Hacker News: calibas

New comment by calibas in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

calibas — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:45:00 +0000

There's evidence creatine may raise DHT levels, and DHT causes hair thinning: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19741313/

New comment by calibas in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

calibas — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:07:29 +0000

Our long term plan is for Jesus to come back and fix everything.

I wish I was joking...

New comment by calibas in "Isopods of the world"

calibas — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:11:09 +0000

If the photography was mediocre, nobody would accuse it of being AI, but because it's the flawless photography of a true professional, suddenly it's highly suspect.

New comment by calibas in "Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms"

calibas — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:03:48 +0000

I notice the article, the paper, and the "plain language" summary of the paper don't mention the common term for this phenomenon, St Elmo's fire.

New comment by calibas in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

calibas — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:52:19 +0000

I was playing around with this recently, but the problem I encountered is that most AI analysis techniques like stem separation aren't built to work in real-time.

New comment by calibas in "TDF ejects its core developers"

calibas — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:18:51 +0000

Yeah, that seems like an odd thing to say.

It's like they're setting themselves up for a "no true Scotsman" argument. Anybody who disagrees with their decisions isn't a "true believer" in open source.

New comment by calibas in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

calibas — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:16:38 +0000

I get what you're saying, but I disagree that LLMs should be inserting ads into git commits.

By default, the LLM is credited with authorship anyway, and I assume the user can easily just remove the ad, though I don't use Copilot.

New comment by calibas in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

calibas — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:48:04 +0000

You're conflating two different things. When an LLM writes a commit, it should take credit. I see nothing wrong with it adding:

> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 noreply@anthropic.com

Compare that to the message the article is talking about:

> Quickly spin up Copilot coding agent tasks from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast (https://gh.io/cca-raycast-docs).

It's not just mentioning it was written via Copilot, it's explicitly advertising for another product.

New comment by calibas in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

calibas — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:19:22 +0000

It was largely replaced with it's molecular analog, BPS.

Just like BPA, BPS is an endocrine disruptor. The idea that it's less harmful than BPA is mostly due to lack of research.

New comment by calibas in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

calibas — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:30:58 +0000

Everyone's being diplomatic, including most of the HN comments.

This seems to be the simplest compromise, and allows OpenTTD to continue existing without too many problems from Atari, so people don't want to make waves.

New comment by calibas in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

calibas — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:52:52 +0000

I'm confused, you think I'm saying he's breaking guidelines?

I should have been more clear, but I was trying to skirt the guidelines. I'm sure that astroturfing happens on HN, and I think that not allowing people to talk about it actually helps enable astroturfing.

New comment by calibas in "Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022)"

calibas — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:09:43 +0000

> I've seen no one working on this, and in fact most people on HN seem to be working on ways to further exacerbate this problem.

It's against the HN guidelines to insinuate that astroturfing happens on HN.

New comment by calibas in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

calibas — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:44:08 +0000

If I boycott a company, am I legally responsible for any lost profit that happens as a result?

New comment by calibas in "The mathematical mystery inside the legendary '90s shooter Quake 3"

calibas — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:06:20 +0000

Calling it a "mystery" gets suckers like me to click the link.

New comment by calibas in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

calibas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:52:12 +0000

If it's not clear already, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not using strict legal definitions.

New comment by calibas in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

calibas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:42:45 +0000

Yep, that's the exact "loophole" I mentioned in my original comment!

The government can now partner with private businesses to effectively bypass the Fourth Amendment.

New comment by calibas in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

calibas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:29:42 +0000

You seem to be playing dumb here. You realize us "normal people" believe the Bill of Rights is to protect us from the government, and the 4th means the government doesn't get to spy on everybody indiscriminately?

And yes, they are spying on everybody. They have access to things like cellphone metadata, which to a normal human being is a very clear violation of privacy.

It's also my firm belief that our legal system has been undermining these basic concepts for decades now. It benefits the federal government to make this all very vague, as if modern technology suddenly means you have no expectation of privacy anymore. They've also mixed in some of that wonderfully authoritarian "for purposes of national security".

There's actual lawyers saying these same things, if you'd like someone to properly debate with.

New comment by calibas in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

calibas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:56:52 +0000

You're an attorney and you're asking me why the government spying on everyone is a clear violation of the 4th Amendment?

New comment by calibas in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

calibas — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:15:20 +0000

It's a clear violation of the 4th Amendment, but the government acts like they've found a "loophole" because it's private businesses doing the spying.

New comment by calibas in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

calibas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:26:55 +0000

This doesn't seem very fair, you speak as if you're being objective, then lean heavy into the FUD.

Even if you were correct, and "truth" is essentially dead, that still doesn't call for extreme cynicism and unfounded accusations.