Hacker News: uberman

New comment by uberman in "Tom Cruise film 'Digger' could lose $245M"

uberman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:45:07 +0000

Its too bad as cruise plays two distict characters that could easily have blended together he did a great job but you would really have to enjoy his tropic thunder performace to appreciate digger

New comment by uberman in "Is library building obsoleted by AI coding?"

uberman — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:39:39 +0000

Would you rather ai leverage postgres or reimplment it to support persistence for your project?

New comment by uberman in "Elon Musk to advise Pentagon on future of war"

uberman — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:10:41 +0000

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict it will be to buy a trillion dollars of drones/robots he makes.

New comment by uberman in "McDonald's Is Reportedly Using AI to "Dynamically" Price Its Burgers"

uberman — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:33:44 +0000

I would be outranged... if I ate there.

New comment by uberman in "The secret lives of men who read romance books"

uberman — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:54:00 +0000

I'm almost embarrassed to admit I like a GPT generated space opera every now and then though I would never be caught dead with a book with a traditional romance cover on it.

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Are you working less? By how much?"

uberman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:10:19 +0000

I feel like i am working harder and faster to the point i am fried

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Dead Internet"

uberman — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:54:02 +0000

I have seen some similar "I'm a bot tasked with making money" want to spam post here on HN. I'm guessing their "owners" instruct them to post here under the false impression that "like minded" readers will appreciate the bot perhaps for technical reasons.

New comment by uberman in "Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program"

uberman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:05:40 +0000

I have a friend who is one one the best programmers I know. He worked for an ad tech company more than a decade ago optimizing time to respond for personalized ad delivery. He was not proud of working to act on fingerprinting to optimize delivery but it was a challenging task and he framed his part as addressing the challenge not the ethics. People in our circle where like "good for you optimizing network delivery to 50ms!" even people who despised the idea of tracking users around the internet to serve them ads.

I'm sure most people who work for flock compartmentalize their jobs to "I work on fingerprinting vehicles" or "I work on advanced OCR", or "I work on creating camera to camera trajectory graphs". This way they don't need to think about (too often) the larger ramifications of what they are doing. When the press points out what is the reality and that most people are pissed at Flock then the employees likely have to confront what they do in a way that they never had to.

New comment by uberman in "Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan"

uberman — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:01:33 +0000

If you were able to do so would the result not be the same. We dont accept your terms update so we and terminating your subscription. Essentially the same that you can do.

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Do you think the software industry has a good culture of whistleblowing?"

uberman — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:15:03 +0000

No industry seems to have a good culture that supports whistle blowing

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"

uberman — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:32:14 +0000

This. Can't you get your number moved to a new phone? I have never don't anything magic when upgrading my phone other than move contacts.

New comment by uberman in "Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?"

uberman — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:35:27 +0000

The opposite is true for me. I have always wanted to try Godot as a platform and AI is helping me make that happen.

New comment by uberman in "Claude Fable 5.1 cracked a cipher that has survived for 370 years in 40 min."

uberman — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:05:15 +0000

Much better link not the least is the description and name of the problem being solved!

New comment by uberman in "Flock cameras used to arrest a child for playing on a swing?"

uberman — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:00:54 +0000

When I was a kid twisting a swing so you could ride it as it untwisted was something that happend dozens of times every recess. This was something every kid did. If your playground equipment falls apart as a result of the standard way kids use a swing then I think that is a manufacture issue not criminal behavior by a 10 year old

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?"

uberman — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:26:49 +0000

He gave no links nor did the original post. I did no flagging and did not vote on any item in this thread. Yet I see that four accounts with a combined age of 10 days wants to complain about sock puppets.

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?"

uberman — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:17:01 +0000

So then no proof whatsoever? So for fun I looked at your user and color me shocked that you are complaining about the use of sock puppets while apparently using one yourself. Alternatively has 8 days allowed you to devine the inner workings of this site?

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?"

uberman — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:03:54 +0000

Do you have proof for you claims? I am under the impression that 500 rep essentially maxes out your standard privileges and that no reputation based weighting is applied to votes.

If your fear is that there are voting rings (which apparently the system tries to detect) then resetting the rep will give them more relative power not less.

Personally I dont pay any attention to the rep of a user when evaluating how I should or should not engage with them. I think things are working just fine at the moment.

If you are frustrated by repetitive homepage content, I recommend you switch to the "new" view as there is lots of diversity there.

Again, if you have any proof that a cadre of nefarious high profile users are somehow abusing the system I would love to see it.

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: How do we deal with "hacking" Hacker News?"

uberman — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:51:28 +0000

If the contnet aligns with the interests of this community as apparently it did generation a bunch of views that I'll take your word for, then if it really a problem? If the community does not like something they can ignore downvote and flag and it will go wherever the crap goes.

New comment by uberman in "[dead]"

uberman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:50:10 +0000

why is this site sending me to :

https://.monster

if I try to copy text?

I mean I know why but shame on them and their advertising "partners"

New comment by uberman in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

uberman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:25:54 +0000

If it is on the homepage then is it not algorithmically what the community wants? Have you tried the https://news.ycombinator.com/newest link? I find that I prefer it over the homepage and have does so for years.