Hacker News: Blackthorn

New comment by Blackthorn in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

Blackthorn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:31:40 +0000

Which, notably, is the place where this happened and therefore the place we're discussing.

New comment by Blackthorn in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

Blackthorn — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:39:59 +0000

Compassionate care does not exist for people like this.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Love systemd timers"

Blackthorn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:17:48 +0000

Those will still get their nozzles clogged if you don't run them.

New comment by Blackthorn in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

Blackthorn — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:13:07 +0000

It's a real shame that the world standardized on MX and ALPS has been left in the dust.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

Blackthorn — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:59:08 +0000

If Makita would finally just make a right angle die grinder I would be so happy. It's like the one thing they're missing.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

Blackthorn — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:06:24 +0000

Japan loves the limited edition stuff. Was very sad when I wasn't able to get the Bocchi guitar because Yamaha decided to only make a few hundred of them, even though they could easily sell 10x as many.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Dotcl: Common Lisp Implementation on .NET"

Blackthorn — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:45:45 +0000

Clojure isn't known for performance.

New comment by Blackthorn in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

Blackthorn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:28:59 +0000

You have to give Claude Code access to every shell command individually unless you run in yolo mode.

New comment by Blackthorn in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

Blackthorn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:56 +0000

Emacs has full system access with arbitrary execution so full emacs access -> full system access.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

Blackthorn — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:03:12 +0000

We've lost some classic names in keyboards. It's not mechanical but Keytronic made amazing rubber dome keyboards, and they left the business. I don't know what I'm going to do if I ever need to replace my current one.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

Blackthorn — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:37:10 +0000

This argument would be a lot more convincing if it wasn't the people actually doing the surveillance.

The ones who are doing the bad thing are the ones that are having that bad thing happen to them! That's good! That's how you get an actual change!

New comment by Blackthorn in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

Blackthorn — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:01:30 +0000

I'm happy to see the metamates (lol) receiving the same pain they inflict on others. Maybe it will teach them a lesson in solidarity.

You can't have solidarity about a bad thing with the people who are doing the bad thing! They have to stop doing the bad thing first! That's how solidarity works!

New comment by Blackthorn in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

Blackthorn — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:33:43 +0000

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of people. My irony detector is sparking so badly I think it's about to blow.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished"

Blackthorn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:52:08 +0000

My favorite is, fortunately, a lot less depressing. Sinead Lohan, right on the cusp of making it big, touring with some of the biggest names in folk at the time. Realized she didn't like the music industry so she stopped and retired right then and there. I have no doubt she'd be a legendary folk name if she continued. Whatever It Takes is my favorite song by her.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

Blackthorn — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:16:56 +0000

You've gotta read the room. People hate AI.

New comment by Blackthorn in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

Blackthorn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:47:24 +0000

This must be different, the "old fashioned rolled oats" sold in America would be more than done after 20 minutes of simmering.

Going by Bob's Red Mill, which is an excellent brand, we've got: * Old Fashioned rolled oats, 10 minutes: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/regular-rolled-oats [the store brand I always see, on the other hand, is 5 minutes]

* Steel cut oats, 15-20 minutes (this is a lie, it takes longer than 20 minutes for them to get sufficiently soft in my experience, for any steel cut oat brand): https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/steel-cut-oats

* Quick cooking rolled oats, 3 minutes (in my experience this is consistent across all store brands, down to 2 minutes): https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/organic-quick-cooking-ro...

They also have a second species of oats that are significantly higher in protein, and they take 15+ minutes to cook in "rolled oat" form, which from personal experience is accurate: https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/protein-oats

New comment by Blackthorn in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

Blackthorn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:38:37 +0000

2 servings of rolled oats: 300 calories, 10g protein. Barely any?

New comment by Blackthorn in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

Blackthorn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:06:52 +0000

"old fashioned" rolled oats are the standard afaict and I always cook them in 5 minutes

New comment by Blackthorn in "The revenge of the data scientist"

Blackthorn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:15 +0000

One thing data scientists brought to the table was statistical rigor in the models, but that seems to have left the building at this point with LLM-based solutions.

New comment by Blackthorn in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

Blackthorn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:08:09 +0000

Let's not jinx them; let them get home safe before we take a victory lap.