Hacker News: pch00

New comment by pch00 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

pch00 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:17:19 +0000

> Time to start learning Mandarin

Mandarin has been on the curriculum at my son's school for the past few years. Prescient planning imho.

New comment by pch00 in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

pch00 — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:43:57 +0000

Absolutely hate numberpads on laptops - if you're sitting with the laptop directly in front of you it means your arms and hands are slightly offset to the left for normal typing.

New comment by pch00 in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

pch00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:25:18 +0000

Anthropic built the Torment Nexus - calling it now.

New comment by pch00 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

pch00 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:54:54 +0000

I'm unconvinced but I'll ensure I do my homework before grammar-policing again :)

New comment by pch00 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

pch00 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:09:57 +0000

That M-W entry literally says they're different words with different meanings:

> They are in fact different words, but with sufficient overlap in meaning and form as to create uncertainty as to which should be used when.

> We define ensure as “to make sure, certain, or safe” and one sense of insure, “to make certain especially by taking necessary measures and precautions,” is quite similar. But insure has the additional meaning “to provide or obtain insurance on or for,” which is not shared by ensure.

New comment by pch00 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

pch00 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:52:36 +0000

> The New Yorker prefers insure to ensure. They have a unique house style.

That's not a stylistic choice, it's just incorrect use of English.

New comment by pch00 in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"

pch00 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:14:39 +0000

Britain has the 8th-most expensive electricity in the world[1], seems prudent that a Brit would try to be more self-sufficient in terms of generation?

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-e...

New comment by pch00 in "Take better notes, by hand"

pch00 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:44:16 +0000

> Anyone else into what my high school biology teacher loved referring to as "pseudo-arachnomorphic diagrams" (Mind Maps[1] / Spider Diagrams)?

Yes! Nearly all my notes are mind-map-ish. I’m a visual thinker/planner with ADHD and mind-map style “spatial notes” are the only ones that make sense to me when writing and reviewing later. I’ve tried a few methods of moving this process to digital over the years but nothing sticks like pen & paper.

New comment by pch00 in "Show HN: Articyl – save anything, consume it anywhere (articles, podcasts, RSS)"

pch00 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:04:11 +0000

Can't view the pricing page without logging in (/app/pricing immediately redirects to a login box). Not going to get invested in a product until I know how much it'll cost in the long term.

New comment by pch00 in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

pch00 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:39:54 +0000

Came here to say the same thing, what a wonderful post.

New comment by pch00 in "Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack""

pch00 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:29:45 +0000

I really don't want to be too much of a downer, but is this really just an HN post about someone putting something on a shelf?

New comment by pch00 in "Containers, cloud, blockchain, AI – all the same old BS, says veteran Red Hatter"

pch00 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:38:05 +0000

> I don't agree about containers, they are a really handy tool to produce stable(-ish) deployments.

Agreed - at least so long as we're living with the current OS paradigms that have been around since the 70s. Redhat: bring us something modern that handles software distribution/dependencies/lifecycle management/partitioning/security boundaries in a nicer way and maybe we won't need containers.

New comment by pch00 in "Just the Browser"

pch00 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:17:15 +0000

> Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again.

Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my phone.

New comment by pch00 in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

pch00 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:40:08 +0000

Microsoft’s early/rushed attempt at AI (the various things called “Copilot”) does start to feel like how they lost the mobile wars. They had a tech fairly early (Windows Mobile) but utterly failed to execute on it and ultimately, allowed a competitor to dominate with a better product.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. With the sums of money involved it could end up being make or break?

New comment by pch00 in "Mike Monteiro – How to draw an orange [video]"

pch00 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:22:21 +0000

Mike Monteiro's recent AI talk at Y Oslo.

Mike Monteiro – How to draw an orange [video]

pch00 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2dFXDMwe4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45797250

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by pch00 in "Notion 3.0"

pch00 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:35:34 +0000

> Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.

Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-assed and the development pace is glacial so perhaps a new team behind it would be something they'd be interested in.

New comment by pch00 in "More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety"

pch00 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:29:24 +0000

Slightly ironically, I stopped reading the Guardian a few years ago for this very reason!

New comment by pch00 in "Thrashing"

pch00 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:29:10 +0000

> In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts today is that it's just too easy to interrupt people.

So much this. Our org moved pretty quickly into organising and communicating via Teams when the lockdowns hit and people starting working from home. Moving that quickly meant that many basic things like messaging etiquette never really got thought about. Even now I'll still receive messages when my status is set to DND or receive complete junk openers like "You there?".

Thrashing

pch00 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/08/26/thrashing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036704

Points: 103

# Comments: 19