Hacker News: wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=wildrhythmsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:32:52 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Stop Flock"]]>Ah yes, a pro-cop 'hacker' in the wild

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:32:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777663wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777663<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"]]>After just a handful of prompts everything breaks down

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:49:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703041wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703041<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware"]]>All your calls and texts are intercepted anyway, so what do you think you're hiding?

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:39:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688802wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688802https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688802<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"]]>Assuming that a farm would be owned by one person has already put a very tiny box around your world view

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:58:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659765wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47659765<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]>"We've done tons of user testing on this, and it turns out it doesn't work. Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical. It gives great demo but after a short period of time, you start to fatigue and after an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off. it doesn't work, it's ergonomically terrible."

-Steve Jobs, 2010

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-touch-screen-mac-...

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:19:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581678wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581678<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Ball Pit"]]>Runs smoothly and without crashes on my Pixel phone

]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:45:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524297wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524297https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524297<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"]]>I've been running Fedora (or a flavor) on my gaming PC for two years. All my games work. I understand some competitive games with intrusive anti cheat are incompatible, but with the success of the steam deck I don't think the gaming argument is holding much water these days.

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:31:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501145wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501145https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501145<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"]]>>sorry, I have never seen these supposed ads in win11

It's a setting called "Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen", and it's checked by default.

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:28:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501121wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501121https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501121<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Introducing DoorDash Tasks"]]>No, it's just an inventory check.

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:21:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481084wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481084https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481084<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Marvin Hagemeister, Luca Casonato, David Sherret and Phil Hawksworth left Deno"]]>Any clues what's going on?

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:51:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419447wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419447https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419447<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"]]>It's both the first and last thing to check

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:32:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323026wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323026<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "A useless infinite scroll experiment"]]>It has never existed natively on Mac OS X.

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:18:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322882wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322882<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"]]>These news sites run ads that are borderline gore, disturbing images promoting snake oil weight loss or skin care treatments, and wonder why nobody wants to click into their site.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:06:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234492wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234492<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Facebook is cooked"]]>Everywhere I go I see parents letting their kids scroll short form video. The brain rot starts early.

]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:07:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095315wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095315<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Facebook is cooked"]]>Every social media algorithm is like this now. Accidentally viewing certain types of videos are like dropping a nuclear bomb in your carefully nursed algorithm.

]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:05:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095303wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095303<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "DOGE Track"]]>Judging by your comment history, you might be Elon Musk's fiercest warrior!

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:14:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077826wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077826<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "H-1B Exposed: Banking sector visa sponsorship investigation"]]>They are rewarded for cutting the budget, and undercutting domestic workers. Until that changes, this problem will continue. Or workers could unionize.

]]>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:13:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047153wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047153https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047153<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"]]>Don't worry, I'm sure in a year about 30% of it will work! (But not on mobile)

]]>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:11:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034063wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034063https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034063<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"]]>Every day we inch closer to a 'digital passport' gatekeeping system.

]]>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:57:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023691wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023691<![CDATA[New comment by wildrhythms in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"]]>>You'll end up staying at the hotel which spends the most money on getting itself into the training data and forcing reviews on people immediately before the stay is up

...and how does your "by hand" process solve this problem? You are influenced by the same SEO crap regardless of AI intervention.

]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:21:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989904wildrhythmshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989904https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989904