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New comment by rawgabbit in "Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?"

rawgabbit — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:08:07 +0000

Max and Ruby

https://www.amazon.com/Maxs-Chocolate-Chicken-Max-Ruby/dp/01...

New comment by rawgabbit in "Modernize Every SQL Server to Azure SQL or Fabric DW"

rawgabbit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:52:51 +0000

I left a few years ago for Snowflake. Thanks for the memories.

New comment by rawgabbit in "(Japanese Acrobat Lantern) Akita Kanto Festival [video]"

rawgabbit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:46:26 +0000

One of the three biggest festivals in Japan. Skip to the 50 minute mark to watch them raise the lanterns.

(Japanese Acrobat Lantern) Akita Kanto Festival [video]

rawgabbit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3-HsuS2nZ8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972755

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rawgabbit in "Sites in ChatGPT"

rawgabbit — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:10:56 +0000

I took it for a spin. I used Claude to create a self contained HTML file with JSON data embedded to create a SVG bar chart with sort and filter buttons. I then gave the HTML file to ChatGPT Work and it created the site using the provided HTML code unadulterated.

I then asked the next question. How can I automatically update the embedded JSON data. It gave two answers which I thought was weird. First, it said I could using a plugin to an MCP server. Second, it said I could use an API and when I asked for which API... it said there was an API available in ChatGPT Sites but no details. So I assume it can be done.

What I am thinking of is to use ChatGPT sites as a replacement for SharePoint. I can create self contained HTML charts and let employees view it within our enterprise instance of ChatGPT. The piece I am working on is how to automatically update the embedded data from our database.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

rawgabbit — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:33:34 +0000

https://claudemariottini.com/2014/06/19/ripping-open-pregnan...

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     One of the most violent and brutal conducts in times of war was the Assyrian practice of ripping open pregnant women in order to expose their fetus. In his article, “‘Ripping Open Pregnant Women’ in Light of an Assyrian Analogue,” Mordechai Cogan quotes an Assyrian poem, probably dated to the reign of Tiglath-Pileser I.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

rawgabbit — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:20:49 +0000

It could be the Bronze Age empires were based on violence and coercion. When the small polities had the means to defend themselves, the empires fell apart.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue"

rawgabbit — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:57:49 +0000

Nvidia launches new tool to keep AI agents from going rogue

rawgabbit — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:54:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/business/nvidia-ai-safety-system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884188

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by rawgabbit in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

rawgabbit — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:43:18 +0000

When East Germany existed, East Germans were shot dead trying to escape to West Germany.

President Trump keeps casually accusing news outlets of treason

rawgabbit — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/president-trump-keeps-casually-accusing-news-outlets-treason-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834614

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rawgabbit in "The darker side of being a doctor"

rawgabbit — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:14:42 +0000

Thanks for the link. Am I reading the article correctly. There are about 24K medical school students and 50K medical school applicants so that means almost half of the applicants are accepted into medical school? That seems a bit high?

New comment by rawgabbit in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

rawgabbit — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:01:56 +0000

You sir are a literary genius.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Beyond Ukraine: Why Europe is preparing for a wider conflict"

rawgabbit — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:51:24 +0000

You assume rationality when history has shown wars are often started with irrational or no apparent reason.

Beyond Ukraine: Why Europe is preparing for a wider conflict

rawgabbit — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/21/politics/nato-prepares-russia-widen-ukraine-war-mcgurk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786782

Points: 15

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Spending on data centers and hardware now exceeds housing investment

rawgabbit — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/09/20/us-economy-milestone-spending-data-centers-ai-boom-housing-residential-investment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781439

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Japanese mayors challenge each other to nighttime ninja battle, now recruiting

rawgabbit — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://soranews24.com/2026/09/11/japanese-mayors-challenge-each-other-to-nighttime-ninja-battle-now-recruiting-participants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750227

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rawgabbit in "I hate you Microsoft"

rawgabbit — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:30:14 +0000

Oddly enough. I found ChatGPT to be good at making slides. I prompt it with the text I want and some "stage direction" about the aesthetics and it makes good slides. It also makes good PDF documents as well; I feed it my markdown and tell it to make a publish quality PDF and it does a good job. In short, I am defaulting to Obsidian/markdown and use ChatGPT when I need to create other formats.

New comment by rawgabbit in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

rawgabbit — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:09:02 +0000

As an American, because of Trump's actions, I identify more with "European" culture and feel I am a stranger in my own land.

Fed approves interest rate hike, signals one more to come this year

rawgabbit — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/fed-rate-decision-september-2026.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730841

Points: 18

# Comments: 1