Hacker News: thatguy0900

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:33:17 +0000

The disc's spin pretty fast, I could see someone smudging the disc too heavily with a substance that might fling off

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:49:32 +0000

I don't think it's a matter of better or worse quality, the Healthcare being expensive and for profit in Mississippi leads to people just not going to the doctor at all

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

thatguy0900 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:05:05 +0000

The 20 yr olds of now and the future will have far less luxury being forgotten than the previous generation I suspect

New comment by thatguy0900 in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

thatguy0900 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:17 +0000

Honestly my first thought too. My Frontpage is half obviously Ai written posts these days, filtering by a couple years back would be a good thing

New comment by thatguy0900 in "AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate"

thatguy0900 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:12:48 +0000

They want the regulation to be that Ai models cannot produce such images at all, not that producing them is illegal

New comment by thatguy0900 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

thatguy0900 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:22:18 +0000

Man what a awful looking site. I shouldn't have to crank my brightness to max to kind of read the words

New comment by thatguy0900 in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

thatguy0900 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:09:27 +0000

I don't like being conspiratorial but it genuinely feels like the people at the top know some major catastrophe is coming and are just grabbing whatever resources they can while they can before retreating to their bunkers. Even the white house is trying to build a massive underground bunker using the ballroom on top as a excuse. I don't see why else they would all be willingly destroying society as they are right now unless they don't think it matters.

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

thatguy0900 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:14:18 +0000

I'm kinda surprised with esim, wireless charging and Bluetooth noones just made a phone with a solid layer of glass completely surrounding it for 100% waterproofing

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

thatguy0900 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:33:14 +0000

To some extent it already has, Ukraine had a press release a few days ago stating they had attacked and taken a position using only robots and drones for the first time

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-position-take...

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

thatguy0900 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:31:06 +0000

Ping pong paddles have two sides, with different characteristics for each side. Now the two sides have to have different colors so your opponent can see what you are hitting it with, where before you could use the same color on both sides and your opponent wouldn't be able to tell how the ball would react

New comment by thatguy0900 in "What killed the Florida orange?"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:27:36 +0000

You could make the argument that the grapefruit succeeded in its intention already, by being so good that humanity tends and manages whole groves of grapefruit trees

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Iran claims US exploited networking equipment backdoors during strikes"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:18:19 +0000

I think you would find very few people who think belt and road wouldn't be vastly superior to what the us is doing now

New comment by thatguy0900 in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Sounds like the exact person we should be concerned about getting hit with scifi weapons to be honest

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:29:56 +0000

The person launching them sure does. This scenario reminds me of the time Russian hackers took over a US pipeline a couple years ago then immediately apologized saying they didn't want to cause a international incident and they would vet their targets better in the future. There are not many people who want that kind of heat. Like the first ayatollah is dead and the second is reportedly in a coma. The Iranian government is willing to pay that price and that's why they won. How many pirate leaders do you think are willing to pay their life so that their third of fourth successors can maybe collect a toll? Or how many are like Venezuela and you can kidnap one guy and the whole house folds.

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:28:01 +0000

If they're dropping mines then the navy will be the targets eventually.

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:25:31 +0000

In time pipelines can be made, no? 2 million per ship already gives a lot of room for exorbitant infrastructure projects to break even in the medium term

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

thatguy0900 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:23:48 +0000

I'm not sure most people have the strength of conviction in their God to stare down the us navy like Iran does.

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

thatguy0900 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:04:26 +0000

Trump saying recently that he hates hanging around successful people and prefers losers because he doesn't want to listen to other people's stories really speaks to the poor self esteem angle

New comment by thatguy0900 in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)"

thatguy0900 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:10:58 +0000

Clearing the machine of money it already had sounds way more likely to get you into trouble than getting a free coke, I'm not so sure that's a benifit

New comment by thatguy0900 in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

thatguy0900 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:06:15 +0000

Is there practical ways other than spending a couple billion dollars to protect yourself from nation state hacking groups? Especially if you'd doing something like internet connected medical devices? Honest question