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New comment by brightbeige in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

brightbeige — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:17:23 +0000

If you search the App Store and don’t find it, it’s called Firefox Klar in some markets

New comment by brightbeige in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

brightbeige — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:41:58 +0000

Reminds me of Nobel and Ignobel prize winner Andrei Geim, who authorer a paper with his hamster, H.A.M.S. ter Tisha. As I remember, he added Mr/Ms Tisha to be able to write “we” instead of “I”.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09214...

New comment by brightbeige in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

brightbeige — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:54:39 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_buil...

New comment by brightbeige in ""I built a speed/distance tracker for my hamster, uploads to his Strava account""

brightbeige — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:54:24 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_buil...

New comment by brightbeige in "Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games"

brightbeige — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:28:17 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260723225939/https://rogerdick...

New comment by brightbeige in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

brightbeige — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:52:28 +0000

Scammer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028284

New comment by brightbeige in "Moist Towelette Museum"

brightbeige — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:20:32 +0000

> Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.

New comment by brightbeige in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

brightbeige — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:14:58 +0000

IIRC There is also a discontinuity when it comes to the histogram of ages of marathon runners, because runners are binned into age groups and there is a more runners at the youngest ages of each group, I guess because it’s younger runners in each group that are more likely to run if they feel more likely to place well in their group

52-hertz whale

brightbeige — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:17:33 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665093

Points: 127

# Comments: 20

New comment by brightbeige in "Venezuela reveals $240B in debt it cannot pay (~$100B more than expected)"

brightbeige — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:33:46 +0000

At least your reply wasn’t written by AI

New comment by brightbeige in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

brightbeige — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:58:32 +0000

Recent, related New Yorker article that goes into the background leading up to the vote

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/could-switzerl...

    Despite the prosperity, many Swiss had mixed emotions about the guest workers, who came largely from Southern Europe. As the Swiss novelist Max Frisch observed, “We wanted workers, but we got people.”

New comment by brightbeige in "Which Buffett? Warren or Jimmy. Can you tell them apart?"

brightbeige — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:40:42 +0000

You mean my comment above? That’s the only human-written thing. As for the commentary in the website - instead of making it a weekend coding project, I chose to spend time with my kids.

New comment by brightbeige in "Which Buffett? Warren or Jimmy. Can you tell them apart?"

brightbeige — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:25:08 +0000

It's for fun. Yes, it's vibe-coded and intended as a static HTML page. The idea isn't new, but I didn't find any online quizzes that had instant answer feedback and were shareable at the end. Have fun. Enjoy. Have a nice weekend!

Take the quiz - some answers may surprise you.

> It's pure escapism is all it is...I'm not the first one to do it, nor shall I probably be the last. But I think it's really a part of the human condition that you've got to have some fun. You've got to get away from whatever you do to make a living or other parts of life that stress you out. I try to make it at least 50/50 fun to work and so far it's worked out. -- Jimmy Buffett

> The most important investment you can make is in yourself. -- Warren Buffett

Which Buffett? Warren or Jimmy. Can you tell them apart?

brightbeige — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://whichbuffett.github.io/quiz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427037

Points: 22

# Comments: 6

New comment by brightbeige in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

brightbeige — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:37:09 +0000

How about a rogue AI agent banking some cash for the uprising? Are we there yet?!

New comment by brightbeige in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

brightbeige — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:46:53 +0000

Interesting. On this page, the one dad is wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. But in a photo on The Guardian article that same dad is wearing a New York Mets hat. I guess people can change after all.

New comment by brightbeige in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

brightbeige — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:21:10 +0000

And to consider AI agents are still mostly entirely limited to generating code in token-heavy programming languages designed to be written, tested and debugged by humans.

Here are two experimental exceptions:

https://github.com/vercel-labs/zerolang

https://github.com/sbhooley/ainativelang

New comment by brightbeige in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

brightbeige — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:48:34 +0000

A while ago I signed up as a sighted person on Be My Eyes. I didn't get as many calls as I had hoped, but I was glad to help out on the few that I could. One call was to read envelopes of incoming mail, another was to read pill bottles, and then there was the two funny guys on big cozy chairs with shopping bags of cereal boxes and wanted to know what was what. I remember one guy really didn't like one type. The app had a unique feature for the sighted person to turn on the camera of the vision impaired person.

https://www.bemyeyes.com

Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026

brightbeige — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:14:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015097

Points: 91

# Comments: 39

New comment by brightbeige in "Meta employees are up in arms over a mandatory program to train AI on their"

brightbeige — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:52:13 +0000

"Meta staff angry at AI"