Hacker News: AnnikaL

New comment by AnnikaL in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

AnnikaL — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:54:11 +0000

I died of malaria at age 1 in the West African Sahel!

New comment by AnnikaL in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

AnnikaL — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:26:40 +0000

I'm American, and I don't use the extra cash flow (in fact, I make sure to keep more money in my checking account than I spend on the credit card, so I can always auto-pay my bill and therefore never pay any interest).

If I could get a debit card that gave me 2% cash back on all transactions, I'd use that instead!

New comment by AnnikaL in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

AnnikaL — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:10:53 +0000

Yeah, wouldn't it makes sense to increase fundraising, so as to acquire more compute to close the gap?

New comment by AnnikaL in "The Visual 6502"

AnnikaL — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:06:58 +0000

I got 22-33Hz on an AMD Ryzen 7640U on power-save mode and 50-55Hz on performance mode.

New comment by AnnikaL in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

AnnikaL — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:15:59 +0000

I wonder if some of this will reverse once more electric cars are available on the used market, which are cheaper to fuel and require less maintenance. Already some of the explosion of non-luxury EVs with >200 miles range around 2020ish are starting to be available used, albeit a bit more expensive than gas counterparts.

If battery degradation isn't too great, maybe in 10 years people can buy 15 year old EVs that are cheap to maintain and run (for those who can accept the tradeoffs of EVs - and that would reduce demand on ICEVs). We'll see.

New comment by AnnikaL in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

AnnikaL — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:11:16 +0000

I think it doesn't have to be insecurity. I drive a Hyundai Kona, and have no particular desire for speed or performance; I'm happy for other people to have sporty, fast cars even if they are modded, but I do get annoyed by very loud vehicles (regardless of performance; e.g. small motorcycles or pickups that are very loud are also annoying).

I'm not blaming OP specifically for this, but I don't think you have to drive a sports car to be allowed to be annoyed by loud cars without it being 'insecurity'.

New comment by AnnikaL in "What even is food authenticity? Why we guard carbonara, and flatten chicken rice"

AnnikaL — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:48:40 +0000

Adding onions, non-cheese dairy, bacon, chives and/or udon noodles to carbonara sounds delicious. If I am cooking for myself, I care more about that than fidelity to traditional Italian recipes.

New comment by AnnikaL in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

AnnikaL — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:35:19 +0000

Happy to say that the electric car I drive checks every box!

New comment by AnnikaL in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

AnnikaL — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:16:07 +0000

Well, yes, but the courses I've taken for the computer science portion of my degree feel much more like math or engineering than science; experimental/empirical verification of natural facts are hardly present.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

AnnikaL — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:14:50 +0000

I'm in Mudd's class of '27 (and I was on the honor board for 2 years), and I do think the honor code system has gotten somewhat less functional over the time I've been here. But I think a majority of students and faculty still want to make it work.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

AnnikaL — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:12:52 +0000

Wait, why can't the students be punished?

New comment by AnnikaL in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

AnnikaL — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:02:13 +0000

50% of the human population will at some point in their life have periods, perhaps; but presumably (due to childhood and menopause) less than 50% of the human population has recently experienced a period.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Am I German or Autistic?"

AnnikaL — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:22:44 +0000

Is Kantian morality popular in Germany? I admittedly know few Germans but they do not seem to be especially deontological in morality.

New comment by AnnikaL in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

AnnikaL — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:50:34 +0000

Wow! This is really impressive!

I kind of want to try some project like this sometime, but I wouldn't even know where to start...

Kona EV Hacking

AnnikaL — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:26:16 +0000

Article URL: http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/cars/ev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342185

Points: 134

# Comments: 75

New comment by AnnikaL in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"

AnnikaL — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:14:44 +0000

Should the Spanish government decide what is "misinformation"? Should it be forbidden to read false or misleading statements on the Internet?

New comment by AnnikaL in "Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months"

AnnikaL — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:32:15 +0000

Green cards are for permanent residency, so it makes sense to me that someone would live in the US for 30 years with one. That seems very different than spending over a decade in the US without any permanent status, just temporary visas.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Memories of .us"

AnnikaL — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:02:36 +0000

The notion that community colleges can't use .edu no longer seems true. When I took community college classes, I got an @my.smccd.edu email address.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Where do the children play?"

AnnikaL — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:24:44 +0000

Without court approval, no one under 16 can get married in any US state.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Federal Workers Quit"

AnnikaL — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:05:24 +0000

Why shouldn't Agriculture scale with population? Presumably a larger population involves more food being sold in the US (and grown in the US if the share of exports/imports remains the same).