<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bloopernova</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bloopernova</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:44:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bloopernova" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c19e516ed6e" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/c39c83f2f97c3c6b1c307c...</a><p>These go in your ublock origin "my filters" section. Enables Dark Mode through CSS, and another filter restricts the width of comments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 15:22:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107841</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44107841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of people have declared the US republican party to be on its last legs, but it keeps stumbling onward.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 15:50:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088665</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44088665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're all standing on top of a Jenga tower, and "that guy" thinks it would be fun to knock out blocks underneath us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 16:00:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896483</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43896483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Shardines: SQLite3 Database-per-Tenant with ActiveRecord"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How large are the DBs?<p>Do you store the DB too, or rebuild it from your records if the client loses their DB?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813068</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HN mods/leadership appear to have taken the stance that this is a non-political site.<p>Why it's being flagged? People hiding behind the non-political rule are suppressing information and discussion.<p>This site is owned by ycombinator, who have a motivation to "not rock the boat", so such suppression is ignored.<p>I guess in time we'll see whether that's a good decision for them or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43721015</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43721015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43721015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A large part of the USA, for a myriad of reasons, lives paycheck to paycheck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675486</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Tesla Releases Stripped RWD Cybertruck: So Much Worse for Not Much Less Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like a few software projects I've worked on. Incorrect base assumptions and not swapping out the components that were made unwieldy by those assumptions not reflecting reality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675459</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43675459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking that the US marshals need to be the enforcement arm of the courts. But I am not sure if that would help much in the current situation.<p>Maybe police and federal enforcement agencies should be solely under Congress? At least then senior people can actually get fired for obeying unlawful orders from the executive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672167</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are enabling him because his grass roots supporters threaten anyone who "steps out of line" with oligarch-funded primary challenges.<p>I was surprised to learn that there doesn't seem to be a way for people to recall congresspeople or senators.<p>There needs to be a patch for the constitution of the USA to fix the vulnerabilities/bugs exposed by trump and his supporters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:01:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672126</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That feature where less powerful plugs can be inserted into higher rated sockets but not vice versa is very cool.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/NZS_3112</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643813</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It could be a little smaller, but compared to the USA plug and socket it's pure perfection.<p>USA plugs have prongs that are so thin they bend. The prongs act as a hinge that lets the plug pivot away from the wall to expose the live prongs! And most USA sockets don't have ground on top to block anything resting over those exposed live prongs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:48:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643741</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was curious whether Kagi would get it right:<p><a href="https://kagi.com/search?q=how+Emma+Goldman+was+deported+despite+being+a+US+citizen%3F&r=gb&sh=WO-ZrJDVsz_ivsz2yvspPw" rel="nofollow">https://kagi.com/search?q=how+Emma+Goldman+was+deported+desp...</a><p>But you're right, I'd have to check the sources cited before I'd trust the answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625193</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "20 years of Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I think people that complain about git should try running a project with CVS or subversion.<p>The amazing flexibility of git appears to intimidate a lot of people, and many coders don't seem to build up a good mental model of what is going on. I've run a couple of git tutorials for dev teams, and the main feedback I get is "I had no idea git was so straightforward".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622599</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thought exercise I've had fun with in the past:<p>We already control dogs' sub-species, so let's say we decide to uplift dogs to human level intelligence. How long would it take? At what point does it become unethical to modify a species that is on the way to intelligence? What does an evolved dog look like at different stages of their human-forced evolution? A modern dog is what (very rough) equivalent to which stage of human evolution?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:56:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622524</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors</i> by James Hornfischer. The amazing courage shown by the US Navy sailors as their tiny 2,000 ton Destroyers and Destroyer Escorts faced a Japanese fleet of Battleships, Cruisers, and Destroyers at The Battle Off Samar. Inspiring and horrifying, the DDs and DEs of the US navy were protecting "Escort Carriers" which were smaller aircraft carriers made from cargo ship hulls. Warning, may inspire you to learn a whole bunch more about world war 2.<p>And 2 books that sort of go together:<p><i>Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway</i> by Walter Lord, and <i>Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway</i> by Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully. Read Incredible Victory first, learn about the luck, good and bad, that led to a much-needed victory in the Pacific. Then read Shattered Sword and get a fuller picture of events, especially from the Japanese side. Learn about how hubris and dogma led to the Japanese Navy's defeat. Then learn about how saving face led to history not being accurately told by the witnesses on the Japanese side.<p>All 3 are great books that are well worth your time.<p>Others that I've enjoyed:<p><i>Parable of the Sower</i> by Octavia Butler (near future post-apocalyptic sci-fi).<p>The non-fiction Liberation Trilogy by Rick Atkinson (more WW2 non-fiction, nice details about North Africa through Italy, then France to Germany).<p><i>Midnight in Chernobyl</i> by Adam Higginbotham.<p><i>Most Secret War</i> by RV Jones (nerdy, funny history of one scientist's world war 2 experience).<p>The Discworld City Guard books, starting with <i>Guards! Guards!</i>, by Terry Pratchett. Fantasy fiction satire, hilarious and comforting. Highly, highly recommended!!<p>Peter F Hamilton sci-fi adventure books: <i>Pandora's Star</i> and <i>Judas Unchained</i> are a duo of great space opera stretching across multiple planets and people. Don't spoil yourself by reading any descriptions of Judas Unchained before you read Pandora's Star. Also by the same author, The Night's Dawn Trilogy: <i>The Reality Dysfunction</i>, <i>The Neutronium Alchemist</i>, and <i>The Naked God</i>. Fantastic big canvas space opera with lots of threads, great world-building, and amazing situations. Both sets of books are highly recommended escapes from reality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:54:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613486</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "Why I don't discuss politics with friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You <i>have</i> to be wrong to learn. Sure it can be frustrating to try to make or do something difficult. But you've never done it before, of course you're not going to know all the correct answers! It just makes it all the more sweet when you do make progress and start to know more about a subject.</p>
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<p>Especially since he seems to ignore those children except the one he drags around with him.<p>Maybe he has some dream about being a patriarch of a giant family.<p>Actually, considering his "pay someone else to play video games" actions, it makes sense that he's paying others to raise his kids. He seems to want the appearance but none of the work behind it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:17:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557651</link><dc:creator>bloopernova</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bloopernova in "A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for sharing! I'm currently playing Discreet Music while there's lightning and thunder outside. My dog shivers with fright during bad storms and this is helping me to calm down, which in turn helps my pup.</p>
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<p>For those making the inevitable comments on flagging: use this page instead of the front page.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/active">https://news.ycombinator.com/active</a></p>
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<p>Alternatively, raise taxes on billionaires to pay down the debt.</p>
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