Hacker News: stodor89

New comment by stodor89 in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

stodor89 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:36:38 +0000

Success cost him everything. Why'd he ever want another?

New comment by stodor89 in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

stodor89 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:08:16 +0000

Or if you're building something important, like a spaceship.

New comment by stodor89 in "Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos"

stodor89 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:59:48 +0000

Can managers access it without managerial approval?

New comment by stodor89 in "Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still"

stodor89 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:02:39 +0000

Make the sprites as good as you can within a reasonable amount of time. Don't stress too much about it. You can always do a second pass later on. And even if you decide to pay a professional artist, your sprites would still be useful as a vehicle for communicating your vision.

New comment by stodor89 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

stodor89 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:06:51 +0000

Cause there's money to be made.

New comment by stodor89 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

stodor89 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:36:15 +0000

> The bulk of the comments in here are focused on comparing Larry Ellison to a lawn mower

That's just mean. People need to show some respect to lawn mowers.

New comment by stodor89 in "The 667MHz Machine"

stodor89 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:26:16 +0000

Beast of a machine.

New comment by stodor89 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

stodor89 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:20:14 +0000

Or Brave. Or AdGuard.

New comment by stodor89 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

stodor89 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:17:29 +0000

Well, he's right in the context of HN audience. But normies are people too, and so are children, and so are 90-year-old grandmas who want to stay in touch with younger family members. If we don't push back against the brainrot, it may very well run our society into the ground.

New comment by stodor89 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

stodor89 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:27:30 +0000

"Okay grandma, let's get you to bed" moment.

New comment by stodor89 in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

stodor89 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:08:52 +0000

> specieism

Wait, do we not agree that people are inherently more valuable than pigs?

New comment by stodor89 in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

stodor89 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:21:38 +0000

> I am offering a window of 30 days from today the 28th of April 2025 for [the organization] to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability before I consider any public disclosure.

Well, you started friendly but then made illegal threats. So they responded friendly but then sent you lawyers.

New comment by stodor89 in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

stodor89 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:56:21 +0000

As someone from the EU, please do!

New comment by stodor89 in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

stodor89 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:23:01 +0000

> we should make it illegal to discriminate based on criminal conviction history

Uhh I don't know about that, being a criminal sounds like a pretty reasonable differentiator.

New comment by stodor89 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

stodor89 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:24:17 +0000

> This sort of anti-overproduction law means that the next time there's an unexpected need -- for example an unusually cold winter -- there will be a shortage because there won't be any warehouses full of "just in case" inventory.

Clothes are something extremely overabundant in the EU. And even if they weren't, the unexpected overdemand will result in just using your old coat another year or buying one you like less. Workers are being unnecessarily exploited and resources are being unnecessarily wasted... so I think nudging companies in the right direction is way overdue. Will it work the way EU thinks? Probably not. Just like GDPR was well-intended, but the result is higher entry barrier to new companies and a bunch of annoying popups. But I'd argue that's a result of "not enough" regulation rather than "too much". Companies caught abusing our data should have been outright banned IMHO.

New comment by stodor89 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

stodor89 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:13:43 +0000

"If you're homeless, just buy a house" ahh statement

New comment by stodor89 in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

stodor89 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:19:25 +0000

Here's a perspective on "why civ 3" by one of the best civ 3 players: https://youtu.be/IOvWgfZiHGo?si=uvTWTaRQsfxE_ffN

New comment by stodor89 in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

stodor89 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:27:58 +0000

My initial reaction was to disagree, but the man did allegedly take in an abandoned infant. And a woman to care for it[1]. And, our readings[2] of that quote (acceptance vs altruism) aren't in any way incompatible.

[1] You absolutely don't want to be a single woman in 1st century AD.

[2] acceptance vs altruism

New comment by stodor89 in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

stodor89 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:15:46 +0000

It's about accepting the bad things that will inevitably happen to us. "Loving your wife" and "grieving when she dies" are two separate things. We need mental framing that does not connect them, even though our default settings are to do so. Or at least that's how I'm reading it.

New comment by stodor89 in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"

stodor89 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:25:06 +0000

"Hurr durr we're monitoring the situation."