Hacker News: philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=philshemHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:59:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"]]>If you want to see the thread

https://xcancel.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610?s...

]]>Mon, 19 May 2025 18:15:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032912philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032912https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44032912<![CDATA[Great Molasses Flood]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981700

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 07:06:51 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Floodphilshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981700https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981700<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill"]]>> What's the plan here?

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]]>Thu, 08 May 2025 16:46:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928080philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928080https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43928080<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch"]]>Another nice longform essay, from the NYer (2017)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/confessions-of...

]]>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:16:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665686philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665686https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665686<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"]]>I also thought at first that G acquired the budget smart bulb company but then I realized it’s “WiZ” and not “Wiz”.

https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us

]]>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:14:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401943philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401943<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"]]>

    curl -X POST "https://apply-to-avantos.dev-sandbox.workload.avantos-ai.net" \
      -H "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" \
      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
      -d '{"email": ""}'

]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:05:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258703philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43258703<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Magnus is auctioning his Jeans"]]>> Charity: All net proceeds will support Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

]]>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:04:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131523philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131523https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131523<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Bunkers in Albania"]]>> Albanians have a deep gratitude to Americans because…

Albanians gratitude to the USA continues beyond Woodrow Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_Boulevard

]]>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:52:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768194philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768194<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"]]>HN parenting thread…

> Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

]]>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:27:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703365philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703365https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703365<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce"]]>Not only pasta sauce ;)

> Detection of buffalo milk adulteration with cow milk by capillary electrophoresis analysis

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002203021...

]]>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:19:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593636philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593636https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593636<![CDATA[NORAD's Santa Tracker began with a typo and a good sport]]>Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504951

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 21:12:36 +0000https://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sportphilshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504951<![CDATA[Videotape Format War]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448832

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:04:23 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_warphilshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448832https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42448832<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop"]]>The newest Mac Mini with M4 Pro and 64GB of ram costs ~ €2000

]]>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:47:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369771philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369771<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Calculating the largest known prime in Ruby"]]>Could explain the << calculation a bit? I read about the operator but it’s not clear how this works

]]>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:11:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281116philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42281116<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Did Claude's quality drop recently?"]]>Yes, there are some reports. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215912

]]>Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:12:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228282philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228282https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42228282<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "The Return of Stealth Mountain"]]>The original bot was undoubtedly using the Search API and not Firehose (real-time tweet stream).

]]>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:54:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011409philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011409<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "We're forking Flutter"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

]]>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:26:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975841philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41975841<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Ribbonfarm Is Retiring"]]>> ZIRP stands for “Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon,” …

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/LC-what-is-zirp-and-how-...

]]>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:29:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895944philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895944https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895944<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "Is English a “creole Language”?"]]>Nope.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/5714/

]]>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 15:36:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698400philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698400https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41698400<![CDATA[New comment by philshem in "South Park creators renovate a beloved restaurant, and find nostalgia is pricey"]]>Here’s the trailer for the documentary: https://youtu.be/I4TkkS7xePY?feature=shared

]]>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:14:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41559468philshemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41559468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41559468