Watterson serves as one of the symbols of an era when selling out was considered a great sin. It makes me laugh how thoroughly that idea - that selling out is bad - has been defeated.
That being said, I'm sure he would've done it the same way today.
Readit Newskhy commented on Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works acma.gov.au/phone-numbers... · Posted by u/nomilk
Futurama used the alien alphabet to get around this because, as the commentary said, they didn't want to use another 555- number.
The Simpsons went more meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qh1JlNaOxo
khy commented on Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25... · Posted by u/ciconia
> back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3
Wow, hadn't thought about that in a while. For a laugh, go back and take a look at some of the architectural choices they were replacing.
khy commented on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit creators.yahoo.com/lifest... · Posted by u/anderber
All The Simpsons episodes are on my YouTube TV DVR, along with a lot of the shows my kids like (although really what they care about is a couple channels on YouTube proper), so even before this I was wondering why I was paying for Disney+ at all.
Why does it seem like phishing is popular again? Maybe bad actors forgot how gullible humans were? I get phishing attempts nearly daily via email or sms and I honestly thought “Who would fall for this?” every time one came in.
The only phishing I can see that would be extremely hard to detect are browser extension injections (either in extension window or page replacement) so the domain is legitimate.
A little thing that doesn't help the situation is when legitimate emails link you to domains that aren't obviously controlled by the company.
For example, yesterday at work I got an onboarding email from Lattice (lattice.com) with a link to latticehq.com, which triggered my phishing instincts before I remembered that was their old domain.
It's kind of an expression of the success of an abstraction. If an abstraction is good (hx-get="/clicked"), it feels local. If an abstraction is bad (id="d1"), it's spooky action at a distance.
khy commented on US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law wired.com/story/us-suprem... · Posted by u/mikece
Good bit of trivia:
> In 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the trademark of Oswald (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play announcer on NBC Sunday Night Football)
There is a reason why a lot of science in the past happened to be done by clergymen or pastors. They had a lot of time on their hand and a secure income. I am certain science, art and the community in general would profit immensely if the modern workload would be reduced.
I think covid was a good example of this. So many people took up a new hobby or tried something new.
I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.
From a Hacker News perspective, I wonder what this means for engineers working on HBO Max. Netflix says they’re keeping the company separate but surely you’d be looking to move them to Netflix backend infrastructure at the very least.
I tend to see much more discussion about how the main downside is for sellers of content. Why is this bad for consumers?