Hacker News: usui

New comment by usui in "If IPv4 were land"

usui — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:11:29 +0000

I keep IPv4 off on a media computer all the time out of curiosity. IPv6-only is still unusable because only about 5% to 10% of top sites that I find during a Google Search work. It's almost guaranteed that a website will not load on all the top results.

So even if it's true 50% of clients support IPv6, only about 5% to 10% of website hosts do.

Sure a person can do a dual-stack setup or do some IPv4-IPv6 translation, but seriously IPv6-only should be plug-and-play by now.

New comment by usui in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

usui — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:56:44 +0000

No Apple Pencil is a huge miss for consumers. I guess they don't want to cannibalize the iPad though.

I would probably never touch the screen with my fingers, but I would draw with it. Would also be really useful during calls.

New comment by usui in "Japanese internet giant GMO tells customers to unplug PCs after compromise"

usui — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:02:09 +0000

The leet hacker scenes in fiction have become real.

I also wouldn't have guessed specifically that pwning Japanese companies would became an esport for leet.

Are there any other previously language-gated countries facing many more issues relative to the rest of the world? I wonder how Korea is doing.

New comment by usui in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

usui — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:01:15 +0000

Not that good, but it has to be really really good if you want to spend hours writing up notes and creating quality documents with endurance outside of the presentation.

New comment by usui in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

usui — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:53:11 +0000

Well, the author needs it to be a tablet form factor with a stylus as described here https://teddysvoronos.com/2015-11-19-in-praise-of-goodnotes/

Both the hardware and software market for tablets running a real desktop OS still seem pretty terrible, and it's been over 10 years since the release of the first Apple Pencil. No competition seems to be coming at all. Windows Surface exists, but software is still not great and the stylus not as good as Apple's.

New comment by usui in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

usui — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:05:15 +0000

The counterfactual doesn't make sense. Which country would stop or grind to a halt after electing a corrupt president? I think almost all countries would keep running at a basically normal capacity until failure, yet that doesn't prove those countries have great systems.

This will need a lot more time and hindsight to make general statements in terms of the wider picture.

New comment by usui in "Leaving Tech"

usui — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:50:15 +0000

I understand the stated feelings of indignation and resentment toward a process that was broken well before the current market conditions, but given the current conditions, isn't applying to 36 jobs and deciding to back out a bit hasty?

New comment by usui in "Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well"

usui — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Imagine Google shutting down Stadia in 2023 only for it to be revived in another form as a copyright infringement prevention tool somewhere else

New comment by usui in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

usui — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:20:47 +0000

I tried Apple TV's free trial and it really gets in the way of everything, so much so that I canceled. It's pretty annoying how modern streaming platforms try to ruin the vanilla viewing experience as much as possible. If I remember correctly it's also impossible to disable the automatic "next episode" preview in Amazon Prime which you have to click out of to hide. Like hey, I just watched a feature-length film. Let me watch the credits in peace.

New comment by usui in "$2599 Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra"

usui — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:45:15 +0000

They didn't mention buying it expecting a good Linux experience, but maybe later on they realized Windows was turning to shit and wanted to use Linux with it instead

New comment by usui in "Apple May Return to Server Market with Nvidia Technology"

usui — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:54:35 +0000

Nvidia is the Apple of GPUs, so it's quite an apt pair

New comment by usui in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

usui — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:15:09 +0000

This is going to sound like a really weird and irrelevant nitpick, but I dislike how they changed the version numbers to be year+1. I like that they all unified and have a relationship to the current year, but we're not buying cars. We're getting operating systems and not being confused about chronology is pretty important for bug tracking or other minutiae. Plus, the Mac lineup use(d) the year of release. Why move away from it? Is it really necessary to market and sell an operating system like it's a car or the latest Microsoft Office suite?

New comment by usui in "Remember Hong Kong"

usui — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:53:55 +0000

Wow that artist is nice. Reading that unlocked a memory of this animated video

https://youtu.be/RXAHywPLaD8 "Say No to China Extradition!"

New comment by usui in "Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?""

usui — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:28:35 +0000

I think it's naive to be bothered by the scenario you describe just because it's visible to you and yet it's still being done everywhere you go whether you like it or not. Similarly, just because this Show HN is visible to the user it becomes a privacy issue, whereas hundreds of web scrapers are doing the same to HN every day and you don't know about it.

We are living in the Wild West of privacy. If you don't like it, you can share your grievance with the people running the public space or disengage entirely. It's still going to happen.

New comment by usui in "Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?""

usui — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:16:11 +0000

The users in question are posting on a public forum under a username of their choosing, and it's still an invasion of privacy to read those posts and play pretend matchmaker?

New comment by usui in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"

usui — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:17:06 +0000

The same principle applies: You would have to leave the service when it starts introducing such things.

As a market-driving force in the real world, basically an impossible task for the collective. However, occasionally consumers do successfully band together to abandon a service due to some perceived slight.

New comment by usui in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

usui — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:41:27 +0000

Been using it for half a year and so far it's doing well. I never remove it from its case so there's not much wear happening on the connector. At least it protects the original port as well.

The creator is really nice and basically handles everything himself. I had n issue in the upper separate piece and I learned just the top part can be ordered and replaced for cheap.

New comment by usui in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

usui — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:22:18 +0000

You don't have to choose one over the other

https://obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case

New comment by usui in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

usui — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:43:33 +0000

But how can I find the answer to the question without reading punchy headers followed by paragraphs like

> How We Leverage Naming

> Our Naming Strategy, Explained

> Why Swedish Is Important

> The Bottom Line

And unforgettable aphorisms like

> It isn't just a name—it is the output of a scalable, globally coordinated, linguistically validated, Swedish-inspired naming framework designed to optimize brand consistency

to let me know? I'm completely lost on this page and can't find the answer without these.

New comment by usui in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

usui — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:16:46 +0000

I don't think ads should be illegal because companies have a right to try to send me information or inform me of their products, but I also have a right to block them. The problem is that client-side computing seems to be lagging behind. Once an effective local video+audio filter is invented, it's either game over for adware or another arms race will begin where humans and classifiers can't tell what an ad is anymore (this has already run to completion on many platforms like Reddit, Amazon, and Google Maps anyway).

Criminalizing information flow is a non-trivial problem that I wouldn't want governments to be in control of.