Hacker News: AnnikaL

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).

New comment by AnnikaL in "Tinder, Hinge, and their corporate owner keep rape under wraps"

AnnikaL — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:10:11 +0000

I would prefer to date an averagely-physical-attractive person whom I enjoy spending time with than a very physically attractive person whose personality I dislike.

New comment by AnnikaL in "I asked four former friends why we stopped speaking (2023)"

AnnikaL — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:32:29 +0000

Hm, 57% of first marriages not "failing" (presumably meaning that they last until one spouse dies) actually seems kind of comforting? It suggests that you and your spouse don't even have to be better at marriage than the median couple to avoid divorce.

New comment by AnnikaL in "UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US"

AnnikaL — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:42:31 +0000

The population of East Germany in 1990 was 16 million, while the population of the UK today is over 4 times larger at 68 million.

(I still don't think the UK should jail people for being hateful online, though.)

New comment by AnnikaL in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

AnnikaL — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:20:00 +0000

The second link is in Canada.

New comment by AnnikaL in "Infinite Mac OS X"

AnnikaL — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 04:16:01 +0000

I'm 20, and I vaguely remember using 10.5 or 10.6 when I was a young child, so nostalgia I guess?