Hacker News: ribs

New comment by ribs in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

ribs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:56:02 +0000

That deciding between 1000 things is a lot of effort is so clear that I must wonder if the one you’re responding to was being ironic.

New comment by ribs in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

ribs — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:25:55 +0000

I know we're not really supposed to say stuff like this on HN, but: hells to the yeah

New comment by ribs in "Cheese Crystals (2019)"

ribs — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:32:56 +0000

Right about the calcium lactate crystals, though wrong about lactic acid causing muscle pain; this has been debunked.

New comment by ribs in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

ribs — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:57:00 +0000

Apple software has gone so bad in the last decade or so. UI problems abound - the lack of default buttons that fire when you hit enter makes me ill. THIS USED TO BE IN THE APPLE USER INTERFACE GUIDELINES. Does anybody remember that big binder that was ultra-important for Mac developers? Well if anyone still has a copy they probably have it on a bookshelf where it looks nice on Zoom.

And then there's the bugs. What software is more consistently buggy than Apple software?

New comment by ribs in "I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels"

ribs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:15:14 +0000

I feel like I must be telling everyone something they already know…please tell me I am

New comment by ribs in "I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels"

ribs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 03:13:15 +0000

The one account I know that follows this account is @chasedownloads aka Chase Passive Income, which is a parody of a certain kind of entrepreneur, very much not real.

This is not real. No one associated with this account (or, probably, any account) has bought these nickels.

New comment by ribs in "Locality of Behaviour (2020)"

ribs — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:43:53 +0000

One would like to see the word “modularity” somewhere here.

New comment by ribs in "Baby Steps into Genetic Programming"

ribs — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:21:14 +0000

Last I checked, genetic programming wasn’t promising, and I’m a little surprised to see people paying attention to it here.

OTOH that was similar to what people were saying about hidden layers, so YMMV

New comment by ribs in "My stupid noise journey (2023)"

ribs — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:31:35 +0000

For me the problem is mainly when trying to sleep, specifically, at Burning Man, where it can be very difficult. I used foam earplugs for years, but they leave something to be desired.

The AirPods Max…get them on my ears correctly, and I’m in a forest. It’s uncanny. It was the most profound alteration to my experience there in years.

New comment by ribs in "Show HN: Uscope, a new Linux debugger written from scratch"

ribs — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:35:08 +0000

TotalView (which I rep), Linaro DDT - thoughts? (Yes, they’re both proprietary)

New comment by ribs in "I've acquired a new superpower"

ribs — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:20:11 +0000

What has happened to me? How am I able to create a combined image and have it be -stable-? This totally works. I’ve been mutated.

New comment by ribs in "A rigid but foldable indoor airship aerial system for cave exploration"

ribs — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:41:55 +0000

Clean out your desk

New comment by ribs in "The Mac Is a Power Tool"

ribs — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:22:52 +0000

It’s a mass-market computer used by millions of people who don’t want to shoot themselves in the foot. People can be tricked into things, perhaps like turning off a “Bypass Mode”-like switch. I think this is a hard problem.

New comment by ribs in "DARPA funding "revolutionary" optimizing compiler technology [pdf]"

ribs — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:10:50 +0000

Their RFP notes that it’s hard to optimize code to run on the zillion possible combinations of CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, SoCs, and so seeks revolutionary new compiler technology that will take your program, your target hardware alphabet soup combination, and output an executable optimized for that environment.

DARPA funding "revolutionary" optimizing compiler technology [pdf]

ribs — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:10:49 +0000

Article URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ScssCt43zI-GZ-H0lLYSQUi5QRCjoSpp/view?usp=drive_link

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41194528

Points: 3

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New comment by ribs in "Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?"

ribs — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:58:57 +0000

Holy crap, Tom Lehrer is still alive!?

New comment by ribs in "Pentaborane(9)"

ribs — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:48:08 +0000

Hey, you’re not giving pentaborane enough credit - it’s got 4 of those bridging hydrides.

New comment by ribs in "M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake"

ribs — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:49:57 +0000

I felt in here on Long Island, where I grew up, and am visiting from California, where I’ve lived for decades

Right now in Huntington

New comment by ribs in "For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter"

ribs — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:52:22 +0000

Agreed. Inspired by your comment, I did a Google map search, and there appear to be no places currently sporting that name, though there was a bagel shop in Troy NY with it, closed down in 2019.

So, you know, there is a vacuum waiting to be filled. Could be filled by a head shop, could be by anything…

New comment by ribs in "The Xylophone Maze: Screen-free coding for children"

ribs — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:58:49 +0000

This is a wonderful idea, and although I don’t have kids, I think I want to have the pieces to put it together for when there’s one to play with.