Hacker News: kyleblarson

New comment by kyleblarson in "Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation"

kyleblarson — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:35:42 +0000

I don't know the AUM of this pension fund but if the managers were doing their jobs they should have had at least a tiny bit of exposure to SpaceX years ago.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

kyleblarson — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:47:41 +0000

I live in Idaho so I don't think that's much of an issue.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

kyleblarson — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:51:56 +0000

1987 4runner, no phone, use cash.

New comment by kyleblarson in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

kyleblarson — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:29:01 +0000

That's just like, your opinion, man.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce"

kyleblarson — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:44:54 +0000

I've seen some pretty janky rides at state and county fairs.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

kyleblarson — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:47:25 +0000

I only have 2 data points, but my mom in the southeastern US (in her 70's) and all of her friends have started playing and are fully addicted and the same seems to be true at my golf club in Inland Northwest. Maybe it's getting a toehold? (in a very non-HN demographic)

New comment by kyleblarson in "North American English Dialects"

kyleblarson — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:25:47 +0000

A slightly less cultured and different but nonetheless entertaining Carolina accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQCUrMZWOc

New comment by kyleblarson in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

kyleblarson — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:37:11 +0000

To be fair, discovering a new shower gel that smells better or feels better is a nice experience.

Search for Golf Shots From The Masters 1968-2025

kyleblarson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:27:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.masters.com/en_US/vault/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442837

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyleblarson in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"

kyleblarson — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:35:44 +0000

At least we can rest knowing that all of these rich, famous, powerful people will face consequences for their disgusting actions....

New comment by kyleblarson in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

kyleblarson — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:22:50 +0000

I had disk issues in my lumbar spine that caused nearly unbearable pain and terrible quality of life. Tried everything: PT, OTC painkillers, epidurals, massage, nothing worked. Was prescribed pragabalin and duloxotine. Duloxotine is an SNRI that also treats nerve pain. That combination helped some but I was sleeping 11+ hours per day and generally felt like my head was in a complete fog, was pretty much useless with work. I had been trying to avoid surgery but finally had 2 procedures in 2024 that helped immensely. Weaning off those 2 drugs was no fun: sweating constantly, anxious, headaches for about 2 weeks. Extremely happy I went the surgery route and stopped those meds. I can't imagine living day to day feeling like that.

New comment by kyleblarson in "SETI@home is in hiberation"

kyleblarson — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:30:50 +0000

My first internship was at DEC / Compaq in 2000. I was on their C compiler team and my project was to build seti tools with their updated Alpha Linux C compiler and compare perf against the tools built with the GNU C compiler. It was a fun project.

20-year-olds walk up 60 floors of Osaka high-rise to celebrate adulthood

kyleblarson — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:46:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260112_11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46588419

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyleblarson in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

kyleblarson — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:18:33 +0000

There are basically zero players on the PGA tour right now who were self taught. For the next generation of pros, if you are not a plus index player by the time you are around 13 you have no chance whatsoever.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

kyleblarson — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:36:46 +0000

I reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt for the umpteenth time and it is still wonderful.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Charles Proxy"

kyleblarson — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:07:19 +0000

The combination of Charles + Postman is great for reverse engineering mobile API's. Inspect traffic w/ Charles, export request to cUrl, import cUrl into Postman, play around with request headers / params / etc, export to py, use Cursor to create reusable library.

New comment by kyleblarson in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

kyleblarson — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:08:50 +0000

I was on a train from Miyajima to Hiroshima on a random weekday morning and an older gentleman sat next to me. I am a white American and I could tell he wanted to talk with me but was hesitant so I said good morning in my terrible Japanese. He wanted to practice English so we chatted and he ended up insisting on taking me to his local okonomiyaki spot in Hiroshima where he was clearly a regular. We had a 2.5 hour lunch and he hazed me with food beer and shochu and introduced me to the other octogenarian regulars. It was a really cool experience.

New comment by kyleblarson in "Saving Japan's exceptionally rare 'snow monsters'"

kyleblarson — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:39:36 +0000

Big Mountain ski area in Montana has tons, as do mountains all over the world. When I saw this headline my first thought was "clickbait headline to push climate doomerism". The BBC did not disappoint.

Louvre to raise entry fees for non-Europeans

kyleblarson — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:53:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20251128_09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078214

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyleblarson in "Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model"

kyleblarson — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:49:29 +0000

My late grandfather had a severe reaction to contrast agent while getting an MRI and coded while in the machine. (They resuscitated him)