Hacker News: oxonia

New comment by oxonia in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"

oxonia — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:40:52 +0000

Is this where Smurfs (Smurves?) came from?

New comment by oxonia in "An AI robot in my home"

oxonia — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:51:11 +0000

Why design a website with the box on the bottom left covering the text you want us to read? Crazy.

New comment by oxonia in "Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other"

oxonia — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:19:41 +0000

Yet "tc" does?

New comment by oxonia in "Font Rendering from First Principles"

oxonia — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:24:54 +0000

Too long an article (about type!) to be in white monospace text on a black background.

New comment by oxonia in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

oxonia — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:45:56 +0000

I think packetlost knows that. I think the argument being put forward was that "if you are the kind of person that thinks that speech is violence, then you would believe that allowing someone a platform..."

New comment by oxonia in "Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words"

oxonia — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:01:31 +0000

Tell us more.

New comment by oxonia in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

oxonia — Sun, 11 May 2025 07:03:01 +0000

Not a good document. Needs a faded picture of a dragon on every page.

New comment by oxonia in "What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)"

oxonia — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:00:57 +0000

https://archive.is/MHzBO

What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)

oxonia — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-vivian-maier-saw-in-color

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43239046

Points: 47

# Comments: 11

New comment by oxonia in "Firefly ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander touches down on the moon"

oxonia — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:55:42 +0000

"At the end of its operations, Blue Ghost will stay put, destined to remain on the moon’s surface indefinitely."

Is that a euphemism for "Humans are leaving rubbish to pollute another part of the universe?"

Forget Chrome–Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices in 8 Weeks

oxonia — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 18:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/12/21/forget-chrome-google-will-start-tracking-you-and-all-your-smart-devices-in-8-weeks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42488087

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oxonia in "Regex Crossword"

oxonia — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:33:22 +0000

Edited - never mind, this is obviously random strings of characters.

New comment by oxonia in "The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside"

oxonia — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:52:18 +0000

What kind of activities could they do that would appeal to you (and other young people like you)?

New comment by oxonia in "The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside"

oxonia — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 01:50:55 +0000

I've moved across the world 4 times in my adult life. Every time I have made deeper and faster community connections by joining a local church than through any other means.

New comment by oxonia in "Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver"

oxonia — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:49:28 +0000

This is disappointing. Anything similar available for Intel Macs?

New comment by oxonia in "Bluesky has launched RSS feeds"

oxonia — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 02:21:04 +0000

That was my experience with Mastodon. Discussions tended to turn shrill and regularly be dominated by extremes.

New comment by oxonia in "Apostrophe Protection Society"

oxonia — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:46:20 +0000

Have you ever read ‘The Monkey Wrench’, by Gordon Dickson?

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v47n06_1951-08_MadMax...

New comment by oxonia in "The cottage industry of YouTube obituary pirates"

oxonia — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 01:03:07 +0000

"Dead end"

New comment by oxonia in "macOS Sonoma is available today"

oxonia — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:07:59 +0000

Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.