Hacker News: suzzer99

New comment by suzzer99 in "Beyond Tetris: The other games of Alexey Pajitnov [video]"

suzzer99 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:03:50 +0000

Even the biggest bands only have 5% of their songs be huge hits. For any creative endeavor you're going to have some whiffs. The ratio of whiffs to hits probably depends on the nature of the medium.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Tesla Roadster"

suzzer99 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:51:24 +0000

One of the best episodes of Mythbusters when they recreated this.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

suzzer99 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:59:35 +0000

You might love this if you haven't seen it. Youtuber wanders into what he thought was an abandoned game and ends up having an amazing time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMDb1CWD6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XjRNNkAKRM

New comment by suzzer99 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

suzzer99 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:15:46 +0000

Yeah it's super fast for search, which is the other big reason I'm still on it. The pain in the ass part is when you want to integrate some package that doesn't play nice right off the bat.

New comment by suzzer99 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

suzzer99 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:24:29 +0000

I'm still on SublimeText, which is old, and a pain in the ass, but at least is not being actively enshittified.

New comment by suzzer99 in "How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)"

suzzer99 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:08:18 +0000

I had a post about Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing that I was hoping would go viral because that's the only way I ever saw Amazon ever fix anyone's KDP issues. I posted, then went to bed. When I woke up, it had 250+ points, but was on page 5 with a bunch of posts that were much older and/or had single-digit points.

It must have been on page 1 for a while to rack up that many points, then it sank almost immediately to page 5 where all the other posts with even 50+ points were days old. I've always wondered what happened there. Was it the algorithm, or did a mod step in?

New comment by suzzer99 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

suzzer99 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:30:54 +0000

I assume because the market for crappy customer service isn't big enough to justify current AI company valuations.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

suzzer99 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:33:53 +0000

You just invented Skynet.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

suzzer99 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:31:41 +0000

It's repetitive and controlled if you don't care about the outcome, which monopoly companies don't.

New comment by suzzer99 in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

suzzer99 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:10:51 +0000

In the case of the North Sentinelese, this incident in 1880 might have something to do with their hostility to the outside world.

> After several days, six Sentinelese—an elderly couple and four children—were taken to Port Blair. The colonial officer in charge of the operation wrote that the entire group "sickened rapidly, and the old man and his wife died, so the four children were sent back to their home with quantities of presents".

New comment by suzzer99 in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

suzzer99 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Telling codex how to program a feature is a much different, much easier type of thinking than back in the olden days of a year ago, when I had to get everything to work myself. I can't imagine that's going to be great for my long-term brain health.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

suzzer99 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:36:45 +0000

Well supposedly it was caused by a landslide blocking the river for a few minutes, then the dam burst all at once.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

suzzer99 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:05:38 +0000

I feel like I've easily seen more than that get swept away in videos.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

suzzer99 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:04:59 +0000

I wonder if the river went dry first, like the water receding off into the horizon before a tsunami?

New comment by suzzer99 in "Ever wonder what happens if you give your number to a Facebook ad?"

suzzer99 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:38:59 +0000

I clicked an ad for a quote on a shower door, followed the prompts, and gave my # to what seemed like a single company. The phone calls haven't stopped since.

Ever wonder what happens if you give your number to a Facebook ad?

suzzer99 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://imgur.com/yx3ScHw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435964

Points: 2

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New comment by suzzer99 in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

suzzer99 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:09:47 +0000

The Aztecs had the same mythical reverence for the Toltecs.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

suzzer99 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:28:52 +0000

At a few companies I've worked at, they squelch this kind of bug/security breach reporting by immediately making it the discoverer's job to fix the problem and champion it through the system to production, taking on all responsibility if something breaks of course. You only have to go through that once to get the message.

New comment by suzzer99 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

suzzer99 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:53:47 +0000

We had a guy making $60k leave for a job making $110k. This is in LA. So it was close!

New comment by suzzer99 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

suzzer99 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:25:44 +0000

Doesn't that support my argument? They leave because they can make more money elsewhere.