If Twitter was still a thing I'd start a gimmick account called HN Dead Comments, basically a curated selection of comments on Hacker News that got downvoted enough to be greyed out. Here's one I just saw: "AI fans moving the goal posts everyday. You got scammed by billionaires to pay hundreds […]

Question for Bay Area railfans: when was the last time the Fruitvale Bridge was lowered for rail traffic?

I'm being told that Kubernetes does not in fact rhyme with "Uber Eats"

When you get a mosquito bite (despite wearing jeans) on your knee in the middle of January--that's California! 🙃

Any of you ever used a HP Dev One?

Metaphor Alert https://hoodline.com/2026/01/major-rodent-infestation-cited-at-balboa-cafe-newsom-linked-sf-institution-has-just-1-week/

No Pride at Kinko's

Getting tired of those posts that are like "the next Democratic administration needs to prosecute Elon" or whatever. We all know that the most likely thing that happens if Democrats ever regain power is that they pardon everyone in the Trump administration because we need to "look forward not […]

I think I'm gonna get one of those laptops with Linux pre-installed on it. Every day I hear something new that's bad about Windows 11.

If J.S. Bach's music is orange juice, then C.P.E. Bach's music is an Orange Julius (not an insult by the way)

The plants are called Allium because they're All Yum

I think Scott Wiener has outlived his usefulness. I appreciate the work he's done getting YIMBY bills passed, but if he can't admit there's a genocide in Gaza then it's time to move on.

"Why are people blaming Democrats for all this?" I dunno, maybe because Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0?

(Billy Joel voice) Everybody's talkin' bout the new sound funny but it's still Rick & Morty to me

Suppose a feller needs a new laptop sooner or later, and really doesn't want Windows 11, is too broke for Apple products, and is Linux-curious. What would you recommend?

Wondering if I'll be able to stay up until midnight for the first time in ~30 years. Even as a kid I liked staying up for the countdown.

Happy Friday. Or whatever day it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ze-RR1i1d8

Raise your hand if you knew that Michael Jackson's mother is still alive (TIL, she's 95!)

Power is out again in the Richmond. (I’m not there, we have power) I’ve lived in many third world countries, most didn’t have this level of power service. My monthly bill exceeds the monthly salary of many of those countries I have in mind too. #sanfrancisco #PGE

Just remembered a funny dream I had last night. I was borrowing my mom's Cybertruck (my mom does *not* own one just to be clear) and I accidentally rear-ended someone. I initially started to flee, mostly out of embarrassment to be driving such a vehicle, but after a couple blocks I decided to […]

Lake Oroville, California's 2nd-largest reservoir, was at 767 feet of elevation on December 20th. Today it's up to 811 feet. If you've ever seen Lake Oroville up close you know how much water it takes to make the lake go up by even 1 foot.

It's ok to be Irish and to not like "Fairytale of New York"

I was gonna get Chinese food on Christmas but I don't want to appropriate Jewish culture

NWS is saying that a weather station in northwestern San Mateo county recorded a wind gust of 92mph last night!

"Mary's Boy Child" sounds like one of Mary's friends sarcastically referring to a younger man that Mary is dating

The politician who's brave and powerful enough to do something about PG&E will have statues of them all over California

I wish I'd never said OK to the Computer

"There's a new cannabis dispensary that's close enough to walk to!" OPEN THE GATE! "They oppose the red lanes for the K on Ocean ave" CLOSE THE GATE!

Cast-iron pan owners of Mastodon, how do you wash them after you're done using them?

Got a mosquito bite last night right on my sock line. CAN THE TEMPERATURES IN THE 40s PLEASE COME BACK?

It doesn't seem like people are telling young people "it gets better" anymore. I used to hear that a lot when I was in high school.

Why don't they just make self-driving e-bikes?

Waymo is still shut down? How will people who are too good to ride transit get around?

Defund PG&E

"British people don't like spicy food!" Then how do you explain this, huh?

Have any of you ever created a Wikipedia article about a person from scratch? I want to do that for Jai Winding. His impressive list of people he's worked with as a keyboard player/producer/arranger includes Michael Jackson, Madonna, The Eagles, and The Chipmunks […]

Who do you bank with? SF FIRE Credit Union has kinda gone to shit so I'm thinking of switching back to a conventional bank.

Asshole 29 driver forced me off the road earlier tonight on Lakeshore. Funny thing I was about to turn right and I would have been out of his way in like 10 seconds anyway. I'm filing a complaint but since the drivers are in a union I assume it's impossible to fire them hence why they have no […]

Pirates of the Human Be-In

If only there was a body of water of some sort right next to SFO that planes could fly over while they're taking off/landing. Oh well, no choice but to fly right over people's houses at low elevation at all hours of the night!

Beyond parody. You'd think they'd at least turn this feature off for posts under 250 characters or so.

How it feels when you finally fix a bug

Apparently when you take a screenshot on Android it creates a PNG file, but if you then edit that screenshot (say by cropping it) the resulting file will have the file extension .png but it will actually be a JPEG!

Yesterday I went on a walk and since the temperature got up to the high 50s the mosquitos were immediately back out in force. Can we go back the cold?

All I want for Christmas is the construction at my next door neighbor's house to be finished

If we can't say the word "kill" on social media then how are New Yorkers supposed to talk about their creeks and streams?

There are more vacant parking spots than cars. We don't need to build any more new parking.

Justin Timberlake has pledged millions of dollars to the cause of reversing erosion of Iceland's volcanic islands. He's bringing Surtsey back.

Mom was at the Senior luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center today. She was talking to a woman from Co. Longford who said she came to America in 1955. When my mom said that was the year she was born the woman replied "oh you're still a child!" She was 94!

(British person insulting you) You absolute flytrap