Hacker News: herodoturtle

New comment by herodoturtle in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

herodoturtle — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:24:57 +0000

Kudos to you and your team for not burning through the rest. Hope you have better luck with your next project.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

herodoturtle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:03:16 +0000

That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.

At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?

New comment by herodoturtle in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

herodoturtle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:27:04 +0000

I suspect it has more to do with Germany’s industrial scale in the automotive space (as opposed to incentives or culture).

New comment by herodoturtle in "Dopamine Fracking"

herodoturtle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:27:43 +0000

Great article (and phrase).

Thank you.

> Becoming aware of this concept has made it easier to navigate the world. And it's becoming easier and easier for me to simply stop a video and close a tab when I sense that it's just trying to give me a hit of dopamine.

I’ve just gone ahead and placed a little sticky note at the bottom of my monitor that says “dopamine fracking?”

New comment by herodoturtle in "The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf]"

herodoturtle — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:38:17 +0000

Burninating the countryside.

Burninating the peasants.

Burninating all the peoples.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

herodoturtle — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:20:14 +0000

Let’s see Paul Allen’s calculator.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Rotten Dot Com"

herodoturtle — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:43:45 +0000

This is so beautifully written.

The internet needs more of this.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Ted Turner has died"

herodoturtle — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:31:46 +0000

“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise!” - Ted Turner

Side note, for those of you that enjoy biographies, his autobiography “Call Me Ted” is a real page-turner (pun intended).

A highly inspirational story of entrepreneurship, which includes a raw and authentic account of his flaws.

A true legend.

Rest in peace Ted.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"

herodoturtle — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:18:34 +0000

> Here's something random about "Neanderthal"

If you'll permit me to throw in some fun (and arguably related) trivia:

Niander Wallace is the main antagonist in Blade Runner 2049. He's a genius industrialist that manufacturers high-tech human "replicants" for profit, and in pursuit of his ultimate goal to "storm Eden and retake her". An yet the thing that holds him back is his inability to get his replicants to procreate.

Pentagon inks deals with AI giants, but not Anthropic

herodoturtle — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:20:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/pentagon-inks-deals-with-ai-giants-but-not-anthropic/a-77012715

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978983

Points: 5

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New comment by herodoturtle in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

herodoturtle — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:14:45 +0000

Mauritius for one.

Ask HN: Recommended kindle books before Amazon's D-Day?

herodoturtle — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:02:35 +0000

Like many of you I recently received the announcement from Amazon that my beloved v1 Kindle Paperwhite will no longer be supported (as of May 20th, at which point I won't be able to buy new eBooks).

shakes fist at Amazon

I love my Paperwhite, so figured I'd stock up on some books before it's too late.

Any good suggestions?

I particularly enjoy autobiographies, but I'm open to any suggestions. The HN crowd always has unique insights!

Thanks ^_^

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948626

Points: 1

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New comment by herodoturtle in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

herodoturtle — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:36:33 +0000

Interesting timing when one also considers that the Musk vs OpenAI trial is set to get underway.

https://www.dw.com/en/musk-vs-openai-trial-to-get-underway/a...

New comment by herodoturtle in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

herodoturtle — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:15:27 +0000

> His letter (at the top of Apple's web site) is moving

As an aside, I absolutely love the minimal elegance of that web page.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game"

herodoturtle — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:17:10 +0000

This was a neat design choice I remember it well.

And also that my “sound card works perfectly!”

New comment by herodoturtle in "Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups"

herodoturtle — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:57:23 +0000

There’s a pretty great penguin colony site seeing area in Cape Town called Boulders Beach for those of you that happen to visit and are keen to see them up close.

Also this article is just great.

New comment by herodoturtle in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

herodoturtle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:21:41 +0000

In long term archival use cases this is less of an issue. Especially if it’s many exabytes we’re talking about, needing to be stored for decades.

But I 100% agree with your main point about possibility vs productionisation.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

herodoturtle — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:09:43 +0000

Indeed it is forced savings but with the benefit of covering your funeral expenditure if it is required suddenly and unexpectedly.

For context, it might cost you $5 per month, and give you funeral cover of $500.

As OP mentioned it is very common in South Africa, likely owed to the unpredictable life expectancy. All the large insurers offer it, it’s a massive market.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

herodoturtle — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:40:47 +0000

I’ve read elsewhere that the cut-away during booster separation was intentional given the high risk manoeuvre.

If something went wrong / explosion etc, then they wouldn’t want to broadcast it.

Something to that effect. I’m paraphrasing someone else.

New comment by herodoturtle in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

herodoturtle — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:46:27 +0000

I heard this in a Justin timberlake as Napster guy voice