Hacker News: notRobot

New comment by notRobot in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

notRobot — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:10:28 +0000

Well the planet is theirs as well, so one may argue that putting up live wires that can electrocute them is quite cruel in the first place, especially given the lack of any preservation of their natural habitats in most places.

JSON with Comments

notRobot — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:13:53 +0000

Article URL: https://jsonc.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874253

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

"When I Created Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi..."

notRobot — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:50:39 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OfMikeAndMen/status/2097894902201790904

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640506

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by notRobot in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

notRobot — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:59:48 +0000

To be fair you can have versions and backups even if you don't use a versioning tool like git. Good old _v2, _v3, _v4.

New comment by notRobot in "When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals"

notRobot — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:52:53 +0000

> why is it a disadvantage for the males?

Who said it was? Just because males don't exhibit a behaviour doesn't mean it's necessarily an evolutionary disadvantage.

New comment by notRobot in "When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals"

notRobot — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:52:19 +0000

> why is it a disadvantage for the males?

Who said it was? Just because males don't exhibit a behaviour doesn't mean it's necessarily a disadvantage.

New comment by notRobot in "When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals"

notRobot — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:15:41 +0000

Everything an animal does isn't a selective advantage, sometimes it's just not a disadvantage.

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

notRobot — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:17:59 +0000

https://whdh.com/news/first-on-7-patient-brought-to-mgh-for-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1w12gb9/dimethyl_mercu...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487099

Points: 132

# Comments: 82

New comment by notRobot in "The Loss of Changelogs"

notRobot — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:56:34 +0000

I have stopped trusting automatic software and operating system updates, they take away useful features or break functional user flows or introduce unwanted AI slop too often. So I am very much back in the boat of software needing to justify an update for me to install it.

Ubuntu to soon have more WSL users than native Linux users

notRobot — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:16:13 +0000

Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/canonical-wsl-growth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394893

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by notRobot in "Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome"

notRobot — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:50:22 +0000

In my experience it works essentially everywhere to have a single png that's ~256*256px as a linked favicon, perhaps with a single .ico fallback.

New comment by notRobot in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

notRobot — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:37:50 +0000

Identify attendees and key figures from social media → pick them up when detected on public transport.

The real issue is not (just) this specific use case, rather it's the govt generally knowing where people are going and where they have historically been.

New comment by notRobot in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

notRobot — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:00:18 +0000

I don't know what you really mean by "cancelling", but I think it's totally fine (and even good) to talk about the flaws in stuff.

New comment by notRobot in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

notRobot — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:53:03 +0000

I am genuinely curious:

> I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines,

To do what? How many hours a day do they run? I find it hard to come up with use cases for agents to be doing so much work, but that might just be me.

New comment by notRobot in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

notRobot — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:32:47 +0000

I am genuinely curious:

> I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines,

To do what? How many hours a day do they run? I find it hard to come up with use cases for agents to be doing so much work constantly, but that might just be me.