Hacker News: frutiger

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

frutiger — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/despite-price-hike-steam-deck-is-already-sold-out-in-north-america/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348704

Points: 44

# Comments: 17

New comment by frutiger in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

frutiger — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:51:11 +0000

Standard ML proved this 50 years ago.

New comment by frutiger in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

frutiger — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:12:13 +0000

At least in NY State, babies up to 30 days old can be left for care by the state.

> New York State's Abandoned Infant Protection Act allows a parent to abandon a newborn baby up to 30 days of age anonymously and without fear of prosecution, as long as the baby is abandoned in a safe manner.

> A parent is not guilty of a crime if the infant is left with an appropriate person or in a suitable location and the parent promptly notifies an appropriate person of the infant's location. A hospital or a staffed police or fire station are examples of safe and suitable choices.

> A person leaving an infant under this law is not required to give his or her name.

New comment by frutiger in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

frutiger — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:01:10 +0000

> as a vegan

How does one know if a stranger is vegan?

New comment by frutiger in "Insights into firewood use by early Middle Pleistocene hominins"

frutiger — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:57:34 +0000

Our ancestors have been “maximizing resources” for hundreds of millions of years, and all our living relatives alive today continue to do so.

Bloomberg's TypeScript CLI Library

frutiger — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:17 +0000

Article URL: https://bloomberg.github.io/stricli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865284

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by frutiger in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

frutiger — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:00:08 +0000

Use terminal.app. Since tahoe it supports 24bit colour and has key combos for the most common features.

New comment by frutiger in "Baby's Second Garbage Collector"

frutiger — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:29:55 +0000

I wanted to read this but I couldn’t because of all the allusions in the article that distracted me from the points the author was trying to make.

New comment by frutiger in "Seed of Might color correction process (2023) [pdf]"

frutiger — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:13:37 +0000

Maybe that’s no coincidence as the German word braun means the same as the English word brown.

New comment by frutiger in "Block spent $68M on a company offsite in September 2025"

frutiger — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:48:47 +0000

Bloomberg Engineering

New comment by frutiger in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

frutiger — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:56:49 +0000

Most mechanical watches unwind smoothly, ticks are typically due to a powered quartz crystal.

New comment by frutiger in "There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)"

frutiger — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:57:07 +0000

They did so well, they lived to tell the tale. Or squawked.

New comment by frutiger in "1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico"

frutiger — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:15:45 +0000

There is no such thing as “pure X” when it comes to organisms.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:12:23 +0000

These lenders will want some interest. The collateral is only useful if he defaults. If the collateral generates realized gains then those are taxed.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:21:00 +0000

I know. I would still be impressed if Bezos’s w-2 income was below $400k.

Edit: also you need to pay the loan back, and the income to pay it back is taxable. You can die with an outstanding loan, but i’m sure bezos lenders will structure the loan to make sure they get most of their money back.

New comment by frutiger in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

frutiger — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:51:15 +0000

The child tax credit starts tapering off if your adjusted gross income is more than $200k single ($400k joint). If Bezos is reporting less than that due to other deductions then that’s truly impressive.

New comment by frutiger in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

frutiger — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:03:51 +0000

The answer was almost certainly generated by an LLM.

New comment by frutiger in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

frutiger — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:00:30 +0000

Excalidraw

New comment by frutiger in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

frutiger — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:21:42 +0000

Also, amusingly, France is most definitively in Western Europe, so I’m a bit confused about GP’s link between Eastern Europe and “go look up this French word”.

New comment by frutiger in "Eat Real Food"

frutiger — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:39:06 +0000

Yes I understand bioavailability etc. My point is that it’s nothing to do with how processed something is.