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers"

ponker — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 04:49:13 +0000

Sounds like a horrible idea since the insurance pool is limited to the size of the ship. Hopefully at least it’s averaged by value rather than number of containers so that if someone is shipping corn and a container of iPhones gets jettisoned they don’t get a bill for their life savings.

New comment by ponker in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

ponker — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 01:56:41 +0000

Going “obsolete” isn’t uniform. A product can go obsolete for your use case without going obsolete for mine. An audiophile might consider a platform that doesn’t support the latest surround sound protocol as “obsolete” while I would not even notice.

New comment by ponker in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

ponker — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 18:42:56 +0000

The second device can be as cheap as $17 known as a “Streaming Stick” and treated as a throwaway component.

New comment by ponker in "Porting a 100% local app to the web"

ponker — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 19:06:30 +0000

“easy deployment” makes bug fixes fast, and the subscription business model gives the developer a financial incentive to make those fixes. I’d say the average Web app is more robust than the average desktop app... even small one-person web apps are usually pretty good. At the very high end from the huge companies like Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Adobe, Autodesk, etc. the desktop apps are better.

New comment by ponker in "Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions"

ponker — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:16:53 +0000

I mean, they’re the most recognized name because they’re the best at it.

New comment by ponker in "Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?"

ponker — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 04:21:51 +0000

The only thing stopping the US from turning Saudi Arabia to glass is that we need their oil. If we don’t it’s game over.

New comment by ponker in "Managers, not workers, are losing jobs to AI and robots: study"

ponker — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:57:20 +0000

As a category, American companies are the most profitable in the world, so they’re doing something right.

New comment by ponker in "An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey"

ponker — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 09:08:01 +0000

That’s like saying “learn to drive a Formula One car if you want to feel safe driving at 65 miles an hour.” Sure, it works, but it’s impractical and unnecessary for everyone to do this.

New comment by ponker in "GM scales back partnership with electric truck startup Nikola"

ponker — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:16:08 +0000

Maybe that's why you don't have $30K.

New comment by ponker in "Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup"

ponker — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:01:49 +0000

This is why we need an actual competent politician who takes China seriously and is willing to use a lot of American resources to fight things like abuse of IP law, etc.