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New comment by andor in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

andor — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:05:10 +0000

Very few things are purely technical decisions. In this case, it’s about centralized vs. distributed electricity generation (or freedom vs. dependence if you want to state it that way). One of these options makes it much easier for the billionaire class to continue extracting money out of the people.

Edit: I don’t understand how you get from „political decision“ to „state violence“. Politics are at play at all levels of civilization where actors have different goals, from your dinner table and your company Slack to democratic institutions.

About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6

andor — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:45:43 +0000

Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/128067

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081555

Points: 211

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New comment by andor in "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight"

andor — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:21:42 +0000

Pasta is actually a relatively low GI food, due to long starch chains. Like fiber, some of the (resistant) starch acts as food for the microbiome of the gut. There’s a theory that eating lots of resistant starch has similar benefits to high-fiber diets.

New comment by andor in "We have proof automation now"

andor — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:32:42 +0000

The LLM does not prove anything (it cannot reason). It generates Lean code, and conveniently, in Lean, the code is also the proof. It’s not merely a model of the stated system, it is the system.

You still need to verify that the generated code is what you asked for, though.

New comment by andor in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

andor — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:48:52 +0000

Even if you reduce it to that, you still endorse (or at least accept) the side effects of the production of what you eat.

If you eat meat, you are okay with the effects it has on climate change, and that’s political. If you do the opposite and don’t eat meat, that’s also political.

If you consume food from non-organic agriculture, you are okay with species extinction, especially insects.

If you buy the cheapest foods, you are okay with the working conditions and low pay necessary to reach the price. If you buy a more expensive option, who in the value chain benefits from the increased price and who doesn’t?

Almost everything that you do is political in some way.

New comment by andor in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

andor — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:54:49 +0000

VPNs are generic networking/security tools that can also be used for things like circumventing geoblocking.

Cryptocurrency doesn’t have a lot of use cases outside of money laundering, avoiding sanctions and stealing money through rug pulls.

New comment by andor in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

andor — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:39:54 +0000

> No dude. Most things are not, in fact, political. When I enjoy a meal, that isn't political. When I hang out with my family and friends, that isn't political. When I sit down to read a nice book with a cup of cocoa, that isn't political.

What do you eat and what do you refuse to eat? Which restaurants would you go to or not? Which companies do you buy from and why/why not?

Who do you meet with and who do you avoid? What do you talk about and which topics do you avoid?

Where is your cocoa grown, which brand do you buy and who ends up making money on your purchase?

New comment by andor in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

andor — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:00:32 +0000

It’s probably pointless to argue, but there was never a lot of nuclear power in Germany to begin with. This is just turning energy policy into culture war.

New comment by andor in "EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements"

andor — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:43:20 +0000

In practice, repairs affect the water resistance, and Apple Store employees will confirm that to you. They just don't want to say so in the product description as it would raise doubts.

New comment by andor in "EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements"

andor — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:33:37 +0000

Comparable or not, the Fairphone 6 costs less than half of my iPhone. I don't think the price is an issue.

New comment by andor in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

andor — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:35:44 +0000

Low friction is cool but it leads to tons of abuse

New comment by andor in "Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds"

andor — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:56:47 +0000

In a way, that's true. Drinking a lot of juice, or soft drinks, is not ideal, and when I see an overweight person drinking straight from a large juice bottle, that reaffirms my belief. It would be socially unacceptable to judge this behavior as being caused by cognitive deficits, but you could argue that such people are acting against their own interests (which is a very human thing to do, we're not machines).

The case of watching a lot of TV is a bit different though because it's about attention. Time is limited and it makes a difference whether I do something intellectually stimulating or not. If I spend 8 hours per day creating things, writing software, learning languages, etc., that is going to develop my brain in a different way than 8 hours of watching TV does.

Now to the point about the bad look: even if the study could not prove a causal relationship, why would you even risk it? There is little to gain from watching lots of TV and you'll end up healthier and happier by prioritizing other things.

New comment by andor in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

andor — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:39:34 +0000

Laypeople are changing how “AI” is used in common language, like they previously did for “algorithm” and “crypto”.

The textbook definition of AI is a system that solves problems that are difficult for humans. Whether the approach uses formal logic, machine learning, neural networks as a special case of machine learning, optimization, search problems, etc. does not matter.

New comment by andor in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"

andor — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:09:33 +0000

So you’re saying that it’s naive to expect a company to care whether they are facilitating a genocide in one of their growth markets?

You must be fun to work with

New comment by andor in "Meta trying to destroy whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, US senator says"

andor — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:56:27 +0000

Her book is exceptional. You won’t get these insights anywhere else and it’s surprisingly entertaining.

New comment by andor in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

andor — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:40:21 +0000

They live in a bubble and don’t understand that getting rid of jobs is not universally seen as a good thing.

If you haven’t read it already, I can recommend “Careless People”, this is a constant theme in the book.

New comment by andor in "Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive"

andor — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:08:07 +0000

Since he spent Euros, he must be somewhere on the EU. This is a GDPR violation and I bet he can reach actual people that are able to help by mailing their GDPR legal contact.

New comment by andor in "My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite"

andor — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:13:35 +0000

What are you using instead of Homebrew?

New comment by andor in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

andor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:11:34 +0000

The "doing things correctly" mentality is the root of so many problems. Bureaucracy, "German engineering" (overengineering), cargo-culting, CYA, error culture, ...

New comment by andor in "Avoiding Fallback in Distributed Systems"

andor — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:54:37 +0000

By the logic of the article, a circuit breaker for the DB query would act as a fallback for the fallback. A path that would be executed in production even less frequently, and which would be more difficult to test for its effectiveness. Surely, you can test whether the circuit breaker is triggered, but would it reduce DB load enough to keep the fulfillment system running?