Hacker News: positr0n

New comment by positr0n in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

positr0n — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:55:20 +0000

Can you compare daily active users to peak simultaneous users? Seems like apples to oranges. 150 million DAU could easily be the same as 45 million peak online.

Also how believable are both Steam and Roblox's numbers with regard to bot accounts? I have no idea about this, I'm biased towards Steam but based on the HN comments every time Roblox comes up I get the vibes that they are a comparatively less ethical company that might be willing to push the boundaries of ignoring bots for the sake of better metrics to impress investors. Also this isn't data at all but the steam games I play wouldn't benefit from bots, but I could see players of some of the silly little games my kids play in Roblox benefit from having some bot accounts to help you.

New comment by positr0n in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

positr0n — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:28:28 +0000

What's the public good that justifies the government dictating which networking stack people use?

New comment by positr0n in "IP Addresses Through 2025"

positr0n — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:25:08 +0000

I think the people complaining about compatibility are more talking about the concepts in IPv4 and IPv6. IPv6 could have been "everything is the same except the IP address is 16 bytes instead of 4". Instead there are new ways to do everything.

Addressing works differently (no broadcast, multicast everywhere, link-local is mandatory). Configuration works differently (SLAAC, RA, DHCPv6 is not a drop-in replacement for regular DHCP). Neighbor discovery replaces ARP and depends on ICMPv6 working. Fragmentation behavior changed. NAT is “not a thing” by design, which breaks a bunch of assumptions people built entire networks around.

New comment by positr0n in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

positr0n — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:02:11 +0000

That sounds like just describing the way the current global system works, not entitlement.

Transitioning to another system would work (and seems inevitable at some point in the next hundred years??) but oof it would be chaotic.

New comment by positr0n in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

positr0n — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:04:10 +0000

I'm clued in to that but at this point who cares. All the models are fungible for the coding assistance use case.

New comment by positr0n in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

positr0n — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:59:23 +0000

I live a thousand miles from another country. No I don't have friends in another country and I don't even know anyone with friends in another country except immigrants or spouses of immigrants.

New comment by positr0n in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

positr0n — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:05:42 +0000

Pretty sure OP means liberal in the sense of "classical liberalism". Ideas like free market, rule of law, private property, etc.

New comment by positr0n in "Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy"

positr0n — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:47:04 +0000

How do you figure that? Capitalism has been chugging along for hundreds of years before artificial satellites existed.

New comment by positr0n in "Europe converged rapidly on the United States before stagnating"

positr0n — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:53:30 +0000

This is a problem, but unrelated to what the parent is saying. If you taxed 100% of the wealth of all US billionaires it looks like it would pay for social security, medicare, and medicaid for about a year and a half.

You still need a strong economy and middle class tax base to have any sort of welfare state.

New comment by positr0n in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

positr0n — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:24:50 +0000

Are we still talking about yogurt? I do not find it difficult or have to put in any work to buy low sugar yogurt. I buy large amounts of full fat zero added sugar Greek yogurt and yogurt cups with 2g of added sugar and there are always multiple options clearly labeled on the shelf among all the other more sugary options.

New comment by positr0n in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

positr0n — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:55:01 +0000

I certainly don't think the industry's hiring processes are perfect, but $100k on top of a normal wage for an incompetent worker is a lot of money to throw down the drain and not either run out of money or have someone competent notice and stop the situation before too long.

New comment by positr0n in "Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight"

positr0n — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:44:59 +0000

The original seeds and farm equipment still exist for the most part. Farmers use GMO patented seeds and no-right-to-repair complex farm equipment "systems" because they're more efficient despite the downsides.

New comment by positr0n in "Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved"

positr0n — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:00:45 +0000

That happened to me when I was a student. Crammed all night, napped, and slept in.

The adrenaline from rushing to class somehow made me both ace the test and be the first to turn it in.

Funny enough that was my last day attending, I decided I wanted to switch majors and dropped it the next week. I always wondered what the professor thought haha.

New comment by positr0n in "Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say"

positr0n — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:57:04 +0000

23&Me was hardly a big corporation at the time. Or does this saying apply to all companies with a few hundred employees?

New comment by positr0n in "Cognitive load is what matters"

positr0n — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:21:53 +0000

> More practical people see it as pretentious bullshit.

Or they just like spending time outside messing with plants? You could even call it a type of hacking if what you're trying to accomplish requires "a high degree of skill".

New comment by positr0n in "Money mistakes you didn't know you're making"

positr0n — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:28:12 +0000

What’s high risk about churning besides the risk of wasting your time?

Forgetting to pay a bill with all the accounts you are juggling then wiping out your gains with one late fee?

New comment by positr0n in "Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification"

positr0n — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:39:55 +0000

More likely to tell you to come in and buy a half price slushie, and hopefully grab a bag of chips too. Which is probably where they make their real profit.

New comment by positr0n in "Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center"

positr0n — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:44:00 +0000

> The average human will consume approximately 75kwh worth of calories in their lifetime. There are electric cars with bigger batteries.

Doesn't pass the smell test. I think I could push an electric car at least a mile a day if that's what I spent most my extra calories on. If I did that I'd surpass its range in well under 2 years, much less than my lifetime.

New comment by positr0n in "Turning a Decommissioned iPhone into a UniFi Protect Camera"

positr0n — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:45:07 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45022640

Or, even older! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=473487 (2009)

New comment by positr0n in "Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase childrens autism and ADHD risk"

positr0n — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:08:25 +0000

Unlike most people I know, I am able to swallow a pill without water.

Like everyone I know, I just take one or two pills at a time when I have a headache or whatever according to package directions.