Hacker News: nmstoker

New comment by nmstoker in "Steam Machine launches today"

nmstoker — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:43:32 +0000

Why would any people need to see the addresses at all? The solution being proposed is something that you'd automate with a series of heuristics. And your point about the company making the same money for shipping to scalpers vs non scalpers seems like it would only apply to the shipping company, but if you view from the perspective of the product company, obviously they have an incentive to avoid scalpers because it negatively impacts the brand and the price spikes are money not captured by the product company and may even reduce further spending (eg if a buyer spaffed half their budget on an overpriced console, that's less for buying games which benefit the product company, eg Steam in this case)

New comment by nmstoker in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

nmstoker — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:29:19 +0000

I wonder if it's fair to say Tesco are experiencing being treated somewhat like they treat farmers!

New comment by nmstoker in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

nmstoker — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:19:44 +0000

That's for a single page, this handles the whole site. Also the browser Save As options often work poorly.

New comment by nmstoker in "Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model"

nmstoker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:11:35 +0000

Yes, this subtly seems worth noting. That smoothness suggests that even if many of the concepts are common/non-original, the bringing together of various pieces in a form that works well on modern mobile browsers is still impressive - browsers are moving targets and even if there are open source versions of this, it's comparatively rare they'd get continual care and attention to stay fully current (unless implemented via an o/s engine)

New comment by nmstoker in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

nmstoker — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:29:40 +0000

This commercial abuse is reminiscent of what Wimbledon is doing with land left for public park land which various parties are ignoring so the land can be used for tennis facilities. I'm a fan of the tennis but that doesn't mean they can arbitrarily ignore what was agreed as a condition for letting the council have the land in the first place.

Thi.ng – open-source building blocks for computational design and art

nmstoker — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:25:24 +0000

Article URL: https://thi.ng

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437743

Points: 199

# Comments: 36

New comment by nmstoker in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

nmstoker — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:52:47 +0000

It is literally the same link, it was the original and it had the correct title rather than the editorialised one here.

At the time I posted it, both were pretty lacking in attention, so it made sense to direct to the earlier of the two.

New comment by nmstoker in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

nmstoker — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:40:49 +0000

Duplicate of here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421400

Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

nmstoker — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:35:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426022

Points: 158

# Comments: 50

New comment by nmstoker in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

nmstoker — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:15:27 +0000

And the Mig-29 too but according to the reply that's different

New comment by nmstoker in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

nmstoker — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:24:38 +0000

All our maths teachers were at school were left handed, along with 25% of the top maths set in our year. The teacher and student population of left handed people were close to the normal 10% levels too.

We had people come just to see it: Amazon delivers its first UK parcels by drone

nmstoker — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:29:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21k21vnmgo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044713

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nmstoker in "Y-Zipper: 3D Printing Flexible-Rigid Transitions in One Click [video]"

nmstoker — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:23:32 +0000

https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504

New comment by nmstoker in "Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks"

nmstoker — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:06:41 +0000

Yes, exactly this. It falls far short of the potential if it just shows the colours alone and not how they might appear if applied to sites, charts, illustrations or whatever you might want them for.

New comment by nmstoker in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

nmstoker — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:35 +0000

This is ridiculous - passengers want to be dropped off in the zig zag lines either side of pedestrian crossing too, but that's illegal. Just because sneaky minicab drivers do it should not be justification for self driving cars - they need to be designed to obey the laws of the road.

I want Waymo to succeed but you don't do that by bending over to the passengers' whim!

New comment by nmstoker in "Quadro – Our Story"

nmstoker — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:41:36 +0000

The recent post on the Universal Connector Kit reminded me of this toy / system, originally red and black but now more colourful, which I recalled playing with as a child. It was remarkably versatile!

Did anyone else have this?

Quadro – Our Story

nmstoker — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:38:05 +0000

Article URL: https://quadroshop.co.uk/pages/our-story

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909494

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nmstoker in "Paraloid B-72"

nmstoker — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:32:29 +0000

Yes, but that esoteric nature is the charm of HN at its best.

This is unusual as posts go, but it's not totally unreasonable and even though I wouldn't have an immediate use, it's fascinating, leads to further exploration (like another commenter mentioning the inks) and knowledge gets filed away.

I try to remember posts like this when people are less positive about HN! :-)

New comment by nmstoker in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

nmstoker — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:32:12 +0000

On a Pixel 10 Pro with Firefox it's not too bad but it's definitely a touch less responsive than on Chrome also on that same phone

New comment by nmstoker in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

nmstoker — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:37:27 +0000

The two Outlook thing happens all the time at work.

It's silly but never causes me issues, I just close the second one. Haven't ever figured out why it happens.

Did the Artemis crew any side effects / problems tied to Outlook?