Hacker News: ChrisGranger

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Value-Null Antinatalism [pdf]"

ChrisGranger — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:13:34 +0000

I've felt this way for decades and almost invariably get negative push-back when I raise these points. I've stopped worrying about it.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "[dead]"

ChrisGranger — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:48:18 +0000

This isn't what Show HN is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Show HN: My new daily word game, LETTERS"

ChrisGranger — Wed, 28 May 2025 01:33:49 +0000

Letters #1

Score: 948 pts

Best word: 240 pts

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Show HN: My new daily word game, LETTERS"

ChrisGranger — Tue, 27 May 2025 23:23:04 +0000

Neat little game. Here's my best score so far:

Letters #1

Score: 804 pts

Best word: 252 pts

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care"

ChrisGranger — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:33:34 +0000

Like Firefox's Reader View for real life.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Musica Universalis"

ChrisGranger — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:22:14 +0000

This URL has an extra '.www' in it.

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

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Williston's Law"

ChrisGranger — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:45:14 +0000

Incorrect URL.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Anthropic employee posts Claude demo video but its a copyrighted YouTube video"

ChrisGranger — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 04:30:43 +0000

Is there a more charitable way to read this than "Hamish Kerr is a shameless liar" or... ?

New comment by ChrisGranger in "A deadly strain of avian influenza has breached the ecosystem of Antarctica"

ChrisGranger — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 11:59:56 +0000

The fact that the habitat is unfragmented means the virus can more easily spread through the entire population, and not just to more penguins, but to anything else that lives there, given it is affecting mammals too.

You're minimizing this news based on percentages killed so far, when the virus has just arrived and now has unfettered access to those aforementioned 10 million individuals.

It's a mass mortality event because it's infectious, has killed thousands already on Heroína Island and isn't over yet...

I know it's uncool to ask if a commenter has read the article, but...

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Ask HN: Smoking Object in the Sky?"

ChrisGranger — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:43:34 +0000

Blue Origin has a launch facility near Van Horn, Texas, that was operating before 2022, but I don't know if what you saw was one of their rockets.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Bird flu virus outlasted pasteurization, study finds"

ChrisGranger — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 03:16:37 +0000

Broken link. The correct URL is:

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/17/bird-flu-milk-pasteurizatio...

New comment by ChrisGranger in "TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough"

ChrisGranger — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:28:45 +0000

When I commented, the URL was a link to the press release. It was changed to the Ars Technica article later.

Good to know.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough"

ChrisGranger — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 08:23:58 +0000

I wonder if this scales up, to batteries much larger than a coin cell replacement.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Ask HN: What single line of code would you put on a programming shirt?"

ChrisGranger — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:25:38 +0000

body { display: none !important; }

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Dark fibre"

ChrisGranger — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:18:57 +0000

>I'm not sure why this Wikipedia link was submitted without question/comment...

This is one of my pet peeves. I wish OP (in general) would comment as to why they're posting, what they found interesting. I don't flag these posts, but they do sometimes feel like a lazy karma-grab.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Avogrado Constant"

ChrisGranger — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 21:33:24 +0000

Misspelled title, Avogadro.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "Lite.cnn.com"

ChrisGranger — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:18:23 +0000

New comment by ChrisGranger in "PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium"

ChrisGranger — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:44:55 +0000

For sites that break when using Firefox, you can report them here: https://webcompat.com/

New comment by ChrisGranger in "[dead]"

ChrisGranger — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:25:45 +0000

I recognize nine of these ten words.

New comment by ChrisGranger in "June 4th Incident"

ChrisGranger — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:52:26 +0000

Did you intend to link to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

You've titled your post June 4th Incident, but linked to Wikipedia's list of things that happened on June 4th.