<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Spare_account</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Spare_account</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:35:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Spare_account" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>it completely solves the issue on any site<p>It doesn't solve the problem with Instagram links, which in my experience do the following:<p>1) Open a new browser tab, with no history.
2) Close the original tab, so I can't easily get back to where I was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:26:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764724</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an additional data point, in the UK I can just login to my banking app and remove the authorisation for a particular vendor (or, for people who don't use online banking, I could phone up to do the same thing).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:13:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715085</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Postal Arbitrage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the link I shared: "<i>Today, the USPS receives no direct government or taxpayer funding.</i>"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:04:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613897</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Postal Arbitrage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.britannica.com/question/How-is-the-USPS-funded" rel="nofollow">https://www.britannica.com/question/How-is-the-USPS-funded</a><p>><i>the USPS faced financial difficulties, posting losses of $6.5 billion in fiscal 2023 and $8 billion in fiscal 2024, leading to a request for $14 billion in government assistance.</i><p>It would appear that the USPS operates at a loss at these prices</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600786</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're not expected to know the answers without doing research. 
<a href="https://britbrief.co.uk/education/schools/king-williams-college-quiz-2025-the-ultimate-test.html" rel="nofollow">https://britbrief.co.uk/education/schools/king-williams-coll...</a><p>><i>The paper carries a telling Latin motto: "Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est" – "To know where you can find something is, after all, the greatest part of learning."</i><p>In the modern era it is acknowledged that people will use online search engines to find the answers but hopefully we all learn something on the way</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:34:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383546</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The mods are active (and have even commented in this thread) and have a clearly stated set of objectives:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309399">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309399</a><p><a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310679</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, I should have said, I'm on Android 16, Firefox 145.0.2 (Build #2016128151)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:38:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202656</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For some reason I can't paste my email address into the email address field when I try to sign up</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:47:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202346</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "How I block all online ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you. I already had that setting enabled, but your comment inspired me to review all the settings again and I have been successful in hiding Shorts from view (for now, until Google changes something again no doubt).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:38:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202283</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46202283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "How I block all online ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be clear, I have revanced and use it daily. I'm just too stupid to be able to figure out how to hide Shorts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:47:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191604</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "How I block all online ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you hide Shorts? I can't figure out how to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:48:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191205</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have installation media for MS Office 2010 in my desk drawer. If I lose the disc, I wouldn't expect Microsoft to replace it for me.<p>I'm afraid I don't really understand what the author is angry about here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073933</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, my understanding is that the 600 year figure was arrived at assuming that there is iterative progress in propulsion technology throughout the intervening years. But at the end of the day, it is just some number that some dude on YouTube said one time (although Fraser Cain is in fact not just <i>some dude</i>, he's a reliable space journalist (and you can take that from me, some dude on the Internet))</p>
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<p>For anyone interested, this is approximately the wait/walk dilemma, specifically the interstellar travel subset: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait/walk_dilemma#Interstellar_travel" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait/walk_dilemma#Interstellar...</a><p>I was listening to an old edition of the Fraser Cain weekly question/answer podcast earlier where he described this exact thing. I think he said that someone has run the numbers in the context of <i>human survivable</i> travel to nearby stars and on how long we should wait and the conclusion was that we should wait about 600 years.<p>Any craft <i>for human transport</i> to a nearby star system that we launch within the next 600 years will <i>probably</i> be overtaken before arrival at the target star system by ships launched after them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068104</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46068104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fascinated at the number of people on an ostensibly techincal website who don't learn how their equipment works. You've summed up in a few sentences exactly how mine works, but there are dozens of commenters in this thread who appear to be unaware of the basic funcationality of their dishwasher.<p>All I would add to what you've said is that when my Bosch does include a pre-wash in a cycle, it checks how dirty the water is and only drains the pre-wash water if is dirty. If the dishes haven't caused the water to become dirty, it keeps the same water for the main wash cycle.<p>Also, I want to expand upon my first paragraph a little: I'm not having a dig at anyone who doesn't understand their dishwasher. I am just venting/observing that the world is filled with all kinds of different people and reminding myself that I shouldn't make assumptions about people as often as I do.<p>I've had this realisation many times, but it doesn't hurt to have it again. Communicating with people is lot quicker and easier when I remember that.</p>
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<p>Does the Samsung use the same drying method as the LG did?<p>Older dryers (that needed a vent) were inefficient, but faster at drying. They constantly pumped damp, heated air out of the vent.<p>Modern condensing dryers keep the heat in the system for a more energy efficient drying cycle but the condensing process is slower.</p>
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<p>It was implicit, at least to my eye, that other explanation which was being offered a counterpoint was the grandfather comment.<p>For clarity, I will include both here:<p>The two explanations for increased adult fragility are:<p><i>forgotoldacc</i>> Parents shelter their children too much and have created adults that have additional allergies as a result of lack of childhood exposure<p><i>rocqua</i>> Increased sheltering of children has allowed more of the fragile ones to survive to adulthood, increasing the number of fragile adults we observe today.</p>
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<p>How can we discuss <any given topic> if we are talking about different things?</p>
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<p>Were these pilots undertrained?</p>
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<p>Why don't you use an adblocker?</p>
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