Hacker News: sys_64738

New comment by sys_64738 in "I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI"

sys_64738 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:37:38 +0000

yada yada yada

New comment by sys_64738 in "Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record"

sys_64738 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:34:33 +0000

Robots are human, too. Ah, wait. Never mind.

New comment by sys_64738 in "Comcast Is Turning Its Routers into Motion Detectors"

sys_64738 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:34:38 +0000

I have my own router. Does that mean Comcast will call the cops for a welfare check every few days?

New comment by sys_64738 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

sys_64738 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:03:00 +0000

I noticed that UBO Lite doesn't cause the ad boxes to vanish like UBO does. You see this on the likes of the weather.com webpage.

New comment by sys_64738 in "TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS"

sys_64738 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:26:00 +0000

This is real hacker news! Well done :)

New comment by sys_64738 in "Twenty Years of RISC OS Open"

sys_64738 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:31:08 +0000

Arthur 1.2 I believe.

New comment by sys_64738 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

sys_64738 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:28:07 +0000

The final SL point release was very stable. Still is. Lion was a horrible and nasty release which shouldn't have seen the light of day. FWIW, SL introduced several new UI elements into OS X as they needed something to show off at release. Something. Anything.

New comment by sys_64738 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

sys_64738 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:14:57 +0000

This is a wonderful app for pairing. No Logitech spyware needed!

New comment by sys_64738 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

sys_64738 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:13:01 +0000

I avoid installing Logitech spyware on my Mac but there are FLOSS apps to do the equivalent. There's even a pairing FLOSS app for Linux to avoid installing Logitech spyware. FLOSS is amazing. LinearMouse is the Mac app.

New comment by sys_64738 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

sys_64738 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:07:56 +0000

If it's not malware then what is it called today?

New comment by sys_64738 in "A Year On: The DOGE Disaster"

sys_64738 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:41:04 +0000

This is why he should be immediately arrested upon a Democrat president. All Musk's assets should be seized and he should be put in prison until his innocence can be proven. There is a lot of levelling that needs to be done. All the DOGE brats should be rounded up too and their assets frozen.

New comment by sys_64738 in "Flock CEO Apologizes for Calling Activists 'Terrorists'"

sys_64738 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:50:58 +0000

The Flock CEO is the terrorist here.

New comment by sys_64738 in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

sys_64738 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:27:42 +0000

What does this mean for a large Word document? Will people using OpenOffice.org get arrested for loading a novel?

New comment by sys_64738 in "IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11"

sys_64738 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:48:57 +0000

IT admins don't make technology decisions. They're there to do work, no think.

New comment by sys_64738 in "The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading"

sys_64738 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:51:40 +0000

Not worth even printing out where I am. They are worthless.

New comment by sys_64738 in "Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash"

sys_64738 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:32:40 +0000

Did Facebook Inc. ever have a motto like GOOG's "do no evil"?

New comment by sys_64738 in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

sys_64738 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:36:37 +0000

Anybody know why the compiler didn't pick this up?

New comment by sys_64738 in ""Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005)"

sys_64738 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:12:30 +0000

Real engineers have to sign off their professional reputation against what they do. Software licences say that the software is provided as-is with zero liability. Calling software developers as "engineers" is just not the same thing.

New comment by sys_64738 in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

sys_64738 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:01:07 +0000

> They glaringly cheat during interviews, they can't answer basic software questions, and they're clearly in it just for the money.

I'm curious what they do to cheat during interview?

New comment by sys_64738 in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

sys_64738 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:59:28 +0000

Didn't Zuck allegedly steal the concepts from those twins and claim it was his own? Something like that but at Harvard the idea morphed as people connected and I seem to recall a quote from Zuck that he couldn't believe people would give up all this data. So alleged plagiarism and getting lucky by the sounds of it.