Hacker News: qq66

New comment by qq66 in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

qq66 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:20:18 +0000

The much simpler way to avoid squatting is to make .com domains cost $200 a year. This will instantly end the vast majority of domain squatting on the .com TLD and if people can easily get the .com they need for their business then the other TLDs are not going to have much squatting activity.

New comment by qq66 in ".garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood"

qq66 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:35:28 +0000

I don't think that anyone claims that there aren't any legitimate sites on .garden, but the risk of using an abuse-prone TLD is that Bayesians are going to assign you an increased prior risk of abuse. Honestly the TLD is making more money from the abusers than from Plantura so they're not going to tighten up their ship, Plantura should probably move to a different TLD.

New comment by qq66 in "SpaceX sheds $400B in market value as debut rally hits reverse"

qq66 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:24:50 +0000

One theory is that Elon Musk ends up being able to build AI datacenters faster and more cost effectively than anyone else, which seems plausible given the success of Tesla Gigafactories.

New comment by qq66 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

qq66 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:19:59 +0000

Western governments should treat large-scale scammers and the countries that protect them as an act of war.

New comment by qq66 in "US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says"

qq66 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:26:45 +0000

They stopped making the B-52 64 years ago. The US military is depending on planes that are simply too old and need to be refreshed.

New comment by qq66 in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

qq66 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:06:08 +0000

Your product helped our kids stay connected to their grandparents and cousins during the pandemic. One of the greatest things we've ever owned.

New comment by qq66 in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

qq66 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:16:47 +0000

Facebook Portal was the best piece of consumer electronics I've ever owned. It was a huge boon to our family and the grandparents to stay connected through the pandemic. Grateful that it existed and hope that something as good can someday exist again.

New comment by qq66 in "Stop Killing Games"

qq66 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:01 +0000

I don't see the logic in why art would be treated differently than code, and there is a lot in modern games that are not clearly one or the other (hitboxes? animations? lighting effects?)

New comment by qq66 in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

qq66 — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:23:10 +0000

The question I have is, what were you exposed to and doing at ages 5, 10, and 15 that made you capable of developing a PCB in your freshman year of college?

New comment by qq66 in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

qq66 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:55:32 +0000

The thing I've always wanted in a Raspberry Pi is an SBC and microcontroller on one board.

New comment by qq66 in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

qq66 — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:50:46 +0000

If you don't actually have the desire to build, lead, and manage a large organization, this is a terrible idea for technical geniuses. A guy like him will instantly raise $1 billion which means hiring dozens of people, which means tons of interviews, management, performance review, planning, board meetings, etc etc.

It's good that there are avenues today for people to make tens or hundreds of $m in salaried positions at companies so that they don't have to do that stuff to get paid their value if they don't genuinely want to.

New comment by qq66 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

qq66 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:36:33 +0000

Paste what you want me to ask 5.5 Pro and I'll paste you the response.

New comment by qq66 in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

qq66 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:46:28 +0000

Well it's very different for flights, they need the plane at the destination so they have to fly it. With movies it's probably just simpler to start the movie than to try to manage the logistics of not starting it, just to save 2 hours on the projection bulb.

New comment by qq66 in "United Wizards of the Coast"

qq66 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:09:10 +0000

You cannot simply transfer Magic the Gathering to overseas workers and expect any kind of usable result. It will be from an entirely different cultural framework.

New comment by qq66 in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

qq66 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:01:58 +0000

There are business models that work for the extraordinarily popular open source projects (Linux, SQLite, etc.) that don't work for the "well-used piece of infrastructure" projects, even though that category is very important in aggregate

New comment by qq66 in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

qq66 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:35:31 +0000

Nothing in this article is wrong, but worth noting that pre-AI, the companies that most significantly transformed the way we use our computers (Slack, Spotify, VS Code, etc.) did ship desktop apps.

New comment by qq66 in "Tesla Cybertruck sales inflated: SpaceX bought 1,279 units"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:48:56 +0000

It makes no sense? When the companies have the same CEO?

New comment by qq66 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:48:27 +0000

This is the backdoor way of raising prices... just inflate the token pricing. It's like ice cream companies shrinking the box instead of raising the price

New comment by qq66 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

qq66 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:21:28 +0000

Being a good band isn't nearly enough to be a famous band.

New comment by qq66 in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

qq66 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:36:33 +0000

How does someone's dating site password end up in Fiverr?