Hacker News: nick_

New comment by nick_ in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

nick_ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:47:23 +0000

The blog post points or the flawed spacecraft? /s

New comment by nick_ in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

nick_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:50:19 +0000

Do you think sex and gender are the same thing?

New comment by nick_ in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

nick_ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:39:12 +0000

TUIs are very in right now. Nostalgia/vintage-computin-aesthetics & guru-gatekeeping around command line savviness are front and centre in the HN-and-adjacent mindshare.

New comment by nick_ in "The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself"

nick_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:37:38 +0000

Is the Israeli intelligence facial recognition system in the room with us now?

New comment by nick_ in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

nick_ — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:23:45 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Tha...

New comment by nick_ in "US Places Arctic Airborne Troops on Standby as Greenland Dispute Escalates"

nick_ — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:23:33 +0000

/s?

New comment by nick_ in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

nick_ — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:57:50 +0000

The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.

New comment by nick_ in "XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox"

nick_ — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:09:35 +0000

Yep my electronics engineer dad was like "you cannot do this" but it worked! He got me to put an aligator clip wire from case to case so the grounding would at least be joined?

New comment by nick_ in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

nick_ — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:22:26 +0000

What?

New comment by nick_ in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

nick_ — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:18:10 +0000

Yes, agreed.

At this point I have seen many fantastical interpretations of what happened there. I assume popular US media coverage of it was a contributor there.

New comment by nick_ in "Canadian military will rely on public servants to boost its ranks by 300k"

nick_ — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:07:53 +0000

Are you referring to the "Freedom Convoy"?

New comment by nick_ in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

nick_ — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:03:51 +0000

Are you hinting at the lack of an `AsyncLock` in .NET?

New comment by nick_ in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

nick_ — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:29:54 +0000

Agreed. How can a media file sharing app possibly saturate Sqlite's write limit? I would use an app-level global lock on all writes to Sqlite.

New comment by nick_ in "Delivery is killing restaurant culture"

nick_ — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:53:43 +0000

Yep same experience here. And I'm in one of my city's most walkable neighborhoods.

New comment by nick_ in "StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game"

nick_ — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:25:58 +0000

Space War was great! Briefly in high school a few of my friends and I all had Palm OS devices.

I taught myself to crack palm apps and games, and with Space War I modified the strength of my ship. The IR multiplayer had no validation of parameters so I pranked my friends in an IR multiplayer match by one-shotting them all and zooming across the whole map in one turn! Great times.

New comment by nick_ in "Beyond the SQLite single-writer limitation with concurrent writes"

nick_ — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:27:52 +0000

IMO this project kneecapped itself by being web-focused.

New comment by nick_ in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

nick_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:48:05 +0000

"One day, everyone will have always been against this"

New comment by nick_ in "House Arab"

nick_ — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:51:22 +0000

Is there any difference between indulgent revenge and righteous anger? Are they not just descriptions of the same thing from either side of a conflict?

New comment by nick_ in "Find SF parking cops"

nick_ — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:43:59 +0000

Nope, same in Toronto. Same everywhere I've been. Drivers all mentally turn into teenagers when it comes to anything to do with driving/parking. I'm very pro traffic and parking enforcement.

New comment by nick_ in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

nick_ — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:11:31 +0000

People who think it's acceptable to bomb civilian residential areas flat because they're "booby trapped" are lost souls.