abstractspoon
Re:Keep Going
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:07PM (#50343775)
Glib
Re:Why I Still Own a DVD Player – and You Should, Too
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:49PM (#50331185)
I watch only tubi.com and sbs.com.au. When ads come on I just mute the sound, gaze at the ceiling, and ponder some programming related task I'm working on. I might ponder the same issue 10 times, but the benefit of that is by the following day I've cleared every wrinkle and work proceeds effortlessly. YMMV
Re:Xkcd and Fourier
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:40PM (#50331107)
The joke is that it provoked you to spend all that energy refuting the joke!
Re:Life with Down Syndrome
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:38PM (#50331084)
I'm not Downs but I have a personality disorder such that I've always felt different. I'm 60 now and yet to meet anyone, M or F, who seems remotely like me. I was married, didn't end well, and have a daughter who doesn't talk to me. I live every day bathed in the knowledge that I am utterly alone in the world, despite having 2 close female friends. It has always been this way. It will always be this way. I try to live a quiet secluded life.
Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:00PM (#50321791)
Unlikely. We'd just use the leftover energy for new things.
Re:China unveils 13-foot robot that can lift a cow
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:57AM (#50313849)
> NeodraDynamics is yet to demonstrate the robot’s claimed capabilities,
Nuf said
Re:Ask HN: Should Flocking Become a Verb?
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:24AM (#50300463)
I quite like the idea. As in "Dude. You've been totally flocked!"
Re:Laws of Human Stupidity
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:37PM (#50298388)
There are many ways a person can benefit other than financially which wholly undermines law 3.
I'm thinking revenge...
Re:When UI Design Cared
on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:34AM (#50269911)
I'm guessing no one wants to admit that Windows 95 got a lot of things right
Re:Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:12PM (#50267719)
Uses ACDC's copyrighted Dirty Deeds album cover image without attribution
Re:Iterating Backwards in C
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:35AM (#50255357)
I've been using this method for more than 30 years!
Re:Disclosure and Shame
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:29PM (#50238393)
The author doth protest too much!
Re:Why the Columbia River Has No Delta
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:20PM (#50238340)
F*king ads
Re:Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency)
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:13PM (#50238286)
+1
Re:Ask HN: What are your most ambitious projects in 2026?
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:27AM (#50228867)
I've started planning the update of user-facing help for my 23 year old magnum opus. Help probably hasn't been updated in 10 years (I prefer coding) and I'm rather dreading the tedium. No, I won't be using LLMs - not in my lifetime - it's hand crafted all the way.
Re:I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong?
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @10:00PM (#50227522)
I used to mute my microphone and camera until the meeting proper started
Re:Solving a Giant Rubik's Cube with a Quadruped Robot
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:27PM (#50227306)
What's with all the foot tapping? lol
Re:Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, no privacy, and life's never been b...
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:56AM (#50218876)
It sounds like nightmare to me
Re:Reforming English Spelling
on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:56PM (#50217703)
I read this as satire, it was so ridiculous
Re:L'Oreal says weight loss drugs are impacting beauty and skin care s...
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:23PM (#50203386)
That's the silver lining
Re:Need help porting PS2 game into browser as a browser game
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:42PM (#50203100)
AI? /s
Re:Face of man who lived in Roman Scotland almost 2k years ago
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:27PM (#50189968)
There's a surprise; he looks no different to you or me
Re:SOMETHING WORTH READING: About the pressure of writing
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:33AM (#50162140)
Writing a blog does not put you in the same paragraph as John Steinbeck!
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:22AM (#50162057)
Try Harmonic
Re:Short Class Warfare; Long Age Warfare
on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:22PM (#50160199)
2009
Re:Is Chocolate Still Chocolate?
on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:20PM (#50160194)
Memory is unreliable. The thing for me which most affects how something tastes is my mood.
Eg. The same cup of tea I've been making 4 times a day for the last 10 years tastes different both at different times of the day and at the same time on different days.
And yes, I have autistic traits and make it identically every time.
Re:Fatal Dog Attacks
on Monday October 19, 2026 @09:17PM (#50160169)
What does the chart look like if the dogs of mixed breed are proportionally split between the pure breeds?
Eg a cross between German Shepherd and Rottweiler counts as 0.5 in each
Re:Milos Raonic: Wimbledon finalist to investment banker at Goldman Sachs
on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:04PM (#50159649)
Trading on his fame?
Re:Are Countries with Lower Inequality More Altruistic?
on Monday October 19, 2026 @08:01PM (#50159623)
There's no great need for altruism if wealth is already more fairly distributed.
Re:MS Project – I made my own app finally
on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:51AM (#50149170)
You mean everyone can install your possible malware?