Hacker News: PNewling

New comment by PNewling in "The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist"

PNewling — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:07:25 +0000

Not that this is the perfect fix, but at least for sci-fi books you can usually look the Hugo Award winners[0] for ones that are solid. Not all of them are my cup of tea, but I have found that I definitely love some of the series that are found there. I'm sure there are other award types per genre that could help point you to some as well. Not that these can't be gamed, or sponsored or whatever, but at least it is a good starting point that is (¿maybe?) less prone to bot bias campaigns.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel

New comment by PNewling in "Lock Scroll with a Vengeance"

PNewling — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:07:10 +0000

You and me both. This was a surprisingly elucidating post about something that has essentially hasn’t been an option for me in a long time, hah.

New comment by PNewling in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

PNewling — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:56:31 +0000

The age groups who spend the most time on Facebook feeds though are the most likely to have voted for this administration...

New comment by PNewling in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

PNewling — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:07:39 +0000

Why did the dealerships not want them? (Honest question, I have no idea about any of this)

New comment by PNewling in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

PNewling — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:28:43 +0000

I did this, and yeah google maps is all but unusable without color, that and the camera takes some getting used to.

I'm on an iPhone, but what ended up doing was creating a shortcut that toggles the phone to grayscale and back, and then having two automations, one for when I open any of the apps I actually want color in (maps, camera, photos, etc) that toggles grayscale off and then another automation to toggle grayscale back on when I close any of those same apps.

The option is located in Settings > Accessibility >Display & Text Size > Color Filters

It isn't perfect, but it works most of the time (I also added the shortcut to the back of the home screen so if it is off or I need one-off color I can just toggle it manually).

New comment by PNewling in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

PNewling — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:04:09 +0000

Shout out to KEXP!

New comment by PNewling in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

PNewling — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:53:21 +0000

Wow, I actually had no idea what he was a UW grad, let alone that I went there the same time he did... TIL

New comment by PNewling in "The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy"

PNewling — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:59:27 +0000

> Your brain doesn't live in isolation

Well, we can't completely prove that...[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat

New comment by PNewling in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

PNewling — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:56:29 +0000

Wow, and if you go to their website listed in they're profile, not only do almost none of the links work, the one that did just linked out to the generic template that it was straight copied from. Wow.

New comment by PNewling in "If a pilot ejects, what is the autopilot programmed to do? (2018)"

PNewling — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 22:38:10 +0000

I can't find anything that would suggest this is true, but I would love if you were able to link me something proving me wrong, as I loved that movie growing up and like reading about it still.

New comment by PNewling in "The myth of outrunning your diet"

PNewling — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:02:55 +0000

I have no idea what your source is for this, but I'm shocked it's that low per day

New comment by PNewling in "When the job search becomes impossible"

PNewling — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:37:33 +0000

You're referring to Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, right?

New comment by PNewling in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

PNewling — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:53:34 +0000

Tell me more about this privacy request you submitted. I wasn’t aware this was a thing.

New comment by PNewling in "RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no"

PNewling — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:26:06 +0000

> but according to the studies I looked at

(Not trying to be flippant, more just curious) Want to link to those?

New comment by PNewling in "Mammals Evolved into Ant Eaters 12 Times Since Dinosaur Age, Study Finds"

PNewling — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:27:31 +0000

Your username makes me think you'd be a good person to ask:

Sorry, what? (Edit, this sounds like I don't believe you, but it is more that I am in disbelief!) Ants evolved from stinging wasps? Were they flying at that time? Or were wasps at some point non-flying and the 'wasps' grouping is a wide one like 'beetles' is?

This is such a fascinating space I know very little about.

New comment by PNewling in "I'm switching to Python and actually liking it"

PNewling — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:46:21 +0000

Funny enough I feel the other way about JetBrains IDEs. They * seem * super powerful, but there is always a lot of config that needs to go into them if I'm doing app, infra, and pipeline work. (Edit, not saying they aren't powerful, just more that as coming into them I'm never sure how to wield it the best out of the box)

In my experience (not saying this is universal), the folks that like JetBrains IDEs came from java/intellij backgrounds, where I hear it really shines.

This all might be a skill issue, as almost all my professional projects have been VSCode based, but since I've only worked at smaller places I definitely can't rule out this was because it was easier to set things up than to fight for Fin to get us all licences.

In your opinion, what makes PyCharm (or CLion if you want to add that in) 'just work'? Do you think it is because you've used it for so long and just know the ins-and-outs? Or is there something you see that they have and VSCode doesn't?

I've always been curious about this as someone who hasn't had a lot of professional exposure to the JetBrains world.

New comment by PNewling in "At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI"

PNewling — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:54:31 +0000

> Both of which are statistically likely.

It's seems a little dishonest to not include that 'statistically likely' is on a geological time scale.

New comment by PNewling in "How to negotiate your salary package"

PNewling — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:13:11 +0000

> you tell everyone up front what your timeline is, months ahead of time

Honestly curious how this conversation goes, like "I'm busy with xyz for the next four weeks, then I can do round two of interviews..." or how does that go?

New comment by PNewling in "Google Cloud Incident Report – 2025-06-13"

PNewling — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 02:13:35 +0000

Not sure if you'll get an answer (I'd be interesting in a response as well), but from the blog in their profile it looks like they moved to be a 'member of technical staff working in the AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team at Anthropic'. So it might have just been an upward move to something different/more-exciting.

New comment by PNewling in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

PNewling — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:38:45 +0000

These are all incredible stories. I appreciate you sharing them with us.

Could you link-to/tell-us more about the 727 affair? I've always had a fascination with autopilot (and autoland) systems, so I would love to read/hear more about this incident.