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clint··on Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets
That's the joke
clint··on Apple's game porting toolkit is fantastic. Cyberpunk 2077 at Ultra on an M1 MBP
The high-end gaming market is infintessimal when compared to the casual gaming market. Apple knows this and they are perfectly positioned for high-quality casual games.
clint··on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
He also could just be mentally ill and doesn't believe he's lying. It doesn't mean what he's saying is true.
clint··on Show HN: Automating daily reports, because fuck it
I remember writing this script 20 years ago
clint··on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
I think you're wrong. I've noticed no change.
clint··on The QR-code menu is being shown the door
I like the QR-code menus.
clint··on US Secret Service: “blockchain is an opportunity to track money”
The minute your address interacts as a counterparty to a known mixer you're automatically flagged and everything around your risk profile accelerates dramatically. That wallet is effectively burned and you'll be locked out of using any kind of reputable exchange.
clint··on Ex-AI researcher says 50% chance AI development could end in “DOOM”
The video game?
clint··on Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura
Not new
clint··on Photos from the SpaceX Debris Field
You're completely delusional if you consider HN to be "left leaning", this place is the text-book definition of conservative libertarian echo chamber
clint··on Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech
They literally have video of the dude stabbing him
clint··on Low and moderate alcohol consumption not associated with increased mortality
The headline here reads oddly. The conclusion from this paper is: "Low-volume alcohol drinking was not associated with protection against death from all causes."
clint··on Man Accidentally Drove Away in Someone Else’s Tesla Using the Car’s App
Because Elon Musk doesn't run SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell does.
clint··on Man Accidentally Drove Away in Someone Else’s Tesla Using the Car’s App
Your comment reads like the statement of a very naïve person who hasn't witnessed the past 30 years of computer technology.
clint··on Record-Breaking Egg Profits Prompt Accusation of Price Gouging
Eggs would, presumably, get 5x expensive because the cost to produce the eggs cost has gone up 5x. However, it obviously has not if there are record-setting profits.

More than likely the cost to produce an egg has only gone up 1.4x and the greedy corporations have raised prices 5x and stoked a media narrative that costs have increased 5x.

clint··on Let Teenagers Sleep
I'm often surprised that so many folks seemed to have "Guidance Counselors" at their schools. I went to a public science and technology magnet school in Kansas during the 90s and I don't think I ever saw a guidance counselor ever.
clint··on Method for reducing coffee acidity
unfortunately you also have to drink milk
clint··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Everything having a home is good, but I like to still be able to "see" things when they are put away. For example, throwing things into a drawer where other things can obscure other things is bad, because I will forget the things that are on the bottom. I make sure all my socks are visible in my sock drawer by using an organizer that allows my rolled up socks to be stored vertically and I can't put other stuff on top of them.

Cabinets without doors, and shelves without doors are critical too. I'm not sure why but if I do not have regular visible sight of things, they may as well not exist and I will quickly forget that they are there, leading to all kinds of chaos.

clint··on Ask HN: LinkedIn sent me a cease and desist for my Chrome extension. Help?
If its your livelihood, hire a lawyer to look into this. The dweebs on this forum are not going to be able to help you here.
clint··on Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
I too have had depression and I have also had depressed friends. All of us have had those symptoms.
clint··on Sexual loneliness: A neglected public health problem?
Many boys spend nearly their entire first 18 years of their lives stewing in an extremely toxic media/community/family ecosystem where sexual virility and your ability to have sex with women is _directly_ correlated with status and success in life. Similarly, your in-abililty to attract members of the opposite sex is _directly_ correlated with your status as a loser and station in life.
clint··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
For context I'm someone who spent nearly 20 years doing almost exclusively python dev, attended the first DjangoCon in 2008, ran the Django community blog during its formation heyday back in the mid 2000's and built tons of Django modules, apps, sites etc, have commits on the Project from way-back, tech edited Django books, etc...

Did rails for a short while in 2010-2012 and absolutely hated it then spent 2012-2020 doing mostly Python/Flask dev for huge fintech companies on AWS.

I now use Javascript/React/Nextjs on Firebase/Google Cloud. So much less hassle, tons more libraries and what seems like an exponentially larger ecosystem. There's still weird shit with transpiling typescript to javascript etc... but overall I enjoy JS dev much more these days.

clint··on GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
The millions and millions of people and businesses who use Paypal every day, without issue, presumably.

100Bn of TPV flows through Paypal every month, why do you think all those people trust their money with Paypal?

clint··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
I would say you are an extreme outlier. Most people use all these Google products with no problems nor do they seem to share your fears.
clint··on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
I have never seen any of the issues you're having here and I've had probably 20-30 iterations of apple products over the last 20 years.

The last true issue I had with apple hardware or software was in 2002-2003ish with a snow iBook that had a motherboard failure, but after that I've had nearly 20 unbroken years of basically fault-free existence which is pretty amazing if you ask me.

clint··on Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?
To my mind its the only thing that adds up.
clint··on Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb
Reminds me very much of this SNL skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwlC2B-BIg
clint··on Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
What an amazingly stupid post lol
clint··on Researchers’ tests of lab-made version of Covid virus draw scrutiny
Which is simulating what could and probably will happen in nature, before it really happens
clint··on Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
Many of the reasons 2FA is added by product managers and engineers is because they are too lazy to actually solve the problem in a way that is empathetic to actual, breathing humans and instead bulldoze through the problem in the least usable method possible, call the problem "solved" and move on to shinier problems.

Just because 2FA "solves" the extremely narrowly defined problem, doesn't mean it is the best solution or even something that people can and will actually use. Upon those metrics alone, 2FA is usually one of the worst "solutions" to the problem.

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