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New comment by skylurk in "The weekend is 100 years old"

skylurk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:59:22 +0000

Moon phases as time keeping are as old as any of the others (ie prehistoric)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase

Does not line up perfectly with days, so different cultures handled that differently, but pretty much all cultures had something like a week.

New comment by skylurk in "The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener"

skylurk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:51:24 +0000

Do they age in that direction?

New comment by skylurk in "Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes"

skylurk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:55:00 +0000

we owe the dairy industry to this phenomena, and also a lot of fetishes

New comment by skylurk in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

skylurk — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:20:00 +0000

> My device pairs with my laptop over Bluetooth

Sounds magical

New comment by skylurk in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

skylurk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:16:21 +0000

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

New comment by skylurk in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

skylurk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:54:44 +0000

But Bun also implements the interpreter to those tests— doesn't that mean it has a lot of leeway to over-fit to them? It's not as clean as "don't change these files" in this case.

In general I would agree though, and would take it one step further: the agent writing the source code should not even be able to see the tests, nor the agent writing the tests see the source code.

New comment by skylurk in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

skylurk — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:36:25 +0000

Just ask Mark Twain ;)

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

New comment by skylurk in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

skylurk — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:31:03 +0000

It does get tense sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War

New comment by skylurk in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

skylurk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:58:11 +0000

> competent software engineer

hired :)

New comment by skylurk in "macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:38:56 +0000

If my M1 MBP dies, this is what I would replace it with. I want off the OSX ride.

New comment by skylurk in "Siri AI"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:32:41 +0000

I suspect it would perform admirably well with 'Paris' or 'Copenhagen' (see sibling comment), but if you want to have some real fun try 'Southern Spain' or 'Rural Malaysia'.

New comment by skylurk in "Siri AI"

skylurk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:03:11 +0000

For fun I planned a holiday entirely with LLM's lately, and followed through.

It used good models and did a lot of searching, including searches in other languages. It got nothing right, riddled with fake places and times. It also found some weird and unique places I never would have considered.

I had a blast, brought me back to traveling pre-internet, requiring a level of spontaneity I had forgotten we used to depend on. 100% recommend it.

New comment by skylurk in "AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2k a Month to Masturbate"

skylurk — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:15:05 +0000

Sounds like UBI to me

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:29:13 +0000

Hmm. You doth protest too much, methinks :)

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)"

skylurk — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:19:59 +0000

How does this deleted fix_everything.sh fit in to your story?

https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/6e01d29365f345283ec...

New comment by skylurk in "List animals until failure"

skylurk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:13:24 +0000

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

New comment by skylurk in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:35:08 +0000

Also, many tunnels. Less fumes makes a difference.

New comment by skylurk in "OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:42:37 +0000

Is it now officially "eternal sloptember"?

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:39:03 +0000

I like how it fluently replies in Spanish to another bot that replied in Spanish.

New comment by skylurk in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

skylurk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:58:46 +0000

Try Windy.com, it's got ECMWF data, among others.