If they can make it there, they'll make it anywhere.
Readit Newsreaperducer commented on Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets amny.com/nyc-transit/self... · Posted by u/pkaeding
reaperducer commented on The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
What predictors do you mean? I’m genuinely curious
What predictors do you mean? I’m genuinely curious
I don't think you're genuinely curious because the title of the article is literally "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst."
reaperducer commented on VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HFYWH... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Every time I hear about VHS I like to bring up Marion Stokes : https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...
It's so sad how back when Sony was an electronics company, it fought the content makers in court for the right for people to make recordings.
Then Sony became a content company, and stopped making things to allow people to make recordings.
With advances in technology, I should be able to pop an SD card in my TV and record what I see, then bring it over to a friend's house and pop it into his TV so we can watch together.
The future has been monetized.
When I was in college the philosophy program had the marketing slogan: “Thinking of a major? Major in thinking”.
Now as a hiring manager I’ll say I regularly find that those who’ve had humanities experience are way more capable and the hard parts of analysis and understanding. Of course I’m biased as a dual cs/philosophy major but it’s very rare I’m looking for someone who can just write a lot of code. Especially juniors as analytical thinking is way harder to teach than how to program.
On a related note, the most accomplished people I've met didn't have degrees in the fields where they excelled and won awards. They were all philosophy majors.
Teaching people to think is perhaps the world's most under-rated skill.
reaperducer commented on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network? · Posted by u/mbix77
I don't see how blaming the pre-existing website on the current administration makes sense.
I don't see how blaming the pre-existing website on the current administration makes sense.
Many federal web sites were very quickly altered or replaced by the new administration.
This is common. Work begins on some web sites immediately after the election. For example, when a new president is sworn in, the White House web site flips immediately.
More to the parent poster's point, it has been widely reported in the legitimate media repeatedly that many federal web sites have been replaced or significantly altered by the current administration. There's an entire pseudo-department for it that also makes headlines for its greater transgressions.
Add to that severe and sudden budget and staffing cuts, and like all government functions -- you get what you pay for.
reaperducer commented on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels scrollguard.app/... · Posted by u/adrianhacar
> What is the reason for the popular appeal of using Instagram for messaging?
Same reason people use any social network: because your friends, family and/or people you otherwise/somehow care about are there.
Same reason people use any social network: because your friends, family and/or people you otherwise/somehow care about are there.
If they're on Instagram, aren't they necessarily also on SMS, plus a billion other people? All ad-free?
reaperducer commented on When did AI take over Hacker News? zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
Can you point to a set of recent comments that are critical of big tech while also not breaking the guidelines and make good points, and are flagged anyway?
All of the anti-big-tech comments I've ever seen that are flagged are flagged because they blatantly break the guidelines and/or are contentless and don't contribute in any meaningful sense aside from trying to incite outrage.
And those should be flagged.
Can you point to a set of recent comments that are critical of big tech while also not breaking the guidelines and make good points, and are flagged anyway?
They show up in the HN Active section quite regularly.
And virtually anything even remotely related to Twitter or most Elon Musk-related companies almost instantly get the hook.
reaperducer commented on When did AI take over Hacker News? zachperk.com/blog/when-di... · Posted by u/zachperkel
How do you know who flags submissions?
How do you know who flags submissions?
I have seen people on HN publicly state that they flag anything they don't agree with, regardless of merit.
I guess they use it like some kind of super-down button.
reaperducer commented on Elon Musk's SpaceX Most Likely Doesn't Pay Taxes nytimes.com/2025/08/15/te... · Posted by u/reaperducer
> "most likely"
NYT, you should do the investigative journalism to confidently report on something rather than speculate!
Guess how we know you didn't bother to read it before criticizing.