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New comment by frakkingcylons in "12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:03:15 +0000

Sounds amazing. I build and unbuild but then just put the box back in storage (my closet).

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:40:33 +0000

Eric Berger of Ars Technica:

> I'm hearing that it is possible that Blue Origin decides to go directly to the larger 9x4 variant of New Glenn after this failure. Obviously no decisions like that will be made without more data review.

https://xcancel.com/SciGuySpace/status/2060190522539401631#m

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:35:33 +0000

If you worked at Google for 12 years, it seems pretty irrational to commit this kind of crime for only $1M.

Maybe there’s a chance he can get pardoned before 2029 lol

New comment by frakkingcylons in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:56:08 +0000

If all that happened to your startup is that you couldn't get traction or compete, that's not a scandal.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "I want to live like Costco people"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:33:00 +0000

Yes it works that way in the US. You could go in with a friend with a membership or simply be reincarnated as a child of Costco members.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:18:49 +0000

See, that's really the best argument for this. It can drive itself the same way I can fly an Airbus A321. You can't sue me because I didn't land the plane "intact".

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:02:40 +0000

They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

frakkingcylons — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:06:16 +0000

I appreciate the world building in this oatmeal comment

New comment by frakkingcylons in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

frakkingcylons — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:20:36 +0000

Have you never seen the word Syria spelled out?

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

frakkingcylons — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:36:32 +0000

When one of my coworkers bought a used car, he went out of his way to buy a model year that was compatible with Comma. He has lots of praise for it.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:21:21 +0000

Greenland's appeal is more about expanding the US military's presence in the Arctic rather than petroleum.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "25 Years of Wikipedia"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:18:59 +0000

I haven’t noticed this.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Show HN: I visualized the entire history of Citi Bike in the browser"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:53:25 +0000

this is really nice. One request: when searching for a station name, let me type "and" instead of "&" e.g. typing "E 47th St and 2 Ave" would still return "E 47th & 2 Ave".

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

frakkingcylons — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:25:37 +0000

I think a better way to think of it is in terms of revenue per employee. Valve is WAY up there.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

frakkingcylons — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:40:07 +0000

If you can’t appreciate the value of less is more, this device is not for you.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:25:40 +0000

Yes that’s why he and Gabe were speakers at the talk. In game economies were the topic.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:58:31 +0000

Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:37:28 +0000

Gabe gave a talk at my college like 12 or 13 years ago. He explicitly called out the unbelievable number of downloads for Doom as a sign that games were going to be huge.

Fun non-sequitur: the other speaker at that talk went on to become the finance minister of Greece.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Steam Machine"

frakkingcylons — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:48:36 +0000

One (maybe the only) advantage that the hypothetical new Windows-based Xbox console is that it'll be able to play all online games that require anti-cheat like COD, Battlefield, and Fortnite. All games that are mega-popular but are unfortunately unwilling to support anti-cheat on Linux.

New comment by frakkingcylons in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

frakkingcylons — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:18:52 +0000

I also used your tutorial to get started with web development and helped me get my first job about 11 years ago. Thanks a lot!