Hacker News: taco_emoji

New comment by taco_emoji in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

taco_emoji — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:30:19 +0000

This reeks of vibe coding. "Make it so the AI agent can help with password resets" and then zero human vetting of the change.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Please Use AI"

taco_emoji — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:51:13 +0000

> If I do not have a friend who's into fly fishing, or if I need an answer quickly, am I...just out of luck?

I know, right? The author clearly wants you to starve to death for the lack of a friend to teach you to fish

New comment by taco_emoji in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

taco_emoji — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:15:42 +0000

Saved you a click: they made the handle higher up. This is on Hacker News for some reason

New comment by taco_emoji in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

taco_emoji — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:14:06 +0000

And what is Alessi?

New comment by taco_emoji in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

taco_emoji — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:17:48 +0000

And now, a message from an actual deck chair on the Titanic

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:17:58 +0000

Come on, I use widgets all the time! There's the weather one, and the Google search one at the bottom that I can't remove!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:01:23 +0000

It can make widgets though! Imagine being able to track a flight, which is so difficult currently!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:17 +0000

CongressBook it is!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Googlebook"

taco_emoji — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:51:47 +0000

No thanks!

New comment by taco_emoji in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

taco_emoji — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:39:53 +0000

No, but the one I linked could be wired up that way with a pigtail plug & receptacle, although it'd be pretty big and unwieldy.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

taco_emoji — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:59:09 +0000

The ones I have in my house [0] were not that expensive and have been quite reliable for years now.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MHL8QTC

New comment by taco_emoji in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

taco_emoji — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:08:21 +0000

All of his responses are moronic misreadings of NP++'s actual author's comments, which lead me to believe that he is acting entirely in bad faith.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years"

taco_emoji — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:19:59 +0000

This is just an ad

New comment by taco_emoji in "I'm never buying another Kindle"

taco_emoji — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:15:28 +0000

I do the same with a Kindle. Also jailbroke it and made it so it won't auto-update in case I do ever accidentally turn the wi-fi back on.

New comment by taco_emoji in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

taco_emoji — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:23:07 +0000

i gave a keyboard to a toddler and asked it to make a profit

New comment by taco_emoji in "Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:04:20 +0000

sorry, who's addicted?

New comment by taco_emoji in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:03:04 +0000

CTRL+F hijacking is necessary in some cases when apps are not displaying the full text that the user would expect to search. E.g. when there's a 10K-line code file and the UI is not loading the whole thing into DOM, but the user would expect a "find" to search that whole code file.

New comment by taco_emoji in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:00:25 +0000

Really wish this was applied to phone apps. In Android at least, app A linking to app B will FREQUENTLY break the "back" functionality, allowing app B to handle the "back" action instead of doing what every user would expect 100% of the time, which is to go back to app A.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

taco_emoji — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:43:22 +0000

> I don't get why writers do this.

Do what, edit?

New comment by taco_emoji in "Peptides: where to begin?"

taco_emoji — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:53:42 +0000

From the Wikipedia page on orange juice:

> Commercial orange juice with a long shelf life is made by pasteurizing the juice and removing the oxygen from it. This removes much of the taste, necessitating the later addition of a flavor pack, generally made from orange products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice