Hacker News: yzydserd

New comment by yzydserd in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

yzydserd — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:20:07 +0000

No, Biff informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session.

Erich's Packing Center

yzydserd — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:19:29 +0000

Article URL: https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280223

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yzydserd in "Squares in Squares"

yzydserd — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:14:32 +0000

Many squares in circles bests were found this month.

https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squincir/

The way you draw circles says a lot about you

yzydserd — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:30:08 +0000

Article URL: https://qz.com/994486/the-way-you-draw-circles-says-a-lot-about-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204341

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by yzydserd in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

yzydserd — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:12:57 +0000

A literature search didn't turn much evidence of this at all, let alone conclusive evidence. Any sources? I swirl right hand clockwise. I also draw circles clockwise. One article said circle drawing direction was likely cultural or linked to handwriting systems, not which was more "natural".

New comment by yzydserd in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

yzydserd — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:26:06 +0000

It’s similar in other sports. Around 30% of top cricketers are left handed. It’s 40% for some leading countries.

The “hypothesis presumes that athletes in interactive sports are much more likely to play and practice against right-handed opponents. As a result, these athletes develop both greater familiarity and highly specific skills to anticipate the action outcomes of their right-handed opponents via attunement to crucial perceptual information”

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7424046/

New comment by yzydserd in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

yzydserd — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:43:58 +0000

> So I built a scraper that hits the UK government's mandatory Fuel Finder API every 10 minutes and stores every price change. 90k records across 7,700 stations since January.

Only 1 change per station per week on average? Fewer than I expected. Not sure I'd call it a scraper, myself.

157p/L national average is about 8 USD/G.

New comment by yzydserd in "Shares in Japanese toilet maker Toto soar on AI-related pivot"

yzydserd — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:09:32 +0000

Being a world leader with 1's and 2's, it was only a matter of time that they diversified into 0's and 1's.

New comment by yzydserd in "Show HN: Hormuz Havoc, a satirical game that got overrun by AI bots in 24 hours"

yzydserd — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:15:02 +0000

Reminds me of the 1990 Amiga game Nuclear War. Characters included Infidel Castro, Mao the Pun, Ronnie Raygun, Ghanji, Gorbachef, Colonel Khadaffy, and of course Ayatollah Kookamamie. https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/nuclear-war

New comment by yzydserd in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

yzydserd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:55:41 +0000

Human in the loop reinforcement learning

New comment by yzydserd in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

yzydserd — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:45:22 +0000

Same here. Single screen, single app, at least 95% of the time. For decades.

I’d like to try a squarish monitor, but it seems to be a barren wasteland of choice: mateview, dualup, or flexscan. Meh.

New comment by yzydserd in "Kagi's retro April 1st home page"

yzydserd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:42 +0000

> By this server's count, you are visitor number Warning: include(visitor_count.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/public/kagi.com/index.php on line 6!

It's like going back in time.

Kagi's retro April 1st home page

yzydserd — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:59:27 +0000

Article URL: https://kagi.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598505

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by yzydserd in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

yzydserd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:09:02 +0000

To many fellow Europeans, the “old grandpa shouting at the clouds” is perceived to be some other entity.

New comment by yzydserd in "Apple Just Lost Me"

yzydserd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:18:32 +0000

I was pleasantly surprised by the age verification. "Based on the age of your Apple account you are verified as being at least 18 years old". Done. Tempus fugit.