Hacker News: hydhyd

New comment by hydhyd in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

hydhyd — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:42:39 +0000

In many news organizations--certainly newspapers, potentially an outfit as big as TechCrunch--headlines are typically not written by the authors themselves but instead by an (copy)editor. Many times journalists are unhappy with the headline that an article ultimately runs with.

New comment by hydhyd in "The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London"

hydhyd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:21:13 +0000

I watched this clip several times and don't think it's California, based on a) the southern accents of both interviewees and b) the guy's hat which I /think/ says "Fort Worth". My guess is this is in Texas and is a reaction to the implementation of 0.08% BAC and/or other changes urged by MADD in the 80s/90s.

New comment by hydhyd in "Let us git rid of it, angry GitHub users say of forced Copilot features"

hydhyd — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 15:51:57 +0000

It appears to be GitHub Copilot

New comment by hydhyd in "Show HN: I built a sonar into my surfboard"

hydhyd — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 13:15:17 +0000

This isn’t as relevant to bubbles but a transducer phased array is what is used in multi-beam echosounders[1], which provide a swath of depth readings perpendicular to the ship’s path.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder