Hacker News: Luc

New comment by Luc in "Tempest vs. Tempest: The Making and Remaking of Atari's Iconic Video Game"

Luc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:49:29 +0000

Michael Abrash and Fabien Sanglard have excellent books on Quake.

New comment by Luc in "God Sleeps in the Minerals"

Luc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:38:32 +0000

It’s indeed vacuum deposited metal on natural quartz crystal.

Strait of Hormuz: A Citrini Field Trip

Luc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:51:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/strait-of-hormuz-a-citrini-field

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661688

Points: 9

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How Claude Code Works

Luc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:20:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mintlify.com/VineeTagarwaL-code/claude-code/concepts/how-it-works

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586973

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Has Something Changed in the Near-Earth Meteoroid Environment?

Luc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:06:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amsmeteors.org/2026/03/has-something-changed-in-the-near-earth-meteoroid-environment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585594

Points: 2

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Disintegration Fingerprinting: A Low-Cost Tool to Identify Falsified Medicines

Luc — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:45:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.15.25333621v2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481940

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "One Hundred Years in the U.S. Stock Markets"

Luc — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:20:53 +0000

"While the cross-stock mean buy-and-hold return is over 30,000%, the median is -6.9%. Shareholders' wealth was enhanced by $91 trillion over the century, but long-term investors in nearly 60% of stocks incurred wealth reductions"

One Hundred Years in the U.S. Stock Markets

Luc — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:19:52 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6438198

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438941

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Luc in "A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid"

Luc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:11:17 +0000

Better article with pictures (2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-64825526

Never Trust the Science - On the need to identify bias & interpret data yourself

Luc — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:20:56 +0000

Article URL: https://adam.rochussen.xyz/p/never-trust-the-science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424243

Points: 27

# Comments: 20

New comment by Luc in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

Luc — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:51:18 +0000

(The ‘sword’ is called leeboard in English)

New comment by Luc in "U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth"

Luc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:53:58 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I did see some things in your comments (for example giving references in the one above) that made me suspect this.

I dislike the character imparted to your words by the LLM, though. Knowing that it is artificial makes me feel it's more of a waste of time to read it. But I will try to ignore it.

New comment by Luc in "U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth"

Luc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:19 +0000

This account is an LLM IMHO.

New comment by Luc in "U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth"

Luc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:47:36 +0000

Sextants were used for coastal mapping though, albeit specialized ones called hydrographic sextants.

You can see one here: https://sextantbook.com/2019/01/13/a-french-hydrographic-sex...

The linked article is by W.J. Morris, and his book on sextants is in my opinion one of the standard works and much recommended.

Virtue Metascience – What good is science anyway?

Luc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:14:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macroscience.org/p/virtue-metascience

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280493

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Luc in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

Luc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:36:17 +0000

72% is just not a believable figure. I assume we're talking about TUI here, and they haven't announced anything about this 72% as far as I can tell.

New comment by Luc in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

Luc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:16:34 +0000

That can't be right, the real figure is probably closer to 7%.

New comment by Luc in "US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says"

Luc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:09:03 +0000

There's different models from several suppliers as well: https://www.hisutton.com/Ukrainian-Interceptor-Drones.html

New comment by Luc in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

Luc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:46:08 +0000

It is dead because it is an LLM.

PCB Tracer

Luc — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://pcbtracer.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135009

Points: 66

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