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New comment by exegete in "The weekend is 100 years old"

exegete — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:32:19 +0000

Depends on what you mean by “end of slavery”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

New comment by exegete in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

exegete — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:11:20 +0000

> The difference between Coordinated Universal Time UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is :

> from 2017 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -37s

This means the atomic clock is behind the solar clock by 37 seconds? I also don’t understand the reference to 2017.

New comment by exegete in "Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times"

exegete — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:38:00 +0000

How does this work with registration? Like what would they put for make and model for the car? I imagine there has to be a way to add custom cars to it.

New comment by exegete in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

exegete — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:05:32 +0000

That's nice, but there's more to it:

> However, the S&P Dow Jones Indices did “carve out one concession” by changing the investable weight factor rules for “lower-profile benchmarks” such as the S&P Total Market Index and Dow Jones US Total Stock Market Index, according to Quartz. That could allow an IPO faster entry into those indexes.

I think these total market indexes are used as benchmarks for US total market ETF's and funds?

New comment by exegete in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

exegete — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:25:52 +0000

The trend is somewhat new if we look long term. The gap between PhD’s and number of openings in academia has gotten a lot worse.

New comment by exegete in "OpenTrafficMap"

exegete — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0000

I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?

New comment by exegete in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

exegete — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:09:10 +0000

So if we’re being technical I think they did achieve escape velocity? But the moon’s gravity and some timed burns will slingshot them back.

New comment by exegete in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

exegete — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:21:05 +0000

The article says Walmart is not abandoning ChatGPT but is going to use their own app in Chat’s ecosystem

New comment by exegete in "Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you)"

exegete — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:17:15 +0000

Nice work. One piece of feedback - the two shades of green are hard to distinguish and mean very different things

New comment by exegete in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

exegete — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:19:16 +0000

Slopple

PlowNYC

exegete — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:58:12 +0000

Article URL: https://plownyc.cityofnewyork.us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121742

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by exegete in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

exegete — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:45:20 +0000

“Accidentally” is not accurate. He used AI to inspect the source and found credentials that work in all devices. He also never gained control of anyone else’s devices. He never used the exploit.

New comment by exegete in "macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken"

exegete — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:32:03 +0000

This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?

New comment by exegete in "Privilege is bad grammar"

exegete — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:18:32 +0000

You have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones

New comment by exegete in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

exegete — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:07:32 +0000

Live camera of runway https://app.truelook.cloud/dashboard/581/980/live

Linked from airport website: https://elpasointernationalairport.com/live-cameras/

New comment by exegete in ".Beat Swatch Internet Time"

exegete — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:16:00 +0000

Most definitely marketing. It’s got the company name in it. I’m surprised other watch makers didn’t come up with their own time standards as gimmicks.

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:17:23 +0000

Of course there’s always been that pressure but now with AI tooling the sheer volume of code that can be generated is massive.

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:16:03 +0000

Yes but now there is so much more volume of code created in the same amount of time.

PlowNYC: Track the progress of DSNY snow removal vehicles

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://plownyc.cityofnewyork.us/plownyc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753957

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:23:00 +0000

To me the biggest benefit has been getting AI to write scripts that automate some things for me that are tedious but not needed to be deployed. Those scripts don’t have to be production-grade and just have to work.