Hacker News: quirk

New comment by quirk in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

quirk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:46:09 +0000

False positives would be way better than worthless. They'd give AI bot mods a fighting chance. If you don't think AI generated writing is detectable, ask Google how they were able to filter spam. Layered signals works.

New comment by quirk in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

quirk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:37:26 +0000

Horrific events happen almost every hour of every day. This is political, and the events that are upvoted are always from the same political perspective. If you don't see this, you're blind. But from my perspective, mods do see it, are ok with it, and that is unfortunate. There are few places left online without explicit political bias. HN used to be one of them.

New comment by quirk in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

quirk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:29:17 +0000

The best fix I've made to any voice-mode AI is giving it a "done" word. So it has to listen for "pineapple" before it's allowed to process what I said. Just like radio comms (over and out).

New comment by quirk in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

quirk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:14:17 +0000

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New comment by quirk in "X is selling existing users' handles"

quirk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:37:01 +0000

Came here to say this.

New comment by quirk in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

quirk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:35:26 +0000

I'm sure someone's working on a way to tell the difference programmatically. Maybe a combo of tone, grammar, and some way of telling how fast it was typed using metadata (which may not exist). Even if there was a "probable AI" filter, that would be helpful because it would be a starting point to improve upon.

New comment by quirk in "The happiest I've ever been"

quirk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:52:56 +0000

I don't think that one's even on the list of top 1,000. It's incredible how hard we try to avoid hard things.

New comment by quirk in "The happiest I've ever been"

quirk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:51:31 +0000

Who built it?

New comment by quirk in "The happiest I've ever been"

quirk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:04:05 +0000

There is another, deeper level of happiness, not mentioned in any of these comments. Around 62% of the US population has found it. That number used to be higher. In the tech world it's much smaller percentage. The powerful love you feel as a father or mother can actually be compounded, even when didn't think that was possible. It comes from first principles and historical truths. There is a book about it - it's the best selling book of all time.

New comment by quirk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

quirk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:33:30 +0000

https://adamcquirk.com/videos/ - I made videos on the internet 20yrs ago.

New comment by quirk in "Former IPCC Contributors Accuse Org of Corruption and Scientific Misconduct"

quirk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:34:32 +0000

A recent X thread by UK MP Andrew Bridgen compiles quotes from 16 scientists who previously worked with or contributed to IPCC reports. The statements accuse the IPCC of: deliberately downplaying uncertainties excluding or minimizing solar/climate natural variability politicizing the process and suppressing dissenting views producing misleading press summaries that diverge from the underlying science cherry-picking data on sea-level rise, extreme weather trends, and model performance

Among the named scientists are several well-known figures in climate skeptic circles (Judith Curry, John Christy, Richard Lindzen, Richard Tol, Nils-Axel Mörner, etc.).The post has attracted significant engagement in certain political/climate-skeptic communities and is being used to question the IPCC's scientific integrity and the legitimacy of its policy-relevant conclusions.

Former IPCC Contributors Accuse Org of Corruption and Scientific Misconduct

quirk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:34:32 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ABridgen/status/2010802055347085461

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602314

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by quirk in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

quirk — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:24:56 +0000

Is Harvard the top university for mining research though? I assumed it would be Texas A&M or Purdue or something like that.

New comment by quirk in "CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web"

quirk — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:01:40 +0000

The fact that they are using Wikipedia for a primary data source exempts them from any further serious consideration.

New comment by quirk in "Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes"

quirk — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:21:51 +0000

https://lomborg.com/

New comment by quirk in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

quirk — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:08:57 +0000

Notorious for dropping packets.

New comment by quirk in "Executive order on advancing United States leadership in AI infrastructure"

quirk — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:13:20 +0000

If any of this ever happens, their party can claim that they did it.

New comment by quirk in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

quirk — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:08:27 +0000

Yep came here to recommend this. Incredible story.

New comment by quirk in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

quirk — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:00:21 +0000

I think the key word in this is "choice", which is what D voters did not get. They got an attempted installation. Installation failed. See error log.

New comment by quirk in "Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves"

quirk — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:35:06 +0000

I loved Squarespace Note, and this seems like a close relative. Downloading now.