Hacker News: AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=AndrewSwiftHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 09 May 2026 14:40:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"]]>Which Quick Look extension? I've been looking for a good one.

]]>Sat, 09 May 2026 09:08:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073375AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073375<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Chest Fridge (2009)"]]>Drawers would solve this in a vertical fridge.

]]>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:42:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475044AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475044https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475044<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "A NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident"]]>All trucks have standard shipping container trailers. Europe has strict length limits for the overall cab/trailer that preclude a hood in front of the cab. There is great resistance to changing the law, even though long-nosed trucks are vastly more aerodynamic, because the law provides protection for european truck makers from American competition.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:58:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121173AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121173<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]>FWIW: option double click sny corner to make any window full-screen without going into full screen mode.

Double click any side or corner to move it to the edge of the screen, and hold down option to make the effect symmetric.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:25:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580261AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580261https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580261<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Are the Three Musketeers allergic to muskets? (2014)"]]>My guess is that the use of mousquetaires was more a reference to a specific corps of the military than to the weapon itself.

It would be like the gendarmes today — literally "armed people", even if they don't always carry an arm.

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:57:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218396AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218396<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"]]>It would be nice to have details:

It rewards or penalizes online services depending on whether they agree to carry out “voluntary” scanning, effectively making intrusive monitoring a business expectation rather than a legal requirement.

]]>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:55:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077501AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077501<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Whatever Happened to String Theory?"]]>This is a great article — just short texts by experts in their field who really know what they're talking about. It's very refreshing compared to all the rewritten and simplified articles one so often sees.

]]>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 07:54:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943484AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943484https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943484<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"]]>See svija.com/en — all SVG websites ;-)

]]>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:23:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242512AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242512<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"]]>Yes! We do that with svija.com/en — an all SVG website with an HYML wrapper so it displays at the correct size.

]]>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:23:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242502AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242502<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Nicu's test website made with SVG (2007)"]]>We have been building all-SVG websites for six years – https:/svija.com/en

They do get indexed by Google, and we take some extra steps to ensure usability.

]]>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:21:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242489AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242489<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "The Worst Air Disaster You've Never Heard Of"]]>The linked article is itself a link to

https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppel...

]]>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:28:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231504AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231504https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231504<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "iPhone Air"]]>It's wild to see the HN crowd, bleeding-edge technologists, regularly bring up "lying flat on a table" as a critical feature for a supercomputer inside a camera that fits in your pocket.

Somebody (many somebodies?) is rolling over in his grave.

]]>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:41:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194100AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45194100<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Welcome to url.town, population 465"]]>Cool, but I'd like us to get past the idea that a site has to use Times font to be retro.

Times is really not adapted for the web and is particularly bad on low-resolution screens. How many computer terminals used Times for anything but Word processing?

Verdana was released in 1996 — is that too recent?

]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:27:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783569AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783569<![CDATA[Cyberattack on Russia's Aeroflot]]>Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/en/pro-ukrainian-hackers-claim-massive-cyberattack-russias-aeroflot-2025-07-28/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44722057

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:42:49 +0000https://www.reuters.com/en/pro-ukrainian-hackers-claim-massive-cyberattack-russias-aeroflot-2025-07-28/AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44722057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44722057<![CDATA[Sunscreen choice: Updating mechanistic misconceptions]]>Article URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jvc2.251

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721564

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 10:36:30 +0000https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jvc2.251AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721564https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44721564<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"]]>I have always assumed that this was done to drive app usage. Companies hope that if you use an app regularly you'll keep it on the home screen of your phone, and it becomes a foothold into your most intimate device.

]]>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:06:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568287AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568287https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568287<![CDATA[Are we the baddies?]]>Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115

Points: 718

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]]>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 05:36:32 +0000https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-we-the-baddies.htmlAndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44478115<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "No One Can Explain Why Planes Stay in the Air (2020)"]]>You can see why planes stay in the air by sticking your hand out a car window.

If you know better contradict me, but:

An inclined flat surface will push air down, creating pressure below, and create an empty area above, creating a partial vacuum pulling up.

Airfoils are used instead of flat surfaces because they eliminate turbulence by creating laminar airflow.

Regular planes are not built for flying upside down and have airfoils optimized for regular flight — the airfoil section we're all familiar with.

At an airshow once, a pilot showed me that on a plane built for acrobatics, the wing section is vertically symmetrical.

]]>Sat, 17 May 2025 21:26:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017090AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017090https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017090<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s"]]>The seat is too low.

]]>Tue, 13 May 2025 16:50:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974969AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43974969<![CDATA[New comment by AndrewSwift in "The Accursed Share"]]>Share as in "my share of the reward", not as in social media.

]]>Sun, 11 May 2025 07:44:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952130AndrewSwifthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43952130