Hacker News: threetonesun

New comment by threetonesun in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

threetonesun — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:28:29 +0000

Crisp (and refreshing) is a perfectly fine way to describe a drink. “Crispy” doesn’t quite read the same but I can see a way it becomes the shortened usage of whole phrase.

New comment by threetonesun in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

threetonesun — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:17:29 +0000

If we're just talking about image based ads it would be easier to simply denylist every image on a page and only render alt-text until the user clicks to reveal it.

Worth noting though that Apple injects ads into the News app, which is just a webview, so it's certainly not them that will do this.

New comment by threetonesun in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

threetonesun — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:33:11 +0000

Before Github Actions places I worked at pushed monliths to a dedicated CI, Github just hosted the repo, now we push microservices to a monolithic deploy pipeline. I'm sure someday we'll get it right, or maybe the robots will for us.

New comment by threetonesun in "CodePen 2.0"

threetonesun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:23:48 +0000

Where do you think the AI is getting the code from your prompts from.

New comment by threetonesun in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

threetonesun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:50:56 +0000

Malls barely exist, at least compared to the way they did 20 years ago. I wasn't arguing all third spaces are gone, but even of the ones you did note I'd bet in most communities their funding/availability has decreased in that time period.

New comment by threetonesun in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

threetonesun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:36:37 +0000

I don't think that's really what we've lost. Blockbuster was a third space not because of its staff, but because it was a place you could say "meet me here" and hang out looking at movies with no (or very little) expected monetary output. Same as arcades in the mall, or cheap matinee movies. A better framing might be where would a teenager, today, say "meet me here" to their friends. I think you'll find there's many fewer around you today than there was 20 years ago.

New comment by threetonesun in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

threetonesun — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:15:56 +0000

The timescale changes from 30 to 60 to 90 days as the screen gets larger.

New comment by threetonesun in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

threetonesun — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:51:37 +0000

It's very corporate hotel chain lobby restaurant inspired, which probably resonates with the C-suite people signing the checks on this stuff.

New comment by threetonesun in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

threetonesun — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:07:36 +0000

I was a fan of the Apple Watch initially because I felt like it kept me from having to take out my increasingly large iPhone to check things like the time and if I was going to get rained on, but they've managed to make WatchOS some weird nightmare of distractions and things I need to actively shut off on my phone, and I've grown very tired of it.

New comment by threetonesun in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

threetonesun — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:40:08 +0000

I've worked a number of places where smoking on site wasn't allowed, and it was well accepted that if you wanted to just disappear for 30 minutes once or twice a day no one would care.

New comment by threetonesun in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

threetonesun — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:12:01 +0000

I found the Paperlike to be worse than the iPad screen alone, but I've been happy with the Astropad Rock Paper Pencil as it comes with a replacement tip for the Apple Pencil that has a metal tip and generates some noticeable friction.

New comment by threetonesun in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

threetonesun — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:03:28 +0000

I did the same but had forgotten all about it until just now. I still put all the random stickers that accumulate throughout the year on my journal, it's a fun visual reminder of entirely random little things that happened during the year.

New comment by threetonesun in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

threetonesun — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:58:46 +0000

It was true of crypto GPUs too, although mostly people picking them up for gaming. Always seems high to me too but if you can get any guarantee of them not being on fire when they were pulled the bathtub curve keeps you pretty safe, thermal limits are limits for a reason.

New comment by threetonesun in "Back to Kagi"

threetonesun — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:40:32 +0000

So a slower search engine with fewer results?

New comment by threetonesun in "Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)"

threetonesun — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:24:30 +0000

Am I misremembering things? I played a lot of AOE2 in college and in multiplayer games one of my gotos was to attack someone quickly and force them into an alliance where they sent me resources, and then continued to demand resources so they could never grow big enough to remove the alliance and attack, then coordinate through them to attack other people. Seemed like a pretty good approximation of empires to me at the time.

New comment by threetonesun in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

threetonesun — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:52:32 +0000

True, although I've also moved houses and turned everything over. Having lived at the current place for a while I find it's important to, every five years or so, turn everything over and re-evaluate it. Even if my domicile isn't changing I'm still changing as a person.

New comment by threetonesun in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

threetonesun — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:43:39 +0000

Also if you buy lots of cheap junk for your apartment and then have to move, you will not be happy.

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

threetonesun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:19:27 +0000

As a user I agree, but I think this misunderstands the Windows market. Forget about mice for a second, if you look at GPU drivers between Linux and Windows on Linux they... just work, and you can use some apps to modify exposed features, like you said.

On Windows out of the box they kind of work, but you really need a manufacturer's software suite to take full advantage of them, and that software suite is, surprise, an advertising and analytics platform, a situation I think both Microsoft and the peripheral manufacturers are very happy with.

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

threetonesun — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:24:46 +0000

And then what, ever single gaming mouse/keyboard config is going to appear in the Windows UI dialog? I think extra options in an app is fine, but you should have to download it. At which point who knows what you’ve opened yourself to but at least you chose to do it.

New comment by threetonesun in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

threetonesun — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:52:11 +0000

The retired dragon(s) were honestly my favorite part simply because of how absurd they were.