Hacker News: sxcurry

New comment by sxcurry in "NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions"

sxcurry — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:35:27 +0000

All of this makes more sense when you realize that it has nothing to do with saving money or reducing the deficit. It's all about causing fear and uncertainty, and reducing structural defenses against the grifting and looting connected to TFG's friends.

New comment by sxcurry in "Evidence of controversial Planet 9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart"

sxcurry — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:55:24 +0000

I think he’s referring to Mike Brown’s book “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”. It’s a great read.

New comment by sxcurry in "US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek"

sxcurry — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:23:15 +0000

That would be "Running Man" Hawley who was recorded scurrying like a rat through the House while his buddies were trying to overturn the election.

New comment by sxcurry in "Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after Klamath River dam removal"

sxcurry — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:11:56 +0000

This is completely incorrect.

Apple to Replace CFO Luca Maestri on Jan. 1

sxcurry — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 22:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/26/apple-to-replace-cfo-luca-maestri-on-jan-1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363043

Points: 27

# Comments: 12

The legacy of Liverpool's forgotten synchrocyclotron

sxcurry — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/the-legacy-of-liverpools-forgotten-synchrocyclotron/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40867273

Points: 54

# Comments: 15

Cancer papers mention cell lines that don't seem to exist

sxcurry — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:30:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-cancer-papers-mention-cell-lines-don-t-seem-exist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pair of six-year-old LNG carriers primed for scrapping having never traded

sxcurry — Thu, 02 May 2024 14:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://splash247.com/pair-of-six-year-old-lng-carriers-primed-for-scrapping-having-never-traded/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40236451

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sxcurry in "How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (2016)"

sxcurry — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:58:55 +0000

Well, I don’t agree with your opinion of Science News, but that’s OK. What I was pointing out is that she was indeed referring to Science News (and also Science Perspectives) as sources for her reading and understanding of a paper.

New comment by sxcurry in "How to (seriously) read a scientific paper (2016)"

sxcurry — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:41:19 +0000

I guess you didn’t read the article very closely. The Science editor was talking about Science News (note the capitalization) which is a well respected information resource.

NASA Finds Likely Cause of Osiris-Rex Parachute Deployment Sequence

sxcurry — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2023/12/05/nasa-finds-likely-cause-of-osiris-rex-parachute-deployment-sequence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38856644

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru

sxcurry — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:58:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/ftx-lobbyist-tried-to-buy-island-nauru-create-superspecies-lawsuit.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868445

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by sxcurry in "My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do"

sxcurry — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 01:20:50 +0000

My 24 year old truck can do things an iPhone still can't do

New comment by sxcurry in "Apple Introduces M2 Ultra"

sxcurry — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:16:48 +0000

What’s the Apple hardware tax? I’ve never seen it applied, but maybe that’s because I live in Oregon, no sales tax.

New comment by sxcurry in "Wind and solar are now beating coal in the US"

sxcurry — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 21:50:40 +0000

Could you show some facts please? Everything I’ve seen shows the cost of solar especially to be much lower than carbon based generation.

New comment by sxcurry in "The APL Source Code (2012)"

sxcurry — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:23:53 +0000

My very first programming experience was with APL\360, using a time share IBM terminal with the APL type ball. We wrote code in a Geodetic Sciences class to compute Least Squares solutions to survey networks. I really liked APL...

Apple says it will allow iCloud backups to be fully encrypted

sxcurry — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/07/icloud-apple-encryption/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33897866

Points: 40

# Comments: 9

New comment by sxcurry in "UTC vs. UT1 time and other nuances (2020)"

sxcurry — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 02:03:54 +0000

Rather than geodesic I think you meant geoid.

New comment by sxcurry in "Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy"

sxcurry — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:15:51 +0000

"(Only as those stars exploded did they forge heavier elements such as oxygen and spew them into the cosmos.)" I don't think this is correct - can't elements up to Iron be created through fusion in the stellar core?

New comment by sxcurry in "Boötes Void: What is this patch of space with few stars?"

sxcurry — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:05:01 +0000

It’s Declination not “decline”. This article makes very little sense - computer generated?