Hacker News: 1986

New comment by 1986 in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

1986 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:04:56 +0000

That's a feature, not a bug

New comment by 1986 in "iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information"

1986 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:28:56 +0000

Yeah, we're talking about the guy who leased a new car every 6 months in order to avoid having to put a license plate on it, and then parked it in handicap spots, right? Absolute same "rules for thee, not for me" energy

New comment by 1986 in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

1986 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:27:53 +0000

It's not 2019 any more.

New comment by 1986 in "How SQLite is tested"

1986 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:08:35 +0000

This one is probably popping today because of the simonw post yesterday about using an LLM to basically one-shot port a lib across languages with the help of an extremely robust test suite

New comment by 1986 in "US Tech Force"

1986 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:27:12 +0000

So they gutted and destroyed USDS in order to... Create it again?

New comment by 1986 in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

1986 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:03:27 +0000

In practice, "egregious" in English never means very good

New comment by 1986 in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

1986 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:11:29 +0000

We have the opposite problem, where if you live in NYC or LA your vote basically doesn't matter at the national level

New comment by 1986 in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

1986 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:49:22 +0000

It could put you in Guantanamo Bay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W#Usage_in_terrori...

New comment by 1986 in "Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon"

1986 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:07:16 +0000

Being able to walk to the store "sounds worse than hell"?

New comment by 1986 in "Novo Nordisk will lose billions because it didn't pay a couple hundred dollars"

1986 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:35:05 +0000

The Marketwatch link, which is paywalled, just links here:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-can...

New comment by 1986 in "Cottagecore Programmers"

1986 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:36:00 +0000

a friend recently described bouldering - which I understand is also fairly popular with engineers - as something to the effect of "solving problems in a physical space with your body". this seems not dissimilar

New comment by 1986 in "The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist"

1986 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:42:19 +0000

The "heist", which presumably gets covered in part 2, is that a lot of these items were originally looted from Iraq after the US invasion in 2003. US Customs ended up seizing a lot of them, and about 15,000 items ended up having to be returned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_Lobby_smuggling_scandal

New comment by 1986 in "The US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide"

1986 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:26:57 +0000

DOGE's shared data has been consistently off: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doge-says-i... https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5313853/doge-savings-re... https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/us/politics/doge-musk-con...

And just to be clear - Occam's razor to you suggests that this project hasn't actually been defunded, but rather that the people working on this project have chosen to stop work on it in order to project the appearance that it has been defunded?

New comment by 1986 in "GSA Eliminates 18F"

1986 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:45:37 +0000

*Norquist

New comment by 1986 in "Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals"

1986 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:10:54 +0000

Which was basically the point of the USDS, which has now been gutted of its original purpose and turned into DOGE

New comment by 1986 in "Our Big Oops"

1986 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:10:07 +0000

Really not enjoying the fascist-eugenic turn this place seems to be taking.

New comment by 1986 in "U.S. facing most intense flu season in at least 15 years"

1986 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:48:32 +0000

I also got this, felt like a cold that just took forever to clear. Wasn't covid, but didn't feel as bad as proper flu. I got my flu shot going into the season late last year.

New comment by 1986 in "Insomnia, Control"

1986 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:27:30 +0000

I find that I actually sleep worse the night I've worked out (3x / week)

New comment by 1986 in "Don't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown (2013)"

1986 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 01:25:48 +0000

> What I've realized is that the fame of the book is closely related to how interesting and unique the "elevator pitch” of the book. Which makes sense when you think about it; It's the elevator pitch that's spreading by word of mouth, not the book.

They call this "high concept"

New comment by 1986 in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

1986 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:52:56 +0000

> The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout strategies to their overall plans to streamline their bureaucracies. As a result, almost 70 percent of our buyouts in the non-Defense agencies have gone to people at higher grade levels, such as managers.

this isn't how it's being done now