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New comment by fouc in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

fouc — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:40:43 +0000

Press increasingly started abdicating their job when journalism was no longer financially independent of the people and institutions it is supposed to scrutinize.

New comment by fouc in "Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content"

fouc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:33:33 +0000

Wrong link? Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_HIV/AIDS

New comment by fouc in "How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)"

fouc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:57:57 +0000

I was about to write s/caffeine/theobromine/ when I double-checked and learned that theobromine is a metabolite of caffeine. Mind blown.

New comment by fouc in "Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository"

fouc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:39:50 +0000

>The source of truth is the code

this doesn't feel true anymore

New comment by fouc in "Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits"

fouc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 03:00:51 +0000

Not completely sarcasm, I left unsaid that the bed design is a result of the "cutting edge styling", they would've had to change the styling on the back side at the very least to make a bit more practical truck.

And I think they should have moderated the style on the back. Gone for more of a mullet LOL.

New comment by fouc in "Websites Should Be Printable"

fouc — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:50:29 +0000

Everybody is focusing on responding to the title

but I thought this bit was far more interesting:

> I read a lot of printed papers these days. While I enjoy reading on a laptop as much as the next guy, marking up a printed document engages me better. Also, there's something about sitting with a whiteboard and a printed document that makes me rightly feel like I'm doing something important.

would be interesting to consider a totally new workflow of automatically printing off any "read later" stuff, including interesting HN posts.. and then actually sit down and read the paper, no distractions.

New comment by fouc in "Websites Should Be Printable"

fouc — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:47:31 +0000

this is for the authors/publishers of tuhat writing platform you mean?

New comment by fouc in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

fouc — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:20:58 +0000

Take my upvote, that made me snort chuckle.

New comment by fouc in "Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits"

fouc — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:31:44 +0000

I think Cybertruck's mistake ultimately boils down to the bed design - it just wasn't practical enough.

New comment by fouc in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

fouc — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 03:48:46 +0000

Smart dog!

New comment by fouc in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry."

fouc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:46:40 +0000

must be proof we're in a simulation!

New comment by fouc in "Claude Duet"

fouc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:18:42 +0000

FYI, Grok Bot is supposedly powered by Opus 5.5 as well.

New comment by fouc in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

fouc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:52:46 +0000

this is the correct kind of activism: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-five-yea... (HN Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844657 )

New comment by fouc in "Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark"

fouc — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 05:25:06 +0000

John B. Calhoun made the opposite discovery in his 1958–1962 rat experiments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

and then replicated it with mice in 1968-1972

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-old-experimen...

New comment by fouc in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

fouc — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:52:41 +0000

There was a youtube video that analyzed those game ads and I think they found that the games being shown in the ad are mini-games within the real game.

Supposedly the ads need to be based on some element of the game, so what they do is they make mini-games and use that as advertising material. It's all a tactic to get people to their actual game.

It's basically bait and switch.

New comment by fouc in "Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers"

fouc — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:40:16 +0000

What? https://github.com/jaxvanyang/comic-shanns-nerd is a great font for coding, I personally find it more readable at smaller sizes compared to the other popular ones like JetBrains mono

New comment by fouc in "William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace"

fouc — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:18:02 +0000

uh exactly? I'm saying the same thing as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50148049

metaverse is the term coined by Neal Stephenson. Not 'meta'

New comment by fouc in "William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace"

fouc — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:48:09 +0000

conflating metaverse and meta

New comment by fouc in "You could have invented transformers from memory"

fouc — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:35:47 +0000

You too?

New comment by fouc in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

fouc — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:15:27 +0000

Not sure if you even realized it but you pointed directly at the very problem with the American version of this scenario.

The tipping.

It's fucked because it distorts the relationship between staff and customers, not to mention it lets businesses get away with underpaying their staff.

Fortunately Japan doesn't do this.