Hacker News: zethus

New comment by zethus in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

zethus — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:28:42 +0000

Hi ricky. No questions here, just a fan of yours.

New comment by zethus in "Colab notebook to create Magic cards from image with Claude"

zethus — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:37:14 +0000

At least from the limited sample size of results, the rules text seems like garbled than other models in the mtg card generating space. Curious if you're able to first generate a few mechanics, and then have it design an entire set (either bottom-up or top-down). I'm sure balancing is not something Gen AI can do properly... but I imagine this can really change how set designers approach new worlds or mechanics!

New comment by zethus in "I'm So Old: Web Edition"

zethus — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:29:40 +0000

Don't forget about the visitor counter perl scripts!

New comment by zethus in "Akira Toriyama has died"

zethus — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:10:39 +0000

To add to the list for the interested. Not exhaustive, but showing more themes!

Food: - Garlic Jr, his henchmen: Shu, Mai, Spice, Vinegar, Mustard, Salt - Captain Ginyu (牛乳 Milk), Recoome (pun for Cream), Guido/Gurudo (pun for Yogurt), Bonyu (母乳), Jeice/Jisu (Cheese), Burter (Butter) - Beerus (Beer) - Oolong and Puer (Teas) - Chichi (milk) - Pan (Bread)

Temperature: - Chilled, King Cold, Freiza, Cooler

Animals: - Namek (蛞蝓 Namekuji, slug), Dende: (Denden-mushi, snail) - Master Roshi/Kame Sen-nin (亀仙人 "Turtle Hermit) - Tsuru-Sen'nin (鶴仙人, "Crane Hermit")

Instruments: - Piccolo - King Piccolo's children: Banjo, Bell, Mandolin, Maraca, Marimba, Conga, Cymbal, Drum, Harp, Organ, Piano, Tambourine, Ukelele

Colors: - Red Ribbon Army: General Blue, Tao Pai Pai (桃白白 white), Colonel Brown, Colonel Silver, General White, Captain Dark, Captain Yellow, Colonel Viiolet, General Copper

Cinderella: - Bibidi, Babadi, Buu

Devil/Satan: - Mr. Satan - Videl (anagram of Devil)

New comment by zethus in "JWST Captures Image of Supernova That 'Absolutely Shattered' a Star"

zethus — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:20:21 +0000

Some stars survive supernovae, and are known as zombie stars [1]. One believed example is SN2012Z [2]

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

[2] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3bbd/...

New comment by zethus in "The Domestication of SARS-CoV-2 into a Seasonal Infection by Viral Variants"

zethus — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:45:42 +0000

More infectious: easier to spread & catch Less virulent: less harmful when caught

New comment by zethus in "Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?"

zethus — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:29:38 +0000

Magic: the Gathering.

Started playing very casually before stepping into a more competitive scene. It's both strategic (intersection between poker and chess) as well as creatively expressive (deckbuilding/theorycrafting).

Downsides: $$$

New comment by zethus in "Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)"

zethus — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:23:31 +0000

I think this would be one way to describe upside down, but my feeling is I wasn't the only one picturing someone fully inverted with feet above head.

New comment by zethus in "Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page"

zethus — Wed, 24 May 2023 16:05:23 +0000

A part of me wishes the "Bonus: RESTful UI" section at the bottom opened a "Coming soon" modal

New comment by zethus in "Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)"

zethus — Wed, 24 May 2023 15:57:23 +0000

Title isn't completely accurate, as the author states they were kneeling bent-over, creating an incline for the food to travel up. That being said, I've never thought of the esophagus was a muscle that could be trained. Very cool!

Edit: there's a 6" riser that the author describes kneeling on, while their head is then lowered closer to the floor, supported by their arm(s).

New comment by zethus in "I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to"

zethus — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 18:57:45 +0000

Hey now, they're just trying to make enough money to pay their ever-increasing rent! /s

New comment by zethus in "Things I’ve learned in my years as a software engineer (2021)"

zethus — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:42:24 +0000

This is an underrated analogy. I'm stealing this.

New comment by zethus in "Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system?"

zethus — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:57:41 +0000

Trusting us Americans to know history? Not a chance.

New comment by zethus in "Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm"

zethus — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:29:16 +0000

As a FSD purchaser, I can tell you that watching videos do not give you the full experience of sitting in the driver's seat while FSD is on. The amount of times I need to regularly overtake control in both urban and rural environments on simple turns is enough to make me not recommend the FSD option to prospective Tesla buyers. At this point, the way it's marketed, I would lean more towards scam than even gimmick.

New comment by zethus in "Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays"

zethus — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:37:21 +0000

Kind of perfect for a travel mahjong set where you don't have a table to shuffle a bunch of tiles on!

New comment by zethus in "Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing"

zethus — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:26:43 +0000

The author does take a wild ride into the world where, via Hawking radiation, the interior is NOT causally separate, yet quantum-ly entangled.

New comment by zethus in "Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing"

zethus — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 19:24:59 +0000

Ah I understand your argument now and can agree we are on the same page. Can't say I know of any empirical/observed evidence either. I don't believe AdS/CFT can be used to make predictions of precise accuracy beyond serving as a toy model to reshape other physical observation.

To get off the tangent, I've backed up the comment chain and am thinking about your original comments on the harmfulness of articles like this. At first I shared OP's sentiment that it is generally harmless, but the more I think about it, the more I take your stance. Curious what your thoughts are on exposing more people to theoretical physics sans popsci buzzword articles?

For anyone else who's following this thread, I would recommend checking out "The Trouble with Physics" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108939.The_Trouble_with_...

New comment by zethus in "Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing"

zethus — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:26:08 +0000

fall into a black hole and find out :)

New comment by zethus in "Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing"

zethus — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:24:44 +0000

I'd argue that in the case of AdS/CFT correspondence, they've been mathematically proven to be _possible_. Doesn't mean that it is true. We also don't have all of the answers to AdS/CFT questions to prove a holographic universe theory with utmost certainty. I would, however, agree that evidence could have been presented in the article, but I'm guessing the target audience for this piece may have never clicked into an array of academic papers.

The classical wormhole as an extreme fold in spacetime is mathematically _possible_, but given what we've observed in the universe, extremely unlikely to naturally occur.

New comment by zethus in "Speculation that wormholes and entanglement are two aspects of the same thing"

zethus — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:04:40 +0000

> The speculative claims discussed in this article have no evidence to support them.

Can you highlight which claims that you find to be speculative without evidence? There's a mix of existing theories that are being actively studied in theoretical physics (holographic cosmology), and some claims that the author seems to call out in rhetorical question. I get that either will whoosh over the lay person.