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New comment by lelandfe in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

lelandfe — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:47:12 +0000

Everyone gets their own echo chamber now.

I want a TikTok-era Bowling Along examining the impact modern single feed social media has had on group participation in the new generations...

life hacks in devil daggers and general yap about homing timings [video]

lelandfe — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:58:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqMEnSWjrCs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531203

Points: 3

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New comment by lelandfe in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

lelandfe — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:19:46 +0000

I switched to Firefox and have regular problems with sites not supporting it. I wound up having to cave and download Chrome for backup.

New comment by lelandfe in "Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need"

lelandfe — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:31:18 +0000

Google sez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bear_and_the_Gardener#Idio...

> The story... relates how a solitary gardener encounters a lonely bear and they decide to become companions. One of the bear's duties is to keep the flies off his friend when he takes a nap. Unable to drive off a persistent fly, the bear seizes a paving stone to crush it and kills the gardener as well

> [..]

> The fable has given to the French language the idiom le pavé de l'ours (the bear's paving stone) and to German Bärendienst (a bear's service), both used for doing somebody or something a disservice or bad turn and sometimes for any ill-considered action with an unfortunate result. The Danish and Norwegian word bjørnetjeneste (bear-service) has similar meanings and the idiom also appears in other European languages.

Apparently the source of Russian's, too: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B5...

New comment by lelandfe in "An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations"

lelandfe — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:43:51 +0000

How folksy. Give that jay a hat and we got a Disney movie cooking.

New comment by lelandfe in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

lelandfe — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:40:32 +0000

OMNY with iOS Express Mode is crazy fast. I don't even have to do anything besides hold my wrist or phone next to the entrance: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105123

I don't often do transfers, though.

New comment by lelandfe in "Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it"

lelandfe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:54:53 +0000

Like the HN post we're commenting on, so too does this example also get regurgitated every few years.

Find modern examples by Googling "menu safe triangle." Here's one from 5 days ago https://www.framer.com/blog/cursor-trajectory/

> I asked the Framer Agent to fix it, and within minutes it had built and applied what I now call trajectory-based menu aim

New comment by lelandfe in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"

lelandfe — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:34:54 +0000

The defendant submitted a remarkably high quality video of you saying you generated it with Nano Banana.

New comment by lelandfe in "The August 17 outage"

lelandfe — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:18:19 +0000

A nice technique to learn of this situation is to fail ("black hole") random resources in synthetic loads of the frontend. This lets you find out 'bout these single points of failure, and then you can start adding fallbacks.

This is a pretty ancient thing as far as the FE goes: https://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/06/01/frontend-spof/

New comment by lelandfe in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

lelandfe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:14:32 +0000

The worst part of Amazon destroying priceless old books in the quest to build the torment nexus is the hypocrisy

New comment by lelandfe in "GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released"

lelandfe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:10:32 +0000

areas that look weird

New comment by lelandfe in "The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains"

lelandfe — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:25:14 +0000

Your first link’s lead photo calls to mind this Oklahoma City art piece I came across one time https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/ebkdib/s...

New comment by lelandfe in "Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123"

lelandfe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:20:52 +0000

Speaking of, the NYT got a pretty rare peek at said switchboards last year: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/20/nyregion/nyc-...

New comment by lelandfe in "France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers"

lelandfe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:17:14 +0000

> The ministry confirmed the intrusion the very next day

I think the title is OK but I'd probably have written e.g

"France's tax authority hacked, 680k taxpayers' data stolen"

New comment by lelandfe in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

lelandfe — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:16:50 +0000

That's a secondary ("OR") condition, used if the browser condition isn't satisfied.

New comment by lelandfe in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

lelandfe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:27:59 +0000

The most fundamental flaw in the test is that we know we're taking a test.

How many devs take this adversarial a stance to their work?

New comment by lelandfe in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

lelandfe — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:48:06 +0000

That post is so abbreviated as to be wrong in a few places (for instance, it's not that your "HTML" needs to be under 14kB, the packet, incl. headers needs to be). Fuller link: https://www.tunetheweb.com/blog/critical-resources-and-the-f...

It's not worth chasing except for personal curiosity and some truly extreme cases.

New comment by lelandfe in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

lelandfe — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:50:21 +0000

You jest but yes, even as I do not love this new update, an application bucking Apple platform standards personally sours me pretty hard on it.

New comment by lelandfe in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

lelandfe — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:02:01 +0000

An accompanying photo of the executive team saddened by the news sounds like just what folks need

New comment by lelandfe in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

lelandfe — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:59 +0000

https://xtech.army.mil/competition/xtechhumanoid/

> The U.S. Army is seeking innovative humanoid technology solutions from eligible small and large businesses across the globe to advance toward fielded militarized humanoid capabilities through the xTechHumanoid competition