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New comment by GroksBarnacles in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

GroksBarnacles — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:55:25 +0000

Plasma is matter, not a force

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

GroksBarnacles — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:47 +0000

Shouldn't you consider individual populations, cultures separately, and not be lumping all native people's together? One can do something another didn't.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

GroksBarnacles — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:46:48 +0000

You know "wilderness" serves functions too, right?

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "An introduction to formal proof verification and the Curry-Howard Correspondence"

GroksBarnacles — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:50:07 +0000

Anyone else having the text squeezed to only ~1/3 the page width? On mobile

Edit: Switched to desktop site, and.. that's just how it is

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks"

GroksBarnacles — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:08:15 +0000

It can use a lot of tokens in the background or tooling without being too verbose with the user

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "The Annotated JEPA"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:50:21 +0000

"To keep the discussion concrete,"

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:26:24 +0000

Remove the emdash from the front page

New comment by GroksBarnacles in ""Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005)"

GroksBarnacles — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:47:08 +0000

It many countries it actually is, if you call yourself an engineer professionally without a license you can be heavily fined. Canada, Germany, France..

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Australian influencer Lily Jay's tangled web of AI manipulation"

GroksBarnacles — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:28:00 +0000

Grug find rock. Krunk slug Durg with rock. Grug, you do this.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:05:48 +0000

I'll only disagree that it's not large swaths. I've never met my coworkers in person and we're doing immensely interesting things, anecdotally. And we're moving so much faster than my last in-person workplace. But my perspective isn't just based on that.

Or maybe "large swaths" is too imprecise to quibble over. Certainly some industries are better in person, but who can say how many? I think my precise point is that I don't think the industries that have gone remote are worse for it and don't need to to back, and many more can afford to go remote.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:58:05 +0000

Are you saying we need to be in the office and not remote to do interesting things?

Or are you misunderstanding the context and talking about employment or something?

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:03:58 +0000

This is such a useless comment. What even is your point?

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Better Images of AI"

GroksBarnacles — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:52:11 +0000

This guy is the opposite of the fear mongers, don't listen to "everything is fine and normal!"

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:42:56 +0000

Friction. Work isn't just about height.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:10:44 +0000

Do you have a meaningful quantitative explanation with some math we can start building tech on, or will that require some... experiments?

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000

A wave is already what we call a manifestation of a field, maybe I skimmed too quickly but I don't get the author's breakthrough point.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:48:29 +0000

No, if a name gives some hint as to what the product does, it isn't random.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

GroksBarnacles — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:47:40 +0000

I'd suggest a descriptive name. Baking what makes it unique in the name would be ideal, but even narrowing it down to a category, like your version of my message had, would be an improvement. Knowing what class of thing the noun is would be an improvement over a tree or a or a sound effect or an obscure foreign concept being equally interchangeable as titles.

Further, while your version wven presupposes that the name is useful enough to narrow it down to a category, if the name was specific enough it would avoid the confusion of your example. "Which program of this category? Oh, the one with that unique feature."

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "You all think it's normal to sit behind a laptop all day"

GroksBarnacles — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:48:01 +0000

This is such a weird post. Nobody thinks thats normal for primates.

New comment by GroksBarnacles in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

GroksBarnacles — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:09:55 +0000

I wish we as a society would stop using random words for products. "Slacked about Oak, but they need in Fizzle. The deck's in Slate, the assets are in Vault, the timeline's in Pulse, the copy's in Quill, the build's in Forge, and the launch party's already in Ember."