Hacker News: tastyfreeze

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol"

tastyfreeze — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:51:08 +0000

How is that different than any other human endeavor? Not everybody that fancies themselves a writer is going to have the skill to draw an audience. Just because a few heavy hitters earn the most revenue doesn't mean the model is broken. That is just the way humans are for any given skill.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data"

tastyfreeze — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:57:40 +0000

Bruno is a serviceable replacement that is local first.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

tastyfreeze — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:51:56 +0000

The colonies were expected to defend themselves. In reality that meant every man possessed and drilled with arms whether the were part of a formal militia or not. If there was an attack people would be "called up" to the militia. There is no requirement of belonging to a formal militia in the 2nd amendment. While times have changed, it was expectated that you were proficient with arms in the case that a formal militia was required to be formed.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

tastyfreeze — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:15:30 +0000

I came to say the same thing. The secret courts and even the administrative agency courts should not exist. They are a violation of our rights. Any court where the prosecution, judge and jury are all government employees is a gross abuse of authority.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

tastyfreeze — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:29:07 +0000

The only real proofing of the grid is distributed generation and neighborhood microgrids. Centralized generation with distant distribution is subject to single point failure with widespread impact.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars"

tastyfreeze — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:03:44 +0000

Stop buying brands that coast on past clout.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

tastyfreeze — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:46:34 +0000

The -itols just shouldn't be allowed in food. Consume too much and you best not be out in public.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

tastyfreeze — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:26:02 +0000

All news has been a tool of spooks for a very long time. The official CIA Operation Mockingbird started in the late 40s. Now that AI is involved its news? None of it can be trusted.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

tastyfreeze — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:12:57 +0000

DVDStyler - free, simple, cross-platform, and open-source.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

tastyfreeze — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:35:03 +0000

Haha, not starting the movie when the disk loads is one of my pet peeves. When I burn DVDs for friends I still put in a menu to facilitate chapter or episode selection. But, I set the menu to only load after the movie has completed or the user pushes the menu button on their remote. For episodic disks all of the episodes will play before the menu appears.

2000s disk special features started getting a little wild. Who wants to play a "game" as a special feature with their DVD remote? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

tastyfreeze — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:58:11 +0000

I wouldn't say the UK is now, but was the most powerful empire to have existed. What else would you call a nation that 65 nations have claimed independence from? They can't claim independence if they weren't once part of the empire.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

tastyfreeze — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:23:24 +0000

Not illegal. Card issuers required merchants that wanted to accept their cards to not have separate pricing for cash and credit card. It would have been a lot more difficult for credit cards to take over as the primary payment method if they had to convince consumers that the convenience of a card was worth paying 3-5% more on everything. Exceptions started being added for public entities, like municipalities, that wanted to accept cards.

> So non credit card users end up paying more credit card fees than credit card users which is nonsense.

The business just makes more money on cash transactions. It would be interesting to find if the cost of cash handling/losses is comparable to the card processing fees.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

tastyfreeze — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:34:37 +0000

Microsoft owned Bungie when they named their assistant Cortana.

Microsoft acquired Bungie in 2000 and released the Cortana assistant in 2014. It wasn't a stolen name. It was purchased and part of their portfolio for over a decade.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

tastyfreeze — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:42:22 +0000

Dungeon Crawler Carl book 7. Started the series in January. Most books I've read in a year since I read the Expanse series.

Historical books that are great... Empire of the Summer Moon, Undaunted Courage, Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

New comment by tastyfreeze in "12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones"

tastyfreeze — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:26:26 +0000

The phrase is "jump the gun" or "jumped the gun" as in a fault start in a race started with a gun.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

tastyfreeze — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:17:53 +0000

This is where the idea of teachers as guides comes in. Let the kids find what interests them. The guides facilitate deeper learning as it is needed to understand more. The goal is to foster the curiosity. Learning is a byproduct.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'"

tastyfreeze — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:20:42 +0000

I have found for many young kids lack of studiousness is not that they are not self-motivated. It is that whatever is being taught is worse than boring to them. The lack of motivation in schools comes from a lack of interest or too slow of pacing.

By the time they get out of primary school most have had the curiosity that drives motivation beat out of them.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "The darker side of being a doctor"

tastyfreeze — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:25:39 +0000

Radiology and imaging gets that treatment everywhere. They are treated as a photography service for doctors and only doctors can diagnose.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "New evidence for hidden chambers beyond Tutankhamun's tomb"

tastyfreeze — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:21:34 +0000

Look no further than the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Nothing is allowed to proceed or be published without their sign off.

New comment by tastyfreeze in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"

tastyfreeze — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:48:50 +0000

Step 3 is profit. As in, "we are robbing you blind but that's not my hand in your pocket".