Hacker News: potatoproduct

New comment by potatoproduct in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

potatoproduct — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:40:53 +0000

Good fun, my highest was 30, it took a while!

New comment by potatoproduct in "So you want to write an “app” (2025)"

potatoproduct — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:46:25 +0000

I'm a semi-retarded product manager that was interested in what it was like building linux desktop apps. With a hand from Claude, I was surprised to get a simple Gnome/gtk widget that was functional and understandable. I was also able to iterate on it without any headaches.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

potatoproduct — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:45:40 +0000

We are living in increasingly weirder times.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Show HN: Data Studio – Open-Source Data Notebooks"

potatoproduct — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:30:02 +0000

I like the idea of this, so will definitely check it out!

New comment by potatoproduct in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

potatoproduct — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:41:33 +0000

""Apple has better app selection (for most people). Apple has been increasingly implementing the core features that differentiate Android devices, like USB-C and RCS.""

You mean Apple has been forced by regulators to implement core features like USB-C and RCS?

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

New comment by potatoproduct in "cURL removes bug bounties"

potatoproduct — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:59:39 +0000

It's easy to discover an exploit when you're hallucinating:)

New comment by potatoproduct in "cURL removes bug bounties"

potatoproduct — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:58:02 +0000

I thought the same, except I realised some of the reports were submitted back in 2023 before AI slop exploded.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

potatoproduct — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:53:51 +0000

Sounds like you just got stuck with a shit PM to be honest.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

potatoproduct — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:15:38 +0000

As a British person working for an American company, my spelling at work is an inconsistent mess.

New comment by potatoproduct in "How to Attend Meetings"

potatoproduct — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:36:00 +0000

I would like to skip most of my meetings, but it would likely damage most of my working relationships.

New comment by potatoproduct in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

potatoproduct — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:38:05 +0000

Performance reasons LOL. Apple fans love plausible deniability.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

potatoproduct — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:14:10 +0000

Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products.

However, I speak with a small subset of our most experienced engineers and they all love Claude Sonnet 4.5. Who knows if this lead will last.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body"

potatoproduct — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:44:01 +0000

The content you consume has a large influence in your education and career.

If you get recommendations for "Technology" and someone of the opposite sex doesn't its completely discriminatory.

If you don't think its a problem then you likely dont understand how recommendation systems work.

The only way recommendations could work is you would explicitly state preferences for everything upfront and no engagement data is used.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body"

potatoproduct — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:14:31 +0000

I dont think you understand the implications of banning this. In principle you ban any kind of content recommendation. Reddit, Netflix, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body"

potatoproduct — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:05:42 +0000

To ban this would mean in principle you need to ban any kind of algorithm that uses user and/or activity data for any platform.

Ie. No content recommendations on reddit, tikok, facebook, youtube, amazon, twiter, etc.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

potatoproduct — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:28:26 +0000

I got burned by Apple purposely corrupting my music library. I'm still salty about it.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

potatoproduct — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:29:37 +0000

Sounds hugely unreasonable. At 1% I might've believed you.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

potatoproduct — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:27:35 +0000

I predict a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.

New comment by potatoproduct in "SQL Design Patterns (2010)"

potatoproduct — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:11:53 +0000

Not ashamed to admit that I never really thought about the distinct operator 'being redundant' as its essentially just a group by.

New comment by potatoproduct in "Bitcoin passes $120k milestone as US Congress readies for 'crypto week'"

potatoproduct — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:38:26 +0000

I followed around the same time and came to the same conclusions, except I didn't buy or mine any because I 1) hugely underestimated how much that illegal activity was worth. 2) didn't appreciate the potential scale of the pump n dump