Stopped reading when you said Mac OS 9 was slow. Compared to the current Mac OS on modern hardware, OS 9 was blazing fast even on that old hardware. Most things being single threaded also meant that even if your machine was lagging, you could queue a bunch of keystrokes and clicks and they’d all execute in perfect order exactly as expected as soon as the lag stopped. Nowadays all those keystrokes and clicks just fucking vanish.
> Most things being single threaded also meant that even if your machine was lagging, you could queue a bunch of keystrokes and clicks and they’d all execute in perfect order exactly as expected as soon as the lag stopped. Nowadays all those keystrokes and clicks just fucking vanish.
Actually, on the rare occasion when OS X freezes up, I have experienced this. For a solid minute I mash keys and click my mouse in vain, and then boom, the system wakes up and all of my keystrokes and mouse clicks execute at once.
Your comment only appeals to people who already agree with you, therefore it’s useless. If you want people to take you seriously then you can begin by addressing any of his points rather than fixating on the word “money” as if that was his entire argument. I can’t see his comment because he edited it but I’m assuming he provided plenty of evidence such as the timing of Event 201 and its focus on coronaviruses. Maybe you can begin by convincingly addressing that. If you weren’t aware of Event 201 before reading my comment then you should stop sharing your opinion on this issue anywhere.
The original comment didn’t mention event 201, it was literally just about money and how Gates was doing all this to get more of it, but really — all event 201 shows is that a coronavirus-based pandemic disaster was extremely predictable, not that it was planned. War games in secret rooms help predict outcomes, they don’t cause those outcomes.
Smart people have been concerned about a viral pandemic of this sort for centuries, and yet we were caught unprepared. That’s the real tragedy.
Event 201 as in the pandemic preparedness exercise? And its focus on coronaviruses because of SARS and MERS? Is that really all it takes to start an entire conspiracy lol
The whole phrase is a multilayered meme. It’s generally used by alt-right neo nazis with conflicted emotions who believe Alex Jones works for the Jews but also find his tantrums endearing. “Humble merchant” is a phrase often used by modern antisemites when they parody the speech of an imaginary Jew describing himself in a disarming way. Use of the meme also reveals how long a person has been immersed in alt-right neo nazi internet culture, because it likely originated when Alex Jones’ primary product was water filters rather than supplements, so anyone using the meme has probably been an alt-right neo nazi for 4+ years, or at least reads what such people say fairly often.
That's morbidly interesting but I don't think it's fair to tar scottlocklin with that brush. That's a severe accusation, a smear if untrue, and I've not seen any evidence of it. In fact his comment upthread expresses a contradictory view, just in a 'pox on all your houses' way.
Thanks dang. I'm pretty sure this person is a troll I know IRL.
For the humor deprived, I'll spell it out.
1) I'm pretty sure Alex Jones would be mad if I called him that. That's one of the many things that makes it funny.
2) Alex Jones is a completely harmless kook, and it's shameful how he is demonized by powerful elements in our society with the acquiescence of people who should know better.
3) For example: this is a literal smear done by a UN propaganda agency done against ... Alex Jones, who, by the facts listed in their own accounts, had nothing to do with the problems of their creepy NGO. I'm pretty sure the UN is more powerful than Alex Jones. It's not a good look a literal UN propaganda agency flinging poo at some weirdo in Texas who ultimately hawks water filters for a living.
4) That NGO probably "means well" but is super creepy!
5) Bill Gates is also well meaning (I was once a subcontractor for his foundation), but is acting like a grade-A creep. He has arguably done some fairly evil things both in the past and in the present day. It is terribly ironic that the man who brought us Microsoft Windows is lecturing us about viruses. The reaction against him may be unfair and is probably ill informed, but he should really think about the figure he cuts in the world. Maybe touting a spooky vaccine global-ID regime isn't a good use of his time. Just a suggestion!
Oligarchs like Gates are powerful and involved in some incredibly shady stuff. They should expect no deference from ordinary people, and should work hard for the approval of the masses. The insane insular arrogance of people like this, and their hangers on, well, perhaps they should consider why people trust kooks like Alex Jones more than themselves.
Why do the edges need to be round? Can this idiotic trend die already? It makes it easier for the phone to slide off of flat surfaces. It also makes it much harder to hold the phone with one hand since all the weight that concentrates on your pinky rests painfully on 2-3 millimeters of your skin rather than being spread across the full thickness of the phone. It also makes it easier for the phone to slip out of your hand if your pinky isn’t at just the right location and angle, the smooth curve means it just slides right off your pinky knuckle and onto the floor.
The Wuhan Center for Disease Control, which routinely sent viral samples to WIV, is only 300 meters from the wet market. The 300 meter radius circle surrounding the Wuhan Center for Disease Control is 0.33 square miles. China is 3,705,009 square miles. The chances of this happening so close to the Wuhan Center for Disease Control is therefore 1 in 11.2 million.
