Hacker News: pigeons

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: The Occult Gatsby"

pigeons — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:07:32 +0000

needs more sources and variety

New comment by pigeons in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

pigeons — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:59:00 +0000

Including the linux kernel.

New comment by pigeons in "Self-host your mail server"

pigeons — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:29:16 +0000

Proton doesn't really host a standard email server like imap for you to access on the client side. You have to bridge/proxy/translate it. And Proton doesn't offer any of the convienences like distribution lists that you expect for the past 30+ years.

New comment by pigeons in "LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques"

pigeons — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:42:09 +0000

I wish there was an acronym for it that didn't collide with the radio tech.

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"

pigeons — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:10:35 +0000

They do try privilege escalation unprompted.

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests"

pigeons — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:08:03 +0000

The context for "open loops" here is David Allen's "Getting Things Done" or GTD. A commitment that your brain is still holding onto because you haven’t clarified what it means or what to do about it.

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:07:20 +0000

So like Computer Associates?

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:05:58 +0000

That avoided the Apache Foundation.

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:44:35 +0000

Yeah, gotta call out the "There's nothing wrong with that".

New comment by pigeons in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

pigeons — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:31:38 +0000

What came into effect in 2009?

New comment by pigeons in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

pigeons — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:17:35 +0000

There's a recording of Nirvana playing Baba O'Riley where Kurt Cobain says "I hope I die before I turn into Pete Townsend"

New comment by pigeons in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

pigeons — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:15:19 +0000

Ai can't even take a McDonald's order as well as a low paid human yet

New comment by pigeons in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

pigeons — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 06:21:47 +0000

Surprisingly has not burned out or faded away.

New comment by pigeons in "Old Computer Challenge"

pigeons — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:39:48 +0000

That machine has such a pleasant form factor.

New comment by pigeons in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

pigeons — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:33:06 +0000

Worst except for Amazon.

New comment by pigeons in "I built a free I Ching oracle web app"

pigeons — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:39:18 +0000

Also Terence McKenna said he used I Ching analysis/interpretation for his Timewave 2012 software and "Novelty Theory" or whatever his "the world is getting weirder and weirder" philosophy was called.

New comment by pigeons in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

pigeons — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:57:38 +0000

Time to give up and move on.

New comment by pigeons in "Ask HN: Is "no source code was copied" still a sufficient copyright defense?"

pigeons — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:55:44 +0000

How do patents relate to this copyright question?

New comment by pigeons in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

pigeons — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:38:50 +0000

Seems like SMS spammers just get an SS7 link handoff more often and more effective than SIM card banks.

New comment by pigeons in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

pigeons — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:27:37 +0000

You sure see them everyday in Metro Vancouver