Hacker News: nomilk

Exploring Psychic Powers Live TV Special (1989) [video]

nomilk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:07:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKBUDg-v-M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669491

Points: 2

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New comment by nomilk in "Vermin Supreme: When I'm President Everyone Gets a Free Pony [video]"

nomilk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:16:43 +0000

Great satire. The political equivalent of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

Vermin Supreme: When I'm President Everyone Gets a Free Pony [video]

nomilk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d_FvgQ1csE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634086

Points: 11

# Comments: 4

New comment by nomilk in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

nomilk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:28:24 +0000

Thanks. Until you pointed out it's Earth at night, I had no clue what was supposed to be special about this photo (it appeared suspiciously pixelated for something 'high res', and neighbouring pixels seemed to contrast in colour rather than smoothly complementing as most photos do - but I guess that's random patches of city lights being captured by the camera). Cool stuff!

Something I haven't figured out is: what is that yellow/whitish smudge toward the center of the earth? It looks like camera glare or a reflection?

New comment by nomilk in "GitHub is once again down"

nomilk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:37:26 +0000

> that's a monumental amount of work

Agree, but look at the alternative; GitHub is constantly being savaged by users who (quite reasonably) expect uptime. Ignoring impacts on morale and reputation, damage to their bottom line alone might tens (hundreds?) of millions per year.

> mirroring traffic

yeah, I agree that's difficult, but it need to not be exact to still be useful.

New comment by nomilk in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

nomilk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:27:37 +0000

Love stories like this, where someone learns some completely orthogonal domain for educational purposes.

New comment by nomilk in "GitHub is once again down"

nomilk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:24:35 +0000

Why don't companies with chronic outages mimic their stack from top to bottom (i.e. starting with a new domain), then before making a change, make the change on the duplicate stack and blast it with mock requests.

Might catch 90% of problems before they make it into the real stack?

E.g. every step of GitHub's migration to Azure could be mimicked on the duplicate stack before it's implemented on the primary stack. Is this just considered too much work? (I doubt cost would be the issue, because even if it costs millions, it would pay for itself in reduced reputational damage from outages).

EDIT: downvotes - why? - I think this is a good idea (I'd do it for my sites if outages were an issue).

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

nomilk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_of_the_Seven_Seas

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463018

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nomilk in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

nomilk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:21:14 +0000

Simply prove them wrong (earnestly and in good faith). When they realise the LLM is fallible, they'll learn to be skeptical of it without you needing to teach them that specific lesson.

New comment by nomilk in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

nomilk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:20:18 +0000

Dumb question, many cities suffer from extremely high property (i.e. land) prices. I understand the NIMBY barrier. But I don't understand why it isn't more common to simply.. start a new city. Especially in countries like Australia where property prices are sky high and alternative places for setting up a new city are abundant. Maybe internet connectivity was previously a barrier, but now.. starlink.

I put this question to grok; its response:

> Unfortunately, Australia's legal, regulatory, financial, and practical systems make this extremely difficult (bordering on impossible at any meaningful scale).

Crazy that the reason we can't have an order-of-magnitude reduction in the cost of the most important thing people need (shelter) is not due to resource constraints, but man-made ones.

New comment by nomilk in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

nomilk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:32:17 +0000

It would be great to make this data into a browser extension that overlays the info when using Google Flights

New comment by nomilk in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:22:08 +0000

Why are social media platforms picked on?

Did we forget Gresham's Law applies to content and has done so since humans could communicate?

Bad or wrong ideas are the ones that get talked about. Do we discuss the 10 issues politicians get correct, or the 1 they screw up?

Platform is irrelevant here; the exact same phenomena occurs/ed on radio and TV decades before it did on social media platforms, and in news papers centuries prior.

Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology – Robert Sapolsky [video]

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL150326949691B199

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419438

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nomilk in "Chrome extension adjusts video speed based on how fast the speaker is talking"

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:30:27 +0000

Sponsorblock instantly 'broke' video for me; I feel incredible discomfort watching any video without it. Amazing extension.

Such is its utility, this single extension lifts youtube as a platform higher above tv or or native video players on other sites which don't have any sponsorblock capability.

New comment by nomilk in "US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures"

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:35:10 +0000

Oh wow. Appreciate the correction. I wonder what improvements in price transparency Trump has in mind. Perhaps it's that website in the parent comment.

Metadeception: The Truth About Oz Pearlman [video]

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:36:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwcU-XDyJ4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407070

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nomilk in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:23:46 +0000

Interesting case study (video; ~2 min): https://www.tiktok.com/@thesephew/video/7476558168059809067

New comment by nomilk in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

nomilk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:18:24 +0000

I recently travelled to Vietnam for dental work, it's really shocking how easy to it to shop around when dentists actually publish their price lists online for easy comparison/perusal. In my native country, dentists rarely if ever publish prices online, and it's hard to get prices over the phone.

If hospitals could be forced to publish price lists, it would be game changing, allowing patients to shop and compare quality/prices.

Trump vaguely mentioned he'd try to do something like this but it's not clear what he's attempting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ7l905aVM&t=10h57m30s

Maybe this? https://trumprx.gov/

New comment by nomilk in "Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP"

nomilk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:54:51 +0000

Similarly, cursor has a built in browser and visit localhost to see the results in the browser. Although I don't use it much (I probably should).

New comment by nomilk in "Marketing for Founders"

nomilk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:04:06 +0000

I hadn't heard of SFDC, but watched a ~5min summary vid [0]. Seems like overkill for a one person startup, but seems decent for a larger company [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntZbRd-DPII

I'll probably use a google sheet with a row for each prospect, and columns for spoke to, hotness (degree of suitability for my SaaS), and 'notes' (will put a new bullet point with brief summary of each call).

I was thinking it would be cool to record the calls and feed them to AI for some simple/crude auto-summary which automatically pulls out rejection reason, concerns, interesting points etc.

I might even vibe-code something myself, since I prefer primitive and reduced clutter. May open source it if I do. However, I'd be surprised if something like this doesn't already exist..