Hacker News: elyobo

New comment by elyobo in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

elyobo — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:11:37 +0000

What's the effect of this? I don't really understand why they have a "recognised" list at all or what the implications are.

New comment by elyobo in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

elyobo — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:09:40 +0000

non major updates in the npm ecosystem are pretty reliable in my experience; my much more limited python experience suggests that semver is much less respected on that side of the fence

New comment by elyobo in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

elyobo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:58:27 +0000

I tried it on Tuesday and, having used CC a lot lately, was shocked at how bad it was - I'd forgotten.

New comment by elyobo in "The challenges of soft delete"

elyobo — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:07:15 +0000

postgres with rls to hide soft deleted records means that most of the app code doesn't need to know or care about them, still issues reads, writes, deletes to the same source table and as far as the app knows its working

New comment by elyobo in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

elyobo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:36:59 +0000

Yeah, Kiwi English also, e.g. describing something as "not bad" rather than "good" is normal.

> How's things? > Not bad.

New comment by elyobo in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

elyobo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:53:46 +0000

They're falling already? Excellent, I was hoping I could get to this point without ever having to figure out exactly what they were.

New comment by elyobo in "Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator"

elyobo — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:11:10 +0000

Came to say this!

New comment by elyobo in "Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in"

elyobo — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:22:16 +0000

oh my sweet summer child

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769504

New comment by elyobo in "Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG"

elyobo — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:14:05 +0000

Can we have a more informative, less clickbaity, title?

New comment by elyobo in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

elyobo — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:10:15 +0000

also once everybody else is obstructing your view with a bigger car it becomes necessary to have a bigger one, it's a race to the metaphorical bototm

New comment by elyobo in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

elyobo — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:39:19 +0000

Really? I've been FF only for years and everything works reliably, including banking sites (Australia & New Zealand).

New comment by elyobo in "Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google"

elyobo — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:13:50 +0000

Reasonable assumption but really our politicians just are that dumb.

New comment by elyobo in "Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface"

elyobo — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:22:10 +0000

I assumed it was the result of the "bubbling" that they describe in the video that also accounts for the grainy appearance of the surface; presumably the bubbling would be visible like this side on?

New comment by elyobo in "Guess my RGB"

elyobo — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 11:15:22 +0000

Fun game, a convenient wordle style social media sharing utility would spread the word. Not sure what would work.

New comment by elyobo in "Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership"

elyobo — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 02:22:38 +0000

I don't really understand how whipping out your phone is harder than whipping out your card even if you don't have a watch. In my case I gave up carrying the cards at all a few years back and pay for everything on my phone anyway; the convenience of not needing a wallet or any cards at all is high.

New comment by elyobo in "Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages"

elyobo — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:53:15 +0000

US fees seem very high; Australia & New Zealand have a selling agent fee in the 2-3% range (+ variable vendor paid advertising on top) and buyers agents are uncommon so not a fee most pay at all.

New comment by elyobo in "Bill to ban hidden fees in California signed into law"

elyobo — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:21:07 +0000

> "Now we can put the consumer first and create a level playing field for those businesses that advertise the real price, up front,"

I hope this means they're banning the common US practice of omitting sales taxes and tips from prices.

New comment by elyobo in "Flexoki, an inky color scheme for prose and code"

elyobo — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:56:38 +0000

Screenshots would have and I don't know why the author didn't add them when they have added them on Twitter[1]. I like the idea but still too low contrast for my personal preference.

[1] https://twitter.com/kepano/status/1710807755140030754

New comment by elyobo in "'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'"

elyobo — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:51:08 +0000

I'm being informed by other Aussies that it's not consistent here either, lots of people seem to use it imprecisely as well. I'm actually a Kiwi (but have lived the most recent 15 years in Australia) so it seems I've been misinterpreting the Aussies for years...

New comment by elyobo in "'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'"

elyobo — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:49:29 +0000

I'd only say a couple of minutes if I thought two minutes was actually a likely time period, yeah, otherwise I'd say a few minutes if I was less certain.