Hacker News: yungporko

New comment by yungporko in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

yungporko — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:38:09 +0000

there is literally nothing microsoft could possibly do or change now or ever to make me even consider going back to using windows on a personal machine. i don't care if they turn windows into the greatest OS in the world and make it free, microsoft can fuck right off forever

New comment by yungporko in "Apple Watch Ultra 3"

yungporko — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:06:32 +0000

probably literally nothing, just like google and LLMs also have had basically zero effect on patients experiences for the same reasons. maybe it varies by location but in my experience doctors will virtually put their fingers in their ears and say BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH if you mention apple watch data before kicking you out. i had one doctor confidently tell me that "apple watch blood pressure measurements had been proven to be inaccurate compared to BP monitors" and that she refuses to look at them for that reason after mishearing something i said. apple watches obviously do not even have the ability to measure blood pressure and never have done, but she was very eager to lie in order to disregard whatever concerns i may have had just in case.

New comment by yungporko in "UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse"

yungporko — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:58:31 +0000

there's really nothing anybody can do. protests dont work, riots dont work, petitions dont work, and theres nobody else to vote for who isn't also a cunt.

New comment by yungporko in "Jujutsu for busy devs"

yungporko — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:20:43 +0000

i've never considered testing out any of the new version control systems i see from time to time for the simple reason that i already know git, everybody else already knows git, git already completely handles everything i could conceivably want it to do (and a bunch more stuff that i will never touch), and perhaps biggest of all, i can't tell my manager that i want our whole team to migrate our code into (new thing) which everybody will have to learn for no reason.

serious question as somebody who has never even looked into what jujutsu offers - unless you're a solo dev with some free time, what exactly is the selling point here?

edit: i didnt realise that its just a layer on top of git so that basically answers my question, fair

New comment by yungporko in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

yungporko — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:11:15 +0000

particularly snoopy culture, yes, stemming from GCHQ, no idea. our government has always felt entitled to breach our privacy and we are equal parts spineless and stupid. average take on this is either "why would you care unless you have something to hide" or "that's a shame, but there's nothing we can do about anything ever."

regrettably the latter one may be correct but it'd be nice to see at least some pushback every time this happens.

New comment by yungporko in "Show HN: Mochia, a virtual pet browser game, built with Rust, SolidJS, Postgres"

yungporko — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 10:10:55 +0000

what are your thoughts on solidJS? seems like they're going for "react but not shit", think they pulled it off?

New comment by yungporko in "Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much"

yungporko — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:47:04 +0000

that's completely irrelevant to the point they're making.

New comment by yungporko in "Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming"

yungporko — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:30:22 +0000

i was expecting something dumb if i'm honest but it looks really nice, i would probably use this. it seems like the perfect extension of the "code vomit" speed of writing lua and moves it further in that direction imo.

the thing i like lua for is easily getting into that "flow state" of just writing code without having to think about "how should i approach this" but sometimes the lack of things which pluto addresses forces a level of verbosity that snaps me out of it. i often find myself hitting a mental roadblock where i think "like fuck am i gonna write that much code to do X, i'll just go work on a more fun part of the program and come back later".

New comment by yungporko in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

yungporko — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:49:00 +0000

interesting that the author blames "the modern developer tooling ecosystem" for the issue of not being able to reproduce builds, it's still a problem of course but in my experience it was way worse in the past, with most ecosystems i've used adopting some kind of passable package manager now.

New comment by yungporko in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

yungporko — Tue, 20 May 2025 10:08:18 +0000

i'd guess that it has more to do with the fact that people keep vandalising them rather than individuals suddenly picking buying teslas as the one thing to take a stand against when this never seems to happen in any effective capacity for other issues.

New comment by yungporko in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

yungporko — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:26:53 +0000

games don't cost more to make, just certain out of touch companies keep dumping tons of money into dumb shit gamers don't care about. it has never been easier to make games with a lower entry barrier than it is right now.

New comment by yungporko in "The complex origin story of domestic cats"

yungporko — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:35:59 +0000

wolverines are also fuzzy and adorable. knowing full well how much it might fuck my shit up, i don't think i could stop myself reaching to pet it if i ever crossed paths with one.

New comment by yungporko in "The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2"

yungporko — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:10:02 +0000

it's funny, i've never heard of or thought about the possibility of this happening but actually in hindsight it seems almost too obvious to not be a thing.

New comment by yungporko in "Super Rat: the record-setting rodent sniffing out landmines and saving lives"

yungporko — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 07:50:01 +0000

no idea where to find it again or how accurate it is but i watched a documentary about these rats some years ago and it said that they're small enough to be able to navigate minefields without triggering the mines.

New comment by yungporko in "Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much"

yungporko — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:25:18 +0000

right but that one cherry picked number doesn't tell the whole story at all. if wages had also risen with inflation and economic pressure hadn't changed then i'd agree with you, but the fact is that an $80-90 hit today is harder than a $50 hit in 1992 because people generally have less disposable income now.

New comment by yungporko in "Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much"

yungporko — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:36:26 +0000

enjoy buying just mario kart for the price of a used switch i guess

New comment by yungporko in "Nintendo explains why Switch 2 hardware and software cost so much"

yungporko — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:26:03 +0000

don't really care about their reasoning, video games simply are not worth that much money.

New comment by yungporko in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

yungporko — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:34:29 +0000

i'm a native english speaker and even i can't complete most of these because it's so US-centric. this is virtually unplayable for non-americans, which is a shame because it's a really good game.

New comment by yungporko in "Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983? (2009)"

yungporko — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:33:46 +0000

most? vinyl fans and audiophile placebo enjoyers are a very tiny percentage of listeners.

New comment by yungporko in "Jumping Spiders"

yungporko — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:49:27 +0000

jumping spiders are very cool but god this site sucks to use on mobile. 3 times i accidentally "swiped" to a new article while trying to scroll down before i gave up trying to finish it, at which point i realised you can't swipe to go back/forwards because they've hijacked that action for the stupid article swiping thing. 0/10 worse than plain text on a white background.