Hacker News: Luc

New comment by Luc in "Olo (Color)"

Luc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Ah, thank you. Couldn’t put my finger on it.

SandboxGym

Luc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sandboxgym.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254866

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

Luc — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:21:22 +0000

That sounds like a great way to attract scammers and dissuade honest people, so if it's ever been tried it must have failed spectacularly (I also searched for variations of this idea but didn't turn up anything).

New comment by Luc in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

Luc — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:04:22 +0000

Of course a 1960's design isn't adapted to current weather conditions. That doesn't mean the whole technology is useless, like so many commenters imply.

Any new build can and will include cooling adapted to hotter conditions.

The Book Prize Index

Luc — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:29:11 +0000

Article URL: https://book-prize-index.vercel.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49032756

Points: 52

# Comments: 6

Intelligence is not the main bottleneck

Luc — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/intelligence-is-not-the-main-bottleneck

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003493

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal"

Luc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:46:37 +0000

Right, this was in response to tclancy.

New comment by Luc in "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal"

Luc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:37:39 +0000

Nope, and Pangram agrees with me, 100% human written with high confidence.

I really enjoy this style and I think it's not _that_ close to AI output (it's much better in fact).

New comment by Luc in "The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal"

Luc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:37:53 +0000

Very well-written text, not a whiff of AI generation to it.

Your example is not even a run-on sentence!

I enjoyed reading it, many thanks to the author.

Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation Across Filler Tokens

Luc — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03502

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48957467

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Pong Wars on the Commodore 64"

Luc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:15:50 +0000

This seemed promising at the beginning, but do yourself a favor and skip to the end to see the hilariously slow end result.

I Want to Build a Sandboxed, Cross-Platform Software Distribution System

Luc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-07-14-sandboxed-cross-platform-software-distribution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48907008

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"

Luc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:17:47 +0000

Older editions (second hand or new) often have largely the same content at a fraction of the price...

New comment by Luc in "Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation"

Luc — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:41:21 +0000

Accompanying blog post with some good explanation: https://note.com/frievea/n/n849abe8e46a7?hl=en

Bayeux Tapestry arrives in UK for first time in 900 years under police guard

Luc — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9r54e5r4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874756

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

Luc — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:33:10 +0000

It's a damn shame that the EU's plan to reduce our already low emissions (<6% globally) to zero by 2050, at great cost to our collective wealth, will result in a reduction in global warming of less than 0.02 C (1). That is if industry doesn't just move to India, China, Indonesia, etc.

(1) Based on the IPCC rule of thumb of 0.45 C increase per 1000 GtCO2 emissions, see e.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-change-2021-the...

New comment by Luc in "Let's Decode the Mystery Bytes [video]"

Luc — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:06:54 +0000

“This video is restricted. Please check the Google Workspace administrator and/or the network administrator restrictions”

Attention is all we have: A conjectural theory of cognitive inequality

Luc — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/attention-is-all-we-have

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711352

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction"

Luc — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:08:53 +0000

This style of bookmark is rare so it follows it wasn't _necessary_. But with dense text it might be faster and perhaps less error prone than locating the right place in the text?

Scribe would change the margin size and line spacing, and the parchment would be a different size than the source, so the page breaks would end up in different locations in the text.

New comment by Luc in "Rare medieval bookmark exceeds expectations at auction"

Luc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:24:01 +0000

> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to the stopping point and the circle turned to the number of the column he had been writing in when he stopped.

It would make a lot more sense that the bookmark was placed in the source book rather than in the copy. I.e. the wheel would be turned to the source column they had been reading from.