Hacker News: richev

New comment by richev in "Show HN: Encarta 95 Web"

richev — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:45:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddy_(hardware)

New comment by richev in "Designing Icons"

richev — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:50:46 +0000

So bland. Call me nostalgic but I really miss the diversity (but consistency) of the Windows XP-era of icon design.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/ms997636...

New comment by richev in "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)"

richev — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:07:39 +0000

Can you explain this as Richard would have?

New comment by richev in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"

richev — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:10:54 +0000

Lighting was the killer app for electricity.

New comment by richev in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

richev — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 06:16:35 +0000

1970s

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/harvard-led-a...

New comment by richev in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

richev — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:06:24 +0000

AI in search I could go for:

"Find that meme I downloaded last year with the girl standing by the burning house"

Creating AI slop though? No thanks.

New comment by richev in "AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage"

richev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:01:14 +0000

To drive "engagement". Hardly a surprise. Still a disappointment.

New comment by richev in "Social media platforms are 'true monsters' and 'torment our children'"

richev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:00:31 +0000

For context, Optus is one of the Australian telcos, and triple-zero is what you call instead of 911.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-19/optus-network-failure...

Social media platforms are 'true monsters' and 'torment our children'

richev — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:57:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/08/news-corp-australia-chair-michael-miller-says-social-media-platforms-monsters-torment-our-children

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513797

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Fertility Declines Are a Cultural Problem

richev — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:12:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.city-journal.org/article/fertility-birth-rates-family-cultural

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45381825

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by richev in "Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man"

richev — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:07:18 +0000

Totally agree.

New comment by richev in "Web designs are getting too complicated"

richev — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:41:28 +0000

Performance is a feature [0]

0: https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/

New comment by richev in "What if you could do it all over?"

richev — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:58:21 +0000

Very sorry for the loss of your friend.

New comment by richev in "Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal"

richev — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:57:10 +0000

I worked as a cashier at a large UK supermarket when I was a student. In our training we were told that if there was an outage with the cash registers we should ask shoppers to estimate how much their groceries cost and accept what they told us. Payment could be by cash or cheque.

Apparently when this had been done in the past shoppers were generally honest & relatively accurate.

New comment by richev in "You might not need a phone case any more"

richev — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:31:13 +0000

The main reason I use a phone case is to stop the phone slipping from my hand in the first place. My current and previous phones (Pixel 8 & 5) are alarmingly smooth on all sides.

New comment by richev in "I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks"

richev — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:12:28 +0000

Nonsense.

Saying that as a European who lived in the US for a few years, now residing in Australia.

New comment by richev in "I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks"

richev — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:39:05 +0000

Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...

New comment by richev in "Stanford: The Age of AI, Eric Schmidt [video]"

richev — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:37:30 +0000

> Schmidt earlier told The Wall Street Journal that he “misspoke about Google and their work hours” and requested the video be taken down.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schm...

A shame, because this was a very small portion of the overall video, which was otherwise fascinating.

New comment by richev in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

richev — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 23:26:42 +0000

In my office, when we swipe our entry cards at the security gates, a screen at the gate tells us which lift to take based on the floor we work on, and sets the lift to go to that floor. It's all connected.

New comment by richev in "[dead]"

richev — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:54:19 +0000

Our Feature Flag values are being retrieved correctly, as far as we can tell, but we're getting 504 Gateway Time-outs from https://app.launchdarkly.com