Hacker News: simulator5g

New comment by simulator5g in "Data Centers Are Turning Trump Voters into Democrats"

simulator5g — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:15:52 +0000

You mean the one that supports genocide or the other one that supports genocide?

New comment by simulator5g in "Data Centers Are Turning Trump Voters into Democrats"

simulator5g — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:19:03 +0000

This is hilarious to me. Democrat messaging re: technology seems to be all about building new power plants (obviously for data centers). Republican messaging re: technology seems to be all about building data centers. They both have the same plan.

New comment by simulator5g in "The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed"

simulator5g — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:14:32 +0000

I don't see how this demonstrates that. The seed could have been generated at a specific point in time, resulting in a specific value, which may be useful in some way. How is it any different from just defining a seed manually?

New comment by simulator5g in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

simulator5g — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:04:06 +0000

Some of it is. But those are often mandatory expenses. A lot of places only offer valet parking, and not tipping makes you look like an asshole.

New comment by simulator5g in "Study shows cannabis is not associated with better sleep quality"

simulator5g — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:30:19 +0000

This is because you dream in REM sleep (stage 4). Cannabis increases the length of stage 3, and decreases the length of stage 4.

New comment by simulator5g in "How Long Until AI Hacks Everything?"

simulator5g — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:14:33 +0000

You can’t get in trouble if you hack a thing that you bought. Just don’t hack someone else’s things.

New comment by simulator5g in "The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed"

simulator5g — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:19:53 +0000

Why?

New comment by simulator5g in "Apple may have an iPhone 18 Pro demand problem"

simulator5g — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:36:19 +0000

I just want a 4S sized phone made with modern parts. I also miss how the 4S camera looked, all the cameras since that one have produced weird looking images.

New comment by simulator5g in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

simulator5g — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:08:56 +0000

*67 just stops the call recipient's phone from displaying caller ID, your phone company still knows what number you dialed

New comment by simulator5g in "Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding"

simulator5g — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:12:31 +0000

Investment firms are apparently not immune to enshittification

New comment by simulator5g in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

simulator5g — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:11:05 +0000

Yes.

New comment by simulator5g in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

simulator5g — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:03:19 +0000

It started with the iPhone 5 in my opinion. The 4S has the best iPhone camera in terms of realistic looking photos.

New comment by simulator5g in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

simulator5g — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:24:17 +0000

Oops my hard drive is full, I'd better delete a bunch of 5kb .txt files that contain important information

New comment by simulator5g in "US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut"

simulator5g — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:17:52 +0000

Salami tactics? Is that when you carry a stick of salami in a little black holster on your belt?

New comment by simulator5g in "'RAMageddon' hits consumer electronics as AI drains chip supply"

simulator5g — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:16:48 +0000

You can't even read a single line of the article at this link, its just a full page ad obscured by various popups.

New comment by simulator5g in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

simulator5g — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:09:08 +0000

The only real problem with Finder is that it doesn't show the current path anywhere. If it showed that, then it would be trivial to understand where to find your file later. Of course this is an option, hidden in a menu, so it is never used by the people who need it most.

New comment by simulator5g in "Mother convicted of: her 5 yo walks short way to pond alone in Virginia"

simulator5g — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:40:16 +0000

"land of the free" but its potentially illegal to pick up feathers off the ground

New comment by simulator5g in "Get your Windows license refund"

simulator5g — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:31:15 +0000

Software devs absolutely live in their own little world. Regular people don’t even know what an OS is. All the details of computing have become so abstracted away from the user that they’re completely unaware.

New comment by simulator5g in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

simulator5g — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:29:58 +0000

"the assumption that higher efficiency tires are worse gripping" This is fact not assumption. Ironically you are the one who made an assumption here. People who don't understand a topic should not attempt to regulate it based on assumptions.

New comment by simulator5g in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

simulator5g — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:27:18 +0000

Ah yes it could have been so easy: All we needed to do was convince everyone in the world to behave a certain way.