Hacker News: Mistletoe

New comment by Mistletoe in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

Mistletoe — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:03:40 +0000

“Gemini, do the opposite of everything in the Spirit archives.”

New comment by Mistletoe in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

Mistletoe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:06:27 +0000

This year was the first year I finally realized how things are going to be from now on and only getting worse. I’m a gardener and the plants are having such a tough time, many trees in my neighborhood are already bare from dropping their leaves from the heat. I’ve been looking into just landscaping with native plants moving forward that can handle the heat. I have drip irrigation, but that does nothing when air temps stay above 100 for days on end. The world isn’t prepared for this in any way. What happens when the breadbasket of your country gets like this?

New comment by Mistletoe in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

Mistletoe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:32:57 +0000

I love you.

New comment by Mistletoe in "DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain"

Mistletoe — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:46:18 +0000

It’s a not uncommon way society and lineage was done in Native American tribes. After all, who knows for sure who the father of a child is but the mother? :)

New comment by Mistletoe in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

Mistletoe — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:36:26 +0000

As opposed to the real hit on science by the sleeper cell of idiocy in the White House.

New comment by Mistletoe in "The American sports plutocracy"

Mistletoe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:55:16 +0000

Why did they come out in the French Revolution and countless other times and they won’t now?

New comment by Mistletoe in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

Mistletoe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:43:39 +0000

CFO should be fired immediately.

New comment by Mistletoe in "Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?"

Mistletoe — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:58:17 +0000

> A large portion of those biscuits would have gone into the traditional dish fish and brewis. Pronounced “brews,” brewis is made by soaking hard bread in water overnight then boiling it to soften it before serving it with salt cod.

I don’t think we realize how good we have it these days.

New comment by Mistletoe in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

Mistletoe — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:43:55 +0000

Wow it nailed how every LinkedIn post reads to me. Dropped a veritable gem.

https://pastebin.com/kk8dd5t5

New comment by Mistletoe in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

Mistletoe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:16:10 +0000

That didn’t ruin his life, merely his shorts.

New comment by Mistletoe in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

Mistletoe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:15:49 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paige_Compositor

New comment by Mistletoe in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

Mistletoe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:52:08 +0000

Haha wow. I’m trying to even imagine the AI landscape in 15 years and I can’t.

New comment by Mistletoe in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

Mistletoe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:09:32 +0000

The Prius up until about 2016 uses a NiMH battery that is different than Lithium ones.

New comment by Mistletoe in "John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)"

Mistletoe — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:51:55 +0000

If man is eliminated, solid state intelligence is eliminated. Point to one machine, other than the Oxford Electric Bell, that is still running that is even 100 years old without human intervention. We are the cockroaches of nature, we cannot all be killed, the time for that was one of the genetic bottlenecks humans have gone through, but it's over now, humans in some form will be here until they either leave the planet ahead of the Sun swallowing it or die on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell

New comment by Mistletoe in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

Mistletoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:35:09 +0000

Stop the system, everyone is miserable in it anyway.

New comment by Mistletoe in "LinkedIn Feed Blocker"

Mistletoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:33:26 +0000

I recently got what I hope to be my last job ever, and I cannot wait to banish linkedin to the netherrealm forever. It's just so creepy, I don't want people to be able to find my face, where I work every day, and whole job and education history when they google my name.

New comment by Mistletoe in "Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)"

Mistletoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:44:18 +0000

These ads feel like a mental cleanse compared to ads now, which are focus grouped (and now AI polished) until there is nothing left but soulless gray goo, devoid of any personality whatsoever. Nice to see color again on the You Got It, Baby ad.

New comment by Mistletoe in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

Mistletoe — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:10:48 +0000

Use the money to short the market because it’s probably a top signal of some sort.

New comment by Mistletoe in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

Mistletoe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:19:43 +0000

Lots of talk of us being at the cusp of AGI, but how will we even know when we get there? When AGI develops a religion for itself?

New comment by Mistletoe in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

Mistletoe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:09:21 +0000

If we could just get the LLMs to take showers and dream, we would get some novel thoughts coming.