Hacker News: skyyler

New comment by skyyler in "On Labubu and the Hyperreal"

skyyler — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:12:20 +0000

>this was also the tail end of the fashion trend based on muting masculinity in favor of catering to the female gaze, an adaptation once again for women’s comfort until women realized they hate feminine men more than they thought they briefly hated masculinity.

Am I missing something? They're cute little dolls.

New comment by skyyler in "Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website"

skyyler — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:22:21 +0000

I don't either but it's better than using the app.

New comment by skyyler in "Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website"

skyyler — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:08:46 +0000

I always have to use old.reddit instead of www.reddit when I need to see something on that site. I won't use their app.

New comment by skyyler in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

skyyler — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:14:59 +0000

>the client’s taste and budget, more than almost anything else, determine the outcome.

that's interesting! why do advertising firms work with artists at all then?

New comment by skyyler in "Waymo in Portland"

skyyler — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:46:14 +0000

I wonder what's different between these English speaking countries you mention failing to build out rail transit, and places like Japan and China that have built fabulous rail networks.

New comment by skyyler in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

skyyler — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:24:26 +0000

NSA != USG

If you believe this is some sort of early superhuman thinking machine in the works, you might be able to believe that it's capable of removing a few heads of the hydra while still exploiting it for growth.

But who knows? Maybe it's incentivised to collect even more data on the US people, and become more of a Big Brother than the NSA ever was?

New comment by skyyler in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

skyyler — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:24:59 +0000

You say you don't care about these identities, yet you’re willing to let a tool you (presumably) value lose funding over a text block you find 'verbose.' It seems you care enough about the signposting to let it outweigh the software's actual utility.

New comment by skyyler in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

skyyler — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:13:24 +0000

Yeah, I don't have UI scaling bugs with Niri + Wayland.

New comment by skyyler in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

skyyler — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:15:45 +0000

Yes, breppp is completely incorrect. Faxes are used specifically because they can do transmission verification and document evidence of verified successful transmission.

Online fax services that are used by medical or government offices almost always generate digital logs that track when a document was sent, who sent it, and who received it, for regulatory purposes

New comment by skyyler in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

skyyler — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:15:00 +0000

Murder is definitionally killing that isn't okay. That makes your statement a bit strange, from a logical standpoint.

There are people that think killing is okay, you're almost definitely one of them. It's just, there's a very specific set of contexts where killing is considered okay. For example, a police sniper taking out an active shooter at a sports event would probably be nearly universally considered a justified killing. It isn't murder because there are reasons it's ok for the killing to have been done.

Just an interesting thing to think about. Using murder for examples like this is a bit loaded.

New comment by skyyler in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

skyyler — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:42:55 +0000

Which is why puberty blockers are prescribed to transgender children, delaying puberty until later in life when a "good decision" can be made, usually closer to the mid to late teens.

New comment by skyyler in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

skyyler — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:48:40 +0000

This is not for OS X, this is for macOS 13.0 or later.

OS X is macOS 10. This application does not open on macOS 10.14.6.

New comment by skyyler in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

skyyler — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:27:55 +0000

wild guess: a distorted "quick"

New comment by skyyler in "On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil Society"

skyyler — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:19:56 +0000

The light propaganda in Call of Duty 15 years ago is probably less to deal with than the heavy propaganda kids deal with today.

New comment by skyyler in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

skyyler — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:39:16 +0000

>2. Reference to an anti-fascist song most often played by far-left figures, particularly those identifying themselves as "anti-fascist".

Bella Ciao is a groyper meme though. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ais7KJXx8Gyd0hsrbakKW

Bella Ciao added to groyper playlist over two years ago.

New comment by skyyler in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

skyyler — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 03:07:22 +0000

Twice a week for a drug that lasts ~12 hours is definitely “regularly”

I also dosed twice a week for a few months in my early 20s

New comment by skyyler in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

skyyler — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:52:13 +0000

Some people’s conception of “normal people” is people on the bus or train.

Some people’s conception of “normal people” is people at a church ice cream social.

Different perspectives, I think.

New comment by skyyler in "The story behind Caesar salad"

skyyler — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:58:32 +0000

That was clearly a generalisation.

Since you’ve travelled enough to have a greater understanding, could you share with us your knowledge of a culture that makes flatbread but doesn’t put stuff on top of it? Where is that culture? What is their flatbread called?

New comment by skyyler in "Texas brothers buy abandoned Boeing 727 for $10k"

skyyler — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:21:32 +0000

The article does mention why the plane is for sale.

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

skyyler — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:48:05 +0000

>Star Trek TNG was progressive, but none of the politics were seen as extreme even at the time of release.

Season 5, Episode 17 features a genderless species that enforces a type of conversion therapy on any member of the species that believes they do have a gender. It's very thinly veiled, if you could consider it veiled at all.

I think I would agree that TNG's politics weren't considered extreme at the time. However, it's easy to believe that some themes the show touches on would be considered "woke" today.