Hacker News: ulrashida

New comment by ulrashida in "Amazon to add 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge as Iran war raises energy prices"

ulrashida — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:45:06 +0000

I wonder how visible it will be when showing final charges for an order.

I'd definitely be more likely to "wait it out" when considering purchases in my cart if I can see what I expect will be a temporary levy.

New comment by ulrashida in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

ulrashida — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:24:43 +0000

So, given that Phoenix, Denver, and Vegas already have spacing similar to European nations do they see the benefits that the author is suggesting?

New comment by ulrashida in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

ulrashida — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:16:48 +0000

Amusing that the author can't stomach referring to themselves as an agent manager so they retreat back to the term "agent engineering". Please.

New comment by ulrashida in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

ulrashida — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:47:54 +0000

That was the joke: it's not easy to quit smoking.

New comment by ulrashida in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

ulrashida — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:46:49 +0000

And yet somewhere around that 6th donut it will hit and you will stop.

New comment by ulrashida in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

ulrashida — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:44:52 +0000

Professional engineers are required to consider the interests of the public in their work, have an obligation to reject unethical or harmful instructions and are regulated by their professional organization to support competency and address malpractice. Much of this was driven over the past 50-100 years as society determined that they wanted things built by engineers to not kill people or have material deficiencies following construction.

From my understanding, software engineers are a long away out from this still but perhaps we'll get there once the dust settles on more of these sorts of lawsuits.

New comment by ulrashida in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

ulrashida — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:00:46 +0000

Not the kindest take (and unlikely true).

New comment by ulrashida in "English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings"

ulrashida — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:29:16 +0000

Students tend to be fairly lazy, so this may simply mean another x% of the class reads the material rather than scanning in the 60 pages of reading for the assignment.

New comment by ulrashida in "How to explain Generative AI in the classroom"

ulrashida — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:50:35 +0000

Which module introduces students to some of the ethical and environmental aspects of using GenAI?

New comment by ulrashida in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

ulrashida — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:23:32 +0000

Exactly this. Increasing prices with worsening service and feature bloat combined with questionable ethics made it an easy decision to cancel.

New comment by ulrashida in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

ulrashida — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:47:24 +0000

Australia has 6 weeks of leave at similar service levels, plus 11 public holidays. Turns out many countries have figured out how to not work themselves to death.

New comment by ulrashida in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

ulrashida — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:44:47 +0000

None of this is necessary.

New comment by ulrashida in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

ulrashida — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:10:35 +0000

It's a bit telling of your own biases that government/public housing seems to have escaped mention as "having a place" in this scenario.

New comment by ulrashida in "Deathbed Advice/Regret"

ulrashida — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:00:36 +0000

Feels like people on their deathbed are allowed to express their thoughts, trite/trivial or not. When you are literally dying the last thing on your mind should be whether some blogger deems your thoughts valuable or cheap.

May we all get to enjoy those final moments free of the need to perform on stage and express those things we truly wish to pass on to those will hear them.

New comment by ulrashida in "The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?"

ulrashida — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:55:20 +0000

That's a worthwhile view, but unlikely to occur. You may as well wish away casinos and alcohol while you're at it.

New comment by ulrashida in "The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?"

ulrashida — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:00:40 +0000

I was tempted to respond with an offhand comment about the size of the industry or similar, but what axe do you have to grind about PC gaming? You'd prefer folks go to the far more injurious mobile gaming space?

New comment by ulrashida in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

ulrashida — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:40:23 +0000

"We have not yet begun to truly suck."

New comment by ulrashida in "US Tech Force"

ulrashida — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:34:20 +0000

Figures this comes from the National Design Studio (https://ndstudio.gov/) which ironically also ignores the government's own advice on web standards and correct use of identifying headers.

One can assume the US Tech Force will perceive itself as also unfettered by those silly rules and good practices.

New comment by ulrashida in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

ulrashida — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:29:45 +0000

It's a very good system. $20 is the right number to get you off the couch, but not so much as to cripple you. There are exceptions if you have a valid reason for not voting. The maximum fine is ~$180 so you can't simply ignore the Elections Commission and hope it goes away.

New comment by ulrashida in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

ulrashida — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:26:07 +0000

I'm not sure if you've been following, but the current SCOTUS hasn't seemed to as concerned about upholding precedents as previous courts have.