Hacker News: symlinkk

New comment by symlinkk in "AirPods Max 2"

symlinkk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:45:15 +0000

> All of them have bad microphones (worse than wired ear pods)

Yeah this is why people just buy AirPods Max.

New comment by symlinkk in "AirPods Max 2"

symlinkk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:42:39 +0000

They just work. The integrated mic is clear and easy to use for daily standups. They connect to my work and personal laptop in a few seconds every time - I’m never left panicking right before a big meeting. Of course the audio quality, noise canceling, and battery life are world class, but that’s the case for their competitors too - the reason I coughed up the extra $150 for Apple headphones is because I know they’re going to fucking work exactly as advertised, no glitches or gimmicks.

New comment by symlinkk in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

symlinkk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:21:03 +0000

Most men can’t even get a date anymore, but we’re not allowed to talk about the reasons why.

New comment by symlinkk in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

symlinkk — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:46:31 +0000

Yep, the only reason their pay is high is artificial barriers to entry.

New comment by symlinkk in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

symlinkk — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:45:55 +0000

If you have to be “top talent” to survive it’s not a good field to get into anymore.

New comment by symlinkk in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

symlinkk — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:05:48 +0000

It’s matter of incentives. Everyone knows the value of college is in the piece of paper they give you at the end, the things they teach you are not super helpful in real world. So people cheat so they don’t have to waste time learning useless knowledge and instead spend that time on something valuable, like working out or going to a party.

New comment by symlinkk in "VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025"

symlinkk — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:07:04 +0000

He is a good guy for not selling out but let’s be honest, it’s just a thin wrapper around ffmpeg.

New comment by symlinkk in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

symlinkk — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:32:42 +0000

Have to agree. This whole procedure of booking an appointment with a GP who then books you an appointment with a lab who then takes your blood is a huge waste of time. The technology is largely there for people to continuously monitor their health in real time, you see this in smartwatches as feature by feature slowly trickles in.

New comment by symlinkk in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

symlinkk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:42:27 +0000

I’ve had it for days and it’s still slow

New comment by symlinkk in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

symlinkk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:48:36 +0000

Made my phone immediately much laggier (iPhone 13 Pro) which is probably the intention

New comment by symlinkk in "Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August"

symlinkk — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:23:43 +0000

I thought colleges only had a limited number of slots to accept students each year. Seems like US citizens would be competing with foreign students in that case.

New comment by symlinkk in "Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August"

symlinkk — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:24:15 +0000

99% of those students were not any more talented than the average US citizen

New comment by symlinkk in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

symlinkk — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:26:47 +0000

Adblockers are a safety risk of their own - you’re giving @gorhill admin-level access to your browser.

New comment by symlinkk in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

symlinkk — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:53:56 +0000

It costs $2000? Why?

New comment by symlinkk in "No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks"

symlinkk — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:00:43 +0000

Most are zero sugar

New comment by symlinkk in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

symlinkk — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:51:58 +0000

Really? Where do you see that?

New comment by symlinkk in "Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple If iPhones Not Made in US"

symlinkk — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:06:19 +0000

Yeah that sounds like a good idea

New comment by symlinkk in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

symlinkk — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:46:16 +0000

Not all dimensions. VSCode’s Remote SSH is better and UI is better. To me that’s worth the trade offs.

New comment by symlinkk in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

symlinkk — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:06:16 +0000

People that say this are completely out of touch. You know there are VSCode extensions for Java (made by Oracle and Redhat themselves), right? Once you install that you get Intellisense, debugging, etc. Same with C#, Python, etc.

New comment by symlinkk in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

symlinkk — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:03:06 +0000

+1, the Remote SSH is horrible. Takes forever to connect and is extremely laggy once you have connected. Feels like they’re practically streaming video of the UI back to you instead of VSCode’s Remote SSH which feels indistinguishable from running locally.