Hacker News: HoldOnAMinute

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "The Neon King of New Orleans"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:37:08 +0000

"Garden and Gun"? Is this a parody?

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "What killed the Florida orange?"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:18:18 +0000

Sugar cane required annual burning of the fields, which became really unpopular. That and labor practices.

They still grow millions of pineapples

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:52:05 +0000

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New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:51:07 +0000

Now let's do washing machines and refrigerators

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "3.4M Solar Panels"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:31:30 +0000

Hawaii is the one I don't get. Every building there should be festooned with panels. They have the best opportunity to be a world leader in electrification.

Instead they import bunker fuel. The tankers dock at the power station, which then burns it, to power the island.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:19:55 +0000

Are they merging with Palantir any time soon?

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:48:40 +0000

I'd like to buy some of these tags and use them as displays around my house.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:23:49 +0000

I do not spend money at businesses that treat me like a criminal.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Laws of Software Engineering"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:21:12 +0000

I like it, but this could have been a tab delimited text file.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "GitHub's fake star economy"

HoldOnAMinute — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:45:03 +0000

"new-to-me" physics

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

HoldOnAMinute — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:41:41 +0000

People had morals back then... you could trust good people to do the right thing.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

HoldOnAMinute — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:39:23 +0000

>> internal corruption and incompetence can run rampant

This affliction happens to almost every company, eventually. Nobody seems to have solved this.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:53:37 +0000

Monte Sereno or Saratoga?

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

HoldOnAMinute — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:51:03 +0000

Perhaps this venture would have been more successful as a Public Benefit Corporation.

In the USA in 2026, "capitalism", "politics", and "evil" have all become synonymous.

Maybe I am naive, and the corruption is too deep and pervasive.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:10:48 +0000

It works fine as long as no one is writing to the sqlite file and you are not in WAL mode, which is not the default.

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:33:01 +0000

Sangamon's Principle

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Running out of disk space in production"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:11:14 +0000

Sounds like something straight out of Dilbert

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

HoldOnAMinute — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:10:40 +0000

I solved this by upgrading Claude Code, closing down all instances, closing my browser, starting claude again, and doing a /login

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "F-15 shot down over Iran, active search for crew"

HoldOnAMinute — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:51:53 +0000

Why would they send such an old plane into a combat situation unless they wanted it to get shot down?

New comment by HoldOnAMinute in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

HoldOnAMinute — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:46:31 +0000

Those brutally cold temperatures are really not compatible with most human beings