Hacker News: sgt

New comment by sgt in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

sgt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:51:13 +0000

I'm using the JetBrains IDE's and it's definitely worth paying for, even in the age of AI.

New comment by sgt in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

sgt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:01:00 +0000

But cancelling IDE subscriptions? You need a proper IDE to along side AI augmented development unless you want to simply be along for the ride.

New comment by sgt in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

sgt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:41:45 +0000

What he's saying is that Israel itself doesn't have a right to exist based on international law, but its people - be it Israelis or Palestinians have a right to live.

New comment by sgt in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

sgt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:50:34 +0000

Also, macOS is generally exceptional at caching and making efficient use of the fast solid state chips.

New comment by sgt in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

sgt — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:38:30 +0000

They will just start making their own offensive weapons.

New comment by sgt in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

sgt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:23:24 +0000

Nobody in their right mind prefer the web apps over the native apps if they sit all day doing e.g spreadsheets. I tried the M365 web app for Word the other day and it's sluggish.

New comment by sgt in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

sgt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:51:41 +0000

That might work for government employees using webapps all day. But for power users it is unlikely to be friction free.

New comment by sgt in "EFF is leaving X"

sgt — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:09:23 +0000

Sure but that's been reposted so many times before, that's likely why it was flagged.

New comment by sgt in "EFF is leaving X"

sgt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:15:35 +0000

I'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person.

This means your threshold is fairly low.

You're allowed to have those opinions, of course. We can talk about other things.

New comment by sgt in "EFF is leaving X"

sgt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:48:57 +0000

I don't even know what your thresholds are. They could be very low, like misgendering something and you see it as sexism - or simply refusing to call someone "they". For all I know you could be one of those people who stand up and call that sexism or transmisogyny.

New comment by sgt in "EFF is leaving X"

sgt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:20:25 +0000

A sandbox, sure, but a toxic one?

New comment by sgt in "Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing"

sgt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:25:37 +0000

Cool but... I am pretty sure that it took photos that aren't close ups. All of those photos are all close up of rocks and I am sure it took some more wide angle shots too?

Or some showing the horizon at the very least.

I can't find any of those here as I work my way down the path.

New comment by sgt in "Lunar Flyby"

sgt — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:00:18 +0000

Where can we see that in high quality? Generally if I look at YouTube it's compressed and poor quality.

New comment by sgt in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

sgt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:26:51 +0000

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

New comment by sgt in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

sgt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:26:52 +0000

Typing is considerably less energy intensive than speaking. At least it is for me. I save the speaking for meetings, etc.

New comment by sgt in "NASA's Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) [video]"

sgt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:17:22 +0000

Still waiting for that 240Mbps stream, but it's still mindboggling.

New comment by sgt in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

sgt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:39:49 +0000

It could be that your app is amazingly well done. But most PWAs and web apps turned into an "app" are not meeting my quality standards. It's usually a clunky experience (well, like a browser).

I think once you've seen the actual possibilities of what e.g. an iOS app can do, when done correctly, everything changes for you.

New comment by sgt in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

sgt — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:04 +0000

Fair enough.

But, there's a chance this might happen though!

New comment by sgt in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

sgt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:32:03 +0000

Will Elon set up a lot of colorful and blinking billboards to make it less grey?

New comment by sgt in "US forces locate and evacuate downed airman in Iran"

sgt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:04:43 +0000

Illegally? We're at war with Iran. They have consistently supported terrorism, they have an illegal nuclear program.

They're lucky it's still at this level.