Hacker News: ascorbic

New comment by ascorbic in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

ascorbic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:25:24 +0000

That was before the actual announcement

New comment by ascorbic in "Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces"

ascorbic — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:22:24 +0000

The UK government has no problem being openly authoritarian when it wants to, without hiding it behind other policies. Whether or not you think it's bad policy (I think it's mixed), I think this is genuinely about what it claims to be.

New comment by ascorbic in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

ascorbic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:48:53 +0000

This is a decent salary for a heritage job. It is a very poorly-paid sector. On building sites with archaeological excavations, the person driving the digger is likely to be paid more than the archaeologists, who probably have postgraduate degrees.

New comment by ascorbic in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

ascorbic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:33:20 +0000

esbuild is a side-project of Evan Wallace, co-founder of Figma, so it's only kinda-indie.

New comment by ascorbic in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

ascorbic — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:45:23 +0000

Which is finetuned Kimi 2.5

New comment by ascorbic in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

ascorbic — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:18:51 +0000

Are parents supposed to perform safety and toxicity testing on all products they buy?

New comment by ascorbic in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ascorbic — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:10:16 +0000

Recursive self-improvement

New comment by ascorbic in "The first British person in space"

ascorbic — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:31:31 +0000

Hah. Well, for a kid then, Blue Peter and Newsround was celebrity!

GLP-1s Linked to Lower Risk of Cancer Spread in Four Tumor Types

ascorbic — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/asco/121397

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237781

Points: 9

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New comment by ascorbic in "The first British person in space"

ascorbic — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:22:12 +0000

I was a child at the time and I absolutely remember her getting adulation and celebrity. The may have faded from a lot of memories since, but at the time she was definitely recognised

New comment by ascorbic in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

ascorbic — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:29:13 +0000

This would make sense if they were an airline and only need to maximise profits. An artist – even one who really wants to make as much money as they can – still needs to think about other things, like atmosphere (that gig with one very rich person won't be much fun), and happy fans. If she sells all tickets at $10k each then maybe she'd clear the market, but she'd piss off a lot of fans, so maybe there won't be as much demand next time.

New comment by ascorbic in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

ascorbic — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:15:58 +0000

They didn't even announce it.

New comment by ascorbic in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

ascorbic — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:16:39 +0000

They didn't make a huge deal about it though. I distinctly remember Jarred coming on here just last week to say stop making a big deal about it.

New comment by ascorbic in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

ascorbic — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:45:07 +0000

The question isn't "why is Malawi poor compared to European countries", it's "why is Malawi poor compared to other countries in a similar – or worse – situation"

New comment by ascorbic in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

ascorbic — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:41:19 +0000

So were lots of other countries that went on to grow a lot faster. That's what the article is about.

New comment by ascorbic in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

ascorbic — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:39:40 +0000

It does, repeatedly, and compares it to other landlocked countries.

New comment by ascorbic in "The React2Shell Story"

ascorbic — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:30:01 +0000

A great read. Sylvie's writeup is good too: https://sylvie.fyi/posts/react2shell/

New comment by ascorbic in "Building for the Future"

ascorbic — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:29:36 +0000

https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

New comment by ascorbic in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

ascorbic — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:15:15 +0000

The mother and baby are more likely to die. I don't think wanting to prevent that is a value judgement.

Projecting React

ascorbic — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://tannerlinsley.com/posts/projecting-react/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053912

Points: 9

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