Hacker News: coalbin

New comment by coalbin in "It is 85 seconds to midnight"

coalbin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:43:39 +0000

The issue with this visualization is that it's not clear what the minutes are supposed to represent. Does 10 seconds to midnight imply 95% odds of nuclear annihilation within the next year?

The bulletin needs to perform a retrospective analysis to determine how good their predictions were in the past. As things stand it's amusing to see how their increments need to get smaller and smaller to avoid striking midnight.

New comment by coalbin in "Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?"

coalbin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:40:47 +0000

Github seems to be having a general outage, we're not able to view pull requests

New comment by coalbin in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

coalbin — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:02:13 +0000

Hard to take a publication seriously when its content is editorialized to this degree. Even the title is trying to impose itself onto the reader.

New comment by coalbin in "OpenEuroLLM"

coalbin — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:21:21 +0000

Maybe you can't download their weights, but you can literally try out their products right from their homepage. What's your point?

New comment by coalbin in "GitHub Is Down"

coalbin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:05:06 +0000

Seems to have been a temporary blip. Currently working for us again.

Did you reach your 500 karma yet ;)

New comment by coalbin in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

coalbin — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:28:20 +0000

That is a tiny setup all things considered. You aren’t operating at a scale you’d need to consider a monitoring platform for.

New comment by coalbin in "Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?"

coalbin — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 13:25:08 +0000

A more constructive interpretation of the parent comment would be that Nena was on to something.

It’s interesting to draw parallels from the Cold War to today, especially when they are so on the nose.

New comment by coalbin in "The Lie That Facebook Sold You"

coalbin — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:20:46 +0000

It's important to remember that modern social media is a complete assault on your dopamine receptors. If you take a look at your feed, a vanishingly small amount of the content Facebook belches up is created by your friends. Instead you're shown content that you're likely to interact with.

That's not to mention that people use social media as a substitute for personally reaching out to friends.

New comment by coalbin in "Mikhail Gorbachev has died"

coalbin — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:22:31 +0000

I meet your skepticism with a video of him telling the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh6q9gNCIQ

New comment by coalbin in "There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter"

coalbin — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 21:00:17 +0000

This reminds of an old joke told to all undergraduate economists:

A hundred-dollar bill is lying on the ground. An economist walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the money there?" The economist replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been $100 on the ground, someone would've picked it up."

New comment by coalbin in "Mary Meeker’s 2019 internet trends report [pdf]"

coalbin — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:26:09 +0000

I think you misinterpreted the graph, telegram has significantly fewer monthly active users than any of the other messaging services listed on the graph.