Hacker News: rimbo789

New comment by rimbo789 in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

rimbo789 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:03:13 +0000

Only 20 years too late. They should have been involved from the start

New comment by rimbo789 in "Car Seats as Contraception"

rimbo789 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:49:40 +0000

As a parent of 2 a big reason we won’t have a third is the massive step up in transportation costs. Having to get a third car seat would require us to go from our Kia to a minivan. And then there is the cost of the car seat alone.

Then there is the time cost of wrangling kids in an out of them. My toddler can easily make it 15 minutes to buckle her in just on her own. A third would mean easily 5 minutes of to get everyone buckled in and only if they are cooperative.

New comment by rimbo789 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

rimbo789 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:07:43 +0000

Why do you trust ai so much? I don’t trust it to tell me the sky is blue.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

rimbo789 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:48:17 +0000

Why stopped at the 50 states? Loop in the rest of the world

New comment by rimbo789 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

rimbo789 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:20:27 +0000

That penalty is about a couple orders of magnitude too small

New comment by rimbo789 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

rimbo789 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:17:16 +0000

starting? it was pretty clearly a net negative from the get go

New comment by rimbo789 in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

rimbo789 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:04:41 +0000

Look up the history of the interstate system - cars were very much imposed.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

rimbo789 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:41:49 +0000

Why should rural areas be punished with having to use cars?

New comment by rimbo789 in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

rimbo789 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:34:10 +0000

Yes it is ideological: cars kill cities, kill communities and are bad for everyone involved. They are dangerous to drivers and non drivers alike and are deeply anti social. We need less cars everywhere period.

Putting cars in cities was also deeply ideological. It was about segregation and as a way to extract as much resources from people as possible. The imposition of cars was about turning people into consumers who only point was to purchase goods and services.

We didn’t choose cars- they were pushed on societies through a decades long propaganda campaign.

New comment by rimbo789 in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

rimbo789 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:07:16 +0000

I’d say 60% of the time I go to vote I click a users name instead when I’m on mobile.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"

rimbo789 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:45:12 +0000

The legalization and expansion of gambling was a massive mistake and should be undone as soon as possible.

New comment by rimbo789 in "US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures"

rimbo789 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:53:07 +0000

Having worked in for profit health care pricing and costing yup that makes sense.

The layering on of profit margins causes costs to grow exponentially

New comment by rimbo789 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

rimbo789 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:38:57 +0000

Hollywood was never about making art. It was about making money. That some good art came out of it was an accident of the process.

Do I want movies to survive? Sure. But Hollywood as a thing was about vacuuming up every penny it could and that I do not grieve.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

rimbo789 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:07:26 +0000

Influential? Yes. Was that influence for the betterment of humanity? I’m not sure. Beyond the slop many of the classics were deeply racist and built on immoral exploitation. Yes all those artists did great work but they did it in terrible conditions for where near enough pay.

Take apocalypse now: a great piece of art. Was it worth the pain and suffering of its production? Absolutely not.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

rimbo789 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:18:49 +0000

Good riddance. It won’t be missed. Very little of Hollywood benefited humanity - it was mostly a tool of the rich and governments to propagandize. It was just an another opiate for masses. It was built on ruthless exploitation of labour and consumers.

New comment by rimbo789 in "The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices"

rimbo789 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:10:55 +0000

Well this should be banned. Or at least watpo should be required to be transparent about this whenever you subscribe

New comment by rimbo789 in "Ask HN: Would this eliminate bots for good?"

rimbo789 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:41 +0000

I do not want to wear any smart tech for any reason.

New comment by rimbo789 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

rimbo789 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:58:13 +0000

Both wired and wireless headphones of all types fail for me between 10-13 months. Something breaks no matter the price or brand.

The only wireless headphones worth the hassle of using Bluetooth (which never connects on the first try, disconnects randomly all the time, and is generally far too unreliable for daily use) are shockz bone conducting.

If shockz made a wired version I’d only buy those

New comment by rimbo789 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

rimbo789 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:59:52 +0000

Helping the damn revolution come quicker

New comment by rimbo789 in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

rimbo789 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:09:52 +0000

I trust corporations far far far less than government or lawmakers (who I also don’t trust). I know corporations will use ads in the most manipulative and destructive manner. Laws may be flawed but are worth the risk.