Hacker News: LandoCalrissian

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:26:20 +0000

"You don’t need to be able to memorize something for an exam to show mastery of a topic."

Yes you do???

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Grok Build is open source"

LandoCalrissian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:44:15 +0000

Ironic username.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"

LandoCalrissian — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:40:23 +0000

Do CW contesting and occasional POTA, lots of fun. Ham radio is a pretty cool hobby that I think many tech inclined people would enjoy. There are tons of digital modes too, and with the symbol rate limit being removed lots of fun to be had.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:11:09 +0000

Only one has Actual Money™ and quite a lot of it.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "No LLM Code in Dependencies"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:13:13 +0000

Ah yes, open source will be better with less people who can actually write code.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:37:08 +0000

I don't think anyone in the AI game can whine about stealing.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:34:07 +0000

That is a wonderful speech, I have never read it before. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:27:06 +0000

Everything comes to an end friend, not everything needs to go on forever. Maybe it is forgotten, left behind, but that's not really important. What's important is it ended on his terms and some of us had the privilege to experience it.

There will still be people that find Calvin for the first time, and they will get the same privilege. I'm glad he did it his way and I think most of his new fans will as well.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:24:18 +0000

I didn't see it got dropped, that is very unfortunate but also understandable. It's been a few years since I last messed around with it. If I recall, what was in the kernel at the time had a few issues and hadn't been touched in a very long time. It was a huge hassle to get working, there wasn't much up to date documentation.

I made back images and kept a lot of the documentation in case I needed to go back since it was tricky to find the first time.

However once you do get it working it's very satisfying to see a connection through a VHF radio appear in the native linux networking stack. Opens doors to a lot of goofy and fun ideas.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:23:08 +0000

Sure, if Elon gets to raid your retirement account it can.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "KDE at 30"

LandoCalrissian — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:50:28 +0000

I agree it's really impressive, it brings a lot of things together into a cohesive package and experience. I'm a huge evangelist, I think it's the best desktop experience.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "KDE at 30"

LandoCalrissian — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:45:24 +0000

Love KDE, I think plasma is really great. KDE connect is a program I think people sleep on, I use it all the time.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

LandoCalrissian — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:21:10 +0000

12 crashes in 5 years to get 1/5th the capacity of a Saturn V. Good job Elon!

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:28:49 +0000

'If you google “plugging a PC into multiple outlets”, you get lots of warnings that if you even consider such a setup you will instantly burst into flames. So I hired a professional PC builder make sure it was safe.'

Not really sure how that makes it safe but OK!

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

LandoCalrissian — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:33:50 +0000

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New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:46:12 +0000

Thunderbird was literally asking for donations just a few days ago?

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "EFF Logs Out of X"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:44:09 +0000

Good for them, correct thing to do. EFF is still one of the few true blues.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:59:26 +0000

Easily my biggest guilty pleasure movie, warts and all, I still love it.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:30:33 +0000

Probably not a great strategy to piss off every blue voter in the country and then try to setup a business in cities.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

LandoCalrissian — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:30:43 +0000

I tend to like skeuomorphic design, however, if you design an entire interface that way, it will look dated, for better or worse.

The one in the middle is probably what I would gravitate towards myself. The right three really wear their date on their sleeve.