Hacker News: underdown

New comment by underdown in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

underdown — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:05:46 +0000

It’s a hand out to advertisers losing uuids.

New comment by underdown in "Eat Real Food"

underdown — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:42:21 +0000

Grain finished has higher fat content. Better marbling and generally grades higher. Wagyu is grain fed for a reason.

New comment by underdown in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

underdown — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:39:15 +0000

The ad industry is a quagmire of fraud. Assuming someone got value out of money spent is tenuous.

New comment by underdown in "Did California's fast food minimum wage reduce employment?"

underdown — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:02:31 +0000

Labor is typically ~33% of a restaurants costs.

New comment by underdown in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

underdown — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:52:56 +0000

I make 4x in the US what I’d make in Germany.

New comment by underdown in "A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house"

underdown — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:43:19 +0000

Well, now I’m convinced

New comment by underdown in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

underdown — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:33:19 +0000

Putin already took the land, it’s not an issue of handing over anything.

New comment by underdown in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

underdown — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:58:16 +0000

Well done. I like it. Could use an indicator showing an attack is available.

New comment by underdown in "WordPress.org's latest move involves taking control of a WP Engine plugin"

underdown — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:10:03 +0000

At a minimum a plugin that Wordpress was forced to “fork”.

New comment by underdown in "Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth"

underdown — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:28:45 +0000

This is almost as embarrassing as data centers in space getting funded. lol.

New comment by underdown in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

underdown — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 14:37:38 +0000

The Pendleton civil service reform act of 1883. It effectively ended the spoils system that previously allowed what you’re suggesting.

New comment by underdown in "Private spies hired by FBI and corporations infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp"

underdown — Sun, 28 May 2023 05:40:47 +0000

The 4th amendment should prevent them from spying on us without cause.

New comment by underdown in "Be careful what you test or deploy to Vercel"

underdown — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:14:38 +0000

Vercel is sooo easy. Hook it to a repo and you’re done. It’s also cheap depending on use case. Edge functions are nice. Zero complaints from me as a customer for a little over a year.

I work with a small crew and having no server maintenance lets us ship more code. Really as simple as that.

New comment by underdown in "Review: The Guerilla's Guide to the Baofeng Radio"

underdown — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:49:35 +0000

I read this book two weeks ago. This review is dead on. The book definitely sparked my interest to learn more. I take my technician exam next weekend. My one complaint about the book is the typography and spacing is pretty bad - at least the Amazon version I bought.

New comment by underdown in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

underdown — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:04:47 +0000

You’re describing a multivariate test. Two groups under two different algorithm variants. Multivariate tests still require control groups.

New comment by underdown in "JFK Assassination Records – 2022 Additional Documents Release"

underdown — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 15:48:17 +0000

Is there a huge gulf? They are the three main crimes all drug cartels commit. Seems more like a natural progression than a gulf.

New comment by underdown in "Google’s apps to embrace iOS on iOS"

underdown — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:09:55 +0000

Skeuomorphic design simply doesn’t work. Turning knobs and dials on a touchscreen? It’s a three dimensional interface slapped on a 2d canvas.

New comment by underdown in "Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle"

underdown — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:18:05 +0000

I assume you mean deaths from swattings. There are swattings every year in Chicago.

New comment by underdown in "Austin cyclists split on sharing bike lanes with pizza delivery robots"

underdown — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 12:37:33 +0000

More traffic in bike lanes means more dead cyclists.

New comment by underdown in "1989 Yugo GVL: Performance Testing"

underdown — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 03:23:57 +0000

This was my first car. It had a push button start and got 45mpg highway.