Hacker News: skibidithink

New comment by skibidithink in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

skibidithink — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:19:39 +0000

What celebrations? HN commenters hate money-printing schemes.

New comment by skibidithink in "The MacBook Neo"

skibidithink — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:02:29 +0000

OS X / macOS has been ahead of Windows for a long time for anyone who lives in a web browser.

New comment by skibidithink in "Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE"

skibidithink — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:08:45 +0000

The solution if you really want to hear from the other side is to visit their echo chamber.

But most people who talk politics aren't really interested in changing their perspective. That's why these echo chambers exist.

New comment by skibidithink in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

skibidithink — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:34:50 +0000

Until they decide that they only support 2FA by app push notification.

New comment by skibidithink in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

skibidithink — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:33:28 +0000

There are no obvious threats to AdWords (aside from LLM chatbots) and YouTube.

New comment by skibidithink in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

skibidithink — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:53:00 +0000

The flourishing of pet peeve syndrome means that once you understand the hivemind, you can predict the comments just from the headline alone.

New comment by skibidithink in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

skibidithink — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:17:29 +0000

He saw AI as an existential threat to Google.

New comment by skibidithink in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

skibidithink — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:01:36 +0000

It'd be in stark contrast to Russia's attempted decapitation strike.

New comment by skibidithink in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

skibidithink — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:27:44 +0000

Even the slightest shadow of a "rules-based international world order" is dead. And all it took was some post-pandemic inflation.

New comment by skibidithink in "Linux is good now"

skibidithink — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:16:50 +0000

People who even know what remote attestation is are an even smaller niche.

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:10:07 +0000

I often reciprocate. Receiving a gift triggers some warm fuzzies and I try to make the other person happy as well.

If they say or act as if there's something expected? I'm returning that "gift". That's a bargaining chip, not a gift.

New comment by skibidithink in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

skibidithink — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:25:26 +0000

Which facts are misrepresented?

The point is that the author picks some arbitrary critique and calls them fallacious, when the core of the disagreement is elsewhere.

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:08:51 +0000

This is exactly it.

I don't buy someone lunch with an implicit expectation that they'll buy me lunch in the future. That's tacky and gross. I buy lunch because I wanted to buy them lunch, and if they decide to buy me lunch, I happily accept.

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:28:10 +0000

Right, all the games that they think will be successful. Most games won't- it's a power law market.

There's nothing preventing a game dev from selling exclusively on their own site. It's not as though Steam has exclusive access to Windows customers like the App/Play Store do on their platforms. Steam earns its customers and their trust and developers follow.

New comment by skibidithink in "I canceled my book deal"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:50:02 +0000

Just skip the chapter?

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:30:24 +0000

What Steam brings is a firehose of gamers with their credit cards ready to all the games they think will be successful.

There's a reason why everyone launches on Steam.

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:22:43 +0000

If every gift one gives out comes with a moral obligation, it'd be pretty selfish to give gifts.

New comment by skibidithink in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:20:35 +0000

Indie good, big company bad

New comment by skibidithink in "Waymo sues Santa Monica, and the city sues right back: Court fight ahead"

skibidithink — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:48:13 +0000

More details here:

https://www.smdp.com/waymo-beats-santa-monica-to-the-courtho...

New comment by skibidithink in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

skibidithink — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:59:26 +0000

Critics are typically saying that giving out scholarships limited by race is racially discriminatory.