Hacker News: solids

New comment by solids in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

solids — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:23:22 +0000

Having one clear short term goal after another may sound to freedom for some people.

New comment by solids in "Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel"

solids — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:17:29 +0000

It takes much less time to learn it at a playable level than tennis. In my opinion, learning tennis and being able to hit a powerful drive is much more rewarding, but nowadays people don’t want to “waste” time in improving technique.

New comment by solids in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

solids — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:30:06 +0000

Curious to hear if you had any trouble passing review.

New comment by solids in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

solids — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:10:49 +0000

Yes, but the barrier to become a senior is what’s currently in dispute

New comment by solids in "iPhone Air"

solids — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:09:38 +0000

99% of people uses a case for the phone so the color doesn’t change anything

New comment by solids in "The Therac-25 Incident (2021)"

solids — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:26:40 +0000

Was that a bug or a failure to inform pilots about a new system?

New comment by solids in "The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass"

solids — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:40:03 +0000

As expected, bureaucrats completely out of touch with current technology producing regulations that are out of touch with current technology

New comment by solids in "Turn any diagram image into an editable Draw.io file. No more redrawing"

solids — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:34:28 +0000

LLMs work great with mermaid

New comment by solids in "AI coding agents are removing programming language barriers"

solids — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:44:48 +0000

My experience is that each question I ask or point I make produces an answer that validates my thinking. After two or three iterations in a row in this style I end up distrusting everything.

New comment by solids in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

solids — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:53:05 +0000

You are not addressing the point in the comment, why are failing CI changes assigned?

New comment by solids in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

solids — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:28:32 +0000

I understand this feeling. When I was younger I took a lot of time preparing and taking meaningless random pictures.

Years later I started taking pictures only with the people I was with.

Nowadays that smartphones got much better, I just start recording a video of the moments I think will be worth remembering, but without paying much attention to the frame, I just record and that’s it.

Years later when you watch them it feels much more vivid than watching a still dead photo.

New comment by solids in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

solids — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 07:05:07 +0000

Mermaid is also great

https://docs.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/7-er-diagram-exampl...

New comment by solids in "Why does JSON have commas?"

solids — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:32:42 +0000

The main reason behind JSON widespread usage is human readability.

New comment by solids in "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988)"

solids — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:48:19 +0000

Argentinean ant

New comment by solids in "Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem"

solids — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 16:37:30 +0000

Maybe the housing crisis is related to the lack of legal security that owners have, which severely reduced the offer and obviously increased the prices.

The housing law that the current government passed wasn’t very clever…

New comment by solids in "Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem"

solids — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:22:19 +0000

Squatting is a problem, period. Doesn’t matter if the house is empty or not.

New comment by solids in "Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes"

solids — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:41:46 +0000

Imagine how much money Boeing paid for having it this way.

New comment by solids in "Military action against land-based targets in Yemen moves a step closer"

solids — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:33:17 +0000

No, you don’t negotiate with pirates.

New comment by solids in "How Lego builds a new Lego set"

solids — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:13:30 +0000

Absolutely agree… I think in early 2000 they found a nice sweet spot where you bought a set to build a particular object, but all of them featured a fairly common set of pieces. So after a while of having it in the shelve it could be repurposed.

New comment by solids in "Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin"

solids — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 08:43:42 +0000

Go for it, this will force X to provide a better web app (isn’t too bad today to be honest). Not sure Apple would want that.