Hacker News: temp0826

New comment by temp0826 in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

temp0826 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:52:04 +0000

As far as I can tell, this whole experience/reality was created the moment I became conscious of it!

New comment by temp0826 in "Poisonous invasion: What is the 'devil's trumpet' harming crops in Iraq?"

temp0826 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:39:03 +0000

I've never heard of it called devil's trumpet. But interestingly (to me, anyways) is brugmansia, which is a different genus with similar properties (often confused with datura) has flowers that hang downwards (daturas point up) and one of its common names is angel's trumpet.

New comment by temp0826 in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

temp0826 — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:49:12 +0000

I did it this way for a long time, but it was mostly a learning/experimenting/fun thing back to have a "proper" server out there that I can run whatever service I wanted on (be it an irc bouncer or whatever). I'm a grownup now and don't have the time/care anymore and just run them out of s3/cloudflare (which was still "fun", but now I don't need to worry about the cve of the day. I don't mind contributing to the centralization of the internet when I'm paying $0/month for pages that nobody visits. Definitely happy to nerd out again if something ever warrants it).

New comment by temp0826 in "Map of Metal"

temp0826 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:26:09 +0000

Witchcraft (especially their earlier albums) really scratches this itch for me

New comment by temp0826 in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

temp0826 — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:38:37 +0000

What? These two substances aren't even in the same ballpark.

New comment by temp0826 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

temp0826 — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:12:13 +0000

More commonly "bath salts"

New comment by temp0826 in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"

temp0826 — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:35:13 +0000

"It takes a village"

New comment by temp0826 in "Discord Incident"

temp0826 — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:50:29 +0000

Dynamodb going down in us-east-1 essentially causes an all service, worldwide outage

New comment by temp0826 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

temp0826 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:04:26 +0000

HW decoding works fine. But some distros (looking at you Fedora) have legal issues around providing it out of the box.

New comment by temp0826 in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

temp0826 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:16:00 +0000

Grow up with an alcoholic parent then get back to us

New comment by temp0826 in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

temp0826 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:04:53 +0000

In huge agreement with you. But can it be done in a different way that doesn't create the black market problems of the prohibition era? (Do we have a better chance now with gen z's aversion to drugs/alcohol?)

New comment by temp0826 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

temp0826 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:04:23 +0000

I agree (and I don't normally generalize like this, so I apologize). I've spent most of my time in Peru but noticed it in neighboring countries as well.

New comment by temp0826 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

temp0826 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:15:49 +0000

Living in South America a bit really showed me this. I think it's a cultural thing here but someone will always give you an answer, even if it's wrong, confidently. It was hard for me at first- I am usually the first person to say "I don't know" (often followed by "but let's slow down and find a good solution").

New comment by temp0826 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

temp0826 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:58:58 +0000

Looks great. Subscription? Big ol nope.

New comment by temp0826 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

temp0826 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:05:30 +0000

Is this better odds than sailing across the Atlantic in the 1400-1500s?

New comment by temp0826 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

temp0826 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:17:59 +0000

One time cost? This should be a subscription that raises spikes when you don't pay

New comment by temp0826 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

temp0826 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:01 +0000

It still whips the llama's ass.

New comment by temp0826 in "The Importance of Being Idle"

temp0826 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:24:29 +0000

I've never seen it mentioned anywhere in their histories but I always suspected the messaging apps Slack and Discord were references to Church of Subgenius and Discordianism respectively

New comment by temp0826 in "Some Unusual Trees"

temp0826 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:01 +0000

One of my favorite trees is Couroupita guianensis, known by a few other names (ayahuma, cannonball tree). When mature the trunks grow some beautiful flowers that can cover the trunk (wiki link has a few good pics). Native to South America, it's a revered tree in Amazonian plant shamanism (all parts of the plant can be used medicinally; spiritually it is one of the big ones, an entire school of its own). It made its way to India in the 1800s where it holds a lot of renown and importance now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couroupita_guianensis

New comment by temp0826 in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

temp0826 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:01:27 +0000

I'm reminded of the ads when logging into Ununtu in the motd...nothing infuriated me more (I only used it for a short period).