Hacker News: zulux

New comment by zulux in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

zulux — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:04:56 +0000

My hunch: Sound-deadening baffles.

New comment by zulux in "Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore"

zulux — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:36:21 +0000

Don't worry about it.

The lack or excess of commas doesn't upset any reasonable person in the slightest.

New comment by zulux in "Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use"

zulux — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:30:24 +0000

Wise.

Continuing a conversation is often just a slow-drip Streisand effect.

New comment by zulux in "Don't Be Nice"

zulux — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:48:32 +0000

Poe's law man... :)

New comment by zulux in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

zulux — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:21:36 +0000

Yes.

I do it locally to nudge political discourse. Doesn't take much to sway a lot of people.

I'm glad I agree with what I'm doing because its effectiveness is terrifying.

New comment by zulux in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

zulux — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:00:11 +0000

It's their country. They can do what they want as long as they don't start another war.

New comment by zulux in "LLM Ass Bench"

zulux — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:48:11 +0000

I go to church every week. I try not to swear.

The site is fine, and it's funny to my inner 13-year-old boy.

New comment by zulux in "Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'"

zulux — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:23:16 +0000

I'm Lutheran, and we take a very dim view of suicide.

However, RW was going through hell on earth with his diagnoses and the progression of this disease. Many of us don't view what he did as a willful destruction of the life that God gave him.

New comment by zulux in "Don't Be Nice"

zulux — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Someone who built Britain before the jet age.

New comment by zulux in "Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy"

zulux — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:58:50 +0000

I had a massive stroke. I should be in a wheelchair. I'm mostly fine now.

It's postulated that my multilingual abilities helped, among other things.

New comment by zulux in "Roman Timekeeping"

zulux — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:56:14 +0000

The Hours-Varry-By-Season is also reflected in older Japanese timekeeping: futeijihō

New comment by zulux in "Better Icon and Label Alignment"

zulux — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:37:40 +0000

If they were just objects, indeed it would look better from a visual standpoint.

I think it would drive most of your fellow humans nuts. My hunch is that people read the bullets as sentence markers, not just a visual flourish.

New comment by zulux in "The President's Power to Pardon Friends and Allies Must End"

zulux — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:43:51 +0000

I'd settle for not having them signed by an autopen in bulk.

New comment by zulux in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

zulux — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:07:58 +0000

One problem that poorer American people have is too much food, leading to obesity.

New comment by zulux in "Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations"

zulux — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:31:52 +0000

Another 'gift' of the ADA, making it miserable:

Incorrect urinal height: The urinal rim exceeds the 17-inch maximum height, making it inaccessible for wheelchair users.

New comment by zulux in "JetKVM Mini"

zulux — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:39:06 +0000

Cheap 4K HDMI/VGA-to-USB input boards and reverse HID cables are available. Betwen the two for $50 - they turn your laptop into a Moniitor, Keyboard and Mouse for a random computer.

New comment by zulux in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

zulux — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:06:05 +0000

The nice thing about religious faith is that most minds can hold only one at a time. I may believe in an oddly resurrected deity who took the shape of a man, but I don't have room for anything crazier.

"We are fools for Christ's sake." 1 Corinthians 4:10

New comment by zulux in "Why the AfD Wins"

zulux — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:58:43 +0000

Enough legal/illegal/asylum drama for it to become an election issue. Hard to hide rape statistics.

New comment by zulux in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

zulux — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:11:25 +0000

There's an escape valve: I've had Claude stand-up AI-enabled features in my app, so we're much less dependent on Claude itself. The app uses cheap API calls to check code quality and run other "lessons learned" sweeps. Some of these become regular code in the end as well.

New comment by zulux in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"

zulux — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:01:03 +0000

I agree. National Socialists and Fascists are unacceptable. Also their cousins - International Socialists.

Any ideology that has a body count measured in the millions is my enemy.