Hacker News: quercus

New comment by quercus in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:45:20 +0000

* Except when the 3.5% is entirely geriatric women.

New comment by quercus in "Yes, It's Fascism"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:21:46 +0000

Immigration was a pretty big topic during the election. People knew what they were voting for. I find it sad that you find it hard to believe people have civic pride they want to defend.

New comment by quercus in "Yes, It's Fascism"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:24:54 +0000

Who can resist a little schadenfreude.

New comment by quercus in "Yes, It's Fascism"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:22:57 +0000

They literally voted for it.

New comment by quercus in "Yes, It's Fascism"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:59:57 +0000

“weak men create hard times” never fails

New comment by quercus in "Yes, It's Fascism"

quercus — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:58:15 +0000

Because most people are happy to see immigration laws enforced.

New comment by quercus in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

quercus — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:59:40 +0000

I can't remember a bigger HN blackpill than this getting downvoted.

New comment by quercus in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

quercus — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:06:03 +0000

468 comments.... guys, guys, this is a Blue Sky post! Have we not learned that anyone who self-exiled to Blue Sky is wearing a "don't take me seriously" badge for our convenience?

New comment by quercus in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

quercus — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:43:33 +0000

birdsong? are you talking about coqui frogs?

New comment by quercus in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

quercus — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:05:53 +0000

I was interested until I got to the "fascist" line where the author reveals his motives for avoiding AI. Bummer, I was hoping for a level headed technical argument. This post doesn't belong on the front page.

New comment by quercus in "Show HN: Wall-mounted diffusion mirror that turns reflections into paintings"

quercus — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:04:25 +0000

reminds me of the classic 80's "Take on Me" music video

New comment by quercus in "Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store"

quercus — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 22:29:01 +0000

Time for Selig to build some original ideas instead of yet another wrapper around a popular service.

New comment by quercus in "Asynchronous IO: the next billion-dollar mistake?"

quercus — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:28:56 +0000

I thought this article was going to talk about async IO's potential to cause insidious bugs that you don't notice until they're crashing jet planes. That's definitely a topic worth of a blog post.

New comment by quercus in "The Art of Finishing"

quercus — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 02:17:25 +0000

Cheers to the author for finishing this brilliant essay even if he can't finish his software projects!

New comment by quercus in "What if California's dams fail?"

quercus — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 02:57:25 +0000

Daniel Swain is a major climate alarmist. Read with a grain of salt.

New comment by quercus in "Many invasive plants are still being sold at garden centers"

quercus — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:01:49 +0000

Hawaii's "fragile native ecosystems" exist only in your fantasies of the past, or way up in the mountains where nobody lives or farms. If Medinilla wants to invade an Albizia grove, who cares?

New comment by quercus in "An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter"

quercus — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:01:58 +0000

Another preservation technique I've seen is burying the fruit in ash.

New comment by quercus in "The internet didn’t kill counterculture – you just won’t find it on Instagram"

quercus — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:27:06 +0000

My finger was hovering over the upvote button but I think the downvotes were required to validate the comment.

New comment by quercus in "68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump"

quercus — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:52:19 +0000

Sounds like you don't know the difference between right and alt-right.

New comment by quercus in "Archaeologists in Turkey unearth 2,500-year-old temple of Aphrodite"

quercus — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 21:36:22 +0000

No pictures. Drives me crazy when an article about an archaeological discovery provides not a single image of the object.