Hacker News: shikshake

New comment by shikshake in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

shikshake — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:01:03 +0000

I agree with your sentiment but this is not the place to complain about a movie you dislike. OP is showing off a project they made, trying to make them feel bad about liking a movie is tactless and reflects poorly on you.

New comment by shikshake in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

shikshake — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:08:20 +0000

Hear hear. I feel lucky to have a stable job in education even if I make less than my big tech colleagues.

New comment by shikshake in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"

shikshake — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:52:23 +0000

Who are your favorite game designers that are women?

New comment by shikshake in "Migrating to the EU"

shikshake — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:49:28 +0000

Virtue signaling is the worst interpretation you can have of someone attempting to do better. If someone’s trying to make a small impact on the world, shouldn’t you encourage them instead of making fun and claiming they’re just doing it for looks?

New comment by shikshake in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

shikshake — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:47:02 +0000

Sounds like you’re projecting a bit. I had no context of the situation before reading the apology and it felt very self-absorbed to me as well.

New comment by shikshake in "Pebble Production: February Update"

shikshake — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:02:31 +0000

I believe you can see that stuff on the Pebble app but you can't sync with Apple health. See this previous pebble blog post: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...

New comment by shikshake in "Sizing chaos"

shikshake — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:15:49 +0000

I’d argue this problem is more important than most of the tech articles on this site. Having well-fitted clothing is a massive quality of life improvement.

New comment by shikshake in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

shikshake — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:19:37 +0000

The Blackwell series was one of my first video game loves. The final game made me cry

New comment by shikshake in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

shikshake — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:32:40 +0000

So am I, but I don’t use it as an excuse to put down other’s interests.

New comment by shikshake in "Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)"

shikshake — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:18:08 +0000

To me it reads the other way around, the big money folks in the tech sector are pushing their influence into the military.

New comment by shikshake in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

shikshake — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:19:10 +0000

Perfect comment, but it’s very funny to me that you even needed to say it. Some folks on here talk like moon people who have never met humans before.

New comment by shikshake in "CDC staff 'blindsided' as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled"

shikshake — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:03:52 +0000

Everyone will be affected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity?wprov=sfti1#

New comment by shikshake in "Software engineers should be a little bit cynical"

shikshake — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:52:35 +0000

Your comment really resonates with me, I’m in a similar position though much more junior. My colleagues in tech can’t fathom that I actively choose to stay where I am and make 50% of their salary.

I’ve found talking about ethics and moral responsibility with people working in big tech is futile and frustrating. Almost everyone takes it as a personal attack though I never hold anyone else to my moral standards.

New comment by shikshake in "Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies"

shikshake — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:35:44 +0000

I doubt it's ethics, but could payment processors be feeling pressure from political entities who are threatening policy action under the guise of ethics and morality? With the current administration, groups like this would have no trouble finding political backing.

New comment by shikshake in "The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour"

shikshake — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:34:16 +0000

It really wasn't, it just had a lesbian protagonist. There are still many prominent sympathetic male characters with agency. Plenty of women enjoy action movies targeted towards men, I always find it confusing when men feel they can't enjoy media with a woman in it.

New comment by shikshake in "The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour"

shikshake — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:45:24 +0000

The Last of Us Part II is an incredible experience, I'm happy there's still a thriving fan community doing stuff like this. I appreciate how detailed this guide is, when I visit Seattle I'll definitely try it out.

New comment by shikshake in "Garfield Minus Garfield"

shikshake — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:24:56 +0000

Setting it to the new tab page is a neat idea, I will follow your lead

New comment by shikshake in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

shikshake — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:52:00 +0000

I don't know if you're already aware of it, but there's a subreddit called /r/regretfulparents that is basically a public support group for people who feel similarly to you. You might find some comfort there.

New comment by shikshake in "Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way"

shikshake — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:29:27 +0000

I’m also ignorant of this, and to add a question on top of yours: is it worth worrying about robots.txt for personal portfolio websites built from scratch?

New comment by shikshake in "The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)"

shikshake — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:55:20 +0000

The entire relationship between an advisor and the the candidate is paternalistic, the advisor holds so much control over the student’s future. I’m glad I quit in hindsight.