Hacker News: skylurk

New comment by skylurk in "When Do We Become the Person We Ought to Be?"

skylurk — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:45:40 +0000

Some pastors are psychopaths.

New comment by skylurk in "Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share"

skylurk — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:10:44 +0000

I've always rented a vehicle for those long-haul drives anyway. If you know you will be driving a lot, it's worth avoiding the depreciation on your daily driver.

New comment by skylurk in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

skylurk — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:37:56 +0000

Globe-trotting contractors are probably well-paid specialists. GP is probably not commenting on the German labor market.

New comment by skylurk in " prevents me from logging into Vanguard"

skylurk — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:30:25 +0000

Sometimes I need to sign in to a personal Github account on a work laptop, so I hope non-passkey flows keep working. I don't install my personal password manager on a work laptop.

New comment by skylurk in "We’re forgetting what darkness feels like"

skylurk — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:05:18 +0000

Huh light pollution is one of my main complaints about the Netherlands. Your parents must live in the North?

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5.66&lat=52.0357&lo...

New comment by skylurk in "Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless"

skylurk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:37:45 +0000

Clearly you had the means... was it not possible to pay for private healthcare?

New comment by skylurk in "Backups Aren't Simple"

skylurk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:47:01 +0000

Do you need to export them? Can you not copy the library file to a different drive?

Birdychat Is Now Balsio

skylurk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.balsio.com/blog/birdychat-is-now-balsio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738619

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by skylurk in "Swift 6.4 Released"

skylurk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:21:18 +0000

Huh I thought I just didn't know what I was doing

New comment by skylurk in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

skylurk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:43:42 +0000

AI writes 900% of my code. Only some of it is worth merging ;)

New comment by skylurk in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

skylurk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:59:02 +0000

I tried to use the built-in foundation models to draw pelicans riding bicycles, but what I got out was SVG of roadkill. That is realistic in a different sense.

  fm respond 'draw an svg of a pelican riding a bicycle'

New comment by skylurk in "Kagi Translate Is Back"

skylurk — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:00:31 +0000

I think it would be nice to have a small monthly API allowance in the professional plan.

New comment by skylurk in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

skylurk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:53:01 +0000

> You can position and resize terminals freely instead of squeezing everything into a uniform grid

yes please!

New comment by skylurk in "The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

skylurk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:55:29 +0000

> I think giving someone hope that an answer exists might as well be the same thing as giving them the answer these days.

If you read the history of major scientific discoveries, this has been the case for a long time. There are many things that were independently discovered by different people at nearly the same time. Once people know something is solved or solvable, it gets a relentless amount of focus.

New comment by skylurk in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

skylurk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:04:03 +0000

This happend to me too. What does it mean, indeed? Yikes!

New comment by skylurk in "Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation"

skylurk — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:28:09 +0000

Testosterone is a hell of a drug.

New comment by skylurk in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"

skylurk — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:42:11 +0000

Don't knock it til you've tried it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_(Saba)

New comment by skylurk in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"

skylurk — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:56:37 +0000

Saba joined the Netherlands in 2010

New comment by skylurk in "The Highest Point in the Netherlands"

skylurk — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 04:59:25 +0000

I guess we can't call it the nether-lands anymore.

New comment by skylurk in "Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities"

skylurk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:52:31 +0000

I like the way the alarms app lets you specify exactly which days of the week a repeating alarm applies to.