Hacker News: Angostura

New comment by Angostura in "Are sugar substitutes healthier than the real thing?"

Angostura — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:49:58 +0000

High quality critique. Thanks!

New comment by Angostura in "Are sugar substitutes healthier than the real thing?"

Angostura — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:49:06 +0000

I believe the point is the effects are seen, despite the underlying chemical makeup of the sweeteners. So that’s the point

New comment by Angostura in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

Angostura — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:06:56 +0000

I think I’m probably being dumb, but the gotcha here seems to be - ‘if I give an application permission to access a folder, it has access to the files in that folder’ - which is what I would expect??

New comment by Angostura in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

Angostura — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:57:28 +0000

Replace ‘invented’ with ‘facilitated’

New comment by Angostura in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Angostura — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:01:13 +0000

You mean, why is it worth noting that someone who frequently speaks at conferences about Bitcoin, has businesses that utilise Bitcoin and is influential in the Bitcoin community is - the inventor of Bitcoin?

New comment by Angostura in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

Angostura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:45:46 +0000

Thank you. I'll give it another go. I did enjoy Angelmaker as an enjoyable romp

New comment by Angostura in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

Angostura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:20:37 +0000

I enjoyed Gnomon, but boy I didn't find it an easy read

New comment by Angostura in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

Angostura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:19:23 +0000

I'd try Ted Chiang's anthology of short stories: Stories of Your Life and Others.

New comment by Angostura in "Peptides: where to begin?"

Angostura — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:47:35 +0000

> you don't need to know how they work to know that they work

Welcome to the powerful world of the placebo

New comment by Angostura in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

Angostura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:08:56 +0000

Not really

> Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

It was described by someone else as spectacular - in this case NASA

> Artemis II crew take spectacular image of Earth

We the BBC certify that this image is officially spectacular

Not hugely important in this context. By more import, when the sentence is something like X 'commits warcrimes' against Y

New comment by Angostura in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

Angostura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:19:00 +0000

Weird. I think I have about 4.

Someone is confusing the menu bar for the Dock

New comment by Angostura in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

Angostura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:08:35 +0000

> The reality is that no program so far has really been successful within the NHS.

Could you be a bit more specific? No IT initiative at all? No attempt to create a national data spine?

New comment by Angostura in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

Angostura — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:26:34 +0000

Perhaps they spent considerable effort putting the data set etc together, and subsequently decided to launch as a standalone domain. I wouldn’t take registration date as the final arbiter of seriousness

New comment by Angostura in "Apple at 50"

Angostura — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:59:40 +0000

My iPhone 13 mini launched around the same time runs it with zero problems

New comment by Angostura in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

Angostura — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:33:55 +0000

It’s not all or nothing there ads trade offs. The fact that Apple still bothers to expend marketing effort on its privacy chops suggests significant numbers of people still do care.

New comment by Angostura in "We're pausing Asimov Press"

Angostura — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:58:27 +0000

No, it was just a poorly structured announcement

New comment by Angostura in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

Angostura — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:10:23 +0000

Wrong OS though.

New comment by Angostura in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

Angostura — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:54:44 +0000

I read this:

>For the recipient, a fax is a physical reality. It requires paper. It requires ink. It requires time.

... I assumed that there would simply be a messaging system attached to an OCR at the other end - no physical fax machine

New comment by Angostura in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

Angostura — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:52:59 +0000

Like a large screen and a keyboard? Hello Mac Neo

New comment by Angostura in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

Angostura — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:25:33 +0000

Really good advice above. But if you want to cheat a bit, I used https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/vitax-clay-breaker--25-kg-... on my heavy clay garden and it helped a lot, in combination with extra organic material etc.