Hacker News: Crunchified

New comment by Crunchified in "A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart"

Crunchified — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:44:03 +0000

"Misprint Moon Mug $35"

They'll sell plenty of those now.

New comment by Crunchified in "Atomic Clocks"

Crunchified — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:18:53 +0000

To fully understand time even as simply as a sequence of events is excruciatingly difficult, and we are still working out the details of our understanding. I think Einstein was on the right track with his quote, and trying to get beyond that would have simply been an obstacle in his path of knowledge.

New comment by Crunchified in "Atomic Clocks"

Crunchified — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:03:15 +0000

If I had an atomic clock, it'd probably be blinking 12:00.

New comment by Crunchified in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

Crunchified — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:26:04 +0000

You mean a flymo. It's more hovercraft than drone, and much older technology. Works reasonably well on non-lumpy lawns - my neighbor had one in the 1980s.

www.flymo.com

New comment by Crunchified in "DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status"

Crunchified — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:33:34 +0000

It stored energy. It's not stored electricity.

New comment by Crunchified in "200 Milliseconds"

Crunchified — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:12:23 +0000

I'm finding more and more web sites that won't load at all until I request them a second time.

New comment by Crunchified in "DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status"

Crunchified — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:08:02 +0000

"vast stores of electricity"?

New comment by Crunchified in "Holocloth"

Crunchified — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:07:10 +0000

Clue: Corner of the cloth says "HONDA [something] DOMINATOR" and refers to the NX650 Dominator dual-sport motorcycle manufactured from 1988 to 2003. Single cylinder 640cc engine.

New comment by Crunchified in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

Crunchified — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:29:16 +0000

And hopefully these independent contractors are insured. It may well be insurance requirements that limit the use of ladders.

New comment by Crunchified in "GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more"

Crunchified — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:28:19 +0000

Any different from Linux?

New comment by Crunchified in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

Crunchified — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:54:25 +0000

I figured with an app name like "bitch at", the government was simply getting tired of hearing peoples' gripes. I was saddened to see I was way off.

New comment by Crunchified in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

Crunchified — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:50:04 +0000

Blockchain is no good?

New comment by Crunchified in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

Crunchified — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:40:28 +0000

Install it in your bathroom, use it like a restroom hand dryer.

New comment by Crunchified in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

Crunchified — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:38:19 +0000

In capitalism, any intentional non-maximization of profits is philanthropy. Nothing wrong with that.

New comment by Crunchified in "Aluminum foil (2021)"

Crunchified — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:56:32 +0000

I will not give up my Jiffy Pop when camping!

New comment by Crunchified in "Aluminum foil (2021)"

Crunchified — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:50:38 +0000

Is the very thin paper used in constructing corrugated cardboard that strong compared to aluminum foil? I don't have the answer to that, but it does tell us that very thin, relatively weak materials can be used to construct much stronger things, and we shouldn't casually compare the underlying materials with the finished product.

New comment by Crunchified in "An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy"

Crunchified — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:03:49 +0000

I always had a muLinux disk handy in my computer toolbox. Most of its shell commands came from a simple script ingeniously written by the distro's author. It's been around since the mid-90s, I'd guess.

https://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/mu/html/...

New comment by Crunchified in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

Crunchified — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:21:56 +0000

Tumwater. What you get when you put the wrong tablet in your denture bath.

New comment by Crunchified in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

Crunchified — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:27:33 +0000

...or the scutters on Red Dwarf.

New comment by Crunchified in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

Crunchified — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:41:07 +0000

No Apple services listed? Where's iCloud?