Hacker News: timnetworks

New comment by timnetworks in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

timnetworks — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:15:26 +0000

If my radio got FCC stamps on it, I'm sure the airplane has this figured out but in the opposite direction.

Did someone update fly by wire to run on 2.4Ghz BLE or something? What is even the deal with airplane mode?

New comment by timnetworks in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

timnetworks — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:12:35 +0000

This is why TXT and MD and RTF exist. This is why CSV exists. This is (some of) why some governments are moving away from this junk.

But microsoft's incompetence keeps a lot of people employed.

New comment by timnetworks in "$40K for an $8 knob? The case for a military right to repair"

timnetworks — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:08:15 +0000

surely there are some extra knobs at the original knob factory and 3d printers have nothing to do with it.

New comment by timnetworks in "Griffin PowerMate driver for modern macOS"

timnetworks — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:15:19 +0000

I have one of these and now all I need to do is find a reason to use the Mac.

New comment by timnetworks in "Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia"

timnetworks — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:41:39 +0000

Me too. What I haven't heard until very recently is normal people either unafraid to say it, or afraid of the consequences of saying it less than the consequences of what is happening.

They lost the plot, it's a little too late, but it's new.

New comment by timnetworks in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"

timnetworks — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:06:52 +0000

Light your subject

New comment by timnetworks in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

timnetworks — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:05:48 +0000

I've never seen someone fling their clipboard against the wall so hard it shatters. Probably clipboard developers are just a better breed.

New comment by timnetworks in "Hey Uber, fix your eatsite. You're embarrassing the internet"

timnetworks — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:21:56 +0000

cri-ckets. I wonder what idiot hole helped them up.

Hey Uber, fix your eatsite. You're embarrassing the internet

timnetworks — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:41:36 +0000

https://merchants.ubereats.com/manager/catalog/

Hey Uber, you're a multibillion dollar black hole, can you use some of the dollars to make a webpage that can handle an image upload.

While there, can you hire some people that understand more than 1 sentence at a time?

This should be embarrassing to you. But at a company where human exploitation is okay I guess it tracks.. but it should be embarrassing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947511

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New comment by timnetworks in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

timnetworks — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:40:31 +0000

mr. show was an amazing bit of media

New comment by timnetworks in "Is my blue your blue?"

timnetworks — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:35:14 +0000

> Your boundary is at hue 172, greener than 63% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue.

isn't turquoise exactly (50%) between the two?

New comment by timnetworks in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

timnetworks — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:35:29 +0000

godaddy is a fucking joke, and at ten times the price [of what I use instead]!

and they burrow their stupid certificates into your computer, you can thank microsoft for that one I guess

New comment by timnetworks in "Bring Your Agent to Teams"

timnetworks — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:04:53 +0000

> Teams is where most enterprise work happens

gtfo.. this can't possibly be written by claude, someone thinks this!

New comment by timnetworks in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"

timnetworks — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:37:48 +0000

Olympics are literally a showcase of the genetic lottery. We can have Testtube Olympics alongside Special Olympics if there is sufficient interest.

New comment by timnetworks in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

timnetworks — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:37:11 +0000

Of course it's Made on iPhone! They stopped making anything else!

New comment by timnetworks in "Show HN: Tiny pixel characters for Cursor AI agents"

timnetworks — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:16:56 +0000

The sprite graphics are amazing. Was this done by hand?

New comment by timnetworks in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

timnetworks — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:03:36 +0000

Is there a shell replacement for windows these days? I don't need two right-click menus and whatever it is they did with the task tray anyway.

New comment by timnetworks in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

timnetworks — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:13:39 +0000

Some people are not concerned with having it run the fastest, just having it run at all may be enough.

New comment by timnetworks in "X is selling existing users' handles"

timnetworks — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:25:56 +0000

mine wasn't even that rare, no followers, and twitter still took it away. now it has a blue badge.

it's not my computer i suppose. a whole bunch of computers, all not mine.

now imagine hinging your entire marketing philosophy off 3-4 platforms like this.

New comment by timnetworks in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

timnetworks — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:18:12 +0000

The most dangerous links recently have been from sharepoint.com, dropbox.com, etc. and nobody is going to block those.