Hacker News: thrill

New comment by thrill in "Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Officially Released"

thrill — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:41:16 +0000

This is why people like to pick up the new Studios from the Apple Store in person - for that short ride back home their car is worth four times what it was on the way there.

New comment by thrill in "In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible"

thrill — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:50:09 +0000

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New comment by thrill in "Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage"

thrill — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:00:36 +0000

Why do the immediate complaints that something is AI generated feel like they're AI generated?

New comment by thrill in "Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students"

thrill — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:51:03 +0000

Haven't you heard? Fields Medalists believe it only counts when they do the solving - not the unwashed.

New comment by thrill in "Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development"

thrill — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:14:16 +0000

Of course they are - anything to secure their position.

New comment by thrill in "YouTuber, or someone, wants to send nice emails to active military personnel"

thrill — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:45:29 +0000

Ditto.

New comment by thrill in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

thrill — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:38:40 +0000

Being the “first(!) post” to complain about AI, correctly or not, is the new street cred.

New comment by thrill in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

thrill — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:36:52 +0000

A vanilla git server works great too.

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

thrill — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:12 +0000

Far less than the constant whining about AI.

New comment by thrill in "Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants"

thrill — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:37:38 +0000

Probably not unless there was something presenting, as a Class 1 FAA medical exam is checking medical history, vital signs, vision, hearing, cardiovascular health, neurological function, and general physical condition. There's a urine test for blood, glucose, protein. Last one I had there was no blood test or cancer screening unless it was something showing on the skin.

Interestingly, to me, my last medical was 2 years ago and there was no concern for the spot on my cheek that turned out to be basal cell carcinoma.

New comment by thrill in "Columbia House, Mail-Order Media Company, Is Shuttering"

thrill — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:14:10 +0000

I guess my buddy from long ago was right - he never paid them that penny.

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

thrill — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:15:03 +0000

So the other half have more?

New comment by thrill in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

thrill — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:58:58 +0000

Why bomb something, which carries its own risk profile and success criteria, when you can make some piece of equipment malfunction just enough to wear out in a year instead of 20 years?

New comment by thrill in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"

thrill — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:37:36 +0000

Errors can be along any axis, random, infrequent, drifting, and nonobvious.

New comment by thrill in "Apple is getting this wrong"

thrill — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:35:17 +0000

We're living through the history of how OpenAI became AppleAI, told in a teenager's diary tone - we just need some doodles in the corners.

New comment by thrill in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

thrill — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:40:31 +0000

auto-erotics ... it was sitting right there.

New comment by thrill in "Banning AI will not make it go away"

thrill — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:45:14 +0000

It will just make it so only the privileged can benefit - and that list will not include you.

New comment by thrill in "Answering "why do you want to relocate?" during interviews"

thrill — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:44:55 +0000

Sutton's Law.

New comment by thrill in "Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)"

thrill — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:06:34 +0000

I think the homepage is creative.

New comment by thrill in "Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition"

thrill — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:48:34 +0000

When a certain now famous (in those circles) narrator was first getting started he mentioned on his FB page he wanted help with pronunciation of certain military terminology. I offered to help, knowing people in many fields plus my own. And ... my goodness, the absolute poor quality of some the writing he sent me. One author would use the full terminology for every firearm every time he looked at it, picked it up, loaded it, holstered it, drew it, released the safety, fired it, cleaned it, thought about while in the shower, whatever. You got tired of reading about the "Heckler & Koch HK45 Compact Tactical (HK45CT) MK-24 Mod-0" fully spelled out three times a page.

And then the author with his own specialty started writing about my field ... oh so badly.

So, knowledge of weapons doesn't translate in knowledge of writing (or vice versa). My only criteria any longer is just don't say "clip" unless your character has scored himself a Mauser C96 or similar and we're good.