Guy: And this little fellow shall be known as the "splendid hermit crab" Wife: Someone's in a good mood this morning!

hope you brought urine!

It's impossible to predict which direction a full garbage bag will lean

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

This shit is

The “Scandinavian hotels discover shower doors” challenge (impossible)

I made a map of surface parking in downtown Bellingham. It's wild how much of our most walkable neighborhood is parking lots: earth.google.com/earth/d/1FDg... (h/t @larsiusprime.bsky.social for the instructions)

thinking about an April Fool's joke where I wait for my friend to fall asleep, sedate them, dress them as Hannibal, fly them out to the nearest mountain range, put them in a tent surrounded by elephants, and then wait for them to wake up.

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

Interesting picture. What if we built houses out of that?

I’m out of tokens and have to raw-dog react native for the next hour like it’s Q3 2025 😭😭😭

Spent a bit of time with Claude Code trying to resurrect an old game project. We were getting nowhere until I dug up my 15-year-old Objective-C implementation which still works perfectly once Claude converted it to Swift/SpriteKit.

Turns out it would be pretty easy to substantially lower the cost of MRIs.

You’re not imagining things—the plums that were in your icebox are *completely gone*. Here’s why that’s bad news: • They were *your plums*, that you were saving for breakfast. That makes this personal for you. • They were *sweet*, so whoever ate them *enjoyed* them. That’s unforgivable.

Can I say “Pigeon Creek Number 2”, which is a totally not-made-up waterway?

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

This is pretty cool (I had this same thought myself) and honestly not a bad business idea as a web service. "People who are strongly considering dropping 4–5 figures on an HVAC system" seems like an audience that businesses would be eager to advertise to.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

It’s high time English replaced “ph” with “f”. Fotografy instead of photography; filosofy instead of philosophy; ufolstery instead of upholstery.

When people say they want flying cars, what they really mean is that they want the only flying car.

Just heard the alphabet song for the first time in years.. it actually holds up

Whore you, the apostrophe police?

@pbones.com IMO the funniest Liquid Glass icon blooper (visible with the Terminal icon on a dark background) is this lopsided mess

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

Just like SimCity was not based on actual US minimum parking standards, because it would have made the cities too boring to keep players’ interest.

I (and perhaps you) get confused because we think intellect has to be connected with wisdom or thoughtfulness, but it just doesn’t. Intelligence is values-neutral and amplifies whatever it is pointed at.

Dear Toronto: We will stop scoring runs this game if Doug Ford agrees to stop tearing out bike lanes. Until then, the runs will continue.

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

IMO the right call here: www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/oct/07/.... Electric buses are only going to get better and cheaper, and diesel buses are already so much better than solo driving that it's a net win if it keeps a few more cars off the road.

Me: the US needs a Loonie *monkeys paw curls*

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Bellinghamhenge

If you were to buy a tent from REI in the early 80s, this is what the instructions you got would look like:

“Zesty Jumble” is my favorite flavor of potato chips.

The analogy I'm increasingly turning to to describe LLMs is "word-Roomba." It does a kind of mediocre job most of the time, but it is a job that you no longer have to do or think hard about. And you do have to make sure that it doesn't hit a cat turd and smear it all over the room.

AI is an e-bike for the mind.

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes

I wish UIViewController had a method you could override that the system would call once your view had finished laying out its subviews. They could call it something like “viewDidLayoutSubviews”. But that name is already used for a method that gets called when the subviews are not actually laid out.

Need an LLM trained on HN comments for when I’m getting too excited about a new idea.