Hacker News: pyb

New comment by pyb in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

pyb — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:49:15 +0000

Because OP's email is in their bio, for one.

New comment by pyb in "Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?"

pyb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:09:48 +0000

Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.

New comment by pyb in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

pyb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:46:02 +0000

"Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.

New comment by pyb in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

pyb — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:42:58 +0000

If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.

New comment by pyb in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

pyb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:01:43 +0000

To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018)

If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.

New comment by pyb in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

pyb — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:47:01 +0000

Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.

New comment by pyb in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

pyb — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:53:25 +0000

and Disney

New comment by pyb in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

pyb — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:51:27 +0000

I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations.

However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, second only to "Kingston".

New comment by pyb in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pyb — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:14:37 +0000

Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS

New comment by pyb in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pyb — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:54:06 +0000

They are mostly blaming their shift to vibe coding for their problems. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

New comment by pyb in "CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models"

pyb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:10:26 +0000

Is this the OpenClaw effect?

New comment by pyb in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

pyb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:17:33 +0000

Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...

New comment by pyb in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

pyb — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:26:47 +0000

Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.

New comment by pyb in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

pyb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:07:04 +0000

Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.

New comment by pyb in "Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?"

pyb — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:43:28 +0000

It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

New comment by pyb in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

pyb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:35:04 +0000

Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.

New comment by pyb in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

pyb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:57:35 +0000

How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.

New comment by pyb in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

pyb — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:01:28 +0000

Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!

New comment by pyb in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

pyb — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:21:31 +0000

Not for me.

New comment by pyb in "Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal"

pyb — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:13:29 +0000

If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.