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New comment by brightbeige in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

brightbeige — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:51 +0000

He’s replying on this twitter thread - perhaps someone with an account can ask there and link his comment here?

https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m

New comment by brightbeige in "What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island"

brightbeige — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:55:15 +0000

There is a term “islandness” which may help to explain the allure - and many research papers on the topic. For me it’s a “smallness” that is the ideal.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/islandness

https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/a8ba1494-ff23-4d...

New comment by brightbeige in "What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island"

brightbeige — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:50:21 +0000

Me too. The wiki article is full of fun facts

On sports competitions:

> However, opponents were in short supply. It was a case of waiting for visiting opponents, and sometimes years might go by without any opportunities to play foreign opposition. Their first match was against a South African fishing vessel and they lost 10–6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island

brightbeige — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:20:54 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.npr.org/life-on-tristan-da-cunha/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640431

Points: 97

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New comment by brightbeige in "After Cosmic Crisp, Scientists Unveil an Apple for the Climate Change Era"

brightbeige — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:57:23 +0000

https://archive.ph/DyHGv

What MkDocs 2.0 means for your documentation projects

brightbeige — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:42:13 +0000

Article URL: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398930

Points: 5

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New comment by brightbeige in "Concern over US travel visas prompts Ig Nobels to move its awards to Europe"

brightbeige — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:58:53 +0000

Here's the blog post

https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon...

> Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Switzerland it is illegal to physically move mountains) and committed to make this possible. Switzerland has nurtured many unexpected good things — Albert Einstein’s physics, the world economy, and the cuckoo clock leap to mind — and is again helping the world appreciate improbable people and ideas.”

I would like to point out the cuckoo clocks originate from the Black Forest in southwestern Germany - not Switzerland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

New comment by brightbeige in "Lego's 0.002 mm Specification and Its Implications for Manufacturing (2025)"

brightbeige — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:27:34 +0000

Makes me think there could be a big cognitive difference when playing with Lego as well, for example, divergent vs convergent thinking.

New comment by brightbeige in "A decade of Docker containers"

brightbeige — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:53:56 +0000

Actual article was in the evening standard, but like all things Rory Sutherland, it’s worth to watch him tell the story: https://youtu.be/OTOKws45kCo?si=jbTdx3YCGkZv3Akb

For those who want more of him, check out his classic TED talk from decades ago: “Lessons from an ad man”

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_...

New comment by brightbeige in "Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies"

brightbeige — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:34:09 +0000

I’m a subscriber with the mobile app and the “video” is a still image for me.

New comment by brightbeige in "iPhone 17e"

brightbeige — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:55:11 +0000

I have a pet theory about increasing phone sizes

> Screen size is area (x^2) and battery size is volume (x^3). As battery life is a critical feature, a bigger screen supports (a nonlinear) better battery life.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588733

New comment by brightbeige in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

brightbeige — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:22:35 +0000

If Tesla is a meme, is it worth a trillion dollars ?

New comment by brightbeige in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

brightbeige — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:20:47 +0000

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - (probably not) John Steinbeck

I guess with inflation we can update the quote to “temporarily embarrassed billionaires”

New comment by brightbeige in "Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?"

brightbeige — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:18:19 +0000

Shuffalo, from the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo

List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

brightbeige — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:17:22 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by brightbeige in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

brightbeige — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:51:09 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912263

New comment by brightbeige in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

brightbeige — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:18:40 +0000

4k white settlers

New comment by brightbeige in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

brightbeige — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:23:14 +0000

England wasn’t always an island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

New comment by brightbeige in "Ikejime"

brightbeige — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:10:17 +0000

> Ikejime … is a method of killing fish that maintains the quality of its meat.

> It involves the insertion of a spike quickly and directly into the hindbrain, usually located slightly behind and above the eye, thereby causing immediate brain death. After spiking the brain, a thin needle or piece of wire is inserted into the spinal column's neural canal to prevent any further muscle movement.

I read about it in a recent New Yorker short article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/how-to-kill-a-...

Ikejime

brightbeige — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 14:10:17 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754208

Points: 1

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