Hacker News: songshu

New comment by songshu in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

songshu — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:49:59 +0000

I’ve been on this for 20 years. The guy has coffee table books! He cashes checks! He took something that was previously done anonymously and for free, put his name on it and started charging for it. Good luck to him, but anonymous he is not.

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

songshu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:06:35 +0000

Yes, putting out cones. Bending over, laying down a cone, taking five steps, laying another. Hard work. Meanwhile Malcolm Gladwell changes his mind about it. Put out some cones, Malcolm!

New comment by songshu in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

songshu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:56:50 +0000

To this day I swear I want Yo. I’d use it daily.

New comment by songshu in "Space Truckin' – The Nostromo (2012)"

songshu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:30:28 +0000

The rule only applies to vowel sounds like the ones in believe/receive. There are versions of the rhyme that attempt to include this caveat.

New comment by songshu in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

songshu — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:57:13 +0000

Please ride safely

New comment by songshu in "The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far"

songshu — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:45:39 +0000

I looked it up. Rule 5.4 of the American Bar Association.

New comment by songshu in "The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far"

songshu — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:42:35 +0000

They have, let’s not call it a union to not upset people, but let’s say a collective agreement that they won’t work for capital. They will only work for other lawyers. So there’s no Walmart Law or other enterprise selling legal services for cheap.

New comment by songshu in "Apple Invites"

songshu — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:45:43 +0000

3 seconds would not matter to me. As it is, latencies are much higher and afford time for my family group chat (WhatsApp) to "spoil" events that I have not yet seen. I don't want to ignore the chat. :(

New comment by songshu in "Writes and Write-Nots"

songshu — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:13:30 +0000

Best-selling author Stephen Hawking?

New comment by songshu in "We don't do DST at this company"

songshu — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:53:15 +0000

https://qntm.org/abolish

New comment by songshu in "The Twelve-Factor App (2011)"

songshu — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:37:58 +0000

I love this generally but some of it has leaked out to the wrong people and there are strong cargo cults around such things as one codebase===one app.

New comment by songshu in "macOS Containers v0.0.1"

songshu — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 12:49:26 +0000

Tell us what distro you recommend?

New comment by songshu in "Finfluencers"

songshu — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:27:00 +0000

There's MEME if you wanted to bet for instead. For betting against I don't know if there is an ETF yet but you can short MEME manually.

New comment by songshu in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

songshu — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:02:50 +0000

Yes and then spend a lifetime with annoying workarounds. A friend has been double knotting forever :(

Ask HN: Are you talking to robots on Hacker News?

songshu — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:50:34 +0000

We are past the point that machine generated comments would survive and be engaged with by human users on Hacker News.

Have you suspected machine generated content in HN comment threads?

Would it pain you to discover you had responded to a machine?

Do you know anything about the prevalence of such content here or on other fora?

Do you disagree with my statement? Why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520294

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

New comment by songshu in "How the US can stop wasting billions of dollars on each transit project"

songshu — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:24:23 +0000

I know this isn’t quite the same as what’s happening in the article, but: what do you use when referring to a singular person of unknown gender?

New comment by songshu in "Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move"

songshu — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 01:59:26 +0000

The Super Bowl in 2013 featured an intentional safety. Losing points but running the clock down. The play was predicted by one attendee at the party I was at —- a British gentleman whose introduction to football had been the Madden games.

New comment by songshu in "Ask HN: What is your fav “I can't believe in 2022 this still doesn't work right”"

songshu — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 14:49:54 +0000

Cancel next iteration of alarm on iPhone.

New comment by songshu in "Tesla Vehicle Production and Deliveries for 3Q 2022"

songshu — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:07:20 +0000

The Volt was an instant classic and you're very lucky to have one. IMO the best EVs right now are coming out of Korea but things are moving very fast and I'm expecting good things from the big 3.

New comment by songshu in "Total Eclipse of the Moon: 2022 May 16"

songshu — Mon, 16 May 2022 00:48:25 +0000

Last time I looked into this I implemented some stuff from Astronomical Algorithms https://www.amazon.com/dp/0943396352 which was more fun for me than just grabbing the data.