Hacker News: ShinyLeftPadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ShinyLeftPadHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 06 May 2026 16:08:19 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]>It doesn't look exactly the same. Sure, if it had a tiny touchpad with separate buttons or missing indent so that it's inconvenient to open the lid or didn't have stereo speakers or was really thick then it would look even more different than an MBP... If one company nails some design elements before others, why should everyone who gets those elements too be blamed for copying it.

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:25:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032930ShinyLeftPadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032930<![CDATA[New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"]]>You're saying the same thing, we see some anomaly in measured light and we say "the simplest explanation is dark matter".

We are not measuring dark matter, we are measuring something that is not what we expect and we decided it's dark matter.

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 21:45:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015437ShinyLeftPadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015437<![CDATA[New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"]]>We don't measure dark matter, we measure some anomaly and then we say "it must've been dark matter".

It's not crazy different from saying the same about that poltergeist.

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:13:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014344ShinyLeftPadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014344<![CDATA[New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Laws of UX"]]>Looks less like "laws", more as "assorted facts and opinions".

]]>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:26:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962086ShinyLeftPadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962086