Hacker News: Etheryte

New comment by Etheryte in "Slack Code"

Etheryte — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:11:22 +0000

This is the easiest sell of the century, product can discuss and implement changes without ever getting engineering involved. Or at least that's the theory, I think everyone here can think of a number of reasons to have reservations on this front.

New comment by Etheryte in "Mojo 1.0"

Etheryte — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:25:36 +0000

Compare the same algorithm/program in Python and C and that's roughly your answer, no?

New comment by Etheryte in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

Etheryte — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:28:54 +0000

The center tiles on a Rubik's cube don't move, they only rotate in place.

New comment by Etheryte in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

Etheryte — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:36:45 +0000

I'm sure you've never made a typo or mixed up two similar words before.

New comment by Etheryte in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

Etheryte — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:47:14 +0000

I'm not sure this statement holds up to any scrutiny? Surely the number of people doing any kind of sports vastly outnumbers people on any kind of psychiatric medicine?

New comment by Etheryte in "Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?"

Etheryte — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:56:14 +0000

> When we look at higher-quality evidence and direct comparisons, exercise performs similarly to, but not dramatically better than, established treatments. Overhyping it risks damaging credibility in this important area of mental health.

I get where he's coming from, but at the same time, if we can achieve even roughly the same result with exercise as with medication, that's a ridiculously huge win. Side effects of antidepressants are usually uncountably many, whereas for exercise it's (just) injuries and it's pretty well understood how to prevent them. Granted depression is a thousand different diseases in a trench coat, but even if we can ameliorate some forms with exercise, that would still make it considerably more available and approachable.

Exercise doesn't need to be complex or intimidating. Starting out with going for a short walk counts as exercise. You could even do it while you have the patient with you on an appointment, go walk out and about with them. Depression is a complex beast and the more tricks we have up our sleeves to fight it, the better.

If you're depressed, trying to make exercise happen can be the hardest thing in the world for some. But for those that it isn't, it could help a lot.

New comment by Etheryte in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

Etheryte — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:18:45 +0000

Not wrong in the EU, you don't need to ask for consent nor notify about cookies which are required to make the site functional. Tracking and ads don't fall under that though, which is why every site these days does need to ask for your consent.

New comment by Etheryte in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

Etheryte — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:48:33 +0000

I mean, you can get to and from practically any airport by bike if you're determined enough.

New comment by Etheryte in "The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm"

Etheryte — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:02:33 +0000

I don't know, as far as I can tell the demo on the homepage is bugged? Or maybe I misunderstand how it's supposed to work? If I click reset after 2 seconds and then click add 1 right after it, the reset never fires. What's up with that, that's not what I expected to happen?

New comment by Etheryte in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

Etheryte — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:06:42 +0000

Braun is the Boeing of appliances. A once great company that's now been hollowed out by beancounters.

New comment by Etheryte in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

Etheryte — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:30:18 +0000

I don't have any skin in the game here for Germany specifically, but I would point out that B1 is an incredibly low bar to clear. With concentrated effort, you can reach that level in under a year, I know because I've done it. Given you have kids and are otherwise preoccupied, maybe a few years. At six years in, it's purely a matter of whether you yourself actually want it or not.

New comment by Etheryte in "Programmers need to start meditating"

Etheryte — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:05:10 +0000

I don't think this is a constructive way to look at life. You can't control what others say and do, what you can do is choose how you react and act on it.

New comment by Etheryte in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

Etheryte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:32:23 +0000

That's not what exercise intensity means, clearly you're not even remotely familiar with the domain.

New comment by Etheryte in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

Etheryte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:51:10 +0000

There is no correlation between exercise intensity and likelihood of injury, this is nonsense. You could e.g. just as well make one wrong move when going for a one rep max.

New comment by Etheryte in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

Etheryte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:41:56 +0000

Isn't this is basically every webpage with a backend component, just displaced one more layer? I suspect the main reason this doesn't make sense is that it would take an order of magnitude more bandwidth as opposed to just sending data like we do right now. Data has repetitive patterns which means it's often well compressibile as well.

New comment by Etheryte in "The operating cost starts after the demo"

Etheryte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:35:32 +0000

Probably one of the most reused and generic patterns in logos, you can find countless sites and businesses with something like that.

New comment by Etheryte in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

Etheryte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:09:28 +0000

Also piranha: Brazilian Portugese slang for hooker.

New comment by Etheryte in "Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking"

Etheryte — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:23:25 +0000

Unfortunately it seems completely bugged out on mobile Safari.

New comment by Etheryte in "Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?"

Etheryte — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:59:53 +0000

russian is not a race.

New comment by Etheryte in "Why eval startups fail (2025)"

Etheryte — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:24:26 +0000

Except regex, no matter how technologically advanced your company, somewhere someone is slapping regex on something that has no business being regexed.