Hacker News: user68858788

New comment by user68858788 in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

user68858788 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:02:30 +0000

That's a neat site but I'm stuck looking in from the outside. Can someone spare me an invite please? My email is in my about.

New comment by user68858788 in "Bay Area mom out thousands after scammers use AI to mimic daughter's voice"

user68858788 — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:13:36 +0000

A friend’s parents were recently targeted by AI scammers that impersonated family members. This shocked me because her parents are pretty poor, and I imagine it’s not free to make targeted scams like this. So, why were they targeted?

My guess is that my friend is listed on a company website as an executive, and scammers are using company pages to find targets worth spending money on. Scams like these aren’t free, but they’re cheap enough to cast wide nets. The nets are only going to get wider as AI becomes cheaper and more available.

Security by obscurity, as effective as it was, is coming to an end. AI enables scammers to spear phish indiscriminately.

New comment by user68858788 in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

user68858788 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:34:38 +0000

Do you have an example? I’ve done a slightly-more-than-casual search for convincing post-processing and haven’t found success. Filters still tend to retain the sharpness of pixel edges in a way that CRTs don’t, and the contrast doesn’t look right either.

New comment by user68858788 in "Light on Glass: Why do you start making a game engine?"

user68858788 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:28:59 +0000

Interesting article. I hope their engine gets to the point where it actually looks like CRT instead of the blocky filters we see nowadays.

Here’s an entertaining video showing the difference in retro games on crt and lcd screens. It’s pretty incredible if you aren’t aware. Games back then were designed on CRTs and can look awful on LCDs in comparison.

https://youtu.be/bC-8y2R6IxI?t=166&si=D6K2v28RIR4bACQ3

New comment by user68858788 in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

user68858788 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:41:10 +0000

Baking everyday as a way to keep a professional identity is an interesting idea. Being semi-retired, I’ve noticed that I am starting to struggle the curiosity and motivation that kept me going when I still worked. This article makes me think I should pick up a habit of doing some “work” daily.

New comment by user68858788 in "Visual Snow Syndrome"

user68858788 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:57:43 +0000

Visual snow’s impact on my life is fairly small. Driving at night is a little tough. It’s hard to paint still life’s when the values are jittering. Reading text on a page gets tiring because the text wiggles slightly.

New comment by user68858788 in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

user68858788 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:34:18 +0000

Spectacle for Mac and power toys for windows.

I’ve been using a single large monitor for a while and it’s been great with window managers. The biggest downside is when playing games full-screen.

New comment by user68858788 in "Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates"

user68858788 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:05:48 +0000

That's impressive!

New comment by user68858788 in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"

user68858788 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:53:49 +0000

I agree with this post, and suspect a lot of us will see the logic in approaching problems like this.

However, this approach isn’t universal and should be used with caution. A head-on approach isn’t effective with a person who is conflict-avoidant. Any of the given examples, no matter how gentle the delivery, will be seen as a personal attack and cause to pull away.

New comment by user68858788 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

user68858788 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:36:29 +0000

That does sound dire. There’s the replacement rate to consider still, though I imagine new hires are close to 0 with the shutdown in effect.

New comment by user68858788 in "US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites"

user68858788 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:14:26 +0000

A quick search shows that there are over 20,000 ATCs employed in the United States. (I'm not confident in the sources I found - anyone know where to get reliable stats for things like this?)

Is the number of retiring ATCs higher than normal? I assume it is, but the article doesn't mention the baseline. It's hard for me to understand the scale of the issue from this article alone.

New comment by user68858788 in "What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)"

user68858788 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:52:36 +0000

No, I haven’t. Thank you for the link!

New comment by user68858788 in "What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)"

user68858788 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:51:59 +0000

My best guess is that HPPD was triggered by how I used NyQuil as a young teen. I would drink half a bottle, sleep for half the day, and wake up feeling better. I did this pretty regularly for a few years whenever I got sick.

New comment by user68858788 in "What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)"

user68858788 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:19:24 +0000

I would love to try hallucinogens but I’m worried that it’ll aggravate my HPPD. It’s a pretty rare condition, and only a single optometrist I’ve spoken with actually believes I experience it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep...

New comment by user68858788 in "What Dynamic Typing Is For"

user68858788 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:37:10 +0000

The article is well written and shows why dynamic typing can be so compelling.

This is how I’ve been writing web services for the last decade. It was a style that came from being frustrated with the experience of using many all-in-one frameworks.

Frameworks take time to learn and the skills are generally non-transferable. Any complex application still requires you to know the underlying languages frameworks attempt to abstract. Frameworks often make testing more difficult due to adding layers of abstraction between what the application does and how the code is written.

Writing actual SQL/CSS/etc in a dynamically typed language to be used in a template is so much easier to understand, debug, and validate.

New comment by user68858788 in "Plex tells users to reset passwords after new data breach"

user68858788 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:42:34 +0000

Does any other media server play well with Apple TV?

New comment by user68858788 in "The West is bored to death"

user68858788 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:01:05 +0000

I enjoyed this article and it is giving me ideas on how to improve the quality of my own leisure time.

New comment by user68858788 in "The ROI of Exercise"

user68858788 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:44:22 +0000

Anecdotally, weight training eliminated my chronic shoulder and hip pains from sitting at a desk. I’ve read several similar stories but I’d be interested to see studies on this.

New comment by user68858788 in "Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)"

user68858788 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:02:56 +0000

It’s an awful feeling to have a trusted friend distance themselves with no explanation. It amplifies any insecurities we have.

I hope you find someone you can connect with. I’m rooting for you man.

New comment by user68858788 in "Using a graphics tablet as a programming tool (2018)"

user68858788 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:54:35 +0000

I’m going to try this!