Hacker News: joshuahaglund

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

joshuahaglund — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:27:22 +0000

No beer has nothing to do with Roseburia genus bacteria

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:39:08 +0000

> hack at stone with a chisel

Update your mental model, except for the grand works, they used sticks on clay tablets similar to writing

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

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:40:27 +0000

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

Among others

New comment by joshuahaglund in "You can use newline characters in URLs"

joshuahaglund — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:50:27 +0000

Yeah "You can use newline or tab characters in the HREF attribute and the browser will throw a validation error, remove the offending character, try again, then succeed" would be a more accurate title.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

joshuahaglund — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:52:33 +0000

That looked like a leading question to me, asking for confirmation but not an outright assumption. Seems like a fair question

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

joshuahaglund — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:32:07 +0000

https://time.com/5846321/nixon-trump-law-and-order-history/

(They said law and order, because they couldn't say anti black)

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Help My c64 caught on fire"

joshuahaglund — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:41:59 +0000

I like the aesthetic choice

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

joshuahaglund — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:00:50 +0000

Just what we need, more powerful automobiles.

I would appreciate a 1 oz motor that can put out 1 hp on an ebike.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Toyota runs a car-hacking event to boost security (2024)"

joshuahaglund — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:30:36 +0000

You're assuming so much that is wrong. Thieves don't know how to use technology?

They can't use a charger? (I imagine they'd wire one to an also stolen generator)

Then you assume they're gonna be in a car chase? That's not how most stolen vehicles end up.

Afaik most stolen vehicles either get quickly parted out at a chop shop, or are sent across a border (driven across borders or container shipped to another country), or used for other crimes, or they're joy rided around then abandoned. Basically all things you could easily do on a partial charge with a modern car mechanics skills.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

joshuahaglund — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:11:00 +0000

> The actual PBS and NPR shows you're familiar with are generally developed and produced privately

Off the top of my head, two programs I watch that get CPB funding include: Frontline https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/about-us/our-funders/ NOVA https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/funders/

This is one place some sorta "trickle down" economics worked. CPB contributed to developing the content on PBS. Now PBS either has to cut costs by either canceling programs or ordering cheaper content that corporate sponsors like, run more pledge drives, or seek more corporate sponsors. None of those are appealing to me.

Also CPB helps keep rural stations open means all the niche local productions about state history or geology or whatever can happen.

It's a cut to the already strained budget of a wonderful resource. I'd be surprised if there weren't lost jobs and less quality as a result.

Edit to add: Just sentimental but I'll miss hearing "this program was made possible by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by contributions from viewers like you!"

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:46:16 +0000

Well 40% admit to it but those are just the honest dishonest people

https://losspreventionmedia.com/new-survey-reveals-more-than...

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:46:21 +0000

Or maybe they're low sales-volume items in a low profit margin store and it's cheaper to put some things behind glass than post up a security guard to deal with the fact that almost everyone, even nice old ladies at the grocery store, steal things sometimes?

New comment by joshuahaglund in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:36:45 +0000

Your own link points out that $950 is just taking into account inflation. When the law was created in 1982 the amount was $400, which was about $981 in 2014.

Inflation would eventually make stealing a candy bar a felony. Or we could updated the numbers periodically

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Turn any bicycle electric"

joshuahaglund — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:11:01 +0000

Which was cool until he littered the bottle of gas into the irrigation ditch behind him

New comment by joshuahaglund in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

joshuahaglund — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 02:35:13 +0000

IDK where you live but where I am, unless it's an actively life threatening emergency, the Police will say they're busy. I watched a drunk driver try to drive away after smashing into a parked car, ripping a wheel off the parked car. The drunk driver kept trying to start his car to get away. People called the police but they said they're busy. Fortunately his car was totaled and wouldn't start either. Over an hour later someone picked him up. If they can't even bother to deal with an active drunk driver, they aren't gonna help retrieve a bike.

Not saying confronting thieves is for everyone. But it's not necessarily as physical as you think.

New comment by joshuahaglund in "A 10-Year Battery for AirTag"

joshuahaglund — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 20:46:57 +0000

I've retrieved stolen bikes, one because of an airtag. Showed up with a couple friends standing by but not trying to be intimidating. It's mostly about staying calm and telling the person this is mine, I'm taking it. They always say "no it's my friend's, you're gonna piss him off" or "I just bought this" or something. Maybe you offer some fraction of a "reward" to smooth it along and cut your losses. Don't try to start a fight and it generally goes OK. Also, try not to accuse them of stealing, they'll just get defensive. "It's someone else who is screwing us both, but this is mine sorry."

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus"

joshuahaglund — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:05:05 +0000

I hope the second researcher to look at these writings looked sternly at the first, gesturing at the pieces of torn papyrus and questioned: Euripides?!?

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Bring crypto back to currency"

joshuahaglund — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:10:17 +0000

> Algorithmically, it is possible to control how much it costs to mine crypto at any point by modulating network fees (PoS)/block difficultly (PoW). This would in turn have an effect of the supply of the currency because if it becomes cheaper (in USD) to mine than more people will mine it (as it becomes more profitable to do so).

If it's cheaper to mine, it won't be more profitable. See dogecoin. It'll create more token and at a decreased value.

I can't believe people are still falling for this ponzi scheme

New comment by joshuahaglund in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

joshuahaglund — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:42:23 +0000

I clicked, hoping that "human extinction" was just the worst thing they were against. But that's the only thing. That leaves open a whole lot of bad stuff that they're OK with AI doing (as long as it doesn't kill literally everyone).

New comment by joshuahaglund in "New gel breaks down alcohol in the body"

joshuahaglund — Tue, 14 May 2024 22:16:00 +0000

One guy says it works. The rest of the article is about a small experiment that showed otherwise. Then it quotes experts who explain why it doesn't work and called it an urban legend.