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New comment by frutiger in "Brood War Bench"

frutiger — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:20:06 +0000

I haven’t checked for SC:BW but Blizzard has official parsers/replayers for SC2 on GitHub.

New comment by frutiger in "'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet"

frutiger — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:00:52 +0000

> We aren't actually sure what gave our core the spin it has, right?

We are, it’s from the conservation of angular momentum. The material that made our planet also had a non-zero angular momentum.

New comment by frutiger in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

frutiger — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:25:56 +0000

> they don't even pay taxes on the money they spend, since they can borrow against the assets and spend on credit.

They have to pay taxes on the income/realised gains they use to pay the loan back when it matures. It’s not completely tax free.

New comment by frutiger in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

frutiger — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:24:32 +0000

This framing is also in the post. From the readme:

> Bonsai itself -- this library -- is actually more generic than the above makes it sound. It allows you to build general-purpose incremental, composable state machines. Bonsai_web builds on top of that core library, specializing it for interactive browser-based UIs, but we also have Bonsai_term for building interactive terminal-based UIs.

New comment by frutiger in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

frutiger — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:05:11 +0000

Losing $75 while gaining $675.

New comment by frutiger in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

frutiger — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:18:22 +0000

> But of course one can then question why are there exactly N different types of fields, with their specific types of interaction (at least in our universe)?

Even that has a (still unsatisfactory) answer.

Poincaré symmetry imposes constraints on the kinds of fields we can have. Gauge symmetry shows us how they may couple.

There are still some arbitrary selections of the possible permutations that nature has “picked”.

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.