Hacker News: MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MisterTeaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:24:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "The Harajuku Moment (2024)"]]>I see this a lot of these meandering essays or whatever from thought leader types: write a lot of fluff about a subject and make it sound like you're the first person to have a thought on said subject.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:23:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591015MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591015https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591015<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Smashed Toilet Phone Web Server"]]>Toilet rice builds character.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:32:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589513MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589513<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "I almost got hit by a car"]]>Growing up in NYC you were taught to stop and look both ways no matter what. It's not always a car going the wrong way. It could be a cyclist, skate boarder, roller blader, or some idiot on a moped or other wheeled motorized thing.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:19:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589329MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589329https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589329<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"]]>This is why I run XFCE with the Chicago95 theme. Sure, it's Windows 95 but the 2000 UI wasn't a big divergence from memory. It's familiar and gets out of the way. https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:29:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588683MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588683https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588683<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "The Alaska Server"]]>Any significance to this brand or just showcasing a little known white-box reseller of the past?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:39:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586126MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586126https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586126<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"]]>This is exactly where we are headed: a has-been that sold itself down a river to a bunch of kleptocrats who only are about themselves and their sycophants.

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:20:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585793MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585793https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585793<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Can I vibecode this or do I have to pay?"]]>Either way you are paying for the code so I don't understand what the point of this is.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:05:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576905MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576905https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576905<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]>> Conservatives have been basically purged from academia over the last 30 years,

Any citations on this?

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:21:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575444MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575444https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575444<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia"]]>Unfortunately, this is one of those scroll-jacking sites so all the images are piled up along with the text making this link almost useless.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:25:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571013MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571013https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571013<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"]]>I did the same thing. I contacted support via email who told me to go through the deletion process and near the end, there would be an option to save your photos free of charge. I downloaded my photos, looked through them, then deleted the account.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:02:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570708MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570708https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570708<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"]]>A friend was looking for a new electric razor and sent a link of one that advertised having AI. Phillips Norelco i9000 with AI integration.

Feels like the old iThing or eWare trends of the 00s. New thing, new marketing trend.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:32:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570330MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570330https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570330<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Stolen French fries are spicier than justice: How covert larceny enhances taste"]]>> Human folklore claims that “stolen food tastes better,” yet its effects on taste have not been quantified.

Back in grade school I distinctly remember the time my friend stole half a dozen rice crispies treats then exclaiming "Damn! Food tastes so much better when its stolen." I stole from that store once too but did not enjoy the treat any more than paying for it and felt only remorse. I never knew it was so widespread of a belief until now.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:03:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563485MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563485<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"]]>TIL: bash and other shells try to copy Plan 9's /net directory and the kernel ip(3) file server. Too bad it's not a real file system. And a missed opportunity to call the root of the path /net.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:56:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562709MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562709<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat"]]>Your link did not trouble me, your language did. At the time reading, most of the comments here were nuked and grey so I went strait to the pictures and ignored the article text.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:43:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557058MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557058<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat"]]>[flagged]

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:06:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556425MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556425<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"]]>Fabrice Bellard is the kind of programmer I admire, respect and aspire to emulate. Extremely humble, yet incredibly talented with a massive corpus of work. Bravo Fabrice!

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:08:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555569MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555569<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]>They also accept higher environmental impacts such as anthropogenic lakes of battery waste.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:52:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548737MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548737https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548737<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes"]]>It will not hold a vacuum. Gas can diffuse through rubber and rubber itself will out-gas in very low vacuums. Metal and glass seals are the only truly air tight sealing methods. Even then, remaining gas is trapped in tubes and a getter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getter is activated at factory to trap this remaining gas on the tube wall in a thin layer of metal. That is why many tubes have a dark silver coating at the top or a band, that's the evaporated getter metal.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_for_use_in_vacuum

Also, don't use V grooves for O-rings. Read the Parker o-ring handbook for proper seal design: https://test.parker.com/content/dam/Parker-com/Literature/O-...

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:45:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546815MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546815https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546815<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "Over half of parents of 18-25 year-olds track adult children w smartphone apps"]]>> I can and have used it to see where they are and if they are on their way home for dinner. Am I "tracking them" in some kind of dystopian manner?

Yes. Did they ask you to spy on their location?

> Many apps track the owner will little to no benefit to the user. Is that somehow ok when it is creepy for a parent to do?

It's not okay. This type of tracking isn't demanded or desired by the end user as it's silently forced upon them. Some people don't care but some people do and avoid using apps that track or install privacy preserving software.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:07:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544178MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544178https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544178<![CDATA[New comment by MisterTea in "I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry"]]>Ironic that your asm game engine runs at 60fps while your blog has a loading bar and lags when scrolling. I didn't bother reading it.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:59:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541401MisterTeahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541401https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541401