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New comment by haunter in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

haunter — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:40:56 +0000

You are just reinforcing the meme perfectly, well done!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBabka_(convenience_store)

New comment by haunter in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

haunter — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:56:26 +0000

Agreed. Classic case of the “Thing vs Thing, Japan” meme

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan

New comment by haunter in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

haunter — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:51:07 +0000

> McTaggart derived his certainty from his metaphysics, which implied that what we confusedly perceive as material objects, in some cases housing minds, are really souls, eternally viewing one another with something of the order of love.

Maybe I am wrong but isn’t that how shinto perceives the world? That a tree you might chop down will kill a kami who lives there. So our acts of here and now have a much bigger implication on the musubi than on the actual after life.

New comment by haunter in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

haunter — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:12:37 +0000

Two things always stood out for me about Byte

1, It's a massive book like magazine if you ever hold one in your hand. Usually more than 300 pages sometimes up to 500, it's not like today's print media at all. I'm not even sure huge magazines like this exist anymore.

2, The amount of ads are insane. Like 1:3 ratio of article:ads if not more. Most of the times the lead articles are interrupted by 3 pages of ads after every page. It's interesting to look back at those ads from today but it's also a jarring experience to some extent.

Also make sure to read the letters to editor part! Always fun

EP Hearing: Should Video Game Publishers Be Allowed to Disable Games You Bought

haunter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:01:44 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804967

Points: 1

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New comment by haunter in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

haunter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:53:47 +0000

It can actually be also used for file recovery/discovery, see the last slide

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/om_fim/attach...

>seek a ’magic’ signature in the file after opening it, and try decoding it starting within the range of that signature

New comment by haunter in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

haunter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:55:21 +0000

Boards of Canada releasing a new track yesterday and possibly a new album after 13 years of waiting is everything but a psyop

New comment by haunter in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

haunter — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:09:57 +0000

Last week it was 3 weeks so improvement?

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/04/10/jet-fuel-shortage-europe...

New comment by haunter in "PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)"

haunter — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:53:41 +0000

https://archive.org/details/TerrorinSpace

> It can be hard to find old PBS shows, even from just a few years ago

Torrent. Pretty much all seasons are available

New comment by haunter in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

haunter — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:22:56 +0000

Japanese food prices are ridiculously cheap. Well that's true to pretty much whole Asia too. Even in HK which I consider more expensive than Japan a Big Mac is only 2.9€ (27 HKD). And that's McD, local food spots are even cheaper. If you have the money there is no better time to have a holiday in Asia.

A Big Mac is 10€ in France...

We are ripped off big time in the US and Europe for nothing.

New comment by haunter in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

haunter — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:04 +0000

Even better is a passive cooled GPU like the Palit 3050 KalmX https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 Too bad they are not producing them anymore