Hacker News: x0xrx

New comment by x0xrx in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

x0xrx — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:49:21 +0000

I gotta be honest, I don’t find it particularly hard to read. I like how it makes it feel like there is “depth” to the screen, and when I focus on the top layer (eg Notification Center) the background falls away.

I can personally see how others would find it hard to read, just really doesn’t bother me. I can imagine being unconvinced that anyone really finds it to be that bad, and thinking it’s just HN contrarians being annoying, as usual.

New comment by x0xrx in "ChatGPT Is Down"

x0xrx — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:43:13 +0000

7 hours later, still down. Glad my business doesn’t depend on it; like a payment processor or other core piece of infrastructure going down, I’m guessing there are a lot of fires being put out.

New comment by x0xrx in "Startup Equity 101"

x0xrx — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:00:31 +0000

Plenty of (non-VC backed) startups raise some money and then sell privately; it’s often the case that preference does not cause the common stock value to drop below the most recent 409a in these cases.

(In my experience, the 409a is on the order of 20% of the most recent raise, and preference is not more than 50%, in my area. And obviously you hope to sell for more than the last raise!).

New comment by x0xrx in "We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch"

x0xrx — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:50:31 +0000

I tried to read up on this DSP thing and was immediately lost. How do I know if I need to comply? What does compliance look like? The FAQ is 100+ questions long!

It feels likely that it could apply to any company that draws the current administration’s ire.

I agree it’s very reasonable to imagine that legal departments across tech are worrying, and might consider shutting down — especially if they are already losing money.

New comment by x0xrx in "By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall"

x0xrx — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:43:17 +0000

Scammers successfully sell reskinned Android phones as iPhones to unsuspecting marks, I’m sure you’re right that many people wouldn’t notice.

New comment by x0xrx in "Zillow to bar publicly marketed listings not shared via MLS"

x0xrx — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:28:28 +0000

Indeed, I recently was asked to sign an NDA to view an off market home; the seller was (apparently) a local business owner and didn’t want folks thinking the business might close — in many industries confidence in long term staying power is critical.

New comment by x0xrx in "Suno v4.5"

x0xrx — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:26:49 +0000

I agree you don’t have to justify your art. But which was not a meme? I clicked many and found only memes.

New comment by x0xrx in "Top Colleges Are Too Costly Even for Parents Making $300k"

x0xrx — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 23:32:25 +0000

A degree is worth almost $1MM in lifetime earnings (for men). So yes, compared to no degree. A more fine-grained analysis seems difficult, and one could imagine the conclusion is dominated by which specific schools and specific degrees you are comparing.

New comment by x0xrx in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

x0xrx — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:00:53 +0000

I think a lot of dishwasher opinions are based on how your mom told you to wash the dishes 35 years ago.

New comment by x0xrx in "Let's Ban Billboards"

x0xrx — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:56:17 +0000

How would you know? If you heard about it through word of mouth, and the person you heard it from heard it from an ad…

The Rise, Fall, and (Potential) Rebirth of Quincy Quarries

x0xrx — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.climbing.com/places/climbingin-the-quincy-quarries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237178

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by x0xrx in "Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?"

x0xrx — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 03:31:48 +0000

That seems reasonable. I’m talking about testing APIs for performing a variety of different kinds of transactions, not just CC.

New comment by x0xrx in "Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?"

x0xrx — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:50:29 +0000

“Penny testing” is common in the real world, and isn’t limited to verifying bank accounts. It’s more broadly used to describe testing with very small amounts in production. That’s my experience anyway, working with various payments processors and BaaSes.

New comment by x0xrx in "Making a live-mode test payment to yourself = a payment processor ToS violation?"

x0xrx — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 04:21:30 +0000

Having extensive experience running billions of dollars through Stripe, this is not accurate. Production is always different, except for the simplest cases.

New comment by x0xrx in "Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18"

x0xrx — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 12:44:09 +0000

It seems strange to demand they ask “permission” in this instance but not e.g. to let you sort you photos by date, or album, or location.

(I agree this is the point in contention, I just don’t understand it).

New comment by x0xrx in "Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents"

x0xrx — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:37:03 +0000

Do you not see how insane it is to at once 1) demand cheap housing and 2) demand it increases in price at breakneck pace?

New comment by x0xrx in "ZType – Typing Game"

x0xrx — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 15:16:55 +0000

I did not have this issue on iOS FWIW, so there must be something more subtle going on for this bug.

New comment by x0xrx in "It's okay to code on nights and weekends"

x0xrx — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:01:21 +0000

A lot of people that are in tech because it’s a good job got pressured to make it their life. They reasonably pushed back, but the upshot was those of us that are passionate about programming as a hobby got pressured to not do it for fun.

Both things are unreasonable. You shouldn’t have to program for fun to get a job. You can be good at it as a profession only. You also should be allowed to love it as a vocation or avocation. That doesn’t make you a sucker.

New comment by x0xrx in "Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer"

x0xrx — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:25:53 +0000

I think with a suitably expansive definition of “type” you can get pretty far in this direction.

I have personally used AI for control flow analysis of a toy OO language.

New comment by x0xrx in "Ask HN: Has remote impacted your job engagement?"

x0xrx — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:15:51 +0000

> Work is unpleasant, that's why people are paid for it.

If unpleasantness had anything specific to do with with getting paid, janitors would be rich.