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New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:38:21 +0000

This isn't the Albanian people's first rodeo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Albanian_civil_unrest

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

ludicrousdispla — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:50:02 +0000

>> You know, many eastern countries apparently intuitively think in cycles.

"a turtle that retracts its head will later extend it"

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "'Our Pool Is Bigger Than Skyscrapers': Amid war, Trump touts Washington projects"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:10:15 +0000

fixed it

'Our Pool Is Bigger Than Skyscrapers': Amid war, Trump touts Washington projects

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260604-our-pool-is-bigger-than-skyscrapers-amid-war-trump-touts-washington-projects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393655

Points: 5

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New comment by ludicrousdispla in "My Students Can't Read"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:15:10 +0000

"comprising" and "consisting of" have very different meanings in patent law, but I expect most people would consider them synonymous.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:31:25 +0000

the UX of that site is quite bad actually. arrow keys and PgUp/PgDn won't scroll the text, and the panel wants to resize horizontally when a person tries to engage the vertical scrollbar

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Design Engineering Magazine"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:02:54 +0000

this is just an ad

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The Last Technical Interview"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:02:08 +0000

Candidates are getting different outcomes on separate paths through the process because different people are interviewing them.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The Last Technical Interview"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:57:20 +0000

Reading that part of the post leads me to conclude that Yegge is founding a startup called 'StampTown' or something similar as a talent incubator. Each candidate would have a digital avatar with suspenders that would display their accumulated stamps.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The Last Technical Interview"

ludicrousdispla — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:45:31 +0000

The decisions made by individual interviewers are extremely accurate if you realize they are just saying 'YES - I want this person hired' or 'NO - I don't want this person hired'. It's entirely subjective but likely very repeatable.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Maybe the AI consultant gets a cut of that half billion?

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "The worst job interview I ever had"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:45:49 +0000

I wonder if the letters were hand-written or cut and pasted from several magazines.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:31:58 +0000

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my friends were within a 2 block radius, so about 300 yards. Tack on another block each year and that was the standard walking distance to a friend's house.

And of course in high school there was the standard minimum of one student death per year per school, usually related to driving. So teen deaths seemed more prevalent than younger ages.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:08:54 +0000

> ...moving the chair from one side to the other is enough to change the context.

That's some lateral thinking[0] right there.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:29:47 +0000

In many situations, the depth of the water doesn't matter as driving into it will likely result in death.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:47:44 +0000

In order to create enough loopholes for their wealthy clients, the politicians have made the tax rules so complicated that very few people have confidence that they understand them.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040gi.pdf

This is the primary reason that Americans hate paying their taxes.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

ludicrousdispla — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:31:12 +0000

If you don't want to be booed at while yapping about AI during a commencement speech, then maybe you shouldn't be doing that in the first place.

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

ludicrousdispla — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:08:58 +0000

So would these be more suitable for a flux capacitor or warp drive?

New comment by ludicrousdispla in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

ludicrousdispla — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:06:29 +0000

grep doesn't need tokens, so what is 98% fewer than zero?

Carbon-Based Textile-Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Smart Wearables

ludicrousdispla — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:09:24 +0000

Article URL: https://wiley.scienceconnect.io/error?msg=ewogICJpZCIgOiAiOGEwODk4YTctNmRmNC00ZTgyLWJiMTUtMDFkMjMzYzgwODgwIiwKICAidGl0bGUiIDogIkVycm9yIiwKICAibWVzc2FnZSIgOiAiY29tLm5pbWJ1c2RzLm9hdXRoMi5zZGsuUGFyc2VFeGNlcHRpb246IFRoZSBzY29wZSBtdXN0IGluY2x1ZGUgYW4gb3BlbmlkIHZhbHVlIiwKICAiY29kZSIgOiAiR0VORVJBTF9FUlJPUiIKfQ==&errorCode=500-aec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133769

Points: 2

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