Hacker News: martey

Riding the Rails with America's Last Train-Hoppers

martey — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/trainhoppers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50369588

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by martey in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

martey — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:39:49 +0000

I think you might be thinking about Paul Graham: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

New comment by martey in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

martey — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:34:53 +0000

I think you meant SCP-3856: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3856

New comment by martey in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

martey — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:57:01 +0000

It's been more than a decade since I have read it, but I remember Diamond writing specifically about the relative lack of domesticable animals in sub-Saharan Africa. Mali, Songhai, and Oyo didn't "[adapt] horses to tropical conditions", they imported already domesticated animals from elsewhere (North Africa). It is telling that none of your examples are in Central or Southern Africa.

Also, domestication is the process of breeding animals over multiple generations to make them more pliable and is not the same as training individual animals to pull a carriage. The very first sentence of the paragraph that you quoted from the Wikipedia article on zebras is "Attempts to domesticate zebras were largely unsuccessful."

New comment by martey in "Tell HN: Claude Code appends new commit signature even if older settings is off"

martey — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:33:23 +0000

I know it's not enabled by default (which would make sense), but it looks like there is a "sessionUrl" setting that can be added to fix this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77830#issue...

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/77830#issue... states that the Claude-Session trailer is only added when you use Claude through the cloud or Remote Control.

AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting More Debasing

martey — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://defector.com/ai-listings-have-made-apartment-hunting-even-more-debasing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156617

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martey in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

martey — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:32:48 +0000

This is covered in the post (emphasis mine):

> With similar concerns in mind, we also decided to limit the tank size to 20 gallons, as the grow-bed above also contains an additional ~10 gallons of water. Since a gallon of fresh water weighs roughly 8.34lbs, we estimate this puts the entire weight of the system’s water somewhere between 170 and 250lbs. Considering the weight threshold of the industrial shelving, and given that we live on a high floor in our building, we decided to constrain the system to this size to minimize the flooding risk.

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

martey — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:38:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theautopian.com/i-bet-my-company-on-an-impossible-jeep-build-then-a-miracle-happened/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48814023

Points: 187

# Comments: 64

New comment by martey in "Agentic coding notes"

martey — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:56:13 +0000

OP's alt text makes it clear that by "Galapagos Island" they mean Vancouver. I assumed that this was some sort of local nickname, but all of the references to "Galápagos of Canada" I could find are talking about Haida Gwaii instead.

Leaving Mozilla

martey — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:57:14 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513806

Points: 522

# Comments: 333

New comment by martey in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

martey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:48:39 +0000

This is a good story, but you can read both the Treaty of Ghent (which ended the War of 1812 while keeping the US-Canada border the same) and Rush-Bagot (which restricted naval fleets on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain). Neither document states anything about the border needing to remain open or without barriers.

The podcast's transcript suggests that their source for this is https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/peace-arch-u.... The person confidently claiming that any closure of the park would result in catastrophe is an immigration lawyer, not a historian:

"Saunders said the treaty stipulates there could not be any boundaries or physical barriers erected on the northern border of the U.S. — and if either side violated that treaty — the boundaries revert back to pre-treaty."

Since the Treaty of Ghent restored the pre-War of 1812 borders of both the United States and Canada, this doesn't make any sense. Canadian historian C. P. Stacey states that the period after the War of 1812 actually saw more border fortification than the years before (https://www.jstor.org/stable/1840618).

I mentioned that the idea that a 19th century treaty keeps the US-Canada border demilitarized was a good story, but I think the truth is an even better one: that the border is demilitarized because both countries know that they can trust their neighbor. Let's hope it stays that way.

Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong

martey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:22:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-getting-antiquity-wrong-x-twitter-elon-musk-ancient-greece-roman-empire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408308

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

The shooting stopped. Then came everything else

martey — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/05/us/minneapolis-annunciation-school-shooting-recovery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168754

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The rise and fall of an AI-driven 'local news outlet' in South Florida

martey — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:52:31 +0000

Article URL: https://floridatrib.org/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145022

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Whither the Nerd-Bully?

martey — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:15:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/28/whither-the-nerd-bully-bill-gates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136669

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by martey in "Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10M, poll shows"

martey — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:35:46 +0000

This initiative isn't about maintaining a certain population density, it's about restricting immigration and separating Switzerland from the European Union.

New comment by martey in "Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo"

martey — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:11:39 +0000

While I agree with you that this blog post (and the "carrot disclosure" described in it) is ill-considered, the pull request is not really "new code", it adds quotes to HTML attributes that are missing them. I think it's entirely reasonable for a contributor to assume that a new test case would not be needed for this small change, and that the maintainer's response ("So a simple question: is this code covered under a test? If not, you will have to add one.") is more abrasive than necessary.

Desmond Morris has died

martey — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:32:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841141

Points: 124

# Comments: 23

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:55:09 +0000

Unfortunately, no. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395320.

New comment by martey in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

martey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:48:58 +0000

> "Its fine if the media lies to the people if the people believe the lies."

That is low, but that's neither a direct quote or not an accurate paraphrase of my comment. While I realize that the comment I replied was edited after my response to talk about lying in more recent conflicts (which might be causing your confusion), I don't think you (like OP) are trying to make the argument that the New York Times is bad because of their reporting in the 1930s.