<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: andrewflnr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewflnr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:09:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=andrewflnr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't follow all the chemistry but this seems like the takeaway, from the Nature paper (open acccess!):<p>> Regardless, confirmation of macromolecular organic matter supports the possibility that future optimized TMAH thermochemolysis experiments can liberate ancient biosignatures preserved in macromolecules on Mars (if present). The broad structural variety of organic molecules observed in situ from surface materials suggests some chemical diversity is preserved in ancient Martian sediments despite >3.5 billion years of diagenesis and radiation exposure.<p>Macromolecules, not just "organic" (which, reminder, does not mean "biological"). It seems like you can still get macromolecules abiotically, but it's a little more tantalizing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:24:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864113</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.<p>Somehow I don't think the confidence is meant to be taken at exactly face value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839566</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Factors in. Not identical to. They might not have phrased that very well, but the point is that you don't need any relationship much more complex than personal acquaintance to fuel this kind of violence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:00:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733984</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But on the other hand,<p>> Iran still has enriched uranium, nuclear facilities and now they even have put in the agreement a recognition of Iran's right to seek nuclear technology.<p>You can figure out the goal. What you can't figure out is a goal that actually had a snowball's chance in an oil fire of being achieved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:01:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689581</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The idea there was bombing to support the popular uprising that does the actual work. I think that might have been the fantasy here, too, but it seems like the window closed.</p>
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<p>Pardon me for paying attention to the actual article instead of the subtitle likely written by someone else. And it's not as if you can credibly claim it's not relevant, since the first thing we want to know about any stupid practice is why it got started. So unless you have evidence that it's incorrect, you're just getting offended at... actual facts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:01:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679817</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not in orbit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:40:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665047</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Women were never meant to give birth on their backs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>90% of the article is about the scientific advantages. You've chosen to fixate on the "sexism" part which is, as other commenters pointed out, mainly there to explain why things are done this way today at all. I don't think it's the article that's the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:35:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664978</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Fake Fans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not antonyms. Some good art goes viral on its own merits. But certainly not synonyms either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638609</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dark comedy mostly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:42:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638562</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know what definition of "hostage" you're using, but practically speaking, a hostage is what you make of them.</p>
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<p>For what it's worth, he probably didn't know what he was saying.<p>(slop has been around longer than LLMs)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:28:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634189</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The mirror fleet does not increase the total power available to the project; Mercury still intercepts only a fixed amount of sunlight.<p>I think I must be missing something important, because this doesn't make sense to me. If you put your mirrors in orbits where they don't block the dayside surface (sun-synchronous?), then they increase the total surface area receiving solar radiation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:36:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629610</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess it might. I wouldn't plan on it without a very detailed survey though, to say the least. Whereas solar is definitely right there. (And you still have to worry about cooling either way.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:29:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629513</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>co-slop. In the categorical sense, slop with all the relationships reversed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:21:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606712</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, that's what "untested" means in spaceflight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606648</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Technically not contradictory, but it's pretty weird to call it an anti-war protest with no further qualification, when the overall emphasis, long term anyway, is clearly anti-Trump. Emphasis matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606303</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an anti-Trump protest, so named because of how badly Trump wishes he was a king. The slogan (and organization, maybe?) dates back to at least the start of his current term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:30:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599952</link><dc:creator>andrewflnr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewflnr in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This version of the "end of the power of the aircraft carrier" sounds like it will play out a lot like the end of the tank, the end of the helicopter, etc. Yeah, it's not going to have the same untouchable power it used to. But it's not going to stop being useful or go away either.</p>
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<p>I mean, you're not wrong, in retrospect I genuinely wasn't clear.</p>
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