Hacker News: xingped

New comment by xingped in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

xingped — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:05:44 +0000

Thieves whining about thieves. They'll have to excuse me for having exactly zero sympathy.

New comment by xingped in "Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' with Fake Bets"

xingped — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:20:17 +0000

If only we lived in a sane world/country...

New comment by xingped in "Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' with Fake Bets"

xingped — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:19:28 +0000

Nope, they ARE all faked ads. I'm really not sure why anyone would think otherwise. The only exception being the CS gambling sites which turned out to be owned by the guys making videos/streams showcasing them "winning" (with fudged probabilities it tuened out).

New comment by xingped in "Denmark desperately needs more inequality"

xingped — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:36:47 +0000

You know what, that's a great idea! Surely nothing bad will ever come from increasing wealth disparity by letting wealthy people hoard all the money, right? If we let them hoard all the money, then surely some will spill back down to the poor. A trickle perhaps. Actually that's a good name. Let's call it "trickle down economics". Bam! That's a winner right there! Surely no one else has tried this idea yet, right? I bet we'll only see amazing things from this new economy!

New comment by xingped in "2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation"

xingped — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:24:24 +0000

This is basically the modus operandi of almost every company these days. Where do you think anyone is gonna go? I sure as shit can't name any companies that don't act like this.

New comment by xingped in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

xingped — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:40:14 +0000

(Not parent) It doesn't. It's just uninformed or bad faith commenting, astroturfing, and arm chair developers who've never written a line of code for a game in their lives. Always has been.

(Or maybe Jason Hall is going by "Tyler" now. XD )

New comment by xingped in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

xingped — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:52:43 +0000

For code only, even then only sometimes or even rarely. The HN comments section is like a gold mine of the Dunning Kruger effect for social awareness/intelligence. It's not even worth pointing out because you'll just get 5 paragraphs in response of "no, you're wrong because I'm smart and so I'm right". It's exhausting.

New comment by xingped in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

xingped — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:08:48 +0000

Some dipshit with too much power and not enough brain cells nor incentive to care about making good choices. That's also an intentionally chosen pattern throughout the company. :)

New comment by xingped in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

xingped — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:52:02 +0000

Yeah, these days I use the little Ask button to just give a summary of videos more and more. Most videos could have been an email. I'll usually only let videos run when I need background noise, when there's sufficient detail throughout that a summary wouldn't capture, or when it's not an informative video and there's actual value to me in letting it run, like humorous videos.

New comment by xingped in "Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?"

xingped — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:08:35 +0000

I can't think of literally anything meaningfully different about the Chrome UI from any other browser...

New comment by xingped in "Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?"

xingped — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:07:37 +0000

Yeah, this exactly. Google goes out of their way to be as unfriendly to adblockers as possible in Chrome. I don't know why anyone is still even using Chrome or why you would want to support them (by value-adding to their browser) with your efforts.

New comment by xingped in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

xingped — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:13:20 +0000

This. If we try to tackle everything at once it won't work, but make inroads where you can while the winds are at your back for a particular issue.

New comment by xingped in "She won a religious exemption from using AI at work"

xingped — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:39:30 +0000

People were plenty productive before AI burst onto the scene. Wanting to not have AI shoved down your throat doesn't suddenly make someone "not productive". What an utterly assinine take. Thank you for being Exhibit A for why everyone hates the AI bros.

New comment by xingped in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

xingped — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:12:14 +0000

Wow there must be an echo in here because I swear I said just that... And then pointed out that it's the same crap being recycled back and forth across the company. There is no real separation.

New comment by xingped in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

xingped — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:07:38 +0000

That's horrific for people to even think of doing that and I'm sorry that's happened to you. You have my condolences. Too many people in tech are so utterly shameless, unfortunately.

New comment by xingped in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

xingped — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:41:03 +0000

To take an easy example that has actually had lawsuits I can link to, you must be unfamiliar with the lawsuits against Amazon for misusing sellers' data in order to undercut them with their own products... https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/13-bln-uk-lawsuit-acc...

There's zero reason to "trust" Amazon about anything. (And yes, I know the retail and AWS sides of the company are different, but it's still the same company. The same rot is always there, just shuffled around.)

New comment by xingped in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)"

xingped — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:27:48 +0000

If you're really short, sure, maybe. If you're taller, no fucking shot because the... human being in front of you always insists on leaning back their seat as much as possible. You try working when your laptop can only open 60°.

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

xingped — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:47:01 +0000

Legality has long since lost literally any meaning to megacorps and the ultra-wealthy pretty much everywhere. Doesn't matter what country they're breaking the laws in. The only penalty will be a paltry slap on the wrist fine (if even) and they will continue doing whatever they want. I mean, it's just the cost of doing business, isn't it?

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

xingped — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:44:19 +0000

Same. There is literally nothing I need from Microsoft Office that I can't do just fine in Libre Office. Happier to be using free open source software too.

New comment by xingped in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

xingped — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:07:40 +0000

That certainly won't stop out of touch CEOs from choosing to do just that anyways. CEOs and making the stupidest possible decisions are also a match made in heaven.