Hacker News: banga

New comment by banga in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

banga — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:30:34 +0000

Only on days with a "y"...

New comment by banga in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

banga — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:25:32 +0000

Today I learned of the broader disruptive capabilities of a mylar birthday balloon.

New comment by banga in "Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data"

banga — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:14:42 +0000

The dogs of DOGE Whining for relevance Shit on everything

New comment by banga in "Show HN: Parqeye – A CLI tool to visualize and inspect Parquet files"

banga — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:59:06 +0000

Looks like a nice tool, but failed for me when reading a geoparquet file created using duckdb.

New comment by banga in "A classic graphic reveals nature's most efficient traveler"

banga — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:04:17 +0000

What about a bear on a bike?

New comment by banga in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"

banga — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:36:02 +0000

This morning while jogging in the US I came to an intersection. Green lights and walk on in my direction. A car approaching from my left had a red light, the driver glanced to his left and without stopping or looking in my direction, turned right across my path. I expected this of course, so avoided being run over. If I wasn't watching for this, it likely would be a different outcome.

So why do so many pedestrians get killed in the US? The two main reasons to me are: 1. Drivers don't look for pedestrians, and 2. pedestrians expect drivers to follow rules.

Another contributing factor is of course the huge vehicles that crush people with drivers barely noticing...

New comment by banga in "Human Brain Cells on Chip for Sale – First biocomputing platform hits the market"

banga — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:13:06 +0000

How long before they realize just ditch the life support apparatus and plug into human brains.

New comment by banga in "Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences"

banga — Fri, 16 May 2025 14:07:29 +0000

Semantic clarity of written prose is hard, but this approach seems like making it easier for the machines rather than the other way around.

New comment by banga in "Herb: Powerful and seamless HTML-aware ERB parsing and tooling"

banga — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:05:16 +0000

Excellent, I was looking for a Educational Records Bureau parser.

Oh, wait...

New comment by banga in "Only About 40% of the Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science"

banga — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:52:35 +0000

What value is a contract if it can be cancelled on a whim?

New comment by banga in "Reflect Orbital: Sunlight after dark using a constellation of spatial reflectors"

banga — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:11:52 +0000

It's astounding to me that such ignorance is even acknowledged.

New comment by banga in "He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along"

banga — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:58:24 +0000

Authority bias is very real, very problematic, and very well documented. As a consequence, those in authority must always be held to a high standard. Always doubt an assertion by authority unless accompanied with sufficient evidence.

New comment by banga in "Spotted hyena found in Egypt for the first time in 5k years"

banga — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:48:00 +0000

And then it was killed. FFS

New comment by banga in "Advanced Civilizations Could Be Indistinguishable from Nature"

banga — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:29:16 +0000

Advanced civilizations should be indistinguishable from nature.

New comment by banga in "Show HN: High School Student's First App – NWS Weather Report"

banga — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:31:03 +0000

Nice app, but uninstalled immediately due to obtrusive advertisements.

New comment by banga in "Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize"

banga — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:57:45 +0000

Sadly the media="print" view does not provide usable output.

New comment by banga in "Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models"

banga — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:30:45 +0000

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by banga in "Mind Wandering: More than a Bad Habit (2018) [pdf]"

banga — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:17:29 +0000

Interesting article. Key takeaway for me was: “Masicampo and Baumeister (2011) provided further evidence that it is specifically unresolved goals and concerns that trigger habitual mind wandering.” ... “Remarkably, making a plan freed participants from this kind of habitual mind wandering.”

New comment by banga in "Show HN: I made a tool to easily transform and manipulate your JSON data"

banga — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:23:40 +0000

I was interested until the try for free locks you in to a subscription unless cancelled.

Better to put the effort into learning jq.

New comment by banga in "Researchers discover a new form of scientific fraud: 'sneaked references'"

banga — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:27:43 +0000

In most cases the published articles is document that has some additional metadata added during the publishing process. Hence, there's an inherent disconnect between the article and the metadata that must be examined for accuracy and truth.

Instead, the published article should really be a view of the structured data, metadata, and text (i.e. the true content) that makes up the article. Formatting and such can be a pain, but using this approach would mean the published article is a view of the truth rather than the metadata being created as something of an afterthought.