Hacker News: enlightens

New comment by enlightens in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

enlightens — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:38:35 +0000

The ticket is for “two days of resources that you personally can use”, not “two days of resources that can be used by any number of ticket-holders.”

It’s like the “free as in beer” explanation, I can’t pull up to my local bar running a promotion and fill up a tanker truck. Maybe they’re being hostile to me, a would-be customer, for that, but it’s simply not what’s being offered up.

New comment by enlightens in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

enlightens — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:10:58 +0000

The EO itself agrees with this and says that the War title is secondary. It explicitly doesn’t truly rename the department.

New comment by enlightens in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

enlightens — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:14:59 +0000

Only Congress can change the name of a federal department, so the Department of Defense is still properly called that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_14347

New comment by enlightens in "Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build"

enlightens — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:57:55 +0000

The most common one I run into is with volumes, when the full path doesn't already exist. Docker will just make the path, Podman throws an error. It's been called a "bug" in docker but the fact is everyone just expects the paths to be created. I want it to just work, not make everyone in the industry redo their dockerfiles to be "correct."

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6234

It looks like there was some work done to resolve this in 2023 and 2024 but I know this was still happening for me in mid 2025. Podman is technically correct here but functionally broken in a way that keeps pushing me away because I don't have time to deal with that :(

New comment by enlightens in "DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'"

enlightens — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:47:20 +0000

from 1864:

> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#:~:text=226-,P...

New comment by enlightens in "Google Public CA is down"

enlightens — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:58:15 +0000

VPN to Greece!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me#:~:text=Swedish

New comment by enlightens in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

enlightens — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:48:41 +0000

Here's a random elementary school in Santa Monica with a 15mph sign https://www.google.com/maps/place/McKinley+Elementary+School...

New comment by enlightens in "That's not how email works"

enlightens — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:19:00 +0000

I took the use of "virtue signalling" to be an intentional jab at HSBC given everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC#Controversies

New comment by enlightens in "DHS Says DHS-Certified Real IDs Too Unreliable to Confirm U.S. Citizenship"

enlightens — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:23:16 +0000

real_real_ID_v2_final__USE_THIS_ONE.pdf

New comment by enlightens in "Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?"

enlightens — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:43:34 +0000

Never mind the car charger, what about the cable itself?

https://appleinsider.com/articles/12/10/16/lightning-cables-...

New comment by enlightens in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

enlightens — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:54:28 +0000

It's literally "a-shell"

https://github.com/holzschu/a-shell

New comment by enlightens in "UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards"

enlightens — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:47:54 +0000

that Twitter account famously posts nonsense

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/jordan-petersons-chine...

New comment by enlightens in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

enlightens — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:20:15 +0000

The summary at the top of the page says

> ABC said it was pulling the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” after controversial comments by its host about the slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

but the article says the following, which is entirely different:

> “The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.

> “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving,” he added.

New comment by enlightens in "Long Term Support"

enlightens — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:34:49 +0000

from your sibling comment: > "var" also makes your code less reliable as seen in this example

I disagree with this too, I think your example is a classic case of preprocessor directives making it difficult to know what your code is doing because the build system is going to conditionally change your code. Var or not, you can't even know what's being compiled just by looking at the file, and that's a larger problem than the use of var

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

New comment by enlightens in "Long Term Support"

enlightens — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:20:07 +0000

Ok but var has been around since C# 3.0 in 2007. Love it or hate it, using that keyword in 2025 signals nothing about how current your skills are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_3.0#Local_variable_typ...

New comment by enlightens in "Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act"

enlightens — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:47:17 +0000

Glad you could come visit from Beverly Hills ;)

EDIT: actually, depending on your age and what you watched on TV, maybe you were visiting from Boston?

New comment by enlightens in "Lessons from 863 episodes of This American Life"

enlightens — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:34:08 +0000

Thanks, as always, to our program's co-founder, Mr. Torey Malatia. He spent his July 4th weekend setting the record for baking the world’s largest deep dish pizza, and as he tells it, having it for dinner was no small feat:

> It feels impossible to isolate anything bite-sized out of all that.

Back next week with more stories of This American Life.

New comment by enlightens in "FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores"

enlightens — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:40:40 +0000

>imposed lockdown and mandate policies with zero scientific basis

The If Books Could Kill podcast just came out with an episode last week about how the phrase "lockdown and mandate policies [have] zero scientific basis" is almost technically true but is certainly incredibly misleading. The short version is that it would be incredibly difficult to ethically test many healthcare policies to the point that they have scientific support in the way we usually think of having evidence... but we can look at the preponderance of evidence we do have and understand that masks help block germs and viruses, staying home from work or school means I won't transmit contagious diseases to my colleagues, etc

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/17348825-in-covi...

New comment by enlightens in "DeskHog, an open-source developer toy"

enlightens — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:22:16 +0000

They do web analytics so definitely end up on block lists for people who don’t want to be tracked.

(I’ve used PostHog on several projects and feel that they are better for privacy than, say, GA, but understand why people would block them)

New comment by enlightens in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

enlightens — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:17:23 +0000

For those who don't know, you can tap on the link preview graphic and select "Convert to Text Link" to switch back to clickable text. As you mention there's no way to change the automatic behavior but at least it is possible to switch back to text links on a case-by-case basis.