Hacker News: oh_fiddlesticks

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:08:29 +0000

A bit of an unconstructive, unwarranted jab, if I may say so.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Bot vs human traffic"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:36:10 +0000

Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:29:14 +0000

Go nad or go home

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Blood Pumping Mechanism of the Hoof (2020)"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:55:02 +0000

We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yield a benefit in a narrow situation but at some greater cost, like throwing the backseats out of your car helps you accelerate faster, but reduces the overall utility and flexibility of the use of the vehicle. Im sure if we started honestly looking at organic systems as the product of thought, it would yield a greater understanding of them that we would be able to leverage in industry.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

oh_fiddlesticks — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:35:19 +0000

If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:44:56 +0000

It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Mythos Falls into the Wrong Hands"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:07:10 +0000

"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"

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

oh_fiddlesticks — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:59:44 +0000

Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

oh_fiddlesticks — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:24:44 +0000

> Fortnite "Usage"

I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:15:37 +0000

This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:18:13 +0000

So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what?

> "Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same year as the Epstein files?

Wishing a companies total demise over such a trivial matter? Honestly?

All this prissiness about some unwanted emails...

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:09:05 +0000

My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:34:05 +0000

Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep."

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Giant Virus Discovered in Japanese Pond May Hint at Multicellular Life's Origins"

oh_fiddlesticks — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:33:10 +0000

After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and permanent fixture.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Gourmand Syndrome"

oh_fiddlesticks — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:56:24 +0000

Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsessed tribe has moved in and is holding conferences on it in your kitchen...

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi"

oh_fiddlesticks — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:59:00 +0000

> 1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they just do it?

FTA:

> Context matters: Google built its index by crawling the open web before robots.txt was a widespread norm, often over publishers’ objections. Today, publishers “consent” to Google’s crawling because the alternative - being invisible on a platform with 90% market share - is economically unacceptable. Google now enforces ToS and robots.txt against others from a position of monopoly power it accumulated without those constraints. The rules Google enforces today are not the rules it played by when building its dominance.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Dead Internet Theory"

oh_fiddlesticks — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:24:56 +0000

https://roc.camera/

This was on hn this year, and it was, in classic HN fashion, dismissed as a problem in search of a solution. Well, perhaps people in this thread will think differently

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

oh_fiddlesticks — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:02:37 +0000

In my case, as you said it may not have exacerbated it, but for me it certainly perpetuated it.

A retreat into the online world seems like a comfort in difficult times but it is a retreat, and the longer you stay retreated, the less likely it is you'll regain the ground again.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

oh_fiddlesticks — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:09:52 +0000

Yeah but I'm glad you don't consider the ipad a toy. It's not a toy, i predict that we're going to look back at this time of 'ipad + headphone kids' and roll our eyes as much as we roll our eyes at bloodletting.

New comment by oh_fiddlesticks in "Sundays Are the New Mondays"

oh_fiddlesticks — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:12:51 +0000

> "liberation"

It's more like inviting the troops besieging your walls inside and celebrating because "we have less enemies outside the walls to deal with now!"

It's the thin end of the wedge, you give it an inch and it will take a mile. The productivity boost you gain will quickly become an expectation, and then you'll be finding "liberation" by working on Saturday to get ahead of Sunday.