Hacker News: owlninja

New comment by owlninja in "Map of Metal"

owlninja — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:21:08 +0000

Very nice! As soon as I saw the landing page and the loading/start button I immediately thought of Flash.

New comment by owlninja in "OnlyCats – TikTok for Cats"

owlninja — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:48:39 +0000

At first I was picturing short videos that cats would enjoy watching, but this is nice too!

New comment by owlninja in "I want to live like Costco people"

owlninja — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:38:58 +0000

I have a Sam's Club membership primarily because it is much closer to me than Costco. I hate the crowds but it baffles me there are lines when the scan & go app exists! And I swear last time I went they weren't even scanning receipts, but you walked through some sort of gateway?

New comment by owlninja in "Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026"

owlninja — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:02:41 +0000

Aaron Parsley of Texas Monthly For his extraordinary personal account of survival and loss written days after the historic Central Texas floods that tore the writer’s house out from under him and his family, taking the life of his nephew.

Love Texas Monthly, this was a tough read after that awful flood incident:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-flood-first...

New comment by owlninja in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

owlninja — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:39:59 +0000

The times had a little story relevant to this recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blos...

New comment by owlninja in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

owlninja — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:10:16 +0000

A little curious about this website, I just pulled up the local menu (Texas) and the same burger is $2.19.

New comment by owlninja in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

owlninja — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:29:52 +0000

It has not been the department of war since 1947, it is more disrespectful to me, the reader.

New comment by owlninja in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

owlninja — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:17:25 +0000

> But former President Jimmy Carter in 1980 reinstated the Selective Service in the event of a “national emergency,” where the registry could be used to “provide personnel to the Department of War and alternative service for conscientious objectors, if authorized by the President and Congress.”

Department of Defense*

New comment by owlninja in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

owlninja — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:37:18 +0000

Didn't it start as Bard?

Artemis II Update: Crew and Ground Teams Troubleshoot Orion's Toilet

owlninja — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:59:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/02/artemis-ii-flight-update-crew-and-ground-teams-successfully-troubleshoot-orions-toilet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613866

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by owlninja in "Consider the Greenland Shark (2020)"

owlninja — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:21:33 +0000

Which is homage to Consider the Oyster I believe.

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

New comment by owlninja in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

owlninja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:03:11 +0000

I can't reproduce this either, OP is light on details.

New comment by owlninja in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

owlninja — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:14:51 +0000

Actually I believe DraftKings just added a prediction market...

New comment by owlninja in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

owlninja — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:35:11 +0000

This certainly changes things...

New comment by owlninja in "DARPA’s new X-76"

owlninja — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:27:51 +0000

They officially named it recently to the 'MV-75'.

New comment by owlninja in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

owlninja — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:44:07 +0000

I've had it for nearly 20 years, and I know it came from an incident shooting firearms with not enough (none) protection. Most days I don't think about it anymore. However if I am tired or stressed, it seems to turn up to 11. I've read many people get depressed or they can't get over it, luckily I seem to deal with it alright, but wouldn't wish it on anyone. Protect your hearing!

New comment by owlninja in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

owlninja — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:27:53 +0000

They probably at least look at the docs?

New comment by owlninja in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

owlninja — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:31:36 +0000

I added one a few months ago and went to go check it, and there are 2 others almost right on top of it pointing in different directions, I guess that can't be prevented? I'm fairly certain they didn't add two more ALPRs that close to each other.

New comment by owlninja in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

owlninja — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:53:34 +0000

stego-tech looks like a normal person? Are we entering an era were proper writing and grammar makes you less believeable?

New comment by owlninja in "Sandwich Bill of Materials"

owlninja — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:49:37 +0000

They better load the SBOM correctly in SAP.