Hacker News: perilunar

New comment by perilunar in "Show HN: Flying rocket car x Flappy Bird"

perilunar — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:36:11 +0000

Cute, but the car pitches too much. It should stay relatively level.

New comment by perilunar in "Tesla Roadster"

perilunar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:57:46 +0000

He did it six times without wires.

Some of the earlier prep work used wires, but not the final stunt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahYAQBtesas

New comment by perilunar in "Geoffrey Hinton: 'We're creating alien beings. I'm willing to choose humans'"

perilunar — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:06:23 +0000

> Objectively unilaterally assassinating other countries leaders is wrong

Why? If the leader is responsible for atrocities, then why would it be wrong to kill them? Especially if their removal would result in a more liberal leader replacing them, and not just chaos or more bloodshed.

In the case of Iran, there was no evidence of that, but as a general rule leaders should not be a protected class.

New comment by perilunar in "Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream"

perilunar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:47:31 +0000

Yes it is immoral, but we are wrong to block it for that reason. Better to do it openly than behind closed doors, so we can see how barbaric they really are.

New comment by perilunar in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

perilunar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:25:41 +0000

The squircles suck. 10.10–10.14 were best.

New comment by perilunar in "Ask HN: Would you support a law banning filming people in public?"

perilunar — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:06:08 +0000

I read through that and think it's balanced and well-thought out. Especially this bit:

> You don’t need their permission if ... the people in the picture are participating in a public gathering, parade or similar event, and they are not the focus of the photo

And this bit:

> The permission can be implied: ... If everyone in the picture is smiling at the camera

It doesn't stop you taking photos in public if other people are present. You just have to take care that they are not identifiable.

New comment by perilunar in "Show HN: A Walkable O'Neill Cylinder in the Browser"

perilunar — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:42:43 +0000

Really cool. Thanks for making this. Any plans for a Stanford torus?

New comment by perilunar in "Anduril lands $2.9B Navy submarine shipyard contract"

perilunar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:05:35 +0000

Indeed. The Ghost Shark articles says Australia is paying A$1.7 billion for 'dozens' of units, so tens of millions each. I bet they are a lot more capable than an aerial drone costing a few thousand. And much cheaper than a single crewed submarine.

New comment by perilunar in "Anduril lands $2.9B Navy submarine shipyard contract"

perilunar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:57:09 +0000

Well, this is to build "components for the Virginia-class submarine", but Anduril does also build drone subs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark_(submarine)

New comment by perilunar in "Ask HN: What games do you religiously play on your phone browser?"

perilunar — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:50:53 +0000

Since you're already on the NYT site/app, try Pips, Tiles, and Sodoku.

The End of Software Secrecy

perilunar — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:02:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2106983467141509385

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972880

Points: 12

# Comments: 9

New comment by perilunar in "Protest against housing crisis in Spain"

perilunar — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:58:32 +0000

What's so hard to understand? The opposition blocked the (minority) government's legislation, so people are protesting the opposition's actions. Maybe not a common occurrence, but seem's pretty straightforward to me.

New comment by perilunar in "Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code"

perilunar — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:45:43 +0000

Good idea. Just set up several myself.

New comment by perilunar in "Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code"

perilunar — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:53:32 +0000

The first time I heard the Nokia 'SMS' ringtone was in a crowded railway station. Initially I thought someone was in trouble before I realised it was an 'M' not an 'O'.

New comment by perilunar in "SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today"

perilunar — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:16:07 +0000

> the demand for bandwidth is infinite

Is it really? Our brains have a limited bandwidth, and there's no need of more than a small multiple of that per person.

New comment by perilunar in "Ten lines of code that changed my world"

perilunar — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:42:35 +0000

I did something similar. I remember initially doing y as a function of x, before 'discovering' parametric functions.

New comment by perilunar in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

perilunar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:11:34 +0000

Empty lots and surface-level parking.

New comment by perilunar in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

perilunar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:13:16 +0000

Georgism has been mentioned many, many times in the 15 years you've been on HN. How could you not know about it?

New comment by perilunar in "Show HN: I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser"

perilunar — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:06:43 +0000

Nice!

But lose the parachutes — fighter pilots didn't wear them in WWI

New comment by perilunar in "US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'"

perilunar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:43:20 +0000

Not just Pine Gap. Exmouth, Kojarena, and Darwin too.