Hacker News: user_of_the_wek

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

user_of_the_wek — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:52:33 +0000

You could even do combinations of colors like on resistors.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates"

user_of_the_wek — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:33:48 +0000

And Rollercoaster Tycoon. But I‘ll never forget how awesome the original Theme Park felt. I even had the SNES version.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

user_of_the_wek — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:10:52 +0000

> like Mark Hamill

I just wanted to add, it also had John Rhys-Davies and Malcom McDowell! Crazy cast for a video game, especially back then. And these were not „just“ voice roles.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:53:31 +0000

Google Translate can change the writing style of a text? I thought it would just translate between different languages.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:23:34 +0000

Unironically, I think in the future we will have the option to run filters in our browsers that can reword articles to your preferred writing style. Like user stylesheets for text. I also assume it already exists out there, I've just been to lazy so far to look for it. It's a relatively obvious application of LLMs.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:23:13 +0000

> In the beginning, the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

user_of_the_wek — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:35:33 +0000

I‘m wondering if there’s a better term to use than „digital games“. Those physical discs are just as digital as anything else.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "CarPlay Is Additive"

user_of_the_wek — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:26:56 +0000

Weirdly enough, some cars don't even have that cluster any more. Like the Volvo EX30.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Why jet engines aren't made in China"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:21:32 +0000

Do you think its zero sum? We could just put all the gender studies students into engineering and expect them to thrive there?

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

user_of_the_wek — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:20:23 +0000

I mean, surely there is a more defensive way to communicate his preference, and the word disgusting is a bit unpolite. But still, does this really count as toxic behaviour?

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:28:41 +0000

You can avoid being taxed on unrealized gains by realizing them first ;)

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:14:41 +0000

For a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for the shareholders…

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:06:33 +0000

Vienna waits for you

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:31:35 +0000

It seems this wasn’t about the code itself, it was about Apple Pay not being announced yet. So only people under NDA would be allowed to even know what they are working on.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

user_of_the_wek — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:13:05 +0000

Don’t forget the candles

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:57:26 +0000

OTOH I have often witnessed people agreeing without realizing it. I‘ve been able to defuse a bunch of arguments by pointing that out.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "You Can Run"

user_of_the_wek — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:43:49 +0000

Reminds me of Brecht

> Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:21:07 +0000

Cancer does not grow endlessly.

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

user_of_the_wek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:25:16 +0000

Ah, the Dwarf Fortress approach :)

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Fun&redirect=no

New comment by user_of_the_wek in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

user_of_the_wek — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:46:27 +0000

Obviously this blue part here is the land