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A second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

tigerlily — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239213

Points: 5

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New comment by tigerlily in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

tigerlily — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:42:12 +0000

Oh, thank you, what a lovely choice of text. I wonder if your parents meant for you to read it?

My sister mentioned to me recently she has a print of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver on the back of her bathroom door. Your quotation made me think of her poem.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/15374223-Wild-geese-by-Mary-J-Oli...

New comment by tigerlily in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

tigerlily — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:02:27 +0000

This is such a neat comment! If you concentrate, it's very near the metre and prose of a Dr Seuss story, like the Lorax or the Sneetches.

New comment by tigerlily in "Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon"

tigerlily — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:00:43 +0000

Anyone else instantly picture the Glyph of Gallantry lying amongst jungle vegetation in a Heroes of Might and Magic 3 map?

New comment by tigerlily in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

tigerlily — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:38:18 +0000

Huh, this'll probably do more than just improve sleep.

New comment by tigerlily in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

tigerlily — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:42:26 +0000

And still others may be allergic to LaTeX.

New comment by tigerlily in "MAI-Cyber 1"

tigerlily — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:52:52 +0000

I expect the gen xers are using the word in a cynical sense.

New comment by tigerlily in "How to write English prose (2023)"

tigerlily — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:56:01 +0000

Lest that comment be misconstrued for what sister comments frame as anger (are they not merely nonplussed?), I am happy for the writing to be. Except that all good writing is edited.

Presently I am reading Hilary Mantel, an exemplary prose writer of the highest merit, so I trust you'll forgive me my Jeevesian dismay at style of The Florid Article.

New comment by tigerlily in "How to write English prose (2023)"

tigerlily — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:20:28 +0000

I can't remember who, but someone definitely said "if you want to write, you must first fill a chest with writing, then lock that chest, take out a blank sheet and then you can begin".

TFA as well as many other works of blog, belong in that chest.

New comment by tigerlily in "Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid"

tigerlily — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:30:25 +0000

I have come to the same conclusion, especially in regards to anything affecting digestion, from food poisoning, campylobacter, salmonella, giardia, to any gut parasites or just bad bacteria. It can change your gut physiology, mess with enzyme production long term, fucking up your diet by reducing the kinds of foods you can eat. There's also the possibility of bowel cancer pathways via such diseases, which I read is currently under investigation.

Louis de Bernières children's childhood ended the moment they got smartphones

tigerlily — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/as-far-as-i-can-see-my-children-s-childhood-ended-the-moment-they-got-smartphones

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880122

Points: 4

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New comment by tigerlily in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

tigerlily — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:19:11 +0000

That's where it's all goin'. Private, outta sight. Keep the 'bots out, an' you keep the man out.

New comment by tigerlily in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

tigerlily — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:55:41 +0000

Oh, sorry I was referring to the cosmological principle [1]. The wiki page is actually quite a good summary of the whole fiasco.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle

New comment by tigerlily in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe"

tigerlily — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:04:12 +0000

I will say that the current and future telescope lineup is amazing and is bound to reveal: even more fascinating insights and mysteries!

New comment by tigerlily in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

tigerlily — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:39:54 +0000

I took a good long look at the CMB picture, including the caption. It basically says the Universe was one big hot apparently uniform ball at one stage.

I don't know what conditions were like before that stage, but like Eric Idle says, nothing can come from nothing.

Dark energy is a horse shit name for a theory that was horse shit to begin with. The Universe is probably just inhomogeneous, like your intuition is saying.

New comment by tigerlily in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

tigerlily — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:11:17 +0000

Good, the grader should hone that skill at pace then.

A whale necropolis has been found

tigerlily — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:40:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01581-x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481546

Points: 67

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New comment by tigerlily in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

tigerlily — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:45:48 +0000

Meanwhile the NASDAQ fell 4.18% Friday just been. This seems more than just a coincidence, people have been talking about pulling investment ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and the latest market activity makes me think the discontent is tangible now.

New comment by tigerlily in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

tigerlily — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:18:21 +0000

Extinguish Windows morelike...

Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos will make competing harder

tigerlily — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r2zjpryzro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298915

Points: 4

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