<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: aidenn0</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aidenn0</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:07:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aidenn0" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like to compare the 1960's Plymouth Suburban to the current Chevy Suburban both because of the name coincidence and because they cover roughly the same market segment (family hauler).<p>The Plymouth suburban is 9 inches shorter in length and well over 1000lbs lighter.  I couldn't find specifications on height for the Plymouth, but the Chevy is obviously much taller.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066943</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Passkeys are a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is that because it's VOIP or a landline?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:16:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061438</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Passkeys are a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most recently band.us<p>I started a typical registration process: enter e-mail, click on confirmation link, but the confirmation link showed a generic error the first time and then a "link expired" afterwards.  I tried again a few hours later and then contacted support when the same thing happened.  The response after a few days:<p>> BAND currently permits sign‑ups and linking only with certain email domains. If you want to create a BAND account using an email address, please use a more public domain such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.<p>Strangest one still was the answer my mom got from Macy's. She is very persistent and was eventually told that Macy's does not support domains that have been registered with GoDaddy (note that the e-mail is not <i>hosted</i> by GoDaddy, just the domain is registered with them).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:11:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061325</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Passkeys are a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the most recent one was required for a kid's after school activity :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051446</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Passkeys are a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TFA is suggesting that, in the future, you won't be allowed to use passkeys with 1Password</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:20:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050126</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Passkeys are a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "there is something wrong with you if you are at all off the beaten path" has cropped up a lot more for me recently; two examples both from 2026:<p>1. You can't use Firefox with our website (when I got this popup, I thought I had been transported back in time 20 years, but with Chrome substituted for IE).<p>2. You can't sign up for accounts with an e-mail from a "custom domain"<p>2a. I ran some tests; it's the domain itself, not the host, so e.g. foo@gmail.com is allowed but not a foo@somewhereelse.com, even if hosted by google).<p>2b. After a bit of back-and-forth with support: "No, we won't tell you the list of allowed domains, but gmail and hotmail both will work."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:18:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050110</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Triple-A Minesweeper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun fact, on Windows 95, minesweeper had a cheat code; xyzzy "shift" "enter" and it would change the color of the top-left pixel of the screen depending on whether or not the mouse was hovering over a bomb.  It didn't work on later versions though.</p>
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<p>Is it <i>always</i> wrong when it says "I think there's a mine here"?  It seemed to to me on my playthough...<p>[edit]<p>Oh, it says "I think there's a mine here" when you mark a location, but the yellow-diamond is "click here because there's no mines" it's not related to what is being said.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:43:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027509</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, 720x1520 24-bit display.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:56:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015822</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't use Instagram.</p>
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<p>This happens <i>all the time</i> with human researchers.<p>e.g. one of the lemmas in the NL description is false, but a weaker version of the lemma (that does hold) is sufficient for the proof, so the (incorrect) lemma is never formalized.</p>
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<p>Every gas station I've been to this year (not that many, my car is electric, so only when I'm filling my wife's car) has had a lower price for cash than credit, and this price is often on their big sign in front of the entrance.  This is in California, if it makes a difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001986</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50001986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do not own an HDR display.  I agree that HDR has huge advantages, but it costs money, and little of the content I consume is available in HDR.</p>
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<p>It's complicated.<p>It's trivial to make an image that you can see the 8-bit quantization in.  Just make 256 vertical gray bars, equally spaced.  In much of the image (usually the darker parts, but depends somewhat on monitor calibration) you will see the border between two values.  Note that this is every single possible grey value in 8-bit RGB, so it is a proper un-dithered rendering of a gradient, and the borders you are seeing are definitely quantization artifacts.<p>Now, if you apply proper dithering, particularly on a high-dpi screen, you can make it look a lot better, possibly even undetectable.<p>And this is just with the dynamic range that is comfortable on a computer monitor!  If we really want to represent vibrant images, then the glare of the sun off of shiny objects should be much brighter than the "paper white" background used in e.g. your word processor.  It should be intuitive that the brightest highlight in a real-world image ought to be too uncomfortable to fill your entire monitor with...<p>Lastly, there's a question what and how the image gets to the browser.  Sure for the images on the landing page for $LARGE_CORPORATION you have a graphic designer make everything look great, and since most people still have 8-bit displays, you'll want something that looks good on one.  But what about e.g. a site for uploading photos?  Are you going to quantize all of their photos before displaying them (possibly to someone with an HDR display)?</p>
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<p>FWIW both CD- and DVD-RW are less reliable than the read-only counterparts.  M-Disc is supposedly very good.</p>
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<p>I have neither a macbook nor an iphone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960902</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.bitlbee.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitlbee.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:17:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878380</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US has had tariffs and government subsidies for literally its entire existence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:46:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862849</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Homeless:<p>FWIW, FEANTSA estimated over 1.2MM homeless in Europe in their most recent report[1].  That's over a population of 515MM so ~23 per 10k population.  Us 746k homeless is roughly 22 per 10k population.  I suspect that differences in methodology will overwhelm that 1/10k difference, but the order of magnitude seems similar.<p>1/3 of the US homeless are unsheltered ("Living Rough" in the FEANTSA terminology).  A quick skim of the FEANTSA report did not show any countries breaking out their rough-sleepers from the rest of the data.  I do suspect that this number is higher than in the EU.<p>1: <a href="https://www.feantsa.org/files/Themes/Overview/2024/Rapport_-_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.feantsa.org/files/Themes/Overview/2024/Rapport_-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:43:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862830</link><dc:creator>aidenn0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aidenn0 in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the main points made in TFA is it's important to communicate that single-family homes outside of city centers will tend to see <i>lower</i> taxes if you go from property tax to LVT, because in the city most of the value in your home is the land, but that ratio flips the further you get from the city center.<p>Obviously this assumes a single tax-base; if you are not in the same tax base of the city, then you're probably still fine, since if everybody has similarly valued lots, the taxes will be shared similarly between them.</p>
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