Hacker News: um1

New comment by um1 in "Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart"

um1 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:58:43 +0000

Seems like a good idea! I basically stopped consuming the news for years except for occasional local news. I was much happier. Then around covid, started up again (unfortunately still am… :( ). When your mind is in state of fear/anxiety it impedes your ability to think clearly (or so I believe several studies have indicated). Likely by design? Tried reading various left/right media in multiple countries to get a better picture, but it is very homogeneous. Really, instead of looking at spin, better to see which stories are ignored - especially on “both” sides. But interesting to see the propaganda and what each side/ faction reports and what they don’t. I think most thinking people have given up on the legacy corporate media at this point. Their remaining viewers are dying of old age or are true believers that drank the kool-aid. Oops this went a bit longer than I thought, apologies.

New comment by um1 in "Technocracy 2.0"

um1 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:54:08 +0000

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

TLDR; they built a mouse utopia universe 25 with plenty of food water and space . Eventually some grew violent, others sat and groomed themselves all day, they stopped breeding and died out.

New comment by um1 in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

um1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:46:02 +0000

LFS seems to be for people who are interested in how things work. The systemd proponents come off as people who would question why you would want to to drive a manual transmission and say of course you should choose an automatic or better yet, a robot; self driving car. It would be interesting to see how those opinions line up with the uses of AI

New comment by um1 in "What you need to know about EMP weapons"

um1 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:50:48 +0000

Netanyahu?

New comment by um1 in "Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)"

um1 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:38:07 +0000

A little off-topic/tangential it seems the real discovery or invention was the axle, or probably more specifically the bearing.

New comment by um1 in "Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript"

um1 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:12:36 +0000

One file is great!

New comment by um1 in "Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found"

um1 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:51:03 +0000

Di caprio?

New comment by um1 in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

um1 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:25:48 +0000

I know a guy who does similar. He gives the messed up parts that got damaged to his dog.

New comment by um1 in "Stop saying "just" (2019)"

um1 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 02:36:59 +0000

Just stop oil. Just kidding. But maybe we should just get rid of ‘should’.

New comment by um1 in "Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' to enact violence on others"

um1 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:08:55 +0000

You’re right “pushed” is the wrong word. “Provoked” (repeatedly, incessantly) would be a more appropriate way to describe the coup and subsequent actions.

New comment by um1 in "Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language"

um1 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 01:26:14 +0000

Very cool. I like that both lisp and forth were “discovered” and that this cvbp is more fundamental than both(?!). This reminds me of [pdf] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/181993.181999 and wonder if/how it relates.

New comment by um1 in "Global study shows a third more insects come out after dark"

um1 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:55:24 +0000

I wonder if the headlights attracting bugs might somewhat compensate for the lower traffic. Or they are evolving and bugs. that come out only at night have a survival advantage

New comment by um1 in "Bugs Matter: counting insect ‘splats’ on vehicle number plates [pdf]"

um1 — Thu, 05 May 2022 23:58:50 +0000

I wonder if it is a matter of there simply being more cars on the road - population increase. i.e. fewer bug impact per car. Traffic? Can (higher) velocity have an effect? Off topic: same goes for “power density” in gas vs electric vehicles. What is power density in oxygen free environments like underwater or space?