Hacker News: retrochameleon

New comment by retrochameleon in "RamenHaus"

retrochameleon — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:06:14 +0000

Curry Hyuga, Burlingame, CA

New comment by retrochameleon in "Show HN: Science for Kids"

retrochameleon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:53:32 +0000

I skimmed through a few articles. These look really high quality and engaging. Makes me feel like a kid reading some of the cool STEM Encyclopedia-type books like from DK.

New comment by retrochameleon in "We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars"

retrochameleon — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:52:06 +0000

Thank goodness

New comment by retrochameleon in "RamenHaus"

retrochameleon — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:41:18 +0000

San Francisco is an example of a place with higher than average Japanese population where you have a chance of getting some really good authentic stuff. I recently ate at a place that caught my eye with chicken katsu curry, and that meal teleported me back to Japan.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Japan unveils 'human refrigerator' to combat extreme summer heat"

retrochameleon — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:50:18 +0000

An obnoxiously ignorant suggestion for Japan, of all places.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

retrochameleon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:44:55 +0000

Hopefully in decades hallucinations will be largely solved.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

retrochameleon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:56:02 +0000

Uggghhh, I hate Lua. I hate the syntax, everything being tables, and.... dun dun dun 1-indexed arrays.

I wish we wouldn't keep going back to it. I understand the appeal for some use cases, but pleeeeeeease can we just move on to a new language that fulfills the same use cases but with more typical conventions?

New comment by retrochameleon in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

retrochameleon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:49:42 +0000

You're free to express most things except the things they really don't like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSPM-7

Quote from the NSPM-7: > There are common recurrent motivations and indicia uniting this pattern of violent and terroristic activities under the umbrella of self-described “anti-fascism.” These movements portray foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) as “fascist” to justify and encourage acts of violent revolution. This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. As described in the Order of September 22, 2025 (Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization)

New comment by retrochameleon in "Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble"

retrochameleon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:40:54 +0000

Keeps them running until a breakpoint they hope is coming where all the AI investments and infrastructure they have places them at the top of the world. I (and it seems most tech companies) believe high quality data corpus and access to compute will become strong forms of hard power in the near future. The question is if they can survive long enough for that to come fruition, and if it's before all their investments deteriorate and deprecate.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Treasury Has an Internal Report Warning About the Dangers of an AI Bubble"

retrochameleon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:06:02 +0000

This feels like an attempted primer and justification for major bailouts to the big AI companies. And this is all a problem that the companies have created for themselves by going so hard into AI investments based on wild speculation about the near future of AI. And the bailouts will probably happen because A: these companies have politicians in their pocket, and B: most of the government / politicians will frame this as a national security problem we can't afford to ignore. This all serves to entrench and centralize power and access to data for the major AI companies that managed to stay in the game up to this point.

New comment by retrochameleon in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

retrochameleon — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:05:49 +0000

When science is already experiencing a funding stranglehold, how do you expect researchers to have access to do experiments in space?

New comment by retrochameleon in "“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky"

retrochameleon — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:04:39 +0000

Asteroid detection is certainly affected by satellites. The ever increasing number of satellites makes observations that normally detect asteroids very difficult. It is very easy to miss asteroids we would have seen otherwise if not for satellites giving off glare, reflections, and light. We don't just look for asteroids coming directly towards earth, we keep track of all sorts of large objects and their orbits in our solar system. The tracking authority is usually the IAUC Minor Planet Center.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Bill C-34 Answers Child Safety with Identity Infrastructure"

retrochameleon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:35:46 +0000

I agree with your point.

I also agree that parents taking zero accountability for their kids is BS. I think we are due for some improved tooling to provide for parents to monitor and control internet access. I'm tired of parents acting like there is nothing they can do except support broad invasion of privacy and anonimity with no regard for the cultural and political repercussions.

New comment by retrochameleon in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

retrochameleon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:33:50 +0000

Look up Benn Jordan's video on datacenter infrasound. Just because you can't perceive the noise doesn't mean it's not there and it doesn't have an effect on the human body, especially over very long periods of time.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

retrochameleon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:24:51 +0000

More and more repitition. You get better at recognizing familiar scenarios and employing an effective measure without thinking about it too much.

Early skill curve can be rough. Recommend playing 8v8 noob lobbies pvp or against bots to learn.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

retrochameleon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:22:09 +0000

Weird. Are you paying someone in order to access the game?

New comment by retrochameleon in "Show HN: Ctx, save tokens by loading only the relevant tools"

retrochameleon — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:18:06 +0000

The project looks different from what I was expecting. Why is there a pre-built knowledge graph? Why wouldn't the tool build a graph from MY environment and stack of skills, MCP, etc.?

New comment by retrochameleon in "How much of Elon Musk's wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it"

retrochameleon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:01:19 +0000

I think his personal impact is overstated. Maybe I have a bad taste in my mouth from overzealous fanboys, but all I see is a manchild who likes scifi and tech, and threw a bunch of money he didn't work very hard to get in the first place at the right problem at the right time. The reason Tesla and SpaceX succeed is because of every person at the company besides Musk.

Have you forgotten Musk nearly sabotaging their own company with tweets tanking their stocks?

New comment by retrochameleon in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

retrochameleon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:39:34 +0000

Frankly I've tried quite a few clients and haven't found one I can settle for. I used Mailspring for a while because it was close to being a gmail experience, but that went some kind of bad way I don't remember and I don't think is developed anymore.

I want a client that is simple but flexible by default, extensible, themeable would be nice, and for the love of god has key shortcuts for everything THAT CAN BE CHANGED. LOOKING AT YOU, THUNDERBIRD.

Thunderbird is almost usable for me, but the UI is just absolutely abysmal. The kicker is not being able to change key shortcuts, making Thunderbird unusable for me.

New comment by retrochameleon in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

retrochameleon — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:17:21 +0000

I had a low stakes cyst removal from my butt crack once. Sparing the other details, the anesthesiologist explained the different drugs, one to numb, one to prevent my memory from forming. I asked if they could leave out the memory drug and I could remain cognizant. She didn't mind and I had a nice chat with her about anesthetics while on my stomach having doctors cut out part of my butt.