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New comment by pg_bot in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

pg_bot — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:29:00 +0000

I own {{mylastname}}.com and have been making a small social network for everyone who shares my surname. (it's rare) I'm using Facebook's NLLB to translate posts to different languages since we are mainly split between the Americas and Europe.

New comment by pg_bot in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

pg_bot — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:52:21 +0000

It's a good time to be Messer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-just-sold-heli...

New comment by pg_bot in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

pg_bot — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:42:23 +0000

I suspect this is true for almost every somewhat relevant subreddit. Everything has been captured, someone has taken control of the politburo and is defining the message. I've been using the site since 2008 and within the last couple of years it feels like you cannot post anything unless you know someone.

New comment by pg_bot in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

pg_bot — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:32:54 +0000

Just make it an auction that runs every month.

New comment by pg_bot in "Hiding messages in a deck playing cards"

pg_bot — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:36:36 +0000

You could also add face up or down.

Show HN: Add a Pixel, the internet's pixel graffiti wall

pg_bot — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:40:10 +0000

Here are the keyboard controls:

Arrow Keys: Pan the camera left, right, up, or down.

WASD: Move the reticle (once a pixel is selected) up, down, left, or right.

Enter/Spacebar: Add your pixel to the canvas.

-/+: Zoom the canvas in or out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44592668

Points: 1

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New comment by pg_bot in "FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems"

pg_bot — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:43:57 +0000

We are running out of floppy disks. No one makes them anymore, and there is a finite supply of existing inventory.

New comment by pg_bot in "IMG_0416"

pg_bot — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:47:02 +0000

"Turn roll Nate roll some little" might be burned into my brain now.

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

New comment by pg_bot in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"

pg_bot — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:24:12 +0000

It seems like it worked out quite well for Cloudflare. You typically only increase bounties if you aren't seeing the results you want.

New comment by pg_bot in "East and Gulf Coast ports strike"

pg_bot — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:04:28 +0000

You need to take the long view. The United States is the only global superpower because of our economic might. If other countries catch up to us, they will start to test the waters on whether going to war is advantageous for them.

The ports play a crucial role in wealth generation for the USA. If other countries are able to ship goods cheaper and faster than us, more industry will be transferred overseas. This creates a vicious cycle where industries that exist due to agglomeration slowly decay. Being able to move a container 1000ft is the limiting reagent for entire economies. Buy the unions off and automate it. Everyone only cares about a relatively small amount of money compared to how much is moving through the system.

New comment by pg_bot in "East and Gulf Coast ports strike"

pg_bot — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:24:31 +0000

The port would not be run by the federal government. Pass an infrastructure bill that funds port automation and gives a healthy wage for ~30 years to any longshoreman who is either automated or wishes to leave. Give them 150k per year with no contingencies.

New comment by pg_bot in "East and Gulf Coast ports strike"

pg_bot — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:18:01 +0000

The federal government should buy out the union

New comment by pg_bot in "East and Gulf Coast ports strike"

pg_bot — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:08:59 +0000

From a national security and economic perspective we need to automate the ports.

New comment by pg_bot in "Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa"

pg_bot — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:38:31 +0000

It's approximately one kilometer.

New comment by pg_bot in "Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa"

pg_bot — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 21:28:53 +0000

A mile is 5,280 feet and a kilometer is approximately 3,280 feet.

If you need to do rough conversions just think of a kilometer as slightly more than 3/5ths of a mile.

New comment by pg_bot in "Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them"

pg_bot — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:23:28 +0000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34904207/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825214/atorvastatin-out-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825187/lininopril-out-of...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825259/albuterol-out-of-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825193/levothyroxine-out...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825244/amlodipine-besyla...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/822626/gabapentin-out-of...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825200/metformin-hydroch...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/825281/losartan-potassiu...

These are some of the most prescribed drugs in America, the trend is quite clear. Every drug except albuterol and levothyroxine has decreased dramatically in price. Levothyroxine's patent expired this year so there will be some time before prices go down. Albuterol is expensive because the inhaler had to change the propellant to remove CFCs and there is a new patent on the hydrofluoroalkanes (HFAs) that has yet to expire.

New comment by pg_bot in "Big Pharma claims lower prices means giving up miracle medications. Ignore them"

pg_bot — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:55:19 +0000

Would you rather live in the world where we don't have a solution or the world where the solution is expensive now but will eventually become cheap?

New comment by pg_bot in "Researchers develop treatment that can kill glioblastoma cells in brain pathway"

pg_bot — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 02:15:04 +0000

I think we're on the verge of drastically increasing survival rates for people with Glioblastoma. It's an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer with an estimated average survival rate of 8 months and a 5 year survival rate of 6.9 percent.

I've been following the case of Dr Richard Scolyer who is using himself as a guinea pig to treat his own Glioblastoma. He and Dr Georgina Long created a plan based on their expertise in treating melanoma. So far the results have been fairly spectacular as his brain scans have shown no recurrence over a year after his diagnosis. I hope one day that they both share the Nobel prize in medicine.

https://x.com/profrscolyermia

https://x.com/ProfGLongMIA

New comment by pg_bot in "Rent control effects: An almost complete review of the literature"

pg_bot — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 14:54:44 +0000

There are many situations where renting is advantageous to owning.

New comment by pg_bot in "Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial"

pg_bot — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:53:15 +0000

In practice performance problems are a nonissue. Your API should consist of start time and duration because that is how people think about appointments and meetings. (An hour long meeting starting at noon) It's a pain to write a UI that updates two pieces of information when one piece of information changes. If you are truly worried about query performance you can denormalize the data before saving by storing start/end times as a datetime range field, but it still makes no sense to expose that in your API.