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New comment by astronads in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

astronads — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:42:32 +0000

Yeah, the machine elves rabbit hole is interesting for sure. I hope a lot more rigorous science delves into both mushrooms and DMT

New comment by astronads in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

astronads — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:09:29 +0000

It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people/elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography/culture.

I wonder what the brain is doing…

Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations

astronads — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:07:53 +0000

https://archive.is/CwDtf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393936

Points: 494

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New comment by astronads in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

astronads — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:29:17 +0000

The solution is home assistant [0] it lets you manage and control all kinds of smart devices with a lot of customizable, hackable things. And it runs locally, so if you buy the right types of devices that don’t phone home to the cloud (or you shitcan their internet access) you can fully manage your own system.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/

New comment by astronads in "How Old DOS games actually sounded (if you had money)"

astronads — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:28:42 +0000

This guy is a little annoying in the intro but this is a genuinely informative and in depth look at how different sound quality was in this earlier computing era based on your sound card hardware. You’ll likely learn something, I know I did.

How Old DOS games actually sounded (if you had money)

astronads — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14XeuTXwaU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535580

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by astronads in "The Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed (2013)"

astronads — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:15:41 +0000

No paywall: https://archive.is/xrhez

The Airship Club That Might Never Have Existed (2013)

astronads — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:14:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/charles-a-a-dellschau-dreams-of-flying-the-amazing-story-of-an-airship-club-that-might-never-have-existed/274170/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45079175

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by astronads in "The Two Towers MUD"

astronads — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:29:25 +0000

Anyone out there still playing MUDs? Any good ones to recommend?

The Two Towers MUD

astronads — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://t2tmud.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44474919

Points: 156

# Comments: 111

New comment by astronads in "GM says new battery chemistry will enable 400-mile range EVs"

astronads — Tue, 13 May 2025 17:52:01 +0000

Plenty of people would greatly appreciate charging times much quicker than 20 mins. People without large families taking long breaks, apartment dwellers, etc. would

Super Nintendo Architecture – A Practical Analysis

astronads — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 02:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/super-nintendo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43660785

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by astronads in "Experts testify at UFO hearing in Congress"

astronads — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:51:42 +0000

You’re making some assumptions here and I suggest you broaden your mindset a bit. First of all, at least according to testimony under oath, they are not avoiding detection and there is a plethora of high resolution imagery and sensor data, they just keep it hidden and highly classified. I get that there isn’t a lot of quality stuff coming from civilians, but we don’t know the UAP intentions or quantity. They could be just trying to observe us without freaking us out or interfering with us en masse, much like we observe animals in nature ourselves. They may only be interested in subtly monitoring our military assets and nothing else. There could be any other unknowable reasons. They may not perceive existence the same way as us, they may not have the same 5 senses or see in the same spectrums, they may not have emotions or a completely different thought process.

They also may not be light years away, but rather ultra terrestrial or interdimensional or time travelers or they use wormholes to “teleport”. We just don’t know, but the possibilities are not constrained to just your “incompetent but competent” paradox.

Edit: you may find this article thought provoking: https://jdmadden.substack.com/p/naturalizing-without-demytho...

New comment by astronads in "Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs"

astronads — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 13:54:01 +0000

A ton of people live in flats, apartments, condos and other shared housing that do not provide home charging capabilities. Just because it’s not a big deal for you and your situation doesn’t mean it’s the same for everyone else.

New comment by astronads in "McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test"

astronads — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:38:23 +0000

Please share more about this!

New comment by astronads in "Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)"

astronads — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:10:07 +0000

The downside, other than the obvious maintenance/reliability concerns of an aging vehicle is safety. Modern cars are much safer in crashes than 20+ year old cars. [0]

What sucks though is that basically every modern vehicle egregiously violates our privacy [1]

[0]https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

[1]https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...

New comment by astronads in "Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions"

astronads — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:55:23 +0000

This is good and realistic advice. Companies exist to make profit and returns for their investors/shareholders and ultimately they will do what this necessary to make that happen. Layoffs are just another (unfortunate) business transaction.

I was once in a meeting with an SVP who was going over what he was going to say in an upcoming all-hands meeting. He kept referring to employees as “resources” and I told him he should call them people or team members as resources was dehumanizing and made it sound like we’re just line items on a spreadsheet and pawns on a chessboard. He looked at me and said you’re right - that is how they look at things, but thanked me for reminding me of his audience. He was candid with me only because I was also high up in the org.

Companies are not your friend. The people above you in the org are not your friend. You are not special or different or immune or safe. Ultimately, you do have to look out for yourself. If a company is able and willing to terminate your job for financial reasons, you need to be willing and able to terminate your job for financial reasons too - on your own terms and with a better higher paying job lined up. It’s just another business transaction. Loyalty is dead. Act accordingly.

New comment by astronads in "Twitch has updated their policy to loosen their stance on sexual content"

astronads — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:48:30 +0000

Of note, they have streamlined and consolidated their policies around this to make it easier for streamers to know what’s allowed and disallowed.

Streams marked with certain labels will not show up on the home page, but with the new policy a broader set of sexually suggestive content will be allowed on the platform.

This submission links to an article summarizing the changes. The full policy is here: https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Community-Guidelines?lang...

Twitch has updated their policy to loosen their stance on sexual content

astronads — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:44:59 +0000

Article URL: https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Updating-our-Approach-to-Sexual-Content-and-Content-Classification-Labels?language=en_US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38641856

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

New comment by astronads in "Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically"

astronads — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:28:51 +0000

There’s evidence that constant unwanted noise can negatively impact our health: https://archive.ph/5mvYQ (nytimes)

I don’t mind visiting cities, but I certainly would never live in one.