Hacker News: asplake

Half of vaccines are binned – 'fridge-free' versions could change that

asplake — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85qe8j0nzo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192605

Points: 5

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)

asplake — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113993

Points: 2

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New comment by asplake in "Show HN: Lucen a Python compiler that parallelizes for-loops via comment pragmas"

asplake — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:14:40 +0000

You can @decorate a for-loop?

I wish there were easier ways to play with syntax in Python, but there we are.

The little type that could too much

asplake — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://raphael-proust.gitlab.io/code/the-little-type-that-could-too-much.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991501

Points: 1

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New comment by asplake in "The Definition of Done"

asplake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:26:46 +0000

My take (several years old now) https://www.agendashift.com/done

A mirror universe might tell a simpler story: Neil Turok (2023)

asplake — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/a-mirror-universe-might-tell-a-simpler-story-neil-turok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794908

Points: 3

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New comment by asplake in "The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own"

asplake — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:33:10 +0000

> It’s one of the ways you can tell the true lover of the emdash from an LLM

Quite apart from this tiresome and unreliable LLM detector, it’s also a way tell an American from a Brit. We Brits use spaces (and endashes).

New comment by asplake in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

asplake — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:10:34 +0000

Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise.

Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/18/uk-could-ke...

New comment by asplake in "Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects"

asplake — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:33:09 +0000

Via (with a rather more ironic headline) Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-...

Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects

asplake — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607148

Points: 5

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New comment by asplake in "Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24"

asplake — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:30:07 +0000

Via the BBC: Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o

Cervical cancer mortality trends following HPV vaccination in England, 2001–24

asplake — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:28:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00918-9/fulltext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580819

Points: 4

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New comment by asplake in "From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap"

asplake — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:20:47 +0000

Reminds me of Ackoff’s Idealised Design [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_planning#Idealized...

Israeli tech firm accused of targeting First Minister in election

asplake — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:12:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77yje7n287o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505959

Points: 9

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Open Semantic Interchange: The Universal Standard for Semantic Data

asplake — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:44:10 +0000

Article URL: http://open-semantic-interchange.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433912

Points: 2

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New comment by asplake in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

asplake — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:26:30 +0000

Not a core tenet [note 1] at all - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism_versus_continuati...

[note 1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/tenant-vs-tenet-diff...

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

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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

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