Hacker News: quercusa

New comment by quercusa in "We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin"

quercusa — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:12 +0000

One nice thing is that the Polish church records are in Latin (with Latinized names), so I've been able to find and read birth/baptismal records for my wife's ancestors from the 1800s.

New comment by quercusa in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

quercusa — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:24:27 +0000

It's weird to see starlings listed as endangered. We seem to have no shortage of the darn things in the US.

The Inadequacy of House Burping

quercusa — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:10:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-inadequacy-of-house-burping

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952940

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by quercusa in "A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory"

quercusa — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:25:20 +0000

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Bernstein is an enjoyable read on this.

New comment by quercusa in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

quercusa — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:34:17 +0000

Got trapped in an Amway pitch in my teens and have been inoculated against such things ever since.

New comment by quercusa in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

quercusa — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:29:28 +0000

I haven't been in decades but there seemed to be the world's highest concentration of candle shops. Maybe people are looking for fancy candles.

New comment by quercusa in "Artemis II returns to Earth, splashdown in four hours"

quercusa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:07:18 +0000

Splashdown expected 8:07 EDT

New comment by quercusa in "You Can Just Print an Air Purifier"

quercusa — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:38:46 +0000

If you go the old school "filter taped to box fan" route, be sure to add a shroud for the corners, as blade tip turbulence there actually causes reverse air flow. See the article by the 'R' of Corsi-Rosenthal.

https://www.texairfilters.com/how-to-improve-the-efficiency-...

New comment by quercusa in "301M Records Exposed: The HIPAA Breach Epidemic"

quercusa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:34:50 +0000

The attack on Stryker used Microsoft InTune to remote-wipe all of Stryker's systems. If you can wipe a system, could you also drop code on it exfiltrate data and credentials?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346091

New comment by quercusa in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

quercusa — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:47:10 +0000

Envisioning an update to https://xkcd.com/221/

New comment by quercusa in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

quercusa — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:23:35 +0000

SoftICE was like magic back in the day.

New comment by quercusa in "The Enchiridion by Epictetus"

quercusa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:46:30 +0000

Still thinking about those three black olive slices?

New comment by quercusa in "Ask HN: Best way to find chill job where I can learn and grow as a swe"

quercusa — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:07:28 +0000

I work with hospital IT people at customer sites. Can confirm that the positions seem to require neither extensive knowledge nor effort.

New comment by quercusa in "Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?"

quercusa — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:00:45 +0000

> set up by someone who at least half knows what they're doing.

Finding someone like that is hard for many churches.

New comment by quercusa in "Short Little Difficult Books"

quercusa — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:36:23 +0000

Moby-Dick really is a great book. If you want a dolphin-sized taste of Melville, try Billy Budd.

New comment by quercusa in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

quercusa — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:42:14 +0000

This is one heck of a hook:

> I was one social notch above children who were so pitiable it would be rude to mock them.

New comment by quercusa in "Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act"

quercusa — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:55:50 +0000

Coleman won the 'Slants' case at SCOTUS, so he's the real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matal_v._Tam

https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/legal-publications-ron...

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

quercusa — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:00:26 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234872

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by quercusa in "Epson MX-80 Fonts"

quercusa — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:01:16 +0000

From the page: The EPSON MX-80 printer was a commercially successful product in the early 1980s.

That's quite the understatement - they were everywhere.

New comment by quercusa in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

quercusa — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:15:48 +0000

The quality of the docs doesn't matter if the customer won't read them: "We'll set up a Teams meeting and you can tell us what to do"