Hacker News: wildrhythms

New comment by wildrhythms in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

wildrhythms — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:38:22 +0000

I use a GoPro Hero Session on a motorcycle helmet mount and it's perfect. I bought it nearly 10 years ago. Still works great!

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

wildrhythms — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:34:38 +0000

But when you accidentally typed into the prompt field and hit enter it registered a daily active user metric so the feature must be a hit!

New comment by wildrhythms in "Economists Are Obsessed with "Job Creation." How about Less Work? (2017)"

wildrhythms — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:17:35 +0000

Seems like today's more-work-less-pay model also leads to inflation, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.

New comment by wildrhythms in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

wildrhythms — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:07:14 +0000

"Signing off" doesn't exist because even after the thing is in a MVP stage the stakeholders will still want to change it

New comment by wildrhythms in "Does anybody like React?"

wildrhythms — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:47:05 +0000

Not comparable because custom elements don't handle rerenders elegantly without extra plumbing.

New comment by wildrhythms in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

wildrhythms — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:13:20 +0000

Nobody is getting rewarded for reinventing the wheel.

New comment by wildrhythms in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

wildrhythms — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:10:27 +0000

This is what happens when your engineering company is run by warring factions of tech illiterate business people rather than engineers.

New comment by wildrhythms in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

wildrhythms — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:24:51 +0000

The new goal is to flood the Internet with so much junk that human-created content can be sold back to us in a walled garden.

New comment by wildrhythms in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

wildrhythms — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:52:54 +0000

But then how will all of the know-nothing management types get their fingers in the pie?

New comment by wildrhythms in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

wildrhythms — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:42:56 +0000

All that matters is some MBA product manager at Google was celebrated for shipping this. Hooray!

New comment by wildrhythms in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

wildrhythms — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:20:55 +0000

Glad to see the hackers have arrived to defend a billion dollar corporation

Polymarket breach – 300k records exposed

wildrhythms — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:04:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DarkWebInformer/status/2049163029430870034

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939016

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wildrhythms in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

wildrhythms — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:44:37 +0000

Anecdotally, my manager is a rabid RTO advocate, he's a gen X man and messages our team sometimes at 1am, is working on the weekends, schedules early morning and late meetings that extend well past 5pm. He has kids that he never mentions. We don't work on anything mission critical whatsoever.

New comment by wildrhythms in "CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity"

wildrhythms — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:20:58 +0000

Outsourcing to India and the Philippines

New comment by wildrhythms in "Stop Flock"

wildrhythms — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:32:31 +0000

Ah yes, a pro-cop 'hacker' in the wild

New comment by wildrhythms in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"

wildrhythms — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:49:25 +0000

After just a handful of prompts everything breaks down

New comment by wildrhythms in "ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware"

wildrhythms — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:39:34 +0000

All your calls and texts are intercepted anyway, so what do you think you're hiding?

New comment by wildrhythms in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

wildrhythms — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:58:14 +0000

Assuming that a farm would be owned by one person has already put a very tiny box around your world view

New comment by wildrhythms in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

wildrhythms — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:19:56 +0000

"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-...

New comment by wildrhythms in "Ball Pit"

wildrhythms — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:45:15 +0000

Runs smoothly and without crashes on my Pixel phone