You’re the one making extraordinary claims. The virus came from a bat sold at a wet market? Where is your evidence? What is the name of the merchant who sold the bat at the wet market? Where is the specific bat from that wet market which was recovered and tested positive for the coronavirus? What specific species of bat was it? Where is your proof that anyone ever sold bats at that wet market (many sources are saying they didn’t)? Why did the outbreak supposedly begin at a wet market 300 meters from a lab that specifically focused on studying coronaviruses? You’re implying that you have very convincing answers to all these questions. Do you?
I find it infuriating. It drives home how insurmountable someone else’s first mover advantage and subsequent network effects can be. I say this as someone who had great success in my niche, I’m often angry about my own success and sympathize with my competitors who failed to catch up for no reason other than that they weren’t the first to do what I did.
Today no one can turn their own micropublishing idea into a Twitter competitor, because by the time it achieves even 0.1% of Twitter’s success, Twitter will just clone its features to kill its momentum.
That’s life though. This is one of the first ‘it’s a you’ problem everyone has to get over sooner or later. Sorry, it’s sounds dismissive, but there’s really no other answer to this.
Facebook clones features or as a company has various spin offs. I thought twitter stayed pretty true to form?
Although your point stands. If you are using a cool feature to differentiate and that feature is cloneable, there is risk that one of the large players will implement it.
Something needs to be done about the default comment ordering or subthread collapsing ability on HN. I understand I can easily collapse a comment’s replies with a single tap in the correct tiny location, but that isn’t enough. I became increasingly fatigued as I scrolled down seeing reply after reply to the top comment all arguing over the definition of “bricked”, assuming that surely at any moment I’d reach the bottom of the subthread and be able to move on to read something more useful. Finally I became frustrated enough to scroll to the top and collapse the parent comment, and that worked this time, but the issue is that it isn’t always the top comment on the page you want to collapse, so it becomes a blind hunt for the correct comment to collapse. You probably won’t remember the exact indentation depth of the comment you need to collapse so you’re stuck deciding whether to waste time looking for it or tough out trying to scroll to the bottom of the subthread (while continuously getting excited then disappointed every time the indentation shifts left and you’re tricked into thinking you’ve finally reached the end). It’s a daily annoyance but I’m not sure what could remedy it.
Also I’ve read that submissions with too much early comment activity get removed automatically for seemingly being too controversial. If so then maybe that rule should apply to comments as well. Controversial comments could automatically sink lower despite upvote count, as well as older comments.
I rarely see halfway decent “Show HN” style posts, people seem to prefer amateur hour stuff in that category instead. Why?
Recently we had the uninspired Pickle Rick “terminal” someone made in four minutes and then an allegedly multiplayer game called Space Frigates. It was astonishing to see people upvote and praise Space Frigates one after the other despite it being broken, full of bugs, and completely unplayable. To test my theory I posted a link to microgravity.io which is an actual polished and working browser multiplayer space game created by two bored teenagers, objectively much more inspiring content because if kids can do that then just imagine what you can do if you put in the effort? Yet it only received 3 upvotes while Space Frigates received 180.
Is this because people can relate more emotionally to someone who makes depressingly little progress on a side project? Or is the first step more exciting to witness than the end result? Or what?
You can't test a theory with a single data point. There's too much randomness in what gets traction from /newest. That's why we allow reposts of stories that haven't gotten attention.
In addition to randomness, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22271942 probably didn't get attention because there wasn't any context. It wasn't clear what the background to the project was, nor what was interesting or different about it. You did later post a comment explaining that a bit, but the comment was so unpleasant and bilious that it came across as trying to bully the reader into liking the post. You're not going to catch many flies that way! You also posted the comment a couple hours after submitting the article, by which time it would have fallen off the /newest page.
There's another factor which is actually a little interesting. More polished projects often do worse on HN because readers assume that they're being posted by companies for promotional reasons, and people find that boring. Since there really are a lot of such promotional submissions, it's understandable that readers pattern-match that way. More amateurish projects have an advantage here: they're more likely to be judged as authentic, which is intrinsically interesting. It's a lot more satisfying to relate to other humans and their work than to encounter a corporate facade. Especially for a project like a game, an HN thread is usually only very interesting if the creator is present.
Of course there's nothing wrong with professional, well-wrought work! The solution here is to add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of the project, and explaining what's different about it. That does two things: it gives people an explicit starting point to kick off from, but also it implicitly helps classify why the thing was posted. Titles make a big difference too, since that's your first and best chance to interest the reader.
Most importantly, that does look like a great project! We're always on the lookout for good submissions that fell through the cracks, and we often invite reposts. I'd be happy to do that with this one. If you want to, please email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll figure it out. But it would definitely be much better if one or both of the creators themselves were around to engage with readers—that would make the thread more alive. Assuming that the game is as you describe it, I think the community here would have a lot of fun with that, and your bored teenagers might get some good validation to keep creating.
I made an uptime monitoring service for wordpress recently and the "Show HN" post didn't get a single upvote [1].
I realized it's not a thrilling thing to show, but it was a bit more effort and is a bit more useful than this (no offence OP).
The funny thing is, the HN community downvotes silly comments to hell but upvotes silly submissions.
