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nathanaldensr

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Software developer, technologist, and digital transformation specialist.

My tech services and consulting business: https://aldentech.biz

Email me at [hackernews] at me [dot] nathanalden [dot] com.

Find me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-alden-sr.

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nathanaldensr··on 'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver
It's time to vibedesign a new bingo card!
nathanaldensr··on Statement from Nvidia board of directors
Well said.

Proverbs 16:18 "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall."

nathanaldensr··on Statement from Nvidia board of directors
Those Who Would Be Our Betters.
nathanaldensr··on An Apology
My Pixel 7 does, as well. My mother and I use AirTags to keep track of her vehicle and my dad's truck and wallet (he has dementia).
nathanaldensr··on Passkeys are not a trap
Exactly! Whereas passwords are extremely flexible and can be stored, managed, and written down in numerous ways that are vendor-independent. Want to store your passwords on sticky notes in a safe? Go ahead! Want to use Bitwarden? Yep, you can. KeePass for offline storage? Yes! With good password hygiene (128-bit entropy, never reusing passwords) there is virtually no risk, especially with 2FA added.
nathanaldensr··on Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
I agree. I've been telling people that AI is the last great bubble. Every other place where printed money can go has already been tried.
nathanaldensr··on Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble
Haha, I wanted to post this but you beat me to it.
nathanaldensr··on Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget
Was it ever not stupid?
nathanaldensr··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
I like to tell people that "AI" is the "last bubble." It was VR, the metaverse, crypto, NFTs, AR... AI is the Last Great Hype. There's really nothing beyond it. When this bubble pops it'll be remembered for decades to come because nothing will replace it.
nathanaldensr··on Tell HN: AGI Is Here
90%+ of humanity is dumb as rocks and wouldn't know "AI" or "AGI" from baby's first line of JavaScript.
nathanaldensr··on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
Just make sure to use Tribler!
nathanaldensr··on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals
From high-trust homogeneous populations to low-trust heterogeneous populations.
nathanaldensr··on ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you
Wouldn't that constitute a public performance of copyrighted material? The police themselves could be DMCAed. Haha
nathanaldensr··on The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
Who is "we?" Software developers who are growing up "vibe coding?" We're even further from the underlying hardware on the abstraction layers; just how are "we" going to care more about efficiency?
nathanaldensr··on [dead]
Not all of us are gullible idiots. I've been in tech for more than 30 years and I avoid AI except for trivial search results. There are undoubtedly many more like us who see it for what it is. Guard your spirit!
nathanaldensr··on Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw
nathanaldensr··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
Antitrust has been dead for decades. It spans administrations and parties.
nathanaldensr··on Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend
Waste and grift.
nathanaldensr··on Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
Not everyone characterizes AI as "liberation from toil," and many are skeptical that any "equitable distribution of benefits" will occur in the first place. That's the point.
nathanaldensr··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Last time I looked into this, you really couldn't in a reasonably simple way. It was possible between two users, but more than two just caused issues with syncing.
nathanaldensr··on The Dating App Swipe Is Dying. What Comes Next May Be Worse
This does absolutely nothing to address the underlying social, economic, and ideological reasons why new relationship formation is struggling so much, especially with Gen Z. It's not a technological problem, in other words.

I won't go into my personal explanations here as I'll just be downvoted into oblivion (there are other forums for that discussion) but I will say this: without men and women having reasons to be in relationships--especially long-term reasons--then relationships won't happen. It's proving easier to get our needs met outside of relationships.

nathanaldensr··on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
It's not about actual security; it's about the appearance of it. It allows CTOs and such to check a box to say "Why yes, our vendor is secure! Look at all their claims! Look at how many other companies use them!" That's it. Safety in numbers for clueless CTOs.
nathanaldensr··on Hckrnews.com Cert Expired (Again)
Just noticed this myself. Whoops!
nathanaldensr··on Talking to strangers at the gym
What's wrong is a society full of people who are avoidantly attached and full of trauma.
nathanaldensr··on American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were
Millennials on the whole are incredibly neurotic about all kinds of things. Why that is is a matter of debate.
nathanaldensr··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
That's not empathy, though. The word "empathy" has been co-opted to mean "understanding someone else's point of view," but that's not what empathy is. Empathy is feeling others' feelings. I'm actually empathetic in that I sometimes experience an emotional response (limbic) similar to an intense emotional response I witness others having, especially if they're a person close to me. This is very different than making a conscious attempt (prefrontal cortex) at intellectual understanding of someone's emotions.
nathanaldensr··on San Diego rents declined following surge in supply
Unfortunately, housing is not merely treated as a cost issue for most people. Where we live is a social and even spiritual experience. We're not bugs that mindlessly perform our economic duty and then return to our hole. We're human beings who like space, freedom, and the ability to control our surroundings.
nathanaldensr··on Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their
Taking money from the devil on one hand, protesting evil with the other. Make it make sense. "Rules for me but not for thee."
nathanaldensr··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
Yes.

"There are already foxes in the hen house, but we'll ban new foxes from entering!"

nathanaldensr··on Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election
> HN has a large enough MAGA contingent that believes by not talking about it the world will hold off a little longer from bringing down their idol.

No. You're projecting. You're one of those types that sees politics in everything--that wants politics in everything. Some of us, me included, flag political stories not because of our beliefs but because we'd rather HN not become Reddit, or the countless other spaces that have been perniciously and intentionally invaded by "always politics, all the time" people.

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