Hacker News: quaddoggy

New comment by quaddoggy in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

quaddoggy — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:12:45 +0000

If you have a late afternoon flight out of Chicago and free time earlier that day then you would have time to do a tour here. Very enjoyable.

New comment by quaddoggy in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

quaddoggy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:43:05 +0000

Perhaps the harshest lesson of stackoverflow is that it represented what happens when you give programmer-types unfettered control of a culture. A bitter pill indeed.

New comment by quaddoggy in "1Password for Claude: Give Claude access without giving up your credentials"

quaddoggy — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:46:22 +0000

What could go wrong?

New comment by quaddoggy in "Show HN: 18 Words"

quaddoggy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:57:17 +0000

Nice! I don't mind the timer at all. A couple of suggestions: 1) if a chosen letter in the word is correct but the word itself is wrong it would be nice if the correct letter(s) is/are highlighted. For example, I had a couple letters in "calendar" correct but the word was wrong and it may have been good to know I was on the right track. 2) I didn't see a 'clear selection' option. This would have been useful. I saw the word with a few seconds left but didn't have time to reset and then time ran out.

New comment by quaddoggy in "FAANG Simulator"

quaddoggy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:16:07 +0000

This re-triggered my FAANG burnout. Thanks.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"

quaddoggy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:54:36 +0000

The irony of Mein Kampf suffering the streisand effect is not lost.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"

quaddoggy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:44:36 +0000

Looking forward to picking up copies of The Bell Curve and The Camp of the Saints since free speech is now so widely supported in Europe.

New comment by quaddoggy in "America is destroying itself. It's no surprise"

quaddoggy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:43:08 +0000

Article = CCP psyop. Ignore.

New comment by quaddoggy in "After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck"

quaddoggy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:20:09 +0000

That said, everything this company touches turns to crap.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Anthropic has hired an economist with interesting views on human survival"

quaddoggy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:25:44 +0000

Username checks out.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

quaddoggy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:45:20 +0000

Looking forward to a three month wait for my robot to be repaired. Basing this assumption on current vehicular maintenance times.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Around 200 Stanford students walk out as Google CEO takes stage"

quaddoggy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:24:27 +0000

Safespacemaxxing. Never lose your snowflakery Gen Z.

New comment by quaddoggy in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

quaddoggy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:19:21 +0000

Yes, because the city has proven to be so capable of solving the most basic civic issues it is now time the board of supervisors moves on to more advanced challenges.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Why Can't California Count?"

quaddoggy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:45:31 +0000

This is insane. I remember when I was a kid that (with rare exception) you would pretty much know the results the same night, maybe the next day. I can’t help but notice that one party has dominated this state for decades. And they wail on and on about voter ID, etc. Everything is worse than it used to be.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

quaddoggy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:07:57 +0000

Meanwhile… Alan Dye breathes a sigh of relief and resumes another 30 minute session of Minesweeper.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Simpson's Gender-Equality Paradox"

quaddoggy — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:18:25 +0000

Content that James Damore can cite in his next paper.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Ferrari Luce"

quaddoggy — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:27:43 +0000

The interior isn't offensive, but don't the dashboard air vents appear to kind of bolted on? Like, maybe they are super functional? But they look like an afterthought aesthetically.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

quaddoggy — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:24:39 +0000

> Minnesota currently has a complete ban on sports betting.

Canterbury Park would like a word…

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

quaddoggy — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:22:03 +0000

Yes, the world absolutely needs more purity tests. Would you like to take the lead? Oh, and shaming. We should definitely be shaming more people because it has proven to be so productive.

New comment by quaddoggy in "Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens"

quaddoggy — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:57:29 +0000

Anecdata: Ordered my Mac mini M4 Pro (48GB) on April 1. Was told it wouldn't be available until June 4 but it just came in yesterday—a full month early. So I think there is an "underpromise; overdeliver" thing happening with current orders. Will be curious to see what happens with the Mini M5 release this year.