Hacker News: wileydragonfly

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:15:34 +0000

“I don’t have a phone”

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:13:51 +0000

He hasn’t done anything new since Pretty Hate Machine. Which was a hell of a debut but he’s been recycling the chord progressions for almost 40 years.

A fun game is “how many lines can he go without saying I or me?” I do not encourage making a drinking game out of it.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:58:43 +0000

Clown world.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

wileydragonfly — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:21:52 +0000

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

wileydragonfly — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:19:41 +0000

So.. he wasn’t impeached. Thanks for interrupting.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

wileydragonfly — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:58:22 +0000

Whiteys on the moon

New comment by wileydragonfly in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

wileydragonfly — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:50:22 +0000

You’re allowed to type shit. We’re all adults here.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "A Few Good Magazines From the 70s and 80s"

wileydragonfly — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:54:53 +0000

Exact same experience here.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Honda is killing its EVs"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:31:08 +0000

I’m really at a loss with these “we should stop using the abundant natural resource bubbling out of the ground and completely overhaul our entire infrastructure” arguments. We also produce more wind power than anyone else. Change will come incrementally.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Honda is killing its EVs"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:02:41 +0000

We are a net oil exporter. I have no idea where everyone around here thinks all this electricity to charge cars is going to come from.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

wileydragonfly — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:44:40 +0000

Series X is a premium experience. Walmart delivered one for $350 at 4am with Diablo 4. Still feels like robbery a couple of years later.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

wileydragonfly — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:54:43 +0000

Well, they used that same logic to force integration… so.. sometimes good sometimes bad?

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:28:15 +0000

A 40% reduction in speed only causes a 5% increase in travel time? Are the majority of car trips spent sitting at stop lights??

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

wileydragonfly — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:44:25 +0000

I like GIMP and I’ve unlearned a lot of my photoshop muscle memory but the name is a huge problem and I have to say “yes, I know, the name is unfortunate” every single time I introduce it to someone new. I’ll carry this burden because it’s free software but it is so annoying.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

wileydragonfly — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:31:17 +0000

Dreadful and painfully Nordic.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

wileydragonfly — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:36:50 +0000

They are possibly capable of answering the question themselves.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza"

wileydragonfly — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:39:35 +0000

Put on the coat… put on the diving suit… came out of the ocean.. tried to put the coat back on. (Thought I would have taken it off)

“ The breeder talks up her dog-grooming services.”

Hey, look at me big hunting.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Dinosaur Food: 100M year old foods we still eat today (2022)"

wileydragonfly — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:16:32 +0000

Family ancestors in very rural Texas used to drink “sour dirt” which was a tablespoon or two of dirt mixed with water. Intermediate generation did gather some from their favored spot and have it tested. Several essential minerals in it. Go figure.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

wileydragonfly — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:35:40 +0000

Pretty cool, good for him. My Thermo Fisher bottle opener is a prized possession. Much like those cancer center ash trays.

New comment by wileydragonfly in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

wileydragonfly — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:55:09 +0000

Why should anyone inclined to want to buy beer have to show ID to do it?