Hacker News: urig

New comment by urig in "Why most product tours get skipped"

urig — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:05:29 +0000

Don't build a product tour. It is useless friction. Instead, build your UI to be good,simple, obvious. That's it. That's the tweet.

New comment by urig in "ML supports existence of unrecognized transient astronomical phenomena"

urig — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:21:14 +0000

+/- 1 day of nuclear testing because these are old records so dates and times reported might be inaccurate.

New comment by urig in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

urig — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:20:23 +0000

You don't have to use the most recent bleeding edge model to succeed. A local FOSS coding agent coupled with a reasonably priced LLM could yield the optimal ROI.

New comment by urig in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

urig — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:56:24 +0000

The tracking described is extremely invasive. You say you are not endorsing it but you are certainly normalizing it. This is unacceptable.

The people behind this URL are trying to hold Microsoft accountable. The power to them.

New comment by urig in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

urig — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:52:26 +0000

As an Israeli, this is an inexcusable crime by IDF soldiers. Appallingly, I expect them to receive no punishment. My country's government is criminally racist.

New comment by urig in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

urig — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:50:04 +0000

Lots and lots of CPUs pooled. Faster more efficient power RAM accessible to both GPU and CPU. IIUC.

New comment by urig in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

urig — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:49:04 +0000

What the heck is agentic inference and how is it supposed to be different from LLM inference? That's a rhetorical question. Screw marketing and screw hype.

New comment by urig in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

urig — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:32:54 +0000

No, we just outsourced car maintenance to professional shop services. Both because mechanical aspects have become reliable enough to last a year without maintenance and because electronic/computer aspects are mind-bogglingly complicated.

New comment by urig in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

urig — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 06:06:27 +0000

Lost me right about in the middle when he started chirping AI AI AI like a parrot. AI and trust do not go hand in hand. Focus on privacy, transparency and simplicity because instead. Good luck.

New comment by urig in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

urig — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:10:01 +0000

That's just irresponsible advice. There is so little actual evidence of this technology being able to produce high quality maintainable code that asking us to trust it blindly is borderline snake-oil peddling.

New comment by urig in "How to Spot a Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Battery"

urig — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 04:56:08 +0000

Long, interesting, and doesn't actually give you a practical way to spot counterfeit. Click-bait.

New comment by urig in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

urig — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:59:28 +0000

Bottom line: impressive optics, zero impact for this technology on global warming, it's a distraction.

New comment by urig in "ShipGoo001: Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel"

urig — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:50:20 +0000

University of Minnesota Duluth: "Routine maintenance leads to unexpected microbial discovery in “ship goo” on the R/V Blue Heron's rudder shaft."

ShipGoo001: Scientists discover new life aboard Great Lakes research vessel

urig — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:50:20 +0000

Article URL: https://news.d.umn.edu/articles/ship-goo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44823830

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by urig in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

urig — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:39:53 +0000

Central to this article, the author asks: "What if you just... removed the AI part?" and suggests a world of possibilities if we do. I disagree.

MCP is a protocol based on meagre structure and a bulk of human language. Either you use a large-language model to "read" this language, or you get a human to do it. The first is "AI" and the latter is... not very impressive.

New comment by urig in "Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta"

urig — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:24:01 +0000

I appreciate the artistic and programming skills of the developer but not the "cleverness" and "quirkiness" of their announcement post. It took me too long to figure out that this is some sort of distraction-less writing app only for iOS and so of no value to me. Less snappy memes, more empathy for me as a visitor, please.

New comment by urig in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

urig — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:08:07 +0000

My takeaway from this post is not to find better ways to do, but to find a way not to.

New comment by urig in "What's in that bright red fire retardant? No one will say, so we had it tested"

urig — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:30:45 +0000

That's an "all or nothing" fallacy, easily countered.

One alternative is water. Plus alternative products might be less efficient but less contaminating. Finally, even with Phos-Check, success is far from guaranteed.

Bottom line: the lack of transparency must be remedied and officials need to be aware and factor in heavy metal contamination into their decisions.

New comment by urig in "A Supersolid Made Using Photons"

urig — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:58:43 +0000

I can't believe anyone can fall for this. It's so obviously a modern take on that Rockwell Retro Encabulator joke.

New comment by urig in "Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com"

urig — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:37:11 +0000

Rules are put in place to be followed, for a reason. Capital letters at the start of the sentence increase readability. People who don't bother with them are being incosiderate towards their readers.