Hacker News: prawn

New comment by prawn in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

prawn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:28:54 +0000

I'd bet that a lot of that in-camp work didn't feel excessively laborious when it was done while socialising within your group, and without a sense of "wish I was playing video games". Sitting around a camp fire now whittling away at something is more mucking around than chore.

New comment by prawn in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

prawn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:21:58 +0000

The companies servicing that echelon would replace staff as soon as they could. In an apartment, the building owner would plant one in the shared laundry and add an optional price for tenants to use it.

New comment by prawn in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

prawn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:48:38 +0000

Maybe, but I was thinking the next bracket or two up. I'm sure things will trickle down though.

New comment by prawn in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

prawn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:50:07 +0000

Hate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.

New comment by prawn in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

prawn — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:10:20 +0000

Scale this up a bit and I could see it working as an urban courier.

Cool format.

YouGov withdraws survey showing rising church attendance in England and Wales

prawn — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/yougov-withdraws-survey-church-attendance-christianity-young-people-england-wales

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538768

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by prawn in "Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods"

prawn — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:16:42 +0000

This was bait enough that I jumped into Google Maps to look at a few random Galewood streets via street view. Obviously very suburban, but looks like it'd make for a nice stroll until you tired of the cookie-cutter layout. Hugh Hefner's childhood home as a bonus.

Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label

prawn — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/26/business/anthropic-pentagon-injunction-supply-chain-risk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537228

Points: 447

# Comments: 233

New comment by prawn in "Show HN: Browser grand strategy game for hundreds of players on huge maps"

prawn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:08:12 +0000

I tried a custom game. Received constant errors in the bottom right. Couldn't work out where/who I was. I could right-click and offer alliances to factions, but there was no response at any point. Couldn't work out how to do anything. (Firefox/macOS)

New comment by prawn in "Claude Tips for 3D Work"

prawn — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:02:22 +0000

My late maternal grandfather was Slovenian, so I enjoyed your project's backstory. I've mucked around with ChatGPT and OpenSCAD so can identify with that also. Great concept and best of luck!

New comment by prawn in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

prawn — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:25:27 +0000

Maybe OP could try an angle where at various points, the process presents the user with 2-6 options, and they choose their favourite. With a bit of intentional chaos in there, the user and tool could potentially discover interesting game concepts and eventually build them as prototypes.

New comment by prawn in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

prawn — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:21:32 +0000

What about for prototyping as you hunt for a style or concept and just want to see what resonates? I could see this being useful for that.

New comment by prawn in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

prawn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:40:54 +0000

I hide my Dock completely and used to rely entirely on Spotlight for launching. After it failing to work so often, I found Raycast which has not failed me once. I can't see how they don't decide an indexing method/schedule based on a user's Spotlight settings.

New comment by prawn in "MacBook Neo"

prawn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:30:10 +0000

From Daring Fireball:

It was, I am reliably informed by Apple product marketing folks, a significant engineering achievement to get a second USB port at all on the MacBook Neo while basing it on the A18 Pro SoC.

But yes, even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude.

New comment by prawn in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

prawn — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:54:23 +0000

Yeah, I remember 400+ km/h 10+ years ago from the airport into Shanghai. I remember seeing the speed read out creeping up, and then watching cars on the highways beside us move like snails by comparison.

My perfect Music app doesn't exist

prawn — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:10:40 +0000

Article URL: https://hicks.design/journal/my-perfect-music-app-doesnt-exist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47230804

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by prawn in "South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online"

prawn — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:20:59 +0000

About $5m if anyone was only interested in the rough amount.

New comment by prawn in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

prawn — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:43:50 +0000

Can just see it now.

You're absolutely right to point that out -- thank you for catching it. I made a mistake in my previous response and that last act appears to have caused civilian casualties. Let me take a closer look and clarify the correct details for you.

(Will leave you to imagine the bullseye emoji, etc.)

New comment by prawn in "How will OpenAI compete?"

prawn — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:11:36 +0000

Beyond that too, I would think that many people view a Hotmail account as an indicator that you're backwards or not serious in business.

I distinctly remember the shift to and then away from Altavista as well.

New comment by prawn in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

prawn — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:02:36 +0000

Zoning changes would generally make your property more value as a baseline. Then you could either stay put, or you could elect to move elsewhere while redeveloping your original place. This is common in Australia.

A common zoning change here is based on street frontage for semi-detached homes - the new ones are still 3-4BR, just attached at the garage and with smaller yards. If development required 15m frontage, but then that changed to 12-13m, that would mobilise a lot of owners to take advantage, though obviously others can just stay as is if they prefer.

It usually happens that an $800k lot value becomes $1m, regardless of the state of the house. The owner can then demolish a decades old house, build two places for $600k, sell one as a new home for $800k-1m to finance the build (and costs of moving out during that phase), and end up in a new house themselves. Often they've sacrificed yard that they found annoying to maintain anyway.

The above can be adjusted where it's possible to build 3-4 on a block, or a larger development of apartments.

Zone changes typically allow change, not force it, surely? An owner can just keep their SFH and large yard if they prefer. What they can't always control and often vote against is the composition of their neighbourhood.