Hacker News: chilledheat

New comment by chilledheat in "Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (2017)"

chilledheat — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 10:21:37 +0000

"I reach under my desk, unwrap a parcel addressed to “DIRECTOR OF CYBER, NSA”, slide out a yellow and black canister labelled “CHINA”, break open the safety seal, and use safety tongs to extract the following red-hot phish."

Gold.

New comment by chilledheat in "Drug cocktail almost doubles lifespan of worms"

chilledheat — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:55:51 +0000

Did you read the article?

"The drug rapamycin is currently administered following organ transplants to prevent the body's immune system from rejecting the transplanted organs, but previous experiments by other research groups showed that it extends the lifespan of many organisms, including the C. elegans worms, fruit flies and mice"

Dr Gruber's team administered combinations of two or three compounds targeting different ageing pathways to C. elegans (worms).

New comment by chilledheat in "Is front-end development having an identity crisis?"

chilledheat — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:49:32 +0000

I know some of these words.

VW CEO says they’ll have ‘EVs as good as Tesla’s for half the price by 2020’

chilledheat — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:21:44 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2018/10/26/vw-ceo-electric-vehicle-tesla-half-price-2020/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18314708

Points: 42

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New comment by chilledheat in "The Beauty of Programming (2001)"

chilledheat — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:46:49 +0000

One of the reasons people have become so enamored with computers is that they enable you to experience new worlds you can create, and to learn what’s possible.

Could not have written it better myself.

New comment by chilledheat in "Tesla Model 3 is the top selling American car in the USA"

chilledheat — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 08:54:33 +0000

Probably referring to the fact that they are Japanese companies

New comment by chilledheat in "Smoking around the world"

chilledheat — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 08:29:12 +0000

Mauritania in Africa had the highest number of cigarettes smoked every day in 2012 ( more than 40 a day ) but the number of deaths from tobacco smoking was in the lowest..

Is this skewed data or do a lot of people die there for other reasons?