Hacker News: scantron4

New comment by scantron4 in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

scantron4 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:59:48 +0000

Ok but I watch more movies from the 2000s than from the 2020s.

New comment by scantron4 in "Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes"

scantron4 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:42:14 +0000

Thats also partially because they were told fillers dissolve and to keep getting them, when actually fillers migrate and continue to absorb water and grow, leading to puffy "pillow face".

New comment by scantron4 in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

scantron4 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:17:50 +0000

I WAS THIRTEEN

New comment by scantron4 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

scantron4 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:24:02 +0000

Give Fall: Dodge In Hell a try. It has a few characters from Reamde but nothing to do with it so you don't need to read that one. Its an amazing idea about realistically what building the singularity could look like. Starting with one digitized mind.

New comment by scantron4 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

scantron4 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:21:50 +0000

Diamond Age is the most important science fiction book of all time... until you get to 2/3 of the way through and the guy in the ... underwater? hippy? drug dream? It never recovers.

New comment by scantron4 in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

scantron4 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:26:56 +0000

A couple of years ago I got two call/email pairings from recruiters at the same company about three hours apart. With the same (Indian) name so I was confused. "Didn't I talk to you three hours ago?"

Yes I used to be naive enough to answer calls from random 3rd party recruiters.

New comment by scantron4 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

scantron4 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:53:23 +0000

Ah but can it reply snarkily and close your ticket as a duplicate that is NOT A DUPLICATE? If not it will never recreate the real stack overflow experience.

New comment by scantron4 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

scantron4 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:56:55 +0000

What was their citizenship? My guess is there are security clearances involved.

New comment by scantron4 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

scantron4 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:48:10 +0000

How dare you point that out on a discussion about gatekeeping being treated like a good thing.

New comment by scantron4 in "Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December"

scantron4 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:56:07 +0000

if you also switch your phone, messages.google.com has you covered.

New comment by scantron4 in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

scantron4 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:19:00 +0000

So its a time traveling crime?

New comment by scantron4 in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

scantron4 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:37:07 +0000

Being on uber one does not prevent this. You get priority by paying another $3 to be priority, nothing else.

New comment by scantron4 in "But what if I want a faster horse?"

scantron4 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:33:46 +0000

And Tubi

New comment by scantron4 in "Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun"

scantron4 — Wed, 08 May 2024 03:15:46 +0000

Its the next blockbuster series. If my mother, who claimed murderbot was too complicated and has never played video games loved it... the series has legs.

New comment by scantron4 in "Generation Junk"

scantron4 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:31:48 +0000

Nope. My mixer, which I put off buying for years, came out of the box much worse than my mothers 50 year old model.

It doesn't actually move slowly at the stir speeds and sounds atrocious.

New comment by scantron4 in "The X Files: Leaked documents reveal X staff stripped of moderation power"

scantron4 — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:26:59 +0000

Reduce reach but doesn't penalize accounts seems a pretty reasonable compromise. Most of this article is just "things I don't like should be illegal" which is no standard for a society to live by.

New comment by scantron4 in "Should you add screenshots to documentation?"

scantron4 — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 21:15:41 +0000

This is what I was going to say. Nothing more frustrating than trying to find an option that has been moved somewhere else (why is android documentation the worst about this). At least with a screenshot you know it is either where they say it is or that you need to find a different tutorial.

New comment by scantron4 in "How to compete with Patreon"

scantron4 — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 16:40:00 +0000

This for me. I don't use patreon perks for the people I support on an ongoing basis. I have subscribed for perks (templates for some productivity tool) and then unsubscribed a couple of months later, but that wasn't an ongoing creator I watch all the time. I guess getting my SMBC comics by email is convenient but I already have an RSS feed reader and early access isn't important.

New comment by scantron4 in "How the BRICS nations failed to rebuild the global financial order"

scantron4 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:54:35 +0000

South African energy crisis means no one will invest there either. Down to BI.

New comment by scantron4 in "Landlord Software Is Making Life Hell for Renters, Report Says"

scantron4 — Tue, 02 May 2023 17:22:09 +0000

I think he meant that people are less likely to have home repair skills