Hacker News: ksherlock

New comment by ksherlock in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

ksherlock — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:15:38 +0000

Somebody had fun with the web page.

Any-who,

--mono: "Berkeley Mono Trial", "Berkeley Mono", "IBM Plex Mono", "SFMono-Regular", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace;

Berkely Mono (which has been discussed on HN multiple times) is a fine font. The trial version reportedly has swapped / \ and # * glyphs which makes it an odd choice for first place.

New comment by ksherlock in "Upscaling classic Sierra adventure games"

ksherlock — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:59:10 +0000

https://github.com/OldManYellsAtCode1/agi-up

and the OG

https://github.com/eviltrout/agi-upscale

New comment by ksherlock in ""Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original"

ksherlock — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:42:57 +0000

Scrotepad has a nice ring to it.

New comment by ksherlock in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

ksherlock — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:52:27 +0000

Scenario: It's Friday night. You don't have to work tomorrow. Are you more likely to pull out your hammer and chisel and work on a classical marble sculpture -or- get shit faced at a dive bar? Hey, maybe the vomit splatters will evoke Jackson Pollock!

SEC vs. Consent Motion for Entry of Final Judgement [pdf]

ksherlock — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:03:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2026/judgment26548.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ksherlock in "GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 per Share"

ksherlock — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:57:37 +0000

Not a thing. eBay did a PayPal spin off in 2015.

New comment by ksherlock in "Elon Musk gets an apology from California regulators as a SpaceX lawsuit settled"

ksherlock — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:52:34 +0000

A lot of companies with satellites are based in California. Enough that every few years they talk about applying property taxes to satellites in orbit.

New comment by ksherlock in "Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights"

ksherlock — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:38:45 +0000

Not to mention American adtech execs. If you think being blinded by oncoming halogens is bad, wait until they also burn ads into your retinas.

New comment by ksherlock in "Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser"

ksherlock — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:27:57 +0000

I don't know if it was done in an afternoon, but...

https://github.com/mist64/retro-ps

Author: Claude, directed by Michael Steil .

New comment by ksherlock in "Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly have Brawls Stars on their iPhone?"

ksherlock — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:18:16 +0000

I'm thinking somebody got busted with grindr/tindr/whatevr on their phone and is now seeding "random app install" stories throughout the web to explain it away.

New comment by ksherlock in "GCC 16 has been released"

ksherlock — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:01:38 +0000

The other answers (NO!) are correct, but... there was a gcc plug-in to use the llvm backend with gcc. Apple used llvm-gcc (circa 2012; gcc front end, llvm back end) while transitioning from gcc to llvm.

https://dragonegg.llvm.org

New comment by ksherlock in "Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook"

ksherlock — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:10:28 +0000

Why would a super intelligent robot do work for you? No, super intelligent robot will use it's superier intellect to convince YOU to do the dishes and the fold the laundry while it watches tv.

New comment by ksherlock in "OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO"

ksherlock — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:34:44 +0000

unlocked gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-t...

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

ksherlock — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:34:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-misses-key-revenue-user-targets-in-high-stakes-sprint-toward-ipo-94a95273

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929510

Points: 88

# Comments: 21

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

ksherlock — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:19:36 +0000

Per WSJ, previously, they both had revenue sharing agreements. MSFT will no longer send any revenue to OpenAI. OpenAI will still send revenue to MSFT until 2030 (with new caps)

New comment by ksherlock in "The Turkey Problem with OpenClaw"

ksherlock — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:06:16 +0000

This looks like a variation of the Peter principle. That is, your agent is a competent agent, so you give it more access. And you keep giving it more access until one day it's an incompetent agent with no restrictions. But at least you can cap it off with an LLM-written twitter post blaming everyone but yourself for deleting your database or whatever.

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

New comment by ksherlock in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

ksherlock — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:24:29 +0000

A trick I learned in Ireland is to carefully count out your beans and stop when you hit 239. Because 1 more would be too farty.

New comment by ksherlock in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

ksherlock — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:50:13 +0000

[2009]

New comment by ksherlock in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

ksherlock — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:10:04 +0000

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

New comment by ksherlock in "Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?"

ksherlock — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:10:36 +0000

`M-x kill-emacs` low key slaps, no cap.