Hacker News: reciprocity

New comment by reciprocity in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

reciprocity — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:26:53 +0000

What are you doing here? This is both an emotional and yet unsubstantiated comment. Would you like to try again?

New comment by reciprocity in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

reciprocity — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:56:45 +0000

The Windows 11 right click contextual menu is an order of magnitude worse. Not only that, but the delay in opening is more than perceptible. Annoying regression.

New comment by reciprocity in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

reciprocity — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:13:20 +0000

I couldn't agree more.

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

reciprocity — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:34:10 +0000

Wow what the hell, Salesforce.

New comment by reciprocity in "Prism"

reciprocity — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:06:10 +0000

Very myopic comment.

New comment by reciprocity in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

reciprocity — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:23:03 +0000

How does one make a comment like this, I wonder, and not substantiate.

New comment by reciprocity in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

reciprocity — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:29:31 +0000

I appreciate the correction; I misread that. Thanks.

New comment by reciprocity in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

reciprocity — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:54:25 +0000

OpenOffice is no longer actively developed. It was replaced by LibreOffice quite awhile ago.

New comment by reciprocity in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

reciprocity — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:21:04 +0000

Thanks, I also hate it when I encounter websites that block VPNs.

New comment by reciprocity in "Steam Machine"

reciprocity — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:20:35 +0000

There is no purchase link. It's an announcement for an early 2026 release date.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

New comment by reciprocity in "Gemini in Chrome"

reciprocity — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:01:38 +0000

The parent comment has a point. A layperson (or at least many people not read into this topic) isn't going to read the language in that privacy policy and come to the conclusion that "any private web page you ask Gemini about will be dumped into our training data". The text on Google's privacy page could absolutely be made more explicit.

New comment by reciprocity in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

reciprocity — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:20:51 +0000

It really isn't. It's destructive and short sighted behavior based on incoherent dogmatism over any motivations for thoughtful and more restrained policy decision making. His motivations for any action is based on flattery and ego that stretch the boundaries of multiple universes. It's so crazy how much blatantly unconstitutional stuff he's gotten away with.

New comment by reciprocity in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

reciprocity — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:52:53 +0000

With how much worse the experience of using Windows has gotten, why wait? Many hills have already come and gone. This is the hill you're willing to die on?

New comment by reciprocity in "How to rig elections [video]"

reciprocity — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:26:13 +0000

I don't think you read his comment for comprehension. Whatever prompted your response does not follow from what the parent comment said.

New comment by reciprocity in "Ollama's new app"

reciprocity — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:57:26 +0000

Nodded my head in agreement as I read this comment.

New comment by reciprocity in "US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates"

reciprocity — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:30:53 +0000

I appreciate you posting this link.

New comment by reciprocity in "Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task"

reciprocity — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:52:14 +0000

I also think the claim that "the brain does not retain information it does not need" is an insufficient explanation, and short-sighted. As an example, reading books informs and shapes our thinking, and while people may not immediately recall a book that they read some time ago, I've had conversations where I remembered that I had read a particular passage (sentence, phrase, idea) and referred to it in the conversation.

People do stuff like that all the time, bringing up past memories in spontaneity. The brain absolutely does remember things it "doesn't need".

New comment by reciprocity in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

reciprocity — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:36:48 +0000

It would help further a good-faith discussion if you were first more precise in defining what you mean. Please be specific with your premise and what you would do to fix the flaws you see.

Maybe start with the part where you say "science and medicine are stagnant", therefore "we should burn it all down and start over". This is how misinterpretations and assumptions start and does not benefit mutual intellectual understanding.

New comment by reciprocity in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

reciprocity — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:15:38 +0000

I think you might be misunderstanding op's comment. "Because the amoral drive for extreme wealth doesn't stop at a certain level of wealth" is a statement that I read on its face. One does not need to reach for "conspiracy" as a way to explain the behavior of people faced with an opportunity to acquire more money: just look at the 5-6 posts making the same point in this very sub-thread. Did you miss those or did you mean to post this reply somewhere else? Money is a huge motivator for many people.

New comment by reciprocity in "Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte"

reciprocity — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:32:12 +0000

I, too, find it bothersome when people refer to an opinion written in a post and generalizes as if it were the opinion of an entire community. HN is not one person and it's incorrect to refer to it as if it is.