Hacker News: ars

New comment by ars in "Going back two years on Hacker News is like entering another, better universe"

ars — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:22:11 +0000

I've noticed the exact same thing, and I've cut back a lot on how much I contribute.

I'm hoping it's bots doing that, and not my fellow, because I don't like to think that my fellow humans are actually this full of hate.

But either way, contributing to HN has become rather unpleasant these days.

New comment by ars in "Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)"

ars — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:45:09 +0000

Terrorism is attacking civilians on purpose.

New comment by ars in "Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)"

ars — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:44:30 +0000

"it was implemented across “virtually every potential theatre of operation.”"

War is not terrorism.

New comment by ars in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

ars — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:33:28 +0000

Realistically people would just leave their AC on. So this saves energy, rather than changing comfort.

New comment by ars in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

ars — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:50:33 +0000

I have two of them, and I just checked and both are quiet. Mine don't connect to WiFi unless you go through an entire process first with an android phone and Matter.

It's great having them on WiFi - you can turn on the AC before getting home to pre-cool, without having to leave it on all day.

New comment by ars in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

ars — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:42:05 +0000

They wouldn't see it until they opened it, so clearly they didn't open it because of the book. And if they need to open your suitcase (not because of the book), they have a reason for that.

New comment by ars in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

ars — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:08:46 +0000

Before you figure that out, you will be surprised to discover that it's impossible to tell if the speed of light is the same in both directions, with only the average of a round trip being the speed of light.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light

Anyway, reading that should help you answer your own question, or at least give you a lot more questions to ask.

New comment by ars in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

ars — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:22:17 +0000

I think that depends on if they distribute it with the install package, or if they download it once installed.

New comment by ars in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

ars — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:23:34 +0000

Doctors make mistakes pretty much non-stop, and they are rarely held accountable because the system as a whole works OK. AI makes less mistakes than the doctors do (I read a lot of medical notes).

New comment by ars in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

ars — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:44:03 +0000

He specified "terrorists", See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340403 for actual sources, including in Hebrew (although it was flagged to death for reasons unknown).

That message a reply to YOU, but that didn't stop you from posting the same false info multiple times in this thread.

New comment by ars in "The weekend is 100 years old"

ars — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:20:40 +0000

In Hebrew Sunday doesn't have a name, it's simply called "Day one", this is also true in Portuguese, Arabic, Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese, and others.

So no, the week does not start on Monday, it starts on Sunday.

The name "Weekend" came long long long after Sunday was considered the first day of the week.

New comment by ars in "The weekend is 100 years old"

ars — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:16:53 +0000

> The 7 day week is completely artificial.

Actually it's 1/4 of a month, which is defined by the moon.

New comment by ars in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

ars — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:40:09 +0000

This article does not make its case. He shows a graph of "random" data, and then just kind of keeps going. But that random data is the meat of the whole thing.

Cut out 60% of the useless text, and focus on explaining why random data should look like that.

New comment by ars in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

ars — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:56:17 +0000

Beauty does not exist for its own sake, it only exists in the mind of someone else.

New comment by ars in "Firefox Containers Preview"

ars — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:27:24 +0000

A profile is a full new browser, these containers are just tabs. So they mix into the current browser window.

They are much more lightweight, and the workflow is better, just switch tabs.

New comment by ars in "Firefox Containers Preview"

ars — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:07:00 +0000

I have containers on Firefox, and I do NOT have this extension installed.

New comment by ars in "Firefox Containers Preview"

ars — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:06:17 +0000

I'm a little confused here, I've been using the containers feature already for years now on Firefox. And I have no add-on installed for it, it just works.

So what is it that they're adding?

New comment by ars in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

ars — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:01:55 +0000

What's the point in it existing then? Just for a couple of the chosen few?

I'm aware that lots of people can be destructive, but there's a balance.

New comment by ars in "Sensing warm and cool: how the body detects temperature changes"

ars — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:18:36 +0000

We still don't know how, like from a physics point of view, thermoreceptors detect temperature.

New comment by ars in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

ars — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:43:45 +0000

I would do something that isn't *.me, since it was them that suspended it.