Hacker News: DarkContinent

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

DarkContinent — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566

Points: 687

# Comments: 214

New comment by DarkContinent in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

DarkContinent — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:04:55 +0000

Do you pull data from non-HUD sources too?

https://www.realestatesales.gov/

Positioning Without Satellites or Base Stations

DarkContinent — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:18:33 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/01/positioning-without-satellites-or-base-stations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786020

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

International chess federation sanctions Kramnik

DarkContinent — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fide.com/fide-ethics-disciplinary-commission-issues-a-decision-in-case-involving-gm-vladimir-kramnik/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777266

Points: 169

# Comments: 99

AI to Automate Brain Diagnoses

DarkContinent — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:42:26 +0000

Article URL: https://radiologyai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48592044

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Copilot Builder enables welding with AI

DarkContinent — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:41:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.millerwelds.com/products/copilot-builder-with-blue-iq-powered-by-novai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090512

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027

DarkContinent — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/new-york-city-owned-grocery-store-manhattan-mamdani/817381/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768337

Points: 59

# Comments: 180

NASA ends space mission early due to astronaut medical condition

DarkContinent — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:54:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9e2y7nkv8o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548753

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

High achieving adults rarely begin as child prodigies

DarkContinent — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:07:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2509261-high-achieving-adults-rarely-began-as-child-prodigies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491101

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Fixed-Wing Runway Design

DarkContinent — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:41:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wbdg.org/building/aviation/fixed-wing-runway-design

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368608

Points: 24

# Comments: 10

The AI bubble is bigger than you think

DarkContinent — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://prospect.org/2025/11/19/ai-bubble-bigger-than-you-think/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45996921

Points: 50

# Comments: 15

New comment by DarkContinent in "Show HN: I made an esoteric programming language that's read like a spellbook"

DarkContinent — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:12:11 +0000

How do you call a library function from a spell? Like something from numpy.

US Treasury to stop producing pennies next year

DarkContinent — Fri, 23 May 2025 01:41:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j07858lno

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44069037

Points: 36

# Comments: 25

Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea

DarkContinent — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9men89yvo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002218

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Patrick Collison joins Meta's board

DarkContinent — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:59:40 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/11/meta-adds-stripe-ceo-patrick-collison-and-dina-powell-mccormick-to-its-board/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659603

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by DarkContinent in "Layoffs Don't Work"

DarkContinent — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:18:16 +0000

Does your interview process require knowing cloud costs off the top of your head? Because that's hard to track tbh

FERC order rejects colocation of nuclear plant and data center

DarkContinent — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foley.com/insights/publications/2024/11/ferc-rejecting-co-location-nuclear-facility-data-center/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42144070

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

All board members resign at 23andMe

DarkContinent — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:54:20 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/23andme-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41596293

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Error Correction Zoo

DarkContinent — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:55:58 +0000

Article URL: https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483132

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by DarkContinent in "Converting Codebases with LLMs"

DarkContinent — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:36:43 +0000

It's not clear to me from the article how Mantle was porting the build scripts, infrastructure config files, etc across languages. Typically these files don't cleanly translate from one framework to another. Was this considered as part of 20% of project for human engineering effort?