<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: abricot</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=abricot</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:08:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=abricot" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have the Kobo Libra Color and the contrast on the X4 is much much better.<p>The whole sticking-it-to-the-back-of-your-phone i find a bit useless, but mine came with two metal rings so that I can stick it to other places.<p>I have one ring on the dashboard of my car so the X4 can hang there until i need to use it. Good for trips with many stops.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:05:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671724</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>512 GB according to the manual, but it probably depends on the card.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:04:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671713</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like NovelWriter which I'm using.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 12:08:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345075</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Ask HN: Low entry barrier hobby that can potentially generate income?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve had this idea that is just too awful for me to actually do it.<p>Create a script that generates brainrot videos with a voice just reading popular Wikipedia pages out loud.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 05:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535572</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45535572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing that isn’t mentioned in the article is that driver’s education in US is a fucking sad joke, and the driving tests even more so.<p>Many mention rules about yielding, and having to stop when turning right on red: most of the drivers only know a fraction of the rules. They never learned most of them.<p>I’m not sure about this, but my understanding is that some states don’t even require a license if you are older.</p>
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<p>Or beam them and delete the buffer</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:12:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137263</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mentioning the president is a bit like saying the pope is old. They are both selected/elected old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:31:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083413</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Virgin Islands<p>Denmark tried to offhand the islands multiple times.<p>"The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million ($613,570,000 in 2024) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands."<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_West_Indies</a><p>The controversy is more how it got in the hands of Denmark in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:27:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039383</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45039383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wienermelange?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:11:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288457</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44288457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never seen an ereader at a thrift store</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44158903</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44158903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44158903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if you don't need to pay them a living wage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 13:29:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936502</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It also stowed the other items, and know how much space they take up.<p>From the article:<p>> “When you’re a person doing this task, you’ve got a buffer of 20 or 30 items, and you’re looking for an opportunity to fit those items into different bins, and having to remember which item might go into which space. But the robot knows all of the properties of all of our items at once, and we can also look at all of the bins at the same time along with the bins in the next couple of pods that are coming up. So we can do this optimization over the whole set of information in 100 milliseconds.”</p>
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<p>Sadly true. It will likely be 720p vertical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:18:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41686311</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41686311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41686311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything seems to be exploding in Lebanon!?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 15:54:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581449</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41581449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Mitsubishi is an example of anti-consumer, poor design decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How would a “cursory research” reveal that they are lying in their online material?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:09:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504378</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "WhatsApp gives India an ultimatum on encryption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any chance that a whatsapp ban in India would greatly affect Indian people?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 09:08:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245654</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40245654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "MKBHDs for Everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It also kills any hope in that NEW CATEGORY that makes it really hard for the next one to even try...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:52:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060550</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40060550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's clear as in "if you know the rule you can count on it" but there is no discoverability within the tool itself. It will even say if a file has been uploaded into the chat already, giving you an impression that the file is in the chat - while it really is in your own onedrive.<p>I only discovered it by chance while roaming my onedrive directory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959445</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39959445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Ask HN: What were your tech predictions 10 years ago?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The future is not evenly distributed. The only thing I have signed by hand in the last 4 years are package deliveries.<p>- Change of union, digital signature
 - New contract at work, digital signature
 - Moved apartment twice, digital signature
 - Signed my kid up for school, digital signature
 - New phone contract 5-6 times, digital signature
 - Made hundreds of payments online, digital signature.
 - updated my tax information, digital signature<p>All using NemID or later MitID here in Denmark.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:08:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653569</link><dc:creator>abricot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abricot in "Ask HN: Why hasn't OnlyOffice see higher adoption than LibreOffice?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure that is what keeps most away</p>
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