Hacker News Reader

hoytschermerhrnon Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

You're getting downvoted because of the asumption that left-leaning women are not career-oriented.

Everyone has skills & interests (tech, building things, sales, marketing, etc.) and everyone needs to survive (rent, mortage, food, etc.)..so why in the world would you assume that these things are only the domain of the right?

hoytschermerhrnon Israeli ministers announce plans for illegal settlements in Gaza and West Bank

How many civilians were taken hostage and how many civilians were killed in retaliation? That ratio may offer clues to shifting global sentiments.

hoytschermerhrnon The US grocery slowdown is real

I really can’t imagine that matters at the scale of data we’re talking about here. If you can’t afford groceries, you certainly can’t afford bleeding-edge vanity drugs.

hoytschermerhrnon Identity verification on Claude

I’m a US citizen and absolutely will not be uploading additional information just to use a company’s models. This effectively kills my usage of anthropic for anything beyond their 4.8 models.

hoytschermerhrnon Ferrari Luce

Isn’t this quite literally how a microphone works?

hoytschermerhrnon Data Centers Now Consume 6% of US Electricity–and the Backlash Has Begun

Even assuming this was true at all, something happening 30 years ago is not evidence that the exact same thing is happening today.

hoytschermerhrnon Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning

Yes

hoytschermerhrnon Switch to Claude without starting over

I'm sure this was a hastily put-together response to the growing calls to delete ChatGPT.

hoytschermerhrnon Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An open-source deep dive

To be fair, I had the same interpretation as OP here. One cannot have an earnest discussion of Palintir without at least implicitly including the privacy & military industrial complex associations of this company.

hoytschermerhrnon John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'

OP is specifically talking about seeing unfiltered, on-the-ground footage of what’s happening as it’s happening, directly by the people being impacted. This is very different than prior conflicts which have been ostensibly filtered for various reasons.

hoytschermerhrnon Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices

This country literally had a civil war to prevent rich capitalists from owning other human beings. America’s “values” have always been rooted in profit-driven utilitarianism.

hoytschermerhrnon U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar

Are you a bot? Why respond to two comments with nearly exactly the same introductory paragraphs…

hoytschermerhrnon Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy

The new electric Volvos have LIDAR, proving that the technology has (at least now) approached mass-market feasibility.

hoytschermerhrnon Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy

Yes, exactly. Apparently the chemistry for film emulsion is very similar to what’s needed for skin applications. I think a lot of companies would not be so forward-thinking, so I give them a lot of credit here.

hoytschermerhrnon Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy

Somewhat surprisingly, they’ve also successfully diversified into high-end skincare, applying their chemical expertise to moisturizer forumulations and whatnot.

hoytschermerhrnon More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves

I don’t believe we have ticks in the same way that the east coast has lime disease-carrying ticks though?

hoytschermerhrnon Old Growth Wood

As an old-home owner and a hobbyist woodworker, I can confirm that it’s not user error — old-growth timber really is that dense. Even my impact driver struggles to drill simple holes sometimes.

hoytschermerhrnon Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

- Generally Available? Available?? Simply showing a checkmark???

- In Experimental? Coming soon??

Make it make sense.

hoytschermerhrnon Notes on Vision Pro

You’ve posted a 3-paragraph rant on a baseless assumption for a product which hasn’t been released yet. Let’s all withhold judgement until we have more information about how this truly works.

hoytschermerhrnon Google Bard waitlist

V4 is baked into Bing Chat. I believe paid OpenAI accounts also have access.

hoytschermerhrnon Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC

It’s simply unrealistic for businesses to not exceed the $250k insurance limit.

hoytschermerhrnon Tesla Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges

He owns the company, no?

hoytschermerhrnon FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M

Source on this tornado comment? This entire story is just so wild that it’s hard to keep up.

hoytschermerhrnon Why software engineers like woodworking

Where do you get your epoxy? I hate the 24 hour stuff.

hoytschermerhrnon USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools

Why does the orientation matter if the end result is the same? My point is your suggestion is no better than OPs, so who cares which way the brick points?

hoytschermerhrnon Dyson air purifier outperformed by cheap DIY box fan filter in Marketplace test

Dyson, like Apple, doesn’t make products for nerds like us who are willing to go through that level of effort. Their prices are high because their products are simple and “just work” without much fiddling.

hoytschermerhrnon Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020

Certs can be purchased for the price of a coffee or two and are generally trivia to implement — there’s really no reason NOT to upgrade these days, no matter how benign the content. And I say that as someone who still has a non-HTTPS portfolio site :)