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New comment by sunrunner in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

sunrunner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:37:06 +0000

I know a few people that simply wear headphones to help with managing sensory overload, so I wouldn't assume that having headphones on is a guarantee of listening to something (though still likely to be strongly correlated).

As far as assailants, a skilled ninja wouldn't be detected even if their target weren't wearing headphones...

New comment by sunrunner in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

sunrunner — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:47:42 +0000

I'll have you know my mediocrity is directly proportional to my age.

New comment by sunrunner in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

sunrunner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:24:07 +0000

Not correcting, just clarifying for myself. I sure wish I had such a controlled environment with only 15% of time in coordination and where standup actually was 15 mins and not a segue into the everything meeting.

New comment by sunrunner in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

sunrunner — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:42:26 +0000

> Ctrl-F "help"

> Ctrl-F "h"

> 0 results found

Interesting set of shortcuts and slash commands.

New comment by sunrunner in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

sunrunner — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:48:15 +0000

Is that three kinds of regular meetings? Because I count 8 meetings (and four kinds, as I don't think I've ever had demo and retro combined due to different groups of people being in both).

New comment by sunrunner in "Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO"

sunrunner — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:32:59 +0000

I'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a refinement to the round boulders that already existed on the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing in that form.

New comment by sunrunner in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

sunrunner — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:56:48 +0000

I tried going for just a button down and clean pants and was stopped by the police.

New comment by sunrunner in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

sunrunner — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:45:36 +0000

> literally holding a wad of cash

And that's the most believable thing in the image. From the banknotes, to the rather visible outline on Thiel himself, to what I can only describe as an out-of-focus picture of the supernatural entity from Still Wakes the Deep.

New comment by sunrunner in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

sunrunner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:36:01 +0000

Why do we keep calling these things "agents" then? Or using the term "agentic"?

New comment by sunrunner in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

sunrunner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:27:18 +0000

> We won't change until Skynet fires off the nukes.

And then we won't need to, because at that point it will be too late.

New comment by sunrunner in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

sunrunner — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:49:20 +0000

Would a guarantee of a different kind of prison environment change your mind? For example, prison conditions in the Netherlands versus the US? If you were allowed 6+ hours of positive, structured activities a day? Less than if you weren't in prison of course, but as we're talking about 'How much is it worth to you...'

New comment by sunrunner in "Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables"

sunrunner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:46:44 +0000

> Seriously, in what world do we need a rust compiler in php?

This is described in the README:

> Useful if you need to compile Rust on a shared hosting server from 2008 where the only installed runtime is PHP.

So I guess that world? I mean there's working around a problem and then there's working around a problem...

It would be amusing if, in such a highly limited environment, the compiled binary was still unusable due to restrictions on setting the executable flag.

New comment by sunrunner in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

sunrunner — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:22:36 +0000

Something I call the 'Generate First, Review Never' approach, seemingly favoured by my colleagues, and which has the magical quality of increasing the overall amount of work done through an increased amount of time taken by N receivers of low-quality document having to review, understand and fact check said document.

See also: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity [1]

[1] https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:55:26 +0000

Is that based on not investing that $21 million or am I misreading something about how that money was or wasn't used?

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:04:16 +0000

I guess I’m still similarly unaware, because nothing about palming people money on the way out like a magician or doing the restroom trick feels classy over everyone just being super upfront about the bill and tips.

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:01:23 +0000

Perhaps codazoda asked to delay an hour as an excuse to stay longer, so they did well with their part of the plan?

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:57:07 +0000

You don’t have to be, but it helps not to be bad looking.

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:48:21 +0000

Even if it is in the T&Cs, this one feels like it wouldn’t actually hold up?

Expecting people to read those for most simple sign ups is already a high baseline, and Starbucks is not technically a banks and offers no consumer protections (FSCS or other), so that feels knowingly misleading, even if the total balances held are small per customer.

IANAL, of course.

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:43:25 +0000

I mean I’d love to have a free $21M a year, but if you’re already Starbucks then somehow it feels like pocket change compared to your actual earnings and would question if it was worth the effort.

New comment by sunrunner in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

sunrunner — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:39:06 +0000

I think that poster is saying that here on HN posters typically preserve points, lines and parallelism. Rude, quite honestly.