Hacker News: excalibur

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.

New comment by excalibur in "Japan is building cardboard suicide drones"

excalibur — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:53:35 +0000

$2000 apiece for cardboard?!

New comment by excalibur in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

excalibur — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:52:40 +0000

> When we want violet, we know just what to do. Just mix our good friends purple and blue.

I still refuse to believe that purple and violet are different colors.

New comment by excalibur in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"

excalibur — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:39:42 +0000

Even if they're not serious

New comment by excalibur in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

excalibur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:47:20 +0000

And it would be cool if it stated as much.

New comment by excalibur in "Science confirms torpedo bat works as well as regular bat"

excalibur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:29:49 +0000

> For some players who like to hit the ball closer in, the torpedo bat might be a better option for them, though, he added. And because the barrel is wider in a place where those batters do hit, they will be more likely to hit the ball more often — giving players a higher batting average.

If the only constraints are material and weight, it should be possible to create a design that performs even better for this purpose. But at some point it stops looking like a baseball bat.

New comment by excalibur in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

excalibur — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:56:37 +0000

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft Flight Simulator

New comment by excalibur in "Pharmaceuticals face 100% tariffs in US – unless firms strike a deal"

excalibur — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:57:39 +0000

Mafia Don shaking everyone down for their lunch money as usual. We used to be better than this.

New comment by excalibur in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

excalibur — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:43:13 +0000

> Sure, it might cure cancer, but… that’s just uncertain. Sure, we’ll go to space, but… we sure have many problems at home.

We're not going to space. We're filling our own orbit with ever-increasing quantities of space junk and speeding toward a tipping point where space launch will no longer be possible due to near-certainty of collision. Mister "Let's all go to Mars" Elon Musk is the single greatest contributor to this problem.

New comment by excalibur in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

excalibur — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:39:34 +0000

Well done, but kind of annoying that winning and losing the game both lead to the same clip.

New comment by excalibur in "Chuck Norris has died"

excalibur — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:14:41 +0000

You must be fun at parties.

New comment by excalibur in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

excalibur — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:38:32 +0000

When you're walking around with your finger over your face all day, you should extend your thumb as well, so everyone can tell you're a Legend.

New comment by excalibur in "Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say"

excalibur — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:08:25 +0000

Let's send them thousands of tiny violins.

New comment by excalibur in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

excalibur — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:32:31 +0000

> Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.

Hey, I find that type of lingo nauseating, and I still struggle with practical decision-making.

New comment by excalibur in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

excalibur — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:39:52 +0000

The robots featured in the embedded promotional video appear to be mostly useless. This is the opposite of impressive.

New comment by excalibur in "Self-improving software won't produce Skynet"

excalibur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:55:02 +0000

Poorly reasoned. Offers assertions with nothing to back them up, because "that's not what we designed it to do". Yudkowsky & Soares tore all of these arguments to shreds last year.

New comment by excalibur in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

excalibur — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:21 +0000

If you haven't heard his Bohemian Rhapsody cover, it's something else. He flat out admitted that he had never heard the song before recording it. Which... Number one, how? And number two, who let him do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul6S84qF_TU