Hacker News: binbag

New comment by binbag in "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"

binbag — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:08:59 +0000

It's a perfect game.

New comment by binbag in "Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)"

binbag — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:13:28 +0000

This is extremely obvious and it’s what you think it is.

New comment by binbag in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

binbag — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:03:16 +0000

NK is protected by China, a very credible force.

New comment by binbag in "Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss"

binbag — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:31:32 +0000

I can say from direct experience doing research with hollow-core fibres that they are not easy to splice either to each other or to standard fibre. Imagine trying to use heat to melt together a pipe and a solid cylinder without creating a mess.

New comment by binbag in "Learn touch typing – it's worth it"

binbag — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:16:51 +0000

Huh, I'm 39 and I really hadn't thought about this incoming generation of people not used to typing.

New comment by binbag in "CEO Simulator: Startup Edition"

binbag — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:00:12 +0000

Brilliant. This is my life.

New comment by binbag in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

binbag — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:51 +0000

I must be missing something. This is recommending folders are numbered. Is that it? Is this a "system" now? I think that may have been used previously - for example by humanity for the last 5,000 years or so.

New comment by binbag in "YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design"

binbag — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:57:29 +0000

Software folk underestimating hardware? Surely not.

Stratovision

binbag — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504957

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups"

binbag — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:51:47 +0000

Terrifying.

Crore

binbag — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39537148

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)"

binbag — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:23:59 +0000

It doesn't

New comment by binbag in "Where does my computer get the time from?"

binbag — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:19:04 +0000

"the BIPM collects time measurements from national timing laboratories around the world"

I'm really interested in how this is done with multiple clocks over a distance. Can anyone explain? It feels like it would be very difficult since asking "what time is it there?" at the timescale of atomic clocks is kind of a bit meaningless? And that's before considering the absolute local nature of time and the impossibility of a general universal time per relativity.

New comment by binbag in "Raise less, build more"

binbag — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 20:37:23 +0000

It's mad that this even needs said. A company's aim should be to be sustainable and profitable, not to be a receptacle for capital. Some companies need external capital to get to that point, particularly hardware or those operating in slow-adopting markets. If you don't need it, don't take it.

New comment by binbag in "All of Physics in 9 Lines"

binbag — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:02:45 +0000

Why does this read like a cult manifesto?

Transformers: The Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution

binbag — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 09:03:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/37bb01af-ee46-4483-982f-ef3921436a50?shareType=nongift

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833696

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Are there benefits to registering domains directly with the country?

binbag — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:23:00 +0000

Are there benefits to registering domain names with country TLDs (e.g. US, EC, DE, UK) directly with the national registrar? For example, Nominet for .UK, or NIC.EC for .EC.

Does registering directly with the national registrar confer better privacy, security, price, etc, than registering via a private registrar such as GoDaddy?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692910

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

binbag — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:37:14 +0000

After how many years do you stop being a startup?

New comment by binbag in "US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs"

binbag — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 21:43:17 +0000

Mick West is very sure he is correct. I'm not sure that's enough.

New comment by binbag in "How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?"

binbag — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:54:16 +0000

Yes - this is precisely what was trialled in the UK a few years ago. You can basically take old decommissioned generators and just take power to spin them up - thus, you've just (re)created rotational inertia on your grid. It's a bit absurd, but it does work!