Hacker News: sosborn

New comment by sosborn in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

sosborn — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:18:37 +0000

There's no practical reason we can't have good public transit AND better cars.

New comment by sosborn in "The Productivity Mirage"

sosborn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:18:35 +0000

I think you the nail on the head. Go to any hobby sub on Reddit and you see the same story play out.

New comment by sosborn in "Show HN: QR code renderer in a TrueType font"

sosborn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:50:57 +0000

If they know it's a url, all they need to do is wrap it in an tag. Laziness probably wins out though.

New comment by sosborn in "The real cost of owning a home"

sosborn — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:25:17 +0000

> And if the dues doubled in just three years then you bought into a mismanaged HOA, which makes it worse.

Not necessarily true. Our HOA fees doubled precisely because of drastic insurance premium hikes. There wasn't much that could be done by them to avoid that, and in fact they worked hard to reduce some of those premiums the following year, which resulted in a lower monthly fee for everyone.

New comment by sosborn in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

sosborn — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:00:09 +0000

This matches my experience with human too FWIW.

New comment by sosborn in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

sosborn — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:30:52 +0000

How many billions of people start their day by getting one Scotch Bonnet (or two smaller ones), two oranges, lime and a piece of ginger into a cold press and then drinking it in one go on an empty stomach?

New comment by sosborn in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

sosborn — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:28:10 +0000

I would be worried about long term damage. In 10 years you might be in a world of hurt from this. At the very least I would let your doctor know that you are doing this and see what they think of it.

New comment by sosborn in "Ti-84 Evo"

sosborn — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:59:05 +0000

CAS capabilities are prohibited in the SAT: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/what-to-bring-do/calcu...

New comment by sosborn in "We accepted surveillance as default"

sosborn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:29:44 +0000

> all i see is retargeted ads for stuff I already bought.

IMO, nothing exposes the folly behind targeted ads as much as this.

New comment by sosborn in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

sosborn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:17:22 +0000

TBF - It still does "just work," The fact that it doesn't completely fit into your (and my) preferences doesn't really change that, and if that's the standard, then everything will fall short of it.

New comment by sosborn in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

sosborn — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:52:23 +0000

Building production facilities isn't like flipping a switch.

New comment by sosborn in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

sosborn — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:43:30 +0000

Early Facebook was kind of a great mix. It had enough people on it, it was making money, and the advertising was much more reasonable. At the time it really was a place to connect with IRL friends.

New comment by sosborn in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

sosborn — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:24:32 +0000

I really doubt that 30% productivity gain would result in 30% developers losing their jobs. Believing this would require an assumption that businesses and economies will never grow.

New comment by sosborn in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

sosborn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:50:30 +0000

Those are all products.

New comment by sosborn in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

sosborn — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:21:47 +0000

It’s almost as if the roles/titles aren’t the determining factor.

New comment by sosborn in "Iran Goes Into IPv6 Blackout"

sosborn — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:05:45 +0000

Most of what's happening in the word can be boiled down to either someone craving power, or someone in power desperately struggling to hold on to it.

New comment by sosborn in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

sosborn — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:06:51 +0000

Unless you are listening through the same studio monitors in the same room or headphones as the mixing engineer, it will never be the same.

IMHO, people place too much importance on "accuracy". While accuracy might be objectively measured, it means nothing when it comes to individual taste.

New comment by sosborn in "Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library"

sosborn — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:55:55 +0000

For an independent artist, exposure matters more than album sales as it leads to ticket sales.

For large labels, exposure is a solved problem and album sales are all that matters.

They are all trying to maximize revenue, they just have different ways of going about it.

New comment by sosborn in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

sosborn — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:02:25 +0000

At the scale these companies operate and the number of actual scammers they block because of their 0 - 100 policies, I can see how they got there. I bet all of us have had the luck (?) of out card being blocked because someone out there was able to get a hold of the credentials. Collateral damage like this, as devastating as it is to the individual, is probably a drop in the bucket for the company.

I'm not excusing this. What happened here shouldn't happen, and there should be quick resolutions and explanations available to the aggrieved parties.

New comment by sosborn in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

sosborn — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:04:01 +0000

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/business/hub/difference-betwee...