Hacker News: Electricniko

New comment by Electricniko in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

Electricniko — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:30:54 +0000

And good luck if the video you're looking for was related to something featured in a news report. No, youtube, I am not searching for 100 different local TV news stories about a viral video, when I type in the title of that viral video.

New comment by Electricniko in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

Electricniko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:21:14 +0000

For some reason the Kennedy Center one is saying not available right now, but this was the link for it if it returns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaJklsJonD4

The main broadcast is still up, with the ten minute countdown starting around 5 hours and 27 minutes into it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_UjBMIzNo

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

Electricniko — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:30:57 +0000

NASA had another feed that was just the view of the launch from Kennedy Space Center, no commentary. It was a few seconds ahead of the main broadcast, so it seems they already had a delay built in for the masses.

New comment by Electricniko in "Lost Doctor Who episodes found"

Electricniko — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:53:19 +0000

One of my favorite Youtube channels I've come across in the last year is BBC Archive. Not fiction, but a mix of documentaries, interviews, human interest stories, and educational content from the 50's to the 80's and a little bit of 90's. This 1970 short film on a Scottish boy's last carefree days before starting school is probably my favorite that I've seen so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6PJd6ZvHY

New comment by Electricniko in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

Electricniko — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:58:21 +0000

This all seems like a plot to get everyone worshipping the Roman goddess Luna.

New comment by Electricniko in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

Electricniko — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:48:50 +0000

I wonder if this would include the real estate investment startup that Jared Kushner co-founded.

New comment by Electricniko in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

Electricniko — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:34:09 +0000

According to press releases, the CEO of Donut/Verge founded Cova and ESOX in October/November. They're newly formed companies that haven't done anything yet, so I don't really think it would require much sophistication to say that three companies have already adopted this technology. Again, this doesn't say anything about the "realness" of the battery technology, I just wouldn't rely on the idea that multiple companies adopting it means that the technology is real, since right now it's tending to look more like businessmen throwing out multiple shell startups in different industries to lend weight to the announcement.

New comment by Electricniko in "Donut Lab’s all-solid-state battery delivers 400 Wh/kg of energy density"

Electricniko — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:30:18 +0000

I don't know about a scam, but the EV skateboard they're using has been available for other companies to use for a few years, while the other two companies share the same leadership as Donut/Verge and appear to be founded within the last few months. The battery may be great, but the multiple company launch seems a bit of a marketing gimmick.

New comment by Electricniko in "The Showa Hundred Year Problem"

Electricniko — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:57:31 +0000

I'm having a hard time imagining someone still using the Showa calendar as I read this in the 73rd month of 2020.

New comment by Electricniko in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

Electricniko — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:30:20 +0000

CEOs who build great, long-lasting companies would be very hard to replicate. But CEOs who make money for stockholders at the expense of everything else seem like the type of thing that would be much easier to replicate. As others have commented, replacing the people skills of a CEO might be difficult. But if the CEO's job is to strip the company of assets and cash out for the owners, people skills are kind of a hindrance at that point.

New comment by Electricniko in "Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder"

Electricniko — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:35:31 +0000

The UK government just enacted a law last week that gives tenants in England a lot more protection against that kind of thing.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-the-rent...

New comment by Electricniko in "NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission"

Electricniko — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:59:30 +0000

Relevant Mitchell and Webb sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeCo3AD1cM

New comment by Electricniko in "Rectal oxygen delivery might soon be a real medical treatment"

Electricniko — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:55:54 +0000

Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.

New comment by Electricniko in "A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe"

Electricniko — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:30:22 +0000

Here's another carving from the same site, depicting both what you thought you were seeing and what you were actually seeing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahan_Tepe#/media/File:Karah...

New comment by Electricniko in "The Faroes"

Electricniko — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:39:39 +0000

Fuel and settlement activity (shelter, fencing, farmland, etc), I don't think there would have been much wood worthy of shipbuilding, at least compared to their traditional ships.

New comment by Electricniko in "The Faroes"

Electricniko — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:03:17 +0000

Both the Faroes and Iceland had trees before the vikings arrived and deforested the land, with birch being the most predominant species. But yeah, the wind makes it hard to bring a forest back once it's gone. The rewilding youtube channel Mossy Earth just released a video a couple days ago on their efforts to bring back some birch forests in Iceland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-pT56a5ZUc

New comment by Electricniko in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

Electricniko — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:53:02 +0000

Ha ha, I just tried this with Gemini, with the prompt to "include a few typos in the writing." The first time didn't include any typos that jumped out at me, so I asked it where they were. Its response:

"My apologies, the previous response did not contain any intentional typos. The original user request was to include a few typos in the writing, but I failed to do so. The text was edited to correct any accidental errors before being sent. I will be sure to meet the specific requirements of the prompt in the future."

So I said, "Redo the request, but this time show me the typos you include."

And it rewrote the paragraphs, with a message at the end:

"The typos included were:

"investmen" instead of "investment"

"financ" instead of "finance"

"regulashions" instead of "regulations""

New comment by Electricniko in "Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library"

Electricniko — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:04:00 +0000

OpenYog-Sothoth

New comment by Electricniko in "Tsunami warning was issued in Alaska after 7.3 magnitude earthquake [updated]"

Electricniko — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:49:41 +0000

Yep, it's along the ring of fire where most of the world's earthquakes occur.

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

New comment by Electricniko in "Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago"

Electricniko — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 16:02:29 +0000

Are you saying the excessive number of police results in absurd enforcement practices, or are you saying their officers are large because they spend all day confiscating sandwiches?