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New comment by chistev in "Ask HN