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New comment by Hotdogsteve in "Why are most humans right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk"

Hotdogsteve — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:41:20 +0000

An elementary school teacher of mine had this happen to her (this was in the early '90s, so her experience I'm guessing would have been in the late '60s).

One day she wrote her name twice on the whiteboard and asked us to identify the difference between the two; visually they were identical, but she wrote one with her left hand and one with her right. She said as a kid she was made to use her right hand when she started showing signs of left-hand dominance.

AI reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment

Hotdogsteve — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/ipv6_generative_ai_experiment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964168

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New comment by Hotdogsteve in "Ok Billionaire: Why Do the Opinions of 600 Americans Get So Much Airtime? (2019)"

Hotdogsteve — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:42:57 +0000

Purely here to point out that you stole this word for word from a tweet.

New comment by Hotdogsteve in "Arthur C. Clarke predicted a computer-dominated future in the ’70s (2024)"

Hotdogsteve — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:03:03 +0000

When you dig into what people in the computer science world of the '60s-'80s were thinking about the future of computers, especially as parts became more and more miniaturized, what you find is a lot of them had a pretty strong grasp of where things were heading. Prediction is a tricky thing to give credit for after the fact, obviously, and it's near impossible to tell who is giving their honest forecast vs. who is cribbing some sci-fi plot point (to say nothing of how we interpret predictions to fit our current world), but having just finished The Soul of a New Machine the other day I was struck by the second half of the chapter "Going to the Fair" and its prescience for a computerized world that ended up being not that far off. Similarly, the BBC's Computer Literacy Project videos (thanks HN for that) has a series, aired in 1980, on silicon chips, and people in the first episode who are asked about the future of computers were also hitting things close to the mark.