brightbeige

3,358 karma · joined November 7, 2018

brightbeigeon Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway

If Tesla is a meme, is it worth a trillion dollars ?

brightbeigeon EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - (probably not) John Steinbeck

I guess with inflation we can update the quote to “temporarily embarrassed billionaires”

brightbeigeon Ask HN: What are the word games do you play everyday?

Shuffalo, from the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo

brightbeigeon TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912263

brightbeigeon CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

4k white settlers

brightbeigeon 430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

England wasn’t always an island

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

brightbeigeon Ikejime

> Ikejime … is a method of killing fish that maintains the quality of its meat.

> It involves the insertion of a spike quickly and directly into the hindbrain, usually located slightly behind and above the eye, thereby causing immediate brain death. After spiking the brain, a thin needle or piece of wire is inserted into the spinal column's neural canal to prevent any further muscle movement.

I read about it in a recent New Yorker short article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/01/26/how-to-kill-a-...

brightbeigeon Find a pub that needs you

Here’s the Lamb and Flag in Oxford

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/pub/11447801200

> the Inklings, a literary group including J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, started meeting at The Lamb and Flag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_%26_Flag,_Oxford

brightbeigeon Maine's black market for baby eels

There is a pretty fascinating New Yorker article which summarizes the “Book of Eels”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/where-do-eels-...

brightbeigeon Eat Real Food

“Let them eat steak.”

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

brightbeigeon I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

glomar

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

brightbeigeon I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

I get this error, iOS safari

> Unable to load feed, Incorrect path or invalid feed

;)

brightbeigeon I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

I think for food products there are more considerations, like labeling and traceability.

brightbeigeon I sell onions on the Internet (2019)

There is a lot of “paperwork” to do it as a web shop, if you know what I mean.

brightbeigeon Tell HN: Merry Christmas

B&H is doing fine financially and brings their webstore down for each and every Sabbath, even if that happens to be a Black Friday.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12183263

brightbeigeon Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL

The tracking isn’t in the html, and as it’s static, you can host it any other way you like

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...

brightbeigeon Feast Your Eyes on Japan's Fake Food

Really looking forward to read this one. The author is one of my favorites and these YouTube videos are my favorite video content: https://youtu.be/Chi8hk1Vqs8

brightbeigeon Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator

It tracks

> Seriously? You needed GPT-7 for that? Real genius move, typing "cure cancer" into a box. I could've solved it with `curl` and a three-line Python script. Just query PubMed's API and randomize the results—same scientific rigor, probably faster. Next time, try less hype and more basic scripting.

brightbeigeon Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose

RoR = Ruby on Rails

brightbeigeon What if tariffs?

It’s a part of a collection: “WHAT IF?”

https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/bioceramic-what-if.html

brightbeigeon What if tariffs?

That you can find around southern South America

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-28013157

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica_Invertida

brightbeigeon What if tariffs?

Only available in Switzerland

Here’s a link to the Swiss store which has more details, like price: https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/what-if-tariffs-so34z106/SO34Z1...

brightbeigeon I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

This one? https://signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-making-of-a-dumpster-fire/

brightbeigeon Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser

“open”

brightbeigeon Hacking the Humane AI Pin

Workstations put a computer on your desk.

Laptops put a computer in your backpack.

Smartphones put a computer in your pocket.

(I’m not sure what is next, but it’s coming, eventually.)

brightbeigeon Vietnam Airlines Data Breach

https://security.stackexchange.com/a/95070

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#Spear_phishing

brightbeigeon Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag

before updating docker desktop:

    X Docker.app: Electron 34.5.4 (Contents/MacOS/Docker Desktop.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework)

after updating docker desktop:

    X Docker.app: Electron 37.2.6 (Contents/MacOS/Docker Desktop.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework)

brightbeigeon Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updated to fix the system wide lag

I have Version 0.12.3 which seems to be the most recent release: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.12.3

It doesn't show up with a laggy Electron version.

I didn't use homebrew, but that version is also up-to-date: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/ollama-app

brightbeigeon I’m Not a Robot

That’s exactly what a robot would say ;)

brightbeigeon iPhone Air

My theory is rather about battery life:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44588733