Hacker News: asplake

New comment by asplake in "Adyen Selected as Payment Services Provider for GOV.UK Pay"

asplake — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:21:10 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415217

New comment by asplake in "Affordances for Me, but Not for Thee"

asplake — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:27:52 +0000

> For years, people have tried hard to get websites to build accessibility affordances. Now developers are willingly building them for AI.

Affordances for Me, but Not for Thee

asplake — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:27:28 +0000

Article URL: https://werd.io/affordances-for-me-but-not-for-thee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357304

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks

asplake — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/researchers-develop-a-new-process-to-get-lithium-out-of-rocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319458

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "Separate the Cord from the Device"

asplake — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:28:55 +0000

“Kettle lead” is definitely good here too. It is, after all, more than just a plug.

New comment by asplake in "What it takes to transpose a matrix"

asplake — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:13:59 +0000

Is transposition a common enough operation that it might be better to avoid it by having versions of the operations/functions that take matrices that do the necessary transpositions implicitly?

New comment by asplake in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

asplake — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:25:10 +0000

UK scientists developing new Ebola vaccine that could be ready in months

asplake — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy82gkr7xzlo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235248

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by asplake in "Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions"

asplake — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:54:38 +0000

And now you have 84,689 problems

New comment by asplake in "California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants"

asplake — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:51:59 +0000

In practice, it can be very relevant. With my own household solar/battery system, I am sometimes frustrated more by limits on how much current I can draw, not by capacity. I could add more batteries, but it seems that the inverter is the limiting factor. And 12MW of inverter is impressive, no?

New comment by asplake in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"

asplake — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:56:59 +0000

Another old person here. At an office in Zurich I saw a layer of smoke filling the upper reaches of the atrium. I wondered how many working (i.e. smoking) hours it would take before it reached the balcony on which I was standing.

New comment by asplake in "When Is "Next Friday"?"

asplake — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:12:29 +0000

“Friday next week”. Sorted.

Do you take after your dad's RNA?

asplake — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:29:03 +0000

Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2026/epigenetic-effects-of-sperm-on-offspring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091336

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Sam Altman is "the face of evil" for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer

asplake — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:37:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/school-shooting-lawsuits-accuse-openai-of-hiding-violent-chatgpt-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014630

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

asplake — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:55:04 +0000

Yes, it's great that civilian homes and infrastructure are sacrosanct now. Saracasm aside, that's a matter of perspective, no?

New comment by asplake in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

asplake — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:37:34 +0000

I wasn’t taught it, but that was forty years ago

From one disappointing order to a massive 'ghost cake' delivery scandal in China

asplake — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/business/china-ghost-food-delivery-fine-intl-hnk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859436

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)"

asplake — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:03:43 +0000

IANAD, but sounds like IBS or similar, not necessarily age-related, and potentially treatable.

HTMX 4.0: Hypermedia finds a new gear

asplake — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:20:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoworld.com/article/4150864/htmx-4-0-hypermedia-finds-a-new-gear.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823770

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

asplake — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:42:28 +0000

Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=orange+peel