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New comment by pxx in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

pxx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:54:32 +0000

Do you have evidence for your claims?

Show HN: Entropic — information-driven variable-rate media playback

pxx — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/patrickxia/entropic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346255

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pxx in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

pxx — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:39:26 +0000

I agree with some of the sentiment here, but why is it presented in an AI slop format? It's really a self-defeating message.

New comment by pxx in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

pxx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:43:49 +0000

maybe. but somebody has to manually ban you if you do that. whereas banning everybody who charges back can easily be done in batch on the billing side

New comment by pxx in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

pxx — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:26:41 +0000

There are grounded duckheads for this purpose, e.g. https://amzn.to/4cnzuef (note out of stock. I guess your best bet is to use a UK duckhead, but half of those have a dummy ground...)

if you take the plug part from the brick you'll note that there's only two pins but the button-like thing is a ground

as noted in a sibling, the power adapter extension cable does plumb the ground through (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw2n3ll/a/power-adapter-e...)

New comment by pxx in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

pxx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:48:01 +0000

I've never gotten motion sickness playing a video game before Return of the Obra Dinn. it's sad because I hear it's a good game but it's absolutely unplayable for me

New comment by pxx in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

pxx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:57:32 +0000

ugh the most annoying thing about the conversation clash latency is that the person causing the issue just thinks others are being weirdly rude.

wireless headphones externalize the cost of latency to other conference participants. if you think your airbuds are "perfectly fine" it's because you're not the one paying the cost.

New comment by pxx in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"

pxx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:09 +0000

what? this article is making a different point if you read past the title.

> Conventional leadership advice suggests looking at decisions as reversible or non-reversible. Many important, non-reversible, decisions are recoverable, though.

New comment by pxx in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

pxx — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:18:01 +0000

reliable message delivery, lol. slack drops messages silently. it is not fit for purpose.

New comment by pxx in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

pxx — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:48:00 +0000

is this still really the case? I feel like Facebook Marketplace has been significantly more dead than even last year. and it definitely seems completely dead for things like rental listings.

New comment by pxx in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

pxx — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:54:37 +0000

latency is absolute killer. then there's also the fact that splitting the output is difficult, pairing (especially multi-pairing) is finicky

but the real response is "what's wrong with a usb-c to 3.5mm adapter"

New comment by pxx in "Exe.dev"

pxx — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:52:44 +0000

tbh maybe this service doesn't want you as a customer if you can't figure this out. it seems like you'd be an above-average support burden

New comment by pxx in "Exe.dev"

pxx — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:50:22 +0000

you don't need to register the key. just have some sort of key.

New comment by pxx in "Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed"

pxx — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:43:19 +0000

c++20 offers `consteval` to make this clear, but you can do some simple macro wizardry in c++11 to do this:

    #define foo(x) ( \
        (void)std::integral_constant::value, \
        foo_impl(x) \
    )

(the re-evaluation of x doesn't matter if it compiles). You can also use a user-defined literal which has a different ergonomic problem.

New comment by pxx in "The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?"

pxx — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:23:02 +0000

no the point is that there should be _more_ shovelware like your app. the fact you were able to publish shovelware doesn't mean that there's a "revolution"; the number of apps published per time doesn't seem to be going up.

New comment by pxx in "Show HN: I'm building an open-source Amazon"

pxx — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:45:11 +0000

It's still there. Check the pg_dump command.

New comment by pxx in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

pxx — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:32:16 +0000

You can give your postal carrier a gift card but they're not allowed to accept cash or a prepaid card. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2012/pb22349/html/cov...

New comment by pxx in "Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards"

pxx — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:49:11 +0000

Yeah, this concept is interesting but the fact that the simplest test case gives what's fundamentally a surprising result is very annoying.

It also doesn't help that in the example, the expected outcome of 53.3333/46.6667 isn't even considered.

New comment by pxx in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

pxx — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:23:07 +0000

phantom drive B is explicitly mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_...

the linked source checks out. diskcopy will also do this for you if you give it source = dest.

New comment by pxx in "Advent of Code 2025"

pxx — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:57:16 +0000

I don't know how much they "stand out" because their frequency makes it so that the optimal global leaderboard strat is often to just try something dumb and see if you win input roulette.

if we just look at the last three puzzles: day 23 last year, for example, admitted the greedy solution but only for some inputs. greedy clearly shouldn't work (shuffling the vertices in a file that admits it causes it to fail).