Hacker News: lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lriversHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 08:19:55 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"]]>I was on the Virtuoso team at Altsys. Until Freehand was murdered by Adobe, there was still a ton of NeXT flavor in it.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:37:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152176lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152176https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152176<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Sizing chaos"]]>Bruh. Short leg long torso bro here as well. I try to buy shirts in tall sizes. I can tuck them in!

Good news, Italian sports cars and motorcycles seem designed for our body.

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075198lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075198https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075198<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"]]>They will also grab with their toes. Place your finger across their toes between the foot and the sweet little toesies and they will grip your finger pretty hard. We monkey

]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:57:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045821lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045821https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045821<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes"]]>I did some back of the envelope calculations and it looked to me that the leakage would fill Lake Austin from empty to the brim. That’s a lot of water

]]>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:54:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015210lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45015210<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "This website is for humans"]]>Points off for lack of blink tag. Do better

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:14:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891117lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891117https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44891117<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Search all text in New York City"]]>Sloth returned surprisingly many results, 92 Deviant returned 5 (cmon NY, do better) Sherpa five but two false positives, two Gap ads about Sherpa fleece, two genuine including Sherpa consulting which seems pretty niche Defenestrate got zero

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:33:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888228lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888228https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888228<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"]]>My wife works at a legit, long-established, high volume retail store. Some of the time she keeps books there. They just weigh money, it’s accurate enough for them.

]]>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:37:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436254lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436254https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436254<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Maslow 4: Large format CNC routing made accessible"]]>This should become a verb. Mullenweged

]]>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:56:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197505lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197505https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197505<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "The flu shot is different this year, thanks to Covid"]]>A strain of influenza appears to have disappeared from the planet since COVID. As a result, U.S. flu vaccines have been redesigned.

]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:01:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872018lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872018https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872018<![CDATA[The flu shot is different this year, thanks to Covid]]>Article URL: https://www.tpr.org/bioscience-medicine/2024-10-17/the-flu-shot-is-different-this-year-thanks-to-covid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872017

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

]]>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:01:42 +0000https://www.tpr.org/bioscience-medicine/2024-10-17/the-flu-shot-is-different-this-year-thanks-to-covidlrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41872017<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "A History of Microwave Ovens"]]>I remember vividly the first meal I had made with a microwave. Early 70s. Went to someone’s house for dinner. Dinner was meatloaf. Cooked in a microwave. If you like steamed ground beef you would have LOVED this meatloaf.

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:44:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848540lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848540<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"]]>Boy, not from the outside, though. There was a guy wearing one on my last flight and it’s ugly and it’s super weird to see someone “doing stuff”. All the hand waving and stuff. I can’t imagine wearing one in public. But I’m old

]]>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:45:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650610lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650610https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650610<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses"]]>Plus, “that person’s name is ‘jazzyjackson’” when you’re looking at them

]]>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650555lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650555<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "John Peralta Explodes Historic Technology into Three-Dimensional Diagrams"]]>What a great use case for a 3D representation

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:48:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579710lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579710https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579710<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "No Salt"]]>Crying at work from reading something on HN was not on my bingo card. Godspeed Jake

]]>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:02:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172162lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172162https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41172162<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas"]]>Fetch finally happened!

]]>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:22:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789805lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789805https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789805<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "How to get 7th graders to smoke"]]>One way to ruin kids desire to drink is to offer them tastes of what you’re drinking from a relatively young age.

Whatcha drinking daddy?

A beer! Want to try it?

YUCK!!!!

This removes the rebellion portion from drinking to a degree.

]]>Wed, 15 May 2024 19:35:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371352lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40371352<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died"]]>FABFOB

]]>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:47:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39982744lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39982744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39982744<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "How to keep engineers out of meeting hell"]]>“How do we know when we’re finished” is the most important question maybe ever.

]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:51:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39399566lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39399566https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39399566<![CDATA[New comment by lrivers in "Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse"]]>Adobe has a record of acquiring products and then killing them. Fireworks & Freehand for example.

]]>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:48:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205969lrivershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205969