Hacker News: MajorTakeaway

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"

MajorTakeaway — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:20:18 +0000

Mod Pizza does or did offer a Gluten free crust made from cauliflower. Had a distinctive taste to it, it tasted good.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:58:10 +0000

They never went away, just from your mind. Look at cheap xfinity wifi hotspots everywhere that still steal your credentials in the form of phone number and email address. The bar I went to last night has a free wifi hotspot like every establishment ever.

Misinformation smells like your own farts, disgusting to everyone but you.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol"

MajorTakeaway — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:59:51 +0000

Instead of a line by line command copypaste, they really could have used a single post where users can just copy the commands and paste the set to terminal.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "We've made the world too complicated"

MajorTakeaway — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:43:31 +0000

You're really not alone in this. Nature exposure has helped a lot since the industrial revolution as far as any mental health concerns go. A return to the old world, full of trees and brush is still there for all of us.

This is what people mean by 'Go touch grass'. They're not being literal but it's a few simple words that just say go experience primitive roots for a few hours and come back to the artificial world we've created for ourselves.

I used to reject the particular notion until I went outside and depending on where you live, you might experience verbally hostile people if you're alone. Which goes to show there are others feeling far worse if they're being verbally hostile to random people.

The more I read HN symptoms the more I point to trees.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Do_not_track"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:50:25 +0000

Some hobbies are more fun than others.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

MajorTakeaway — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:42 +0000

>sees any random article headline, automatically assumes it's AI.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:21:34 +0000

Now is a really good time to contribute to https://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/ as far as EEG concerns go. There are a myriad of things that can be observed with EEG, and it would honestly be a decent thing to see grow in time.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:10:30 +0000

I just bought 'Psychology and Life' sixteenth edition and pondered just how much worse an ebook version of it would have been or unbearably clunky a pdf version would be as well.

The less screen time I spend, the better I feel.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:26:21 +0000

Sometimes commenters all over the internet write like this because they just got incredibly jealous after reading the parent post. I've been thinking more and more about how most posts are jealous or depressed outtakes against the world, system, or other person. This fundamental human behavior won't change, and is as reflexive as a monopolistic company reacting to a press release, proving the parent correct despite their scathing response of the child.

It's worth noting that 4chan and Reddit also live here because both sites are insufferable.

New comment by MajorTakeaway in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

MajorTakeaway — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:15:18 +0000

If it has a thalamus, it is conscious. It's evolutionary millions of years old.