Hacker News: jakzurr

New comment by jakzurr in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

jakzurr — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:07:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Grove_chemical_leak

New comment by jakzurr in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"

jakzurr — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:57:50 +0000

OK, fun article. But holy smokes, when I first read the title, I thought it was saying, "GF pasta falls apart because of neutron scattering." Whew!

New comment by jakzurr in "My Homemade PBX (2002)"

jakzurr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:01:32 +0000

This really looks like fun!

New comment by jakzurr in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

jakzurr — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:20:29 +0000

Great article. Also, awesome comments; thanks everyone.

New comment by jakzurr in "80386 Multiplication and Division"

jakzurr — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:04:51 +0000

No, no, no.

I think it's actually really simple. We tech nerds sometimes think a lot the same way.

New comment by jakzurr in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

jakzurr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:17:12 +0000

lol, I really liked this article.

But yeah, maybe it helps that I have the scripting turned off.

New comment by jakzurr in "The Mondrian introduction to functional optics"

jakzurr — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:20:33 +0000

holy smokes! TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian

New comment by jakzurr in "Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel"

jakzurr — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:51:52 +0000

That's really an interesting story; thanks for sharing it.

New comment by jakzurr in "A beetle that heads for the ‘back door’ when eaten by a frog (2020)"

jakzurr — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:42:37 +0000

I see a real benefit to the beetle, if it can get out. But I'm wondering, is there any benefit to the frog from consuming this type of "fiber"?

New comment by jakzurr in "A bell that rings two notes at once (2017) [video]"

jakzurr — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:44:47 +0000

Wow, that vid really did it for me. Amazing sounds. Thanks for digging that up.

New comment by jakzurr in "Telling the Bees"

jakzurr — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:35:52 +0000

The 2021 comments were some of my favorites.

New comment by jakzurr in "How Wolfenstein 3D shocked the world, 30 years later"

jakzurr — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:09:06 +0000

Early 90's, 2-3 friends and I had all bought 486's. I got home and listened to answering machine, and the voice was practically gasping.

"You're not gonna believe this game.... You're just not gonna believe it! Uh-huh-huh, you're not gonna believe it!!"

I still wish I'd saved a recording of that.

New comment by jakzurr in "Will boiling water ruin green tea?"

jakzurr — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:36:32 +0000

But your take is exactly the right one: Use the tea you prefer, prepared with the water temp that gives it your favored taste.

New comment by jakzurr in "Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon"

jakzurr — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:59:24 +0000

I liked that article - didn't see it until late 2020, but it's from 2019. Thanks for posting the link.

New comment by jakzurr in "is there a global DNS issue happening?"

jakzurr — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 02:28:17 +0000

I get "site can't be reached".

New comment by jakzurr in "There's something off about LED bulbs"

jakzurr — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:43:52 +0000

Thanks, your posts were illuminating. I'm not looking forward to replacing my ancient quartz floor lamp, but I'm not sure I'll be able to buy a 3rd replacement bulb, when it finally goes out.

New comment by jakzurr in "DIY Nitrogen TEA Laser (2020)"

jakzurr — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:47:31 +0000

Both good comments. I love the article, but the "Safety Remarks" probably shouldn't have been so far down in the text!

New comment by jakzurr in "A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past"

jakzurr — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 00:35:23 +0000

Thanks for the links.

Is it bad to upvote an article on HN, just because I think the comment quality is enlightening? Philosophers professing to be scientists has been troubling me more and more the past few years.

Also, gotta say many of the top comments are pretty interesting here.

New comment by jakzurr in "GPT-4"

jakzurr — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:39:57 +0000

>> Who would want an artificial cat mind?

Possibly, someone who is allergic to cats.

New comment by jakzurr in "Can Pachinko be Skill-based? Taking a look at Hanemono"

jakzurr — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:24:03 +0000

The photos of old machines were really great.