Hacker News: tetris11

Curta Mechanical Calculator

tetris11 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:12:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742002

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tetris11 in "Back to the future: modules for Guix packages (2022)"

tetris11 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:06:47 +0000

I love Guix, I just hate that it requires such an invasive installation for it to work.

Compare it to pixi for example which has all the same features (pixi shell, pixi run, pixi pack, etc.) and requires only a small user-level installation and a folder specific deployment

DIY Thermocam

tetris11 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:36:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.diy-thermocam.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725169

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tetris11 in "A succession crisis that tore England apart (2023)"

tetris11 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:12:58 +0000

Felicia Hemans's poem He Never Smiled Again is an ode to Henry I's reaction to his son and only male heir perishing in the tragedy

  > The bark that held a prince went down,  
  > The sweeping waves roll’d on;  
  > And what was England’s glorious crown  
  > To him that wept a son?  
  > He lived-for life may long be borne  
  > Ere sorrow break its chain;-  
  > Why comes not death to those who mourn?  
  > —He never smiled again!

https://www.poeticous.com/felicia-hemans/he-never-smiled-aga...

New comment by tetris11 in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

tetris11 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:35:58 +0000

oh absolutely, but if they lose half their audience due to the sloppification of their front page, then they lose both legitimacy as an interesting and impartial platform to promote said AI tech

New comment by tetris11 in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

tetris11 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:50:19 +0000

Its important to use these filtered front pages though, so that eventually theres a sizable Referrer traffic chunk coming not from HN's frontpage itself that will signal to the admins that something is up

New comment by tetris11 in "Coyote v. Acme (1990)"

tetris11 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:37:20 +0000

When there's a will, there's a way...

New comment by tetris11 in "Coyote v. Acme (1990)"

tetris11 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:49:22 +0000

Yep, reasonable film to stream. Wouldn't pay theatre money to go see it

New comment by tetris11 in "I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32"

tetris11 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:44:48 +0000

Very light on details, but did awaken me to the idea that you can setup HW projects like this without soldering. Bluetooth is practically ubiquitous, and ESPhome does offer this up in a palatable way

New comment by tetris11 in "Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face"

tetris11 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:05:10 +0000

There goes the free lunch

By 2029 no computer or "machine intelligence" will have passed the Turing Test

tetris11 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://longbets.org/1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562391

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tetris11 in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

tetris11 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 14:14:04 +0000

> $5 wrench

Ref for anyone looking: https://xkcd.com/538/

New comment by tetris11 in "How much of HN is AI?"

tetris11 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:50:32 +0000

The issue is the tech and the motives to wield it. Cosy decentralized message boards exist, thankfully outside the realm of the greater public.

The moment that the greater public sees these high trust networks and tries to join them, all the bad actors and their armies of bots will follow and I mourn for the recreation time of any admin who has to suddenly deal with that.

Private walled gardens seem to be the only way forward for now. If you love something, do not share it here

New comment by tetris11 in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

tetris11 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:24:54 +0000

when the local baker jacks up his prices to leach off the richest man in town, everyone else suffers

New comment by tetris11 in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

tetris11 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:56:53 +0000

People can be predisposed towards something, and then have a tipping point brought by periods of great stress

Jason Arday recently committed suicide due to media pressure, and even when the media was told that he was not mentally well and should please back off, they didn't.

The man was accused of plagiarism, and there was no final verdict on if he did. The institutions that hired him clearly had no issues in vetting him. And yet he committed suicide.

There are absolutely horrible people out there right now who's entire careers are shams, and don't even come close to thinking about it. People are built different, and have different triggers

New comment by tetris11 in "Nokia Design Archive"

tetris11 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:46:45 +0000

It's a self-signed cert registered with Harica CA, but the certificate itself does not require the certificate authority to validate it according to Firefox's about:certificate

New comment by tetris11 in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

tetris11 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:03:16 +0000

Agreed, but then shrink the price too

New comment by tetris11 in "Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago"

tetris11 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:13:37 +0000

It's insane to see the UK still growing. Despite all of our problems, it's still a nice place to be

New comment by tetris11 in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

tetris11 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:16:47 +0000

What happened between February and March?

New comment by tetris11 in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

tetris11 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:37:40 +0000

"When work felt like home"

Gosh I haven't experienced that in a while. Working remote really does feel like a death sentence sometimes