Hacker News: yonaguska

New comment by yonaguska in "Astra for Law"

yonaguska — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:49:56 +0000

There is a huge problem in at least family law where a tactic is to simply ddos your opponent with motions and frivolous complaints until someone runs out of money and settles. I'm watching someone finally successfully defend themselves using a Harvey like tool they built themselves. An appellate attorney they consulted with recently, told them they had never seen anyone going pro se get as far as they had in appellate court. So I'm hoping that this serves as a return to making the legal system more accessible, and not just something used to railroad people.

New comment by yonaguska in "When Google Cuts Off Access: Poland and the World"

yonaguska — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:13:29 +0000

Probably not a native speaker.

New comment by yonaguska in "New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]"

yonaguska — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:16:37 +0000

good for you

New comment by yonaguska in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

yonaguska — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:13:55 +0000

huh?

New comment by yonaguska in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

yonaguska — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:47:48 +0000

They are using gas because it's more reliable during peak usage. Wind generation in Texas isn't optimal throughout the entire state and conditions aren't optimal all the time. They still use wind, but from a pure numbers perspective, gas infra already exists, the gas is there, and gas is more reliable, so wind isn't always the cheapest form of energy. There are also diminishing returns on just adding more wind turbines.

New comment by yonaguska in "RamenHaus"

yonaguska — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:42:05 +0000

I've been able get better or equivalent results than most non-japanese ramen places near me by starting with miso paste and fresh noodles from the local h-mart, without the massive amount of work that typically goes into ramen.

New comment by yonaguska in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

yonaguska — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:22:17 +0000

I'm surprised that there are so many still think that this is really about protecting kids. This is not an organic movement at all.

New comment by yonaguska in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

yonaguska — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:34:01 +0000

Full auto handguns are quite popular now despite being effectively illegal.

New comment by yonaguska in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

yonaguska — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:44:10 +0000

This is true, but there is another foreign country that can send people to your door. What's to stop China from eventually buying that type of influence over our govt officials?

New comment by yonaguska in "Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find"

yonaguska — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:08:29 +0000

Have you tried sprint workouts as a complement to powerlifting?

New comment by yonaguska in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

yonaguska — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:01:56 +0000

One on one "tutoring" is the most effective way to make early education productive and it's not even close. Even the outcomes of parents spending 20 minutes a day reading to their infants and toddlers correlates with better educational outcomes. and I'm sure there are many here that share my own story. The only reason I was somewhat academically successful was because my mother took the time to teach me how to read when I was 3-4. Without that early literacy, I'm sure I would have never been able to achieve anything I've done, especially with ADHD. By the time I was in kindergarten, I knew how to read already, but, even there, reading was taught 1 on 1, with students taking turns with the teacher to learn. I don't think that's done anymore at most places, especially when you have 30:1 teacher ratios. 5 year olds can be way more capable than we give them credit for, but they need personal attention.

New comment by yonaguska in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

yonaguska — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:39:34 +0000

I think there is a lot of discord over medicare/medical, social security, and interest at least, but maybe I'm just in a bubble.

New comment by yonaguska in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

yonaguska — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:31:53 +0000

All the drone footage is actually pretty horrific to see.

New comment by yonaguska in "Road to Elm 1.0"

yonaguska — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:18:05 +0000

If you have a blog or something anywhere, I'm very interested in your journey.

New comment by yonaguska in "My Favorite Keyboards"

yonaguska — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:18:50 +0000

I switched to colemak, but I paired this switch with split keyboards. So qwerty is still easy to use on regular keyboards, but I'm sure I'd get super tripped up if I used qwerty on a split kb.

New comment by yonaguska in "My favorite keyboards"

yonaguska — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:17:09 +0000

I switched from the moonlander to the glove80, and the low switches are nothing compared to the much more intuitive ergonomics.

New comment by yonaguska in "My Favorite Keyboards"

yonaguska — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:12:57 +0000

Do you just buy more of the footpads online or have you figured out a more permanent solution? I pack mine up and travel with it frequently, and the rubber feet are always coming off.

New comment by yonaguska in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

yonaguska — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:10:37 +0000

Idk if I'd say that Americans like bigger vehicles. There are just a lot of incentives that push us that way.

New comment by yonaguska in "The AirPods Effect"

yonaguska — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:59:31 +0000

Since the advent of EVs, its not a safety issue imo. When Tesla's first came out, and the first adopters were all people that wanted to drive FAST, I was often surprised by them, especially since I always rode slightly faster than traffic as a safety mitigation technique. I quickly learned to use my eyes more.

My eyes are my ears and you cannot rely on sound to know who or what might be coming up from behind you. Mirrors and head on a swivel are way more important.

New comment by yonaguska in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

yonaguska — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:36:01 +0000

I agree with your sentiment but not your conclusion. They don't want this administration specifically to have gatekeeping authority, what they want is any administration to say that they are gatekeeping, so that they can regulate the competition out of existence. Of course the actual checks and balances will be near pointless in effect, but expensive to implement nonetheless.