Hacker News: tspike

New comment by tspike in "Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)"

tspike — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 07:57:05 +0000

The expansion of the sport pilot category should mean you can fly most trainer airplanes with just a driver license.

New comment by tspike in "We're Not Innovating, We're Just Forgetting Slower"

tspike — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:41:20 +0000

You could replace the word "advanced" with "unsustainable" and the thought still holds.

New comment by tspike in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

tspike — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:41:13 +0000

You could apply the same logic to "Women in X" groups. It's not discrimination as much as it is support.

New comment by tspike in "GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable"

tspike — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:25:46 +0000

Would you consider the images you create to be art?

New comment by tspike in "Bop Spotter"

tspike — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:42:45 +0000

He commented elsewhere that he uses a Python library that wraps a private API

New comment by tspike in "Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate"

tspike — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:32:22 +0000

Right, the point is that complexity is unnecessary.

New comment by tspike in "Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate"

tspike — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:30:53 +0000

How did we ever survive without computerized vehicles?

New comment by tspike in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

tspike — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:38:25 +0000

Fun, no. Accurate, mostly.

New comment by tspike in "Weather forecasts have become more accurate"

tspike — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:34:21 +0000

It does have that: “report an issue.”

New comment by tspike in "Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat"

tspike — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:31:11 +0000

I personally miss the air cover working from the office provides for doing nothing. Way easier to seem productive just by existing.

New comment by tspike in "Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations"

tspike — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:15:50 +0000

After harvesting the ozone layer using airships that produce eardrum-splitting noise for decades, the aliens achieved a communication breakthrough and were finally able to communicate to the pesky humans: “Please stop attacking our airships. They are very convenient for us.”

New comment by tspike in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

tspike — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:27:30 +0000

Does this whole thing remind anyone else of the tech community’s version of celebrity gossip?

New comment by tspike in "Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically"

tspike — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 19:44:42 +0000

Grim from an economic perspective, perhaps. Meanwhile, the biggest thing you can do to impact climate change is have fewer children.

New comment by tspike in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

tspike — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:38:50 +0000

Sure, and now you’re inflicting the same problems on the local population who don’t have the option of geographic arbitrage.

New comment by tspike in "The beauty of finished software"

tspike — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:50:19 +0000

Why’s that?

New comment by tspike in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"

tspike — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:55:26 +0000

Sadly, if your relatives are anything like mine, they have probably already made the decision for you.

New comment by tspike in "Bricklaying robots can now build tennis-court-sized walls in 4 hours"

tspike — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:16:53 +0000

Seems like this would be quite useful for earthworks projects.

New comment by tspike in "Woman's experimental bionic hand passes major test"

tspike — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:24:34 +0000

> in the same way the internet and smart phones have

I think the jury is very much still out on that one. I just got on Facebook for the first time in almost 10 years, and the comments on 'suggested' content have made me seriously question whether society was ready for these technologies. The corrosive impact of the falsehoods that are being thrown around has only begun to take effect.

New comment by tspike in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

tspike — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:53:16 +0000

I hate this so much. My off grid cabin has the magical ability to get people to stop scrolling and hang out with each other.

New comment by tspike in "Show HN: Classic Video Poker"

tspike — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 05:26:18 +0000

Did you take this down?! I was really enjoying it