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New comment by sneak in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

sneak — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:58:49 +0000

That’s never really how efficiency gains tend to work except in places where entire industries ceased to exist (printers, weavers, clothes washers, etc).

New comment by sneak in "Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse"

sneak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:43:53 +0000

I’ll be in Iceland this week to photograph it. Any other HNers going to be around?

I’m @sneak.07 on Signal, let’s meet up.

New comment by sneak in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

sneak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:40:26 +0000

Nah, it’s just more visible. It’s not that much of a sea change. And it’s ridiculously naive to pretend that the major countries in Europe don’t have their own mechanisms to regularly and effectively bypass any democratic inconveniences when necessary. They regularly push through things that no constituent would ever want or vote for.

New comment by sneak in "A Tome of Forbidden Technologies"

sneak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:41:54 +0000

> The mere facts that these days, each new round of gimmickry that gets the prized label “progress” tends to generate more downsides than upsides, and that the shining future paradise has been getting visibly further off for decades, has barely begun to dent that touching and childlike faith.

Many of us are alive solely because of technologies developed in the last 20-30 years, and (I at least) find such objectively false claims actually personally offensive.

If you think deepfakes and algorithmic social media are the main recent outcomes of technological progress, you’re simply not paying attention. Did we forget about cheap solar? LiFePo4 battery technology? Monoclonal antibodies? 4nm process node chips?

Like, wtf?

New comment by sneak in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

sneak — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:23:47 +0000

I don’t experience this. I love the internet more these days than ever. There are so many cool people doing cool things.

I think a lot of this perception that everything is bad and everybody is sad is projection because people consume mass media which makes them feel doomed and hopeless so they continue to consume that sort of content and they project it on to everyone.

The world is much better than it has ever been.

New comment by sneak in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:14:50 +0000

The worst part is that for all of this, the App Store is still absolutely chock full of fraud apps, scam apps, and malware.

They deny great apps, fail to fix their mistakes, and leave heaps and heaps of actively malicious apps in place, in the top 40 in every category.

And we pay them 10x cc processing fees (30% instead of 3%) for this.

It’s pure rentseeking bullshit, and it goes against everything that made Apple Apple. It’s an actual tragedy.

New comment by sneak in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:56:18 +0000

In Germany it’s not just swastikas that are banned. There are people in the German government who decide what is banned and what is not, and the list is a lot more than [ “swastikas” ] and it only gets larger, never smaller.

New comment by sneak in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:54:50 +0000

Society has decided they want to do the thing that you say causes an ill. They don’t think it’s an ill. What right do you have to tell them that you know better for their life than they do?

New comment by sneak in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:44:56 +0000

Well, Instagram DMs have entirely replaced sms and phone number exchange for an entire generation. This is like saying “what benefit do teenagers draw from having a phone line?”

New comment by sneak in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:43:44 +0000

You are of course free to not view it. Why do you think that you should decide for others what they should view? How do you know better than they do, what they should or should not be viewing?

New comment by sneak in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

sneak — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:42:49 +0000

I’m curious the moral basis for which you have appointed yourself more qualified than the adult viewers themselves about what adults should be able to view in their web browser.

New comment by sneak in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

sneak — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:42:09 +0000

It’s success compared to the other possibility: not raising money and going out of business. We still cheer when a rocket separates from the first stage and ignites the next. Things going as planned during a risky and challenging endeavor is still a good thing.

New comment by sneak in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

sneak — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:15:14 +0000

Sewers go places, and it is nearly a million liters of extremely concentrated stinky. If you do this, you take a single location source of stinky and smear it over a much larger set of locations that will then ALL be extremely stinky, in a way that isn’t easily cleaned with water as the fats and oils (also extremely stinky!) are of course not soluble.

New comment by sneak in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:12:05 +0000

I think he meant a live edge wooden table, not a machine to slice trees.

New comment by sneak in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:09:05 +0000

A bummer? Jim, even whilst failing, is living a life better than 99.999% of humans that have ever lived, and surely better than 99% of humans alive today. He has access to SOTA medical care, pharmaceuticals, ideal human weather, healthy and nutritious food on demand at the push of a button, etc.

Let’s keep it in perspective.

New comment by sneak in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:52:39 +0000

Amphetamine is no stronger or more treacherous than caffeine, when dosed properly. As someone with EXTENSIVE experience with both, I would say caffeine is probably substantially more treacherous.

New comment by sneak in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:49:32 +0000

Not sure why you’re downvoted, this is HUGE. Most humans have a circadian rhythm that tends toward slightly longer than 24 hours, and waking up at the same time every day can be very difficult for some percentage of us.

New comment by sneak in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:14:03 +0000

“How can we make this thing, that has nothing to do with us, about us and how good we are?”

(top story on HN)

I get it, Tailscale is great and all, but, are we being serious right now?

New comment by sneak in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

sneak — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:05:46 +0000

Being on your LAN isn’t “hacking” anyone otherwise every hotel, airport, conference, and airplane would be unsafe.

New comment by sneak in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"

sneak — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:38:37 +0000

Wrong. These are always humblebrags about how good their ability to learn from their mistakes is, and how robust they were before, and how they are even more robust now.

The ones that are "deeply embarrassing" simply aren't posted.