Hacker News: excalibur

New comment by excalibur in "And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway"

excalibur — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:24:28 +0000

> What if armed thugs are sent in and the choice is send the message or die?

Arm yourselves. Not just one person, arm your entire staff. IMO the most appealing option in this situation is to shoot the thugs in the face. (Ha ha, you're in the UK, I know.)

New comment by excalibur in "[dead]"

excalibur — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:06:00 +0000

This is an official government website. Your tax dollars are paying for this.

New comment by excalibur in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

excalibur — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:44:13 +0000

Viva La Resistance!

New comment by excalibur in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"

excalibur — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:28:37 +0000

Stop trying to steal The Matrix. It was released in 1999, that's OUR movie. You get the sequels.

New comment by excalibur in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

excalibur — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:49:52 +0000

Imagine hosting a meetup in Chicago and getting raided by ICE

New comment by excalibur in "Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)"

excalibur — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:10:40 +0000

My impression was that it had happened several days to a few weeks prior. Enough time for the house through ordinary daily activity to largely exhaust its water reserves. Of course most of today's actual houses don't keep that much on hand, but it sounds like this one had a sizable store at one point.

New comment by excalibur in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

excalibur — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:33:28 +0000

All in favor of skipping the "rise" for this one

New comment by excalibur in "Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet"

excalibur — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:22:52 +0000

Our kids can't change a tire.

New comment by excalibur in "Grok 4.5"

excalibur — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:47:20 +0000

These days objectivity is politically left. The right has fallen off a cliff and pulled the Overton window down with it.

New comment by excalibur in "The "Merge" with AI Has Begun"

excalibur — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:41:38 +0000

https://archive.ph/Z3eaj

New comment by excalibur in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

excalibur — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:38:03 +0000

Still have one, still works. Would happily use it if it were still practical. I think you can still load OpenWRT on them, but there's no software route around the hardware being outdated and slow.

New comment by excalibur in "Resetting Xbox"

excalibur — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:30:35 +0000

Missed opportunity to put a red ring on the announcement. ⭕

New comment by excalibur in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

excalibur — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:52:33 +0000

> Those of us who were cool used things like MSN Messenger, AIM, etc. to chat quickly without having to use an email.

Rubbish, MSN Messenger was never cool

New comment by excalibur in "Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?"

excalibur — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:41:20 +0000

I would assume that the list of Trump appointees would be a good place to start.

New comment by excalibur in "Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs"

excalibur — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:24:42 +0000

> So, if you like my ANES and you want to get a better look at it, check the description for a link to my OnlyFans.

BEEP!

> ...for a link to my GitHub.

New comment by excalibur in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

excalibur — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:35:21 +0000

> The timing of Hoffman’s remarks is pointed. SpaceX went public on June 12th, with AI central to its IPO narrative. Within days, the company announced it was acquiring Cursor, the AI coding tool. Hoffman’s read: that’s not proof of AI capability, but evidence of its absence. “You could almost think of it as the IAC of AI,” he said, invoking the serial acquisitions roll-up strategy of Barry Diller’s internet-era conglomerate. “Use the market cap to buy AI companies and try to buy your way into relevance.”

Sounds like securities fraud to me.

New comment by excalibur in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

excalibur — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:37:30 +0000

You guys, I think maybe THIS is the Bad Place.

New comment by excalibur in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

excalibur — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:09:40 +0000

> The solar-powered system uses specially engineered black metal to absorb sunlight.

Brutal. 𖤐 \m/ 𖤐

New comment by excalibur in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

excalibur — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:29:32 +0000

When you put "modern" or "new" into the name of a thing, you're basically announcing to the world that it was designed for the short term, and when it is no longer new it will no longer be relevant.

New comment by excalibur in "How diamonds are made"

excalibur — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:35:47 +0000

That's not how Superman did it.