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New comment by onlypassingthru in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

onlypassingthru — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:35:27 +0000

Just in time for the big 4th of July celebrations. Happy Semiquincentennial!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-may-see-actu...

New comment by onlypassingthru in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

onlypassingthru — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:10:24 +0000

The US is on pace to run out of its strategic reserve in ~2 weeks.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

onlypassingthru — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:54:11 +0000

I've heard that the biggest limiting factor in octopus ocean domination is their short lifespans. Tool use, building structures, communication, facial recognition, multiple brains, it's all there.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-...

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

onlypassingthru — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:05:39 +0000

When did octopuses start breathing air?

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

onlypassingthru — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:36:17 +0000

There's a 1991 film (and earlier novel) called Black Robe that fictionalizes what it might've been like when the first Jesuit missionaries introduced this powerful black magic to the North American natives in the 17th century.[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cj_bSkuKVA

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

onlypassingthru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:54:02 +0000

The WNBA would like a word.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

onlypassingthru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:52:15 +0000

IIRC, Steve Nash wanted to play professional soccer but since there wasn't a professional pathway had to settle for playing basketball in college and later the NBA.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

onlypassingthru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:42:57 +0000

Are there bootlegs on vinyl? Maybe now there can be.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

onlypassingthru — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:23:29 +0000

God, give me grace to accept with serenity

the things that cannot be changed,

courage to change the things

which should be changed,

and the wisdom to distinguish

the one from the other.

- Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity prayer

Selling a House with AI

onlypassingthru — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:36:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/technology/sell-house-with-ai-no-realtor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323618

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years"

onlypassingthru — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:10:01 +0000

While working in Japan, I once asked my Japanese supervisor what he was doing for his next vacation. He responded that he never took a vacation and had, in fact, accrued some ridiculous amount of PTO over many years that he never intended to use. がんばって!

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Claude Opus 4.8"

onlypassingthru — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:20:37 +0000

The honesty will be noticeable. Maybe we'll see some honest assessments like "That is not possible within the laws of known physics", "Your legal argument is nonsensical and defies logic", "There is no evidence to support taking that will cure anything", etc., etc.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

onlypassingthru — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:39:42 +0000

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

- Paul Newman

New comment by onlypassingthru in "The worst job interview I ever had"

onlypassingthru — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:23:11 +0000

I once had two onsite interviews with a 20 minute "break" in between. I was given a surprise crossword puzzle during the break to see (if I had a rich vocabulary?, excelled at puzzles?, could come up with synonyms under pressure?). The puzzle was then evaluated and discussed during the following interview.

The job was entirely focused on numbers in spreadsheets.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Ferrari Luce"

onlypassingthru — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:30:10 +0000

And the Model S is no longer in production due to poor sales. How many of these $650k family sedans could Ferrari possibly move?

New comment by onlypassingthru in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

onlypassingthru — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:31:15 +0000

Claude is obviously planning to become a structural engineer.

New comment by onlypassingthru in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

onlypassingthru — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:21:53 +0000

I think the record profits would be very good reasons. Using "Drill Baby, Drill" as a campaign slogan was not a pointless turn of phrase. Also, the world's largest proven oil reserves, which happen to be in Venezuela, are now de facto controlled and refined in... the US. Lucky coincidence?

New comment by onlypassingthru in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

onlypassingthru — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:52:26 +0000

Pointless? Have you noticed which energy companies are making record profits? Who is filling demand for oil & gas if the ME refineries are blown up or blockaded?

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test"

onlypassingthru — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:20:36 +0000

>we don't have oneteen and twoteen

But we do have duodecim, aka dozen. So we just need to add "onezen" to the current vernacular to make the set complete. Let's go team onezen!

New comment by onlypassingthru in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

onlypassingthru — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:40 +0000

You need only have read the HN front page 4 days ago to have seen one reason why 50,000 people may be motivated to get solar. Nothing trendy going on there, just poor regional planning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123090