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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"

New comment by brightbeige in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

brightbeige — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:53:47 +0000

Not OP, but my guess is Underworld.

Edit: or Erasure?

New comment by brightbeige in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

brightbeige — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:39:23 +0000

Actual title: Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption

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: 98

# Comments: 24

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

# Comments: 0

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.