Hacker News: s1mplicissimus

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

s1mplicissimus — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:35:24 +0000

Do you believe the government doesn't keep track of your email, just because it's hosted on googles servers?

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

s1mplicissimus — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:31:09 +0000

I'd assume that you also never tried running your own email server and have the email actually delivered to a gmail address, then.

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

s1mplicissimus — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:35:13 +0000

So I really liked SimTower back in the day, this was a lovely read. Not sure if this is intentional, but while playtesting, I noticed that I can just build Condos and destroy them again for a total of ~+100k. Was it that way in the original?

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

s1mplicissimus — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:51:25 +0000

Wouldn't it be possible to pipe away the heat to the next city and use it as heating there? That way the heat emissions wouldn't be as noticeable

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"

s1mplicissimus — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:38:52 +0000

I was somewhat skeptical, but this got me:

``` fast fartsgrense er 80 fast minFart er 90

```

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

s1mplicissimus — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:35:12 +0000

I don't have a problem, I can quit anytime I want!

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

s1mplicissimus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:22:26 +0000

"Backed by" as in "running git under the hood", not as in "supported by the git organization". I'd probably use "powered by" in this case to avoid confusion

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

s1mplicissimus — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:18:47 +0000

`curl https://google.com?q=generate me some code | bash` - stupidly dangerous

`curl https://claude|openai.com?q=generate me some code | bash` - not a supply chain risk

of course

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Facebook is cooked"

s1mplicissimus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:17:10 +0000

Yea I wonder why people are willing to jump through such hoops, but to each their own I guess

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

s1mplicissimus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:20:53 +0000

$450k "worth" in memecoins, mind you

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

s1mplicissimus — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:37:33 +0000

> Price can easily triple

They can just as easily plummet to a fraction. Really depends on wether there's value for the entities that are paying

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

s1mplicissimus — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:05:17 +0000

Oh boy, did I hurt your feelings or something? If you call this pedantry, I'll gladly be a pedant in your perception. I'll call you ignorant in return though. And since you are an ignorant (notice how I can also take an adjective and ascribe it to your whole personhood?) you probably won't know what the difference between Europe and the European Union is anyway, so there's little hope for a fruitful discussion.

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "What dating apps are optimizing"

s1mplicissimus — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:02:47 +0000

> No surprise, lots of billionaires are still mediocre looking

I interpreted that as something billionaires could afford to not care about, like good manners. But tbh. I'm not that well versed with the state of plastic surgery either. Anyway, beauty is subjective and changes over time, there's plenty of more important things to focus on :)

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

s1mplicissimus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:41:03 +0000

Remember how UK is not a part of the EU anymore for about a decade by now?

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "What dating apps are optimizing"

s1mplicissimus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000

But you can become wealthy too, and then pay for a personal trainer, those expensive status signifier items and even plastic surgery if needed. Just need to work harder! /s

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Something Big Is Happening"

s1mplicissimus — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:12:04 +0000

Mind sharing some of this supposedly easy to find evidence? I'm having a real hard time digging any up.

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

s1mplicissimus — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:36:54 +0000

I'm surprised this kind of speech was tolerated in the first place. Tbh even if it was, I'd do the devil and speak up in a way where I'm identifiable #futurecareerprospects

I admire the courage of the people that do it anyway though.

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

s1mplicissimus — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:46:18 +0000

There's other options to break this kind of cognitive pattern, like https://unhook.app/

If I want them, I can use them. No need to justify ads for this use case.

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

s1mplicissimus — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:20:53 +0000

It didn't even compile, which makes me consider wether your comment is just ignorant or outright maliciously misleading

New comment by s1mplicissimus in "Any application that can be written in a system language, eventually will be"

s1mplicissimus — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:05:50 +0000

Just wanted to add another bit of reassurance. At some point during my career people started "stack overflow coding". But ultimately someone has to fix the difficult issues and when you have the skills, you are coming out on top where others can just shrug and say "well there's no solution on stack overflow".