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stackedinserter··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
You say that like US and Israel hit Iceland or Portugal. Like, Iran wasn't source of terror on Middle East, funding terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbolla and Houthi. Like, Iran didn't make "death to Israel, death to America" their national idea.

Remind us of Ukrainian rocket attacks on Russian cities, that provoked Ruso-Ukrainian war.

You can't not know all of this, so you're either a hamas/russian shill or a useful idiot.

stackedinserter··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
It's been years of missile strikes. No diplomacy worked. "Israel shouldn't exist, period". Then 7/10 happened.

What else should've Israel wait for? Dirty bomb? Nuclear attack?

stackedinserter··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
HN, fix this stupid top navigation bar, or I'm leaving HN. Timer's started.
stackedinserter··on Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
Name active Israel's adversaries that are not US adversaries.

All those who chant "death to Israel" happily attach "death to America" to it.

stackedinserter··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
Canadian banks still live in 2006. They can't even make EMT transfers more convenient, so people could request a payment or pay with QR.

Sometimes I feel like they don't actually refuse to do things, maybe they are not capable to improve. Something in their chain of command is broken and doesn't let them change.

stackedinserter··on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
The question is the result of these 2 hours in noise cancelling headphones.
stackedinserter··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
> strange assumption that your neighborhood would get worse by increasing density.

I didn't make such assumption, I don't understand it either.

stackedinserter··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
They're either a troll, or a liar.
stackedinserter··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
> Not my property, not my right to complain.

Unless you own a shitty property in a very bad area, you're clearly lying.

stackedinserter··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
Unpopular opinion: there's nothing wrong with NIMBY. It's totally ok to not volunteer to have a dumpster at your house. Society may want it, but they lose nothing, gain everything, and you're left with a house with dumpster nearby.

If society wants to put dumpster so badly, compensate to those who (practically) lose their house. Let everyone pay, that's fair. Picking "haha this will be the loser this time" is not.

It's easy to be YIMBY when you don't own anything.

stackedinserter··on NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
Everyone is nimby when it touches the most valuable thing in their life. You'll turn nimby once you buy a house. There's no lie, anyone will be against a landfill or skyscrapers near their house. If you think otherwise, you're lying.

There's nothing wrong with nimby.

stackedinserter··on The Waymo World Model
Do we really need FSD cars (any cars, actually) in medieval city centers?
stackedinserter··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
With these little steps that affect niche groups, we got to 2026, with total surveillance and very little freedoms.
stackedinserter··on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale
That's why such thing as "vacant land" shouldn't exist. Have a land -> do something on it. If you don't -> sell it to someone who do, or pay taxes that double every year.
stackedinserter··on 221 Cannon is Not For Sale
You know what? Fuck this guy. And that one who found a 4-bedroom house on his land that he haven't used for decades.

They didn't do anything with their land and doesn't have any plans for it for the foreseeable future. It's not like a snowblower that sits in your garage unused. It's land, a piece of planet. If you own it, you should use it for something. If you don't, return it back to people.

stackedinserter··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
This provision has first, last name and an address of a person who pushed it to the budget bill.
stackedinserter··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
No, it's not solved.

Goalpost will move to "save gcode on government-approved secured storage", licensing and registering each 3d printer, then confiscating the ones that are not whitelisted, etc etc.

stackedinserter··on New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers
Time to save firmwares for popular printers, and probably disable their firmware updates.
stackedinserter··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
You do to fun what this website does to pictures.
stackedinserter··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
Did someone try to connect output to the input for several iterations, to make it progressively more Poland?
stackedinserter··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
Not just this. I'm linux/macos user since early 2000's and still sometimes hate macos because they have very annoying bugs that are never fixed, and annoying corpo decisions.

E.g. it keeps opening Music app whenever I connect bluetooth earbuds. I can't delete Music app, it just keeps popping up with imbecile message about "user is not logged in" or something. I run a script that monitors that Music.app is running and kills-9 it.

Or blinking desktop background issue, that's been there for years, accumulated many support threads, and still not fixed.

Random services like coreaudiod that suddenly start consuming 100% CPU for no apparent reason.

Macbook throttling (thanks God, gone with M cpu's)

I can keep going but my point is macos has legit problems that can't be simply shrugged off with "they just hold it the wrong way".

Like any other mass product tbh, except rare ideal products like Factorio game or sqlite.

stackedinserter··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
tldr: users just keep holding Airtags wrong.
stackedinserter··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Let's just accept that this weight lifting metaphor is leaky, like any other, and brings us to absurds like forklift operators need to lift dumbbells to keep relevant in their jobs.
stackedinserter··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
I kinda get the point, but why is that? The goal of school is to teach something that's applicable in industry or academia.

Forklift operators don't lift things in their training. Even CS students start with pretty high level of abstraction, very few start from x86 asm instructions.

We need to make them implement ALU's on logical gates and wires if we want them to lift heavy things.

stackedinserter··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
> people who talk about business value expect people to code like they work at the assembly line. Churn out features, no disturbances, no worrying about code quality, abstractions, bla bla.

That's typical misconception that "I'm an artist, let me rewrite in Rust" people often have. Code quality has a direct money equivalent, you just need to be able to justify it for people that pay you salary.

stackedinserter··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Unlike weightlifting, the main goal of our jobs is not to lift heavy things, but develop a product that adds value to its users.

Unfortunately, many sdevs don't understand it.

stackedinserter··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
> So here’s my request for you: Reconsider

Why should I hire a dedicated writer if I have people with better understanding of the system? Also worth noting that like in any profession the most writers are... mediocre. Especially when you hire someone on contract. I had mostly bad experience with them in past. They happily charge $1000 for a few pages of garbage that is not even LLM-quality. No creativity, just pumping out words.

I can chip in like $20 to pay some "good writer" that "observes, listens and understands" for writing documentation on something and compare it with LLM-made one.

"Write a manual for air travel for someone who never flew. Cover topics like buying a ticket, preparing for travel, getting to airport, doing things in the airport, etc"

Let's compare!

stackedinserter··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
How to make people doxx themselves.
stackedinserter··on Maggots, an efficient source of protein
FTFY "Next Superfood for Poor Humans". Hollywood and politicians will shame us for not switching to maggots and roaches that are good for planet, from their jets and $20KK mansions.
stackedinserter··on Indifference is a power (2015)
It's not "suck it up and move on", it's "accept the reality as starting point and do what's possible, with calm clear mind"
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