Hacker News: PolygonSheep

New comment by PolygonSheep in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

PolygonSheep — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:11:12 +0000

I was more of a MCOSOFT ΓΛAX guy myself. Never could quite wrap my head around MARL.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up"

PolygonSheep — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:09:46 +0000

I'm at the point now where if there's an AI slop image at the top, I'll just hit the back button.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

PolygonSheep — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:30:41 +0000

> Then when the ticket winners were selected, he filtered by zip code so he had an almost entirely white audience

How did that work in the 80s? Did he spend days and weeks poring through (paper) census data and correlating it with ZIP codes? Did he use VisiCalc on an Apple ][ or Lotus 1-2-3 on an IBM PC?

Whatever his other misdeeds, I never got a racist vibe off MJ.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

PolygonSheep — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:42:14 +0000

Is it just me or did the US get into a lot more foreign conflicts after they swapped "War" for "Defense" in the name?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "American cover-up of Japanese war crimes"

PolygonSheep — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:49:01 +0000

I do wonder why the occupation authorities did the exact opposite for Germany, emphasizing war crimes, collective guilt, etc, since (West) Germany was also a bulwark against the Soviet bloc?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

PolygonSheep — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:41:01 +0000

They can restart them and/or build new ones. Fission isn't some lost technology like Greek fire or Damascus steel.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

PolygonSheep — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:32:56 +0000

> I really can’t think of any. Is even Iraq considered a success?

It was for Netanyahu, and that's the important thing here.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

PolygonSheep — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:08:47 +0000

It's because we do these things not for American interests, but for the interests of a small country that has captured our political establishment through campaign finance and blackmail.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "I'm in Tehran, what do you think will be happen?"

PolygonSheep — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:34:27 +0000

Did OP get killed by Israel yet?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Iran agreed zero enriched uranium, and israel immediately bombs Tehran"

PolygonSheep — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:32:43 +0000

It's always funny to me how every few years some Republican representative/senator gets the bright idea of running on "cutting foreign aid", then someone quietly points out most foreign aid goes to either Israel or Israel's neighbors so they play nice with Israel. Then the proposal is quietly dropped.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

PolygonSheep — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:32:29 +0000

I have heard of RT lying but I have never actually seen examples of specific lies. Is there any list out there where they list any specific ones? If they do it a lot, it should be quite easy, no?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Days numbered for 'risky' lithium-ion batteries"

PolygonSheep — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:41:03 +0000

> harvesting the waste sodium for batteries

But what would you do with all the waste chlorine?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

PolygonSheep — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:35:47 +0000

I'd gladly pay the 78 cents for a stamp if it meant my application was opened and read by an actual human.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

PolygonSheep — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:02:36 +0000

> they had a lot more trouble than competitors in coming up with new models.

I'd read somewhere that it was mainly because Henry Ford was dogmatic that the Model T was perfect, all the car anyone would ever need forever.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS"

PolygonSheep — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:20:23 +0000

It's a private company they don't have to platform your speech!

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Genetic Data from over 20k U.S. Children Misused for 'Race Science'"

PolygonSheep — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:38:37 +0000

Are they, like, wrong though??

New comment by PolygonSheep in "The Walls Are Closing in on Tesla"

PolygonSheep — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:49:22 +0000

They could have easily avoided the accident if they ponied up for FSD?

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand"

PolygonSheep — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:21:58 +0000

It will stand. Walz, Frey, & Co. have zero intention of protecting their citizens from ICE predation. The local police sit on their hands.

But I'm sure this strongly worded editorial will get Trump to reconsider.

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Computer animator and Amiga fanatic Dick van Dyke turns 100"

PolygonSheep — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:46:34 +0000

They're certainly not backwards about coming forward with their tummy bananas...

New comment by PolygonSheep in "Ireland's Inability to Defend Itself"

PolygonSheep — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:44:18 +0000

What, again??