Hacker News: xingped

New comment by xingped in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

xingped — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:56:34 +0000

What the hell is AI token farming?

New comment by xingped in "A new Postcrossing stamp from the USA"

xingped — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:39:18 +0000

This is fascinating! I've never heard of Postcrossing until now, but I may have to sign up!

New comment by xingped in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

xingped — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:26:20 +0000

I am actually glad that YouTube now has Gemini integrated with a little popout section that I can just ask to summarize the video. Half the videos I pass by these days I prefer just a quick summarize and 30s read-through over a half-hour long video comprised of 90% useless fluff. Milk the ad revenue, I guess, but most of these videos could have been a tweet for all the content they actually contain.

New comment by xingped in "Apple says no one using Lockdown Mode has been hacked with spyware"

xingped — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:19:50 +0000

The wording is weird enough that I have to agree. This is the first time I've ever heard spyware segmented using "mercenary" as a qualifier, which is just insanely suspicious.

New comment by xingped in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

xingped — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:16:38 +0000

Mostly yes, I was just pointing out the irony of quoting Bezos as if Amazon isn't exactly the same problem (if not one of the worst of them all).

New comment by xingped in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

xingped — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:36:57 +0000

> US consumer protection laws

Bahahaha. Good one! Let's be real, consumer protection laws might as well not exist for Americans.

Before the "well akshually"s - Do they exist? Yes. Are they enforced? Barely, if at all. Do you have any hope of recourse if they're ignored? Nope! Are they being ripped to shreds by the current government in real time right this very minute? You betcha.

New comment by xingped in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

xingped — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:58:09 +0000

Except that it's true, they can't. How else are they going to race to the bottom of the minimum number of employees and maximum amount of management bonuses?

New comment by xingped in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

xingped — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:18:08 +0000

Amusing you picked that quote to quote because your job description is a dead ringer for Amazon work culture.

New comment by xingped in "SSH has no Host header"

xingped — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:54:25 +0000

Whenever I see a comment that says "if you don't do the thing in the most efficient way possible, someone else will steal your lunch", I think that people vastly overestimate the likelihood that this will actually happen.

It's similar to "open source is the most secure because it has the most eyeballs on it", but in reality security bugs will exist for years with no one noticing because people vastly overestimate how any developers will actually spend their time analyzing any given open source software.

Sure, bugs are more likely to be caught in open source and it's more likely someone will take your market share with a more efficient and competitively priced product, but you're overblowing the likelihood of both by a large margin.

New comment by xingped in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

xingped — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:58:35 +0000

I don't know what the difference is, but the first time I exceeded that they chopped me off immediately.

New comment by xingped in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

xingped — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:57:59 +0000

Gee, thanks.

New comment by xingped in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

xingped — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:39:42 +0000

I've switched to US Mobile. I haven't used it on an extended basis internationally yet, but I am about to travel internationally, so will find out soon. That said, the reviews are pretty good by people that use it internationally for an extended period of time.

New comment by xingped in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"

xingped — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:11:25 +0000

Except if you happen to travel for more than 45 days, in which case Google Fi will promptly tell you to get fucked and cut off your service without warning, advanced notice, or spelling out anywhere when you sign up. Not my idea of a carrier I can trust. I deleted my account and service with them to move to a carrier that I can trust and actually respects me as a customer.

New comment by xingped in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

xingped — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:56:26 +0000

They're a small shop compared to the big laptop makers and their focus is on user-repairability. Between those two you are naturally going to have a slightly higher price point than simply buying a laptop from one of the usual companies. I wouldn't call it junk or gimmickery. It has a purpose and a niche. It might not be your niche, but it is for some people.

New comment by xingped in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

xingped — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:49:09 +0000

I think people do - it's one of the main ways you can reliably spot AI-generated content. M-dashes are so fat they stick out like a sore thumb.

New comment by xingped in "Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?"

xingped — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:40:24 +0000

Absolutely not. Why would I ever want to hire a recruiter for anything? When every recruiter thinks it's perfectly okay to ghost candidates and post fake job ads, especially "big tech" recruiters, that's not the stellar reputational background you seem to think it is.

New comment by xingped in "OpenAI employees raised alarms about Canada shooting suspect months ago"

xingped — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:14:54 +0000

The article title isn't wrong unless you assume that the title implies the employees did in fact contact authorities, but if they did it would read "Open AI raised", not "Open AI employees raised". We all know how much company leadership listens to its employees, of course.

New comment by xingped in "Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/S"

xingped — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:03:43 +0000

Do the speeds of a PCIe 5.0 (or now 6.0) meaningfully affect anything for your average consumer? Would games load faster or files transfer faster? Or is this just at super high-end applications and hardware that you'd actually see a difference? I don't know if there's some other part of the hardware that would limit actual gains seen by the 5.0 and 6.0 specs.

New comment by xingped in "Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults"

xingped — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:32:47 +0000

You can absolutely get shingles at any time. Please keep looking to find a doctor that will listen to you. The fact that medicine holds onto this idea that it only affects old people is absurd.

New comment by xingped in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

xingped — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:02:26 +0000

Name and shame. Which provider were you having this experience on? (If you don't mind sharing since you're no longer with them.)