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New comment by pull_my_finger in "MrBeast 'spends millions reverse engineering the algorithms on each platform'"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:59:50 +0000

Hence why developers continue to make AI integrations, adtech etc, despite the natural adverseness to it.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Software developers are not okay"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:56:49 +0000

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025798

New comment by pull_my_finger in "How Protein Took over the World"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:52:50 +0000

That doesn't happen magically, and "spamming" protein can definitely damage your kidneys.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Lobbying is corruption"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:59:57 +0000

I'll go a little further and say "corporations are bad". Maybe we don't need to expand beyond liability. It's often quoted: "a computer can never be held accountable. therefore a computer must never make a management decision", but why is it OK for corporations?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series"

pull_my_finger — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:37:15 +0000

I've played a few, hosted one for a while. It's just missing the x factor. And that wasn't the game itself, it was a perfect storm of early MMORPG, huge player base, strong RP player base that managed to mesh well (enough) with PvP players, and moderators that seemed "game" for most anything the players did/wanted. You can't recreate that (at least at anywhere near the scale) - the players are different, the expectations are different, the cheaters are better at cheating etc etc.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Software developers are not okay"

pull_my_finger — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:28:07 +0000

Well that was a downer. Hopefully as jobs get fewer and harder to come by the industry will see the appeal of organization. The big argument was always the pay-cut, but it seems like that's inevitable at this point anyway

New comment by pull_my_finger in "What makes software development engineering"

pull_my_finger — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:38:50 +0000

Can you elaborate on the extra courses? What are America's developers missing (I imagine ethics is glaringly missed)?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design"

pull_my_finger — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:24:14 +0000

What's the current state of licensing AI generated code? If this was the product of AI, wouldn't it be public domain and not eligible to be a MIT licensed?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Gov Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:27:55 +0000

Isn't that exactly what it is?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Jellyfin 12.0"

pull_my_finger — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:58:29 +0000

Why is that? Did you have an issue with how it's set up? Or does it not do enough out of the box and leaves security for the administrator?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

pull_my_finger — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:57:52 +0000

> In the Flock case the entire REASON the cameras are there is the the government (Police or local municipality) has contracted Flock to surveil the public

Do we know this for fact? Surely, the police are they're biggest consumers, but do they sell access to the APIs to anyone else?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Release Date and Gameplay"

pull_my_finger — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:44:51 +0000

They definitely tested the water. I can recall several Pokemon games on mobile, as well as something like a Mario infinite runner. I don't think it will happen anytime soon, but it's not "complete" fantasy to think it could happen.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Release Date and Gameplay"

pull_my_finger — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:08:44 +0000

I wonder if Nintendo will ever cave and start putting out official PC versions. I haven't bought a console in decades, but I have strong nostalgia towards some of those older games.

There are tons of these games that 100% are already pirated and available online - why not just officially release them and start getting some revenue out of it. Some of these titles are going to get harder and harder to access as the official consoles and carts rot and that is a REAL shame. I would by it almost anyway they wanted to sell it too. Stand alone executables, straight ripped ROMs, whatever.

I think the nostaligic crowd that would play these older games would more than likely pay for them, and being as they're already widely available (if not extremely sus downloads), there wouldn't be much incentive to redistribute them.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "My practical approach to surfing the web safely"

pull_my_finger — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:12:52 +0000

> Knowing some folks that work on "major-browser-vendor" security in the era of Mythos-found-and-exploited vulnerabilities everywhere

Is this a thing now? I hadn't seen any big browser vulnerabilities recently. Did I miss something? Or are the vendors not releasing horrifying bugs they found internally with AI fuzzing?

New comment by pull_my_finger in "'RAMageddon' hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply"

pull_my_finger — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:56:53 +0000

Off-topic, but this article brought my first time to see a "scan the QR to verify you're human" from reCaptcha. I hope this doesn't become a thing, because I never, ever do that.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Rakuten Kobo returns to U.S. retail as sales double"

pull_my_finger — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:17:55 +0000

How did the comic handle on your Libra? I use an older Clara BnW and it really struggles with graphic heavy pdfs - slow page changing etc.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals"

pull_my_finger — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:06:19 +0000

I don't feel like the article is lacking for that. It's evolution at work. There could be monkeys eating animals that can properly digest them due to some mutation or unique gut biomes. Actually eating the animals is an important first step. Monkeys that usually eat fruits are hunting and eating animals when food is scarce, that's an article worthy observation.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "“It works better in the app”"

pull_my_finger — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:42:10 +0000

Spotify comes to mind immediately. Of all things, they wall off your saved music - premium doesn't matter. There is literally no reason to prevent web app users from accessing what is essentially just another playlist, other than to coerce the native app adoption.

New comment by pull_my_finger in "Ask HN: Any true alternatives to electron JavaScript?"

pull_my_finger — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:41:45 +0000

Sciter[1] has been around for a while and ships much smaller executables.

[1]: https://sciter.com/

New comment by pull_my_finger in "The Twelve-Factor App"

pull_my_finger — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:17:41 +0000

You can use ephemeral filesystem mounts[1]

[1]: https://forcesunseen.com/blog/stop-storing-secrets-in-enviro...