Hacker News: vachina

New comment by vachina in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

vachina — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:37:40 +0000

Yeah. I fly budget and mid tier all the time, they’re all the same trying to upsell a bazillion services. Just click no/decline/reject all the way, what’s so difficult about it?

New comment by vachina in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

vachina — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:04:35 +0000

Or delete the Music app… zero processes required.

New comment by vachina in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

vachina — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:35:48 +0000

Interesting, then again unsurprising. HN is ripe for and very easily botted.

New comment by vachina in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

vachina — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:16:06 +0000

You mean all these testaments are bs? As an infrequent user of LLM assisted work these stories never really tallied with my experience.

For example I could never throw a bunch of spec/doc at an agent and have it return something useable 30 minutes later. Yeah the code compiles but they don’t work.

New comment by vachina in "India's surprise baby bust"

vachina — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:16:41 +0000

The top 1% is freaking out at the thought of population shrinking because the cogs of the machine won’t turn itself.

New comment by vachina in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

vachina — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:45:16 +0000

When I studied in Germany, my house was broken into by a Bosnian migrant neighbour. The entire thing was captured on CCTV and reported to the Polizei, and they did exactly nothing, claiming the CCTV footage “does not prove anything”. All my money in my wallet was taken.

Yeah since then I don’t trust the crime figures from Germany.

New comment by vachina in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

vachina — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:40:42 +0000

Yeah not sure why you’re being downvoted. Work hard on making elderly care as easy as possible, automate automatable things. Importing people is just kicking the ageing population can down the road; these immigrant will grow old one day, and then what, import even more people?

New comment by vachina in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

vachina — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:14:06 +0000

These people would’ve failed with or without AI.

New comment by vachina in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

vachina — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:05:33 +0000

A web UI cannot do that. It is simply not possible.

New comment by vachina in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

vachina — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:31:40 +0000

Why are people accessing emails from the webUI. Email is SMTP and IMAP, use any number of clients to access your email.

New comment by vachina in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"

vachina — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:02:35 +0000

Also basically jwt tokens

New comment by vachina in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

vachina — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:25:34 +0000

Updater service has been disabled since day 1.

New comment by vachina in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

vachina — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:13:00 +0000

I’ve got one cool story to tell. One of my Facebook alt credentials is somehow “merged” with another alt that I used to use, that is, I can use the email of one account to login to another account. The merge seems to be persistent.

Meta somehow determined the two accounts are the same person.

New comment by vachina in "Chuwi Minibook X"

vachina — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:38:53 +0000

The fact that it’s listed is meaningless. You need to ask the seller what’s wrong with it.

New comment by vachina in "Chuwi Minibook X"

vachina — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:28:47 +0000

What decent secondhand thing can you find at $350.

It is being thrown away in the first place for a reason.

New comment by vachina in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

vachina — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:37:43 +0000

Ironically my pirated copy of Office Mac will work perpetually. Arrr for the win.

New comment by vachina in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

vachina — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:32:23 +0000

The entire raspi foundation is a marketing department. Raspi products is making zero sense ever since the Pi 2.

> encroaching on the territory of the Intel N150.

It’s nerdier to say you built your homelab on a Raspi, and that’s what keeps the foundation afloat.

New comment by vachina in "[dead]"

vachina — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:21:03 +0000

Flag it and move on

New comment by vachina in "Ferrari Luce"

vachina — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:46:01 +0000

I love Ferraris trying to sound like Yutong buses.

New comment by vachina in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

vachina — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:24:38 +0000

Okay, not as much. Point still stands.