Hacker News: tengbretson

New comment by tengbretson in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

tengbretson — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:41:03 +0000

Works on Orion.

New comment by tengbretson in "Docker Offload"

tengbretson — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:17:11 +0000

Man this would have crushed in 2017.

New comment by tengbretson in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

tengbretson — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:51:39 +0000

The electoral college gets a bad rap, but I almost wonder if going back to not having state popular votes determine presidential electors might be the move.

New comment by tengbretson in "ZomboCom stolen by a hacker, sold, now replaced with AI-generated makeover"

tengbretson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:33:15 +0000

I knew anything was possible at ZomboCom, but damn. I never expected this. Guess that's ZomboCom for ya.

New comment by tengbretson in "Apple Business"

tengbretson — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:08:17 +0000

I imagine the company that currently ships 250m iPhones a year can figure that part out.

New comment by tengbretson in "Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields"

tengbretson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:42:43 +0000

Uniting to fight gasfields might be just the common enemy that Iran and Israel need to finally mend this relationship.

New comment by tengbretson in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

tengbretson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:25:59 +0000

I just walked into a room and everywhere I look, everything I see is made up of the same basic building blocks.

The only thing left to figure out is how did these legos learn to assemble themselves.

New comment by tengbretson in "Iowa Payphone Defends Itself (Associated Press, 1984)"

tengbretson — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:17:50 +0000

Alternate title: "Local man not a snitch"

New comment by tengbretson in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

tengbretson — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:35:57 +0000

Ehhh no they wouldn't.

New comment by tengbretson in "Iran names Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba as new supreme leader"

tengbretson — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:06:54 +0000

On what charges?

New comment by tengbretson in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

tengbretson — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:26:36 +0000

If a personal or family routine is not robust enough to handle an hour of variation I wouldn't expect the dst changeovers to register in the top 25 most disruptive yearly events.

New comment by tengbretson in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

tengbretson — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:31:06 +0000

Most devices don't even require manually setting the clock anymore. What exactly is so difficult about the time changing by an hour?

New comment by tengbretson in "This time is different"

tengbretson — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:52:46 +0000

LLMs have not radically transformed the world yet because the number of people capable of solving problems by typing into a blinking cursor on a blank screen is actually quite small. Take that subset of the population and reduce it to those that can effectively write communicative prose, and its even smaller still.

It's just an interface problem. The VT100 didn't change the world overnight either.

New comment by tengbretson in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

tengbretson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:14:36 +0000

React server components are dope. Server actions are dangerous but powerful. No one has a more mature implementation of either of these than Next.

New comment by tengbretson in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"

tengbretson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:51:47 +0000

If in the current arrangement the free users represent a majority of the costs, hassle and noise and a shrinking or stagnant share of revenue, then you get more money by turning the screws and seeing how many convert.

New comment by tengbretson in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"

tengbretson — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:50:14 +0000

Who cares about what free users want?

New comment by tengbretson in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

tengbretson — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:42:43 +0000

Why is that?

New comment by tengbretson in "Waymo exec admits remote operators in Philippines help guide US robotaxis"

tengbretson — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:47:46 +0000

I was once in a waymo stopped at a red light. Prior to the light turning green I felt a split second where the car's brake had been released, anticipating the change and then accelerating immediately when the light changed.

Since this experience I've just assumed all waymos have some warehoused human drone pilot actually controlling it.

New comment by tengbretson in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

tengbretson — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:48:29 +0000

My grandchildren will likely need to be billionaires just to retire.

New comment by tengbretson in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

tengbretson — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:00:39 +0000

> "I like your design thinking, I do not like your design thinking people. Your design thinking people are so unlike your design thinking."

- Gandhi