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Lafcadio Hearn

rvrs — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638648

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Would filesystem bookmarks be useful in your shell workflow?"

rvrs — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:23:29 +0000

I've just been using this for years https://github.com/rupa/z

It is simple and does the job

New comment by rvrs in "Midjourney Medical"

rvrs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:24:35 +0000

>A) proactively keeping me healthy,

This will never happen and arguably should not be the *medical* system's problem. It is just not feasible

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

rvrs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:25:55 +0000

Work is performance art

New comment by rvrs in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

rvrs — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:09:36 +0000

what? I started school in the early 2000s, after no child left behind started, and definitely learned multiplication tables lol

New comment by rvrs in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

rvrs — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:41:59 +0000

>If I'm not experiencing any particular emotion in a given moment, am I concious?

Genuine question: How are you so sure whether you are experiencing an emotion or not? Are you a master of everything inside your own head?

New comment by rvrs in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

rvrs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:12:29 +0000

And I am exactly the opposite - aside from my first job out of university 10 years ago I have gotten every job since through connections

Irasutoya

rvrs — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irasutoya

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422879

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rvrs in "Willingness to look stupid"

rvrs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:05:47 +0000

Whether you like it or not you will look stupid to native speakers. It's a subconscious bias

New comment by rvrs in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

rvrs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:37:36 +0000

The Neo is supposed to be the budget version. I think MacOS is a decent computing platform for some engineering and creative endeavors -- if one more college kid gets access to it for cheaper I say it's a positive

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?"

rvrs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:09:39 +0000

I work in east Asia for a western startup. My work schedule is shifted a few hours earlier, so I end up waking up at 5 and have meetings starting at 6. I work in silence the rest of the day and we have no-meetings days once a week.

I love it.

New comment by rvrs in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

rvrs — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:26:41 +0000

Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons

New comment by rvrs in "Where do the children play?"

rvrs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:00:39 +0000

I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?"

rvrs — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:46:04 +0000

Enforce stacked PRs, reject PRs over 500-1k LoC (I'd argue even lower, but it's a hard sell)

New comment by rvrs in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

rvrs — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:23:53 +0000

Did a coal miner write this comment?

New comment by rvrs in "YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option"

rvrs — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:51:06 +0000

I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?

New comment by rvrs in "Humane founder Imran Chaudhri likely paid for highly charitable Wikipedia entry"

rvrs — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:02:42 +0000

There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?"

rvrs — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:51:59 +0000

Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni...

EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on

New comment by rvrs in "I want my AI to get mad"

rvrs — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:05:22 +0000

Is there anything out there that's even close to that OG GPT-3? It was the closest experience I've ever had to magic, and I miss it dearly

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: What are the most complicated machines humans have built?"

rvrs — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:48:25 +0000

Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn't taken seriously

Don't get me wrong, what we have is working (so far? Political happenings around the world don't inspire confidence)