Hacker News: Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VasbarlogHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:33:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"]]>Why would you do that to yourself?

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:08:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627857Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627857https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627857<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]>The algorithm is not a neutral one. It pushes conservative talking points, and toxic content.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:29:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193224Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193224<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]>Don’t forget that whoever stays on X is willingly manipulated towards more conservative views.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:27:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193204Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193204<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]>Would that be acceptable in exchange for shaping your political views?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

]]>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:22:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193149Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193149<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs"]]>Oh, sorry for that. I have a pihole on my network, so it's been a long time since I got to experience the default Adsense layout on blogspot.

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:13:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170959Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170959<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs"]]>I have a similar heatmap on the bottom of my blog post where I log my tries for the past 4 years.

https://www.stadafa.com/2021/09/every-worlde-word-so-far-upd...?

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:39:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169658Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169658https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169658<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "The Glass Famine"]]>That’s not true at all. China is known for its “nail houses” for example.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/15/china...

]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:14:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109540Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109540<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes"]]>Yes? Because it would not be the local law enforcement agency that would respond to any provocations, but rather the federal government/military.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:42:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992973Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992973<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization"]]>Έχεις απόλυτο δίκιο!

]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:54:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963283Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963283https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963283<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"]]>In all fairness, you should have put your left blinkers on while overtaking the cyclist, and that would have disabled the lane assist.

]]>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:04:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828982Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828982<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"]]>Do you have any source for that? Most people in Greece have ACs on their homes and virtually all public buildings and private businesses do as well.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/15/these-eu-count...

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:44:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655643Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655643https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48655643<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"]]>It’s not China that is threatening to annex Greenland though.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:19:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576259Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576259<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"]]>A lot more one could argue.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:00:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267675Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267675https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267675<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"]]>Cigarettes were recognised as the cause of lung cancer in the 1940s and 1950s, with the confluence of studies from epidemiology, animal experiments, cellular pathology and chemical analytics

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:57:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133215Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133215https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133215<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"]]>It's up now!

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:29:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133019Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133019https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133019<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"]]>If you wear your nostalgia glasses it sure does "seem" more healthy. Life expectancy at birth in the 70s was 70.8. Now it's 79.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/data-finder.htm?&subject=Life%2...

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:28:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133015Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133015https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133015<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?"]]>Works now!

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:21:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132957Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132957<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?"]]>Nope!

]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 08:57:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132787Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132787https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132787<![CDATA[What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)]]>Article URL: https://tohippo.com/what-the-hell-was-going-on-with-cigarette-ads-in-the-70s/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132159

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]]>Thu, 14 May 2026 07:25:59 +0000https://tohippo.com/what-the-hell-was-going-on-with-cigarette-ads-in-the-70s/Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132159<![CDATA[New comment by Vasbarlog in "Internet Archive Switzerland"]]>Hugged to death? I can’t access the page.

]]>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:18:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074382Vasbarloghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074382