Hacker News: signorovitch

New comment by signorovitch in "Can You Find the Comet?"

signorovitch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:44:19 +0000

Not to play the musk’s advocate, but there is a case to be made that proving internet access in remote places is more valuable than a perfect night sky. If you live in the cities you can barely see the stars anyway, so you’re not missing much. But in an austere environment, connectivity can be the difference between life and death. It also lowers the bar, encouraging more people to visit wild places and make them more likely to support their protection in more meaningful ways.

New comment by signorovitch in "Can You Find the Comet?"

signorovitch — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:40:02 +0000

FWIW, if you actually want to photograph a comet or anything that doesn’t move in the sky, you’d take multiple exposures that would make the moving light sources like satellites disappear. Taking HDR photographs like this has an number other benefits as well.

New comment by signorovitch in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

signorovitch — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:10:22 +0000

Feel a bit bad for Yomif Kejelcha who also broke the 2-hour mark, with this being his first competition marathon, but managed to neither break a record nor win.

New comment by signorovitch in "NASA Force"

signorovitch — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:58:20 +0000

Fedora linux

New comment by signorovitch in "Why Japan has such good railways"

signorovitch — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:54:02 +0000

Japan also has amazing car infrastructure too! Last time I was there visiting family in the mountains, I was quite impressed by the number and quality of tunnels and spiral ramps. The highways are similarly privatized, with tolls like train fares reducing the need for government subsidies.

New comment by signorovitch in "NASA Force"

signorovitch — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:44:23 +0000

Ran smooth on both my iPhone and my 13-year-old thinkpad x230.

Worm's-Eye View

signorovitch — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm%27s-eye_view

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800014

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by signorovitch in "PBS Nova: Terror in Space (1998)"

signorovitch — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:44:24 +0000

Amazing that this is still up, and that so many of the links still work. Great find!

New comment by signorovitch in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

signorovitch — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:34:23 +0000

The primary trouble I have with backblaze was that this change was not clearly communicated, even if perhaps it could be justified.

Human Phenotypes

signorovitch — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:53:03 +0000

Article URL: http://humanphenotypes.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704549

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by signorovitch in "The Lazarus Sign"

signorovitch — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:10:18 +0000

What I thought was interesting is the movement seems similar to the involuntary positioning I have observed in individuals with hyperventilation syndrome (hands curled in over sternum). I have no idea if these are related though.

The Lazarus Sign

signorovitch — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:03:05 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555218

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

Jones Act Enforcer

signorovitch — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://offshoremarine.org/page/JonesActEnforcer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357199

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Metabolic Pathways [pdf]

signorovitch — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:41:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/deepweb/assets/sigmaaldrich/marketing/global/documents/261/398/metabolic-pathways-poster.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342414

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by signorovitch in "Stop Using Grey Text (2025)"

signorovitch — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:33:58 +0000

I’m looking at gray text on an off-white background right now :P

New comment by signorovitch in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

signorovitch — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:50:15 +0000

> This isn't an SEO problem. This is a Google problem.

I've tested on a few of the big search engines, and nanoclaw.dev is never in the first page.

Gemini was also unable to find the .dev, even in "Research Mode." The only way I was able to get a direct link to nanoclaw.dev was with chatgpt, which found it by scraping the GitHub (it also spat out links to a couple of other copies it found from google.)

Seems this is a wider SEO issue, one which infiltrates even the technology supposed to replace it.

New comment by signorovitch in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

signorovitch — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:56:17 +0000

FTR, her actual response was

    “Already addressed this, wasn't on purpose and everything else still stands.”

New comment by signorovitch in "A new Polymarket account made over $500k betting on the U.S. strike against Iran"

signorovitch — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:06:21 +0000

That same account[0] has also already lost at least 100k betting on similar middle eastern conflict markets. Not at all ruling out insider information, certainly looks suspicious, but it’s easy just to find one big win or winner.

[0] https://polymarket.com/@magamyman

New comment by signorovitch in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

signorovitch — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:40:19 +0000

My only issue with ghostty is it isn’t immediately recognized by some programs through ssh (eg less) and they don’t operate properly. However there’s a one liner that solves the problem permanently on the remote machine[0] so it isn’t too bad. Hopefully in the near future ghostty’s terminfo will be shipped with common linux distros.

[0] https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo

New comment by signorovitch in "Aesthetics of single threading"

signorovitch — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:09:15 +0000

Single-threading is also what allows you to stay up all night writing the 8 page essay that's due at 6:00am, what lets you drive for hours on end, what remembers protocol during a crisis. Not detracting from the OP's point at all, just single threading doesn't always have to be pleasant. One of its advantages is powering you through unpleasantries and getting what needs to be done done. Sometimes when we think we are 'multitasking,' we're just looking for ways to avoid the problem.