Hacker News: socksy

New comment by socksy in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

socksy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:32:41 +0000

I dunno I feel historically SoftBank have been a big deal in Silicon Valley

New comment by socksy in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

socksy — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:49:44 +0000

I think the joke is that they only work half an hour a year...

New comment by socksy in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

socksy — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:13:13 +0000

Btw, Germans have no problem with pronouncing the letter L (before a vowel, anyway)

New comment by socksy in "iPhone Duo"

socksy — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:31:07 +0000

I think you misread, the fact that the UK is in the Anglosphere strengthens the GP's point

New comment by socksy in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

socksy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:31:11 +0000

It's amazing just how many stories of Rob Pike seem to show him being both a dick and wrong

New comment by socksy in "Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS"

socksy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:23:02 +0000

This is not how German culture works.

Motherduck Acquires Tower

socksy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://motherduck.com/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434039

Points: 5

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New comment by socksy in "If you're a button, you have one job"

socksy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:25:02 +0000

There's so many comments here railing against Android but... I can't recreate this at all? With Android 16 on a Pixel 7 using the Google photos app, if I tap the rotate button 8 times it dutifully queues the animations and ends up with a no-op (not even prompting you to save when you exit the view). This is exactly the behaviour one would expect, no?

Screen recording here (lower frame rate due to the recording, there's no stutter in normal usage): https://photos.app.goo.gl/45PjSYMMvAc8fxA57

New comment by socksy in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

socksy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:39:22 +0000

Ah, like this one? https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

socksy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:14:51 +0000

i mean, i definitely agree and am somehow allergic to seeing llm written text from other humans (you typed a prompt! why not just post it directly? i'd rather have bad spelling and grammar than llm slop). but... while i feel i can detect it pretty reliably in forums like HN, i can't help but think that this is the toupée fallacy[0] at work. of course, all the text that _i_ think is fake is clearly fake after all

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy

New comment by socksy in "The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time"

socksy — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:59 +0000

Isn't that just VAT?

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

socksy — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:43:55 +0000

Weird to make reading zshrc supposed unsafe when I happily publish it in my public dotfiles repo... Who the hell keeps API keys in it? OTOH it seems like lots of these AI tools keep appending PATH in it so I guess there's a fundamental misunderstanding of shell best practices in the entire AI space...

Additionally, killing the results of `lsof` is _not_ safe - if, say, you have the web page open in firefox, or a client subshell in the agent itself, then boom, there goes firefox and the agent.

New comment by socksy in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

socksy — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:19:12 +0000

Then as a California resident you should presumably be googling instead about the CCPA and the right to delete :)

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

socksy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:10:39 +0000

I can't stand this and will actively discriminate against comments I notice in that voice. Even this one has "Not because [..], but because [..]"

New comment by socksy in "Layoffs at Block"

socksy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:19:25 +0000

Why? This is asserted throughout this HN thread as an obvious truism, but it seems precipiced on some dramatic right wing free market concept of how the world works that I can't tell is coming from the libertarians of hacker news, or is some kind of USA concept.

Why should society let the concept of a company exist if it is actively detrimental to society at large, for the gain of a very few?

New comment by socksy in "Layoffs at Block"

socksy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:59:07 +0000

Are you arguing for or against capitalism here?

New comment by socksy in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

socksy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:42:37 +0000

Allowing something isn't the same as enforcing it to be allowed. If there's regulation, like with ending roaming charges between countries, then it's required to be followed simultaneously across the EU. If there's a directive, like the Working Time Directive, goals of legislation are set out and each member state is required to introduce legislation that implements it. There's also decisions (for one country for one issue), recommendations and opinions (obviously non binding).

There's also the Court of Justice which is the highest court, but only in EU matters. National courts can refer cases to it, or the commission/member states can bring cases against other member states, if they believe they are not following EU law. This would mean either they are not following a regulation, or that the state has not fully/correctly implemented a directive into their own national laws.

As I understand it, there's no specific regulation or directive aimed at gambling itself. There's things tangentially related (data protection, anti money laundering etc). But since there's no regulation or directive saying "gambling must be allowed", there's nothing stopping a member state banning it completely if they so wish.

The only point in which the EU might step in would be if the law was somehow discriminatory or inconsistent (e.g. we ban all foreign gambling sites, but not our own, we ban lottery tickets but not state run casinos, etc).

New comment by socksy in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

socksy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:35:58 +0000

Yeah but if you fuck it up it's a much bigger deal

New comment by socksy in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

socksy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:36:19 +0000

Good thing then that there's a range of options between being let go immediately for no reason and companies being forced to employ bad employees for life.

New comment by socksy in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

socksy — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:06:29 +0000

> If you're not American, then you may not understand the way the American voting system works.

This is incredibly unlikely, given how pervasive American politics is, and how much the results of the American elections affects the rest of the world. Additionally, having a two party system is unfortunately pretty common.