Hacker News: sssilver

New comment by sssilver in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

sssilver — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:24:26 +0000

What little or big can I as an individual do to help improve this?

New comment by sssilver in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

sssilver — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:20:07 +0000

When my surgeon charged $250,000 for my hand reconstruction surgery, how much of it did he personally pocket, and how much of that went towards that $500,000 debt vs. his brand new S-class Mercedes?

New comment by sssilver in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

sssilver — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:18:45 +0000

Two Slice is shockingly readable.

New comment by sssilver in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

sssilver — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:39 +0000

What's the issue with iCloud?

New comment by sssilver in "Ferrari Luce"

sssilver — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:27:23 +0000

The Cybertruck isn't ugly. It's gorgeous. You may not like its particular aesthetic, however that doesn't make it ugly. It's executed extremely well for the aesthetic it's going for.

New comment by sssilver in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

sssilver — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:32:22 +0000

Most people come here for the economic and professional opportunities. I imagine that very few people move to the United States for the lifestyle.

Where else would people get opportunities that could match the United States? I can't think of any country that would even come close.

New comment by sssilver in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

sssilver — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:46:22 +0000

You couldn't tell this by looking at the stock market.

New comment by sssilver in "Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)"

sssilver — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:30:37 +0000

I feel like Meshtag[1] was built for exactly this. The trick is that the symbol doesn't encode the link the way a QR code does -- it just references one on their server, so the drawing can be loose and imperfect and still resolve. The flipside is of course that if Meshtag ever shuts down, every tag in the world goes dead.

[1] http://www.meshtag.com

New comment by sssilver in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

sssilver — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:44:26 +0000

Who remembers the Google of Eric Schmidt and "Don't Be Evil"?

The truth is that it doesn't matter what companies say, what they claim, what they do, and what their CEO says/claims/does.

It's just a matter of time until the shareholders will get the right CEO to maximize shareholder value.

People in the comments who want a statement or a "reorientation" or a commitment from Anthropic leadership are missing the principles of how capitalism functions. Shareholder value cannot be compromised. In every battle between morality and profit, values and profit, public good and profit, ultimately all things will mutate into a state that enables profit to prevail. Always.

There are no exceptions to this.

New comment by sssilver in "Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open in the browser(s) and why?"

sssilver — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:50:42 +0000

A whole bunch of them. Because they all seem “useful” and I’m not “done” with them yet.

US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid

sssilver — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:49:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/us-special-forces-soldier-allegedly-profited-off-of-maduro-capture-on-polymarket/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884185

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by sssilver in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

sssilver — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:41:14 +0000

As someone who's immigrated into the United States around 2010s, I have experienced a life in Central Texas that was much better than it was expensive before COVID, and much more expensive than it's good after COVID.

Amazon "Prime Air" will be available to customers in as soon as 4-5 years (2013)

sssilver — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:56:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazon-unveils-futuristic-plan-delivery-by-drone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880004

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Light Phone III

sssilver — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826950

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by sssilver in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

sssilver — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:35:37 +0000

Do not buy one. You will regret it. Without backlight, it's a gimmick.

New comment by sssilver in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

sssilver — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:10:08 +0000

It’s a wonderful device and I own one but lack of screen backlight makes it practically unusable, and at its price point almost vulgarly expensive.

God knows how much I wanted to use and love it but it just started gathering dust in a closet after a week because of this.

New comment by sssilver in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

sssilver — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:19:07 +0000

Isn’t this true for Netflix as well?

New comment by sssilver in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

sssilver — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:13:22 +0000

> If they were smart they would do a Netflix of news where you subscribe to one service and it gives you access to a ton of different subscription news sites

Isn’t this exactly what Apple News[1] is?

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[1] https://www.apple.com/apple-news/

New comment by sssilver in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

sssilver — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:45:42 +0000

Interesting, I wonder if it would be possible to visualize the most dramatic parts of every flight -- takeoffs and landings.

New comment by sssilver in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

sssilver — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:31 +0000

> Not because they are retro.

> Because they still work.

I find this writing style so viscerally infuriating.