<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>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:19:25 +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 "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not the same guy but I can verify that the advert for the impossible micro-evaporative cooler quoted impossible performance capabilities.<p>YouTube adverts frequently contain fraudulent, misleading information. It appears that no law is being broken.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689034</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is another way of looking at the same question:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252106">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252106</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:01:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255193</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "London’s most equidistant pub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Logically, no, as they all neighbour non-pub locations.<p>I don't understand this response, so I am wondering if I phrased my question badly.<p>The linked article established that there is no pub in London that can be reached within 60 minutes travel time by anyone starting from any home in any London borough.<p>I was wondering if there is any other location, be it a coffee shop, a park or even just a point in the middle of a road somewhere, that can be reached within 60 minutes by anyone who lives anywhere in London.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:53:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107491</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "London’s most equidistant pub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any (non-pub) location in London that could satisfy the 60 minute requirement?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:35:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107043</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Spare_account in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have about a dozen email aliases associated with my Microsoft account. On the "Your info" page, under "Account info", one of them is described as "The email address you use to sign in to your Microsoft Account".<p>However, I can use any of them to initiate a login attempt. I have my account set to passwordless, I don't know if that is relevant (every login attempt triggers an MFA prompt).<p>If I click on "Edit account info" I am taken to a page where I can choose which address in the "Primary", but given that ANY of the aliases can be used to intiate a sign-in, I don't see any benefit in changing that.<p>EDIT: I wasn't being adventurous enough. The option to change which aliases can be used to sign in is under (surprisingly) "Sign-in preferences".<p>In my defence, that page wasn't loading properly in Firefox with all my privacy add-ons enabled. I was able to access it in Edge.<p>EDIT2: I've changed my primary alias to a newly created one.  If I am still able to sign in OK in a couple of days, I will disable the old primary for sign-in. I hope I don't live to regret this!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368587</link><dc:creator>Spare_account</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368587</guid></item><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>
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<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>
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<p>From the link I shared: "<i>Today, the USPS receives no direct government or taxpayer funding.</i>"</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>Sorry, I should have said, I'm on Android 16, Firefox 145.0.2 (Build #2016128151)</p>
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<p>For some reason I can't paste my email address into the email address field when I try to sign up</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p>How do you hide Shorts? I can't figure out how to do it.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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