Hacker News: tommit

New comment by tommit in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

tommit — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:01:25 +0000

> Now you only have to deal with that group of bullies who slowly build up resentments, and might end up paying your school one last visit.

Seems like a slippery slope fallacy? Who says the person who got bullied relentlessly doesn't show up to pay one last visit? What an odd argument.

Seems like a decent approach to me tbh.

New comment by tommit in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

tommit — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:48:56 +0000

It's our version of Thanks Obama.

New comment by tommit in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

tommit — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:45:13 +0000

This comparison threw me for such a loop. What an odd way to present a point.

New comment by tommit in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

tommit — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:25:43 +0000

oh wow, there are like 10 opened every minute. seems spam-y

New comment by tommit in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

tommit — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:29:20 +0000

isn't Gen Z the first generation that's scoring worse on all kinds of tests than their parents did?

seems like this time it may actually be different. and peer reviewed.

New comment by tommit in "Have a fucking website"

tommit — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:28:51 +0000

Yeah. "put some HTML on a server" may as well say "split a few atoms" for people who have never done so.

No one is saying that it's impossible to learn all that stuff. But it takes time, has a fairly high entry barrier (despite LLMs and all that), and needs to happen _while_ keeping the business afloat.

New comment by tommit in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

tommit — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:25:39 +0000

tbh if I start worrying about poop particles in my day to day, I fear I'm one step closer to becoming a germaphobe. plus I feel if that's something that truly worries you, you'd start taking showers after each poop because clearly you will bring some poop particles with you when you leave anyway.

maybe this thread will end up being some kind of revelation, but I very much agree with the person you replied to. If I'm alone, I'm not bothered and the door may as well stay open

New comment by tommit in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

tommit — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:44:36 +0000

of course it is. this seems so obvious to me.

I even wrote into chatGPTs "memory" to NOT ASK FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS, because it's crazy annoying imo. it respects it about 40% of the time I'd say

New comment by tommit in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

tommit — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:52:40 +0000

Do you not have a self-hosted instance of every single service you use? :/

New comment by tommit in "Meow.camera"

tommit — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:26:20 +0000

They are all over this thread with hot takes.

New comment by tommit in "Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores"

tommit — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:41:28 +0000

> So he should just eat the cost that will add up over time, which is an unsustainable business model?

No, I think he should just not have built this product. However, this is my personal feeling and it seems there is some kind of market for it, so what do I know.

New comment by tommit in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

tommit — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:21:20 +0000

FYI for anyone not aware it's CMD + Shift + 4 (no option)

New comment by tommit in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

tommit — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:19:13 +0000

Please no. I can never remember which Cali area we're on. I almost always know which year it is. This has been long overdue. Should have learned their lesson from OS X and gone that way after iOS 10 the latest.

New comment by tommit in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

tommit — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:47:12 +0000

I genuinely do not understand how anybody could listen to Trump saying something about a topic he clearly does not know about (of which there are a couple -- let's face it) and describe it as "selling".

I'm not at all attacking you here by the way. But I'm legit speechless at that interpretation of his senile rambling.

New comment by tommit in "New iMac with M4"

tommit — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:54:12 +0000

> I'd sooner believe it's because they want you to buy 2 of them, so you can charge one while using the other.

We're discussing in this context. I still stand by the claim that there are probably around zero people on the planet that bought a second MM specifically to use it while the other one is charging.

I'm not doubting that there exists a group of people that happen to have acquired two MMs, however that came to be.

New comment by tommit in "New iMac with M4"

tommit — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:24:50 +0000

One people on the planet do this.

New comment by tommit in "New iMac with M4"

tommit — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:21:05 +0000

I'm personally not saying that excuses it, but I've once read that it was an absolutely conscious decision by Apple to put the port where it is.

A lot of people tend to simply leave the mouse plugged into a cable when using it, even once it's charged. Apple is famous for the image that they would like their products to convey. They don't want people leaving the mouse plugged in because it's convenient or they're unable to act on a month-long warning. They want to force you to use the mouse as it was designed -- wireless.

I'm not saying it's good, I don't have one myself and I plainly don't like the ergonomics of it. I like the look and I think I would be able to work around the port-location constraint, but it just doesn't feel nice to hold.

Pretty to look at, though.

New comment by tommit in "The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong"

tommit — Wed, 15 May 2024 14:36:30 +0000

Minor correction: Jesper Ejsing

New comment by tommit in "T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs"

tommit — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:29:14 +0000

Well yeah, a person getting their SIM swapped is not the same as someone getting scammed.

Until it is.

New comment by tommit in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

tommit — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 13:32:57 +0000

What's silly is this comment, as it has in no way furthered the discussion. It only enables one to feel smug for a hot minute. Surely you're smart enough to infer that "natural causes" are said in contrast to "human-made causes".