Hacker News: shrx

New comment by shrx in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

shrx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:00:03 +0000

> I haven't figured out how to block ads on my phone

Firefox + ublock origin + consent-o-matic saves the day for me.

New comment by shrx in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

shrx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:16:56 +0000

No such option. Apparently it needs to be allowed by the vendor (Samsung)?

New comment by shrx in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

shrx — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:32:33 +0000

> The Linux terminal app on Android (check Developer settings if you want it)

I don't see it. How do I install it?

New comment by shrx in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

shrx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:33:58 +0000

Wow that's amazing. Which glasses can do this?

New comment by shrx in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

shrx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:59:38 +0000

There will always be outliers.

New comment by shrx in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

shrx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:04:10 +0000

If it's not safe to use, then they should wait or go around. Otherwise accidents like this one happen.

New comment by shrx in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

shrx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:03:08 +0000

That is exactly my point. What visual aids do the ATC controllers have at their disposal to decide if the runway is free for an emergency vehicle to pass?

New comment by shrx in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

shrx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:21:07 +0000

Still, the runway could be reserved for landing aircrafts only, still preventing access to all other types of vehicles.

New comment by shrx in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

shrx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:03:15 +0000

I'm curious about what kind of visualization does the ATC have at the disposal about the current occupancy of the individual tarmac segments? I'd assume if an airplane is approaching for landing on a specific runway, that runway should have been clearly marked as restricted for access until the plane would actually land and clear it?

New comment by shrx in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

shrx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:32:58 +0000

After OpenAI?

New comment by shrx in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

shrx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:24:34 +0000

Can you recommend some brands with good quality over-ear headphones?

New comment by shrx in "Keep Android Open"

shrx — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:38:22 +0000

As long as it will be pixel-exclusive, it will remain useless to the vast majority of android-capable phone users.

New comment by shrx in "OpenScan"

shrx — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:59:50 +0000

For astronomy bigger pixels is also better.

New comment by shrx in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

shrx — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:13:53 +0000

Airlines are not public transportation. Usually they're all privatized.

New comment by shrx in "Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)"

shrx — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:30:08 +0000

The whole thing gave off a feeling that the author was desperate to prove something.

New comment by shrx in "Show HN: Differentiable Quantum Chemistry"

shrx — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:05:59 +0000

In quantum chemistry, you decide where the bonds should be drawn. Internally, it's all an electron density field. So yes, you can model chemical reactions, for example by constraining the distance between two atoms, and letting everything else reach an equilibrium.

New comment by shrx in "STFU"

shrx — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:10:15 +0000

If I'm hiking or cycling alone through the woods with high bear populations, I will often play some music to alert them to prevent an unpleasant encounter.

New comment by shrx in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

shrx — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:42:03 +0000

QuestDB at least is gaining some popularity: https://questdb.com/

I was hoping to learn about some new potentially viable alternatives to InfluxDB, alas it seems I'll continue using it for now.

New comment by shrx in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

shrx — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:32:42 +0000

Nothing about time series-oriented databases?

New comment by shrx in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

shrx — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:33:06 +0000

> Someone could ask a question, an LLM could take a first stab at an answer. The author could correct it or ask further questions, and then the community could fill in when it goes off the rails or can't answer.

Isn't this how Quora is supposed to operate?