Hacker News: steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=steezeburgerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:49:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"]]>This doesn't seem like a very good solution to be honest. And why use an LLM for this? What if I want a legit random ass string as my username?

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:12:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610565steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610565https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610565<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "DoorDash Tasks"]]>I don't quite get how that would work. They were completing tasks to train models but via sms? Can you elaborate?

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:40:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480664steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480664https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480664<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"]]>Fifty two feet?! Damn!

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:51:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479455steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479455https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479455<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Home Assistant waters my plants"]]>I run an HAOS vm via VirtualBox and then use Tailscale for a secured network.

]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:38:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402158steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402158<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>Haha whoops, I totally conflated the two! The Sony Atrac3Plus had a feature called "G Protection". It was the only "anti skip" cd player that I tried that actually worked really well back then.

I also exaggerated the year a bit. After looking it up, I think this cd player came out in 2004!

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:05:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379995steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379995https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379995<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>I use a pocket for this scenario.

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:54:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377312steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377312<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>I've used tons of wired as well. Maybe have bad one pair fail at the wire? I'm super active with them too. Snowboarding with them and my Sony g shock in 1998. Lots of cycling and running usage. You've had every single pair of wired headphones fail for you? Every single pair?

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:46:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377230steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377230<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]>Tons of wired headphones have little controllers on them to change songs and pause.

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:43:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377208steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377208<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"]]>I couldn't believe it wasn't mentioned after that intro haha

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:13:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234585steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234585https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234585<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "The happiest I've ever been"]]>I love this! Stealing it! :) It reminds me of T.H.I.N.K. before you speak. Ask yourself if what you are about to say is true, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind!

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:48:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206242steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206242<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "The happiest I've ever been"]]>I don't think the grammar is "good", it just uses speech patterns like LLMs do.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:29:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206123steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206123<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "The happiest I've ever been"]]>I 100% thought this was written by an LLM. You copy its style if it wasn't. Or it has copied yours! Lol

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:29:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206119steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206119https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206119<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"]]>I'm not sure it's so fitting. You can see hoe this technique was done and how it's different from painting. Or like, a portrait made of pennies, or string and nails, etc, etc.

]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:41:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161937steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161937https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161937<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Facebook is cooked"]]>I think they definitely track how long you stay on something as you're scrolling. They show an attractive woman doing your hobby, then it just keeps going.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:36:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097240steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097240<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Facebook is cooked"]]>I don't like anything even slightly thirst trappy, and my fyp is clean.

]]>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:35:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097236steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097236https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47097236<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"]]>I think they take issue with how it was ultimately okay to do to catch the Joker as long as Batman didn't use it and gave power to Luscious who resigned, instead of just calling it out as terrible and not doing it. That's how I read their comment anyway. "apologia"

]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:18:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981143steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981143https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981143<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Super Monkey Ball ported to a website"]]>I completed stage 10 and it shot me into space but the timer kept going and then counted it as a failure and restarted the map.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:57:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791230steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791230https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791230<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"]]>You can render React all over the place now!

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:48:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572543steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572543https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572543<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "An SVG is all you need"]]>What's wrong with SVG? Notebooks have their issues but are kinda this conceptually. I guess FLAs and Flash too. But you say we never developed a "client-side multimedia file format". Is that not exactly what html + js are for?

]]>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:28:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239815steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239815https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46239815<![CDATA[New comment by steezeburger in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"]]>I was just saying they didn't do that with ASCII in mind. I was not saying they didn't Latinize.

]]>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:58:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574218steezeburgerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574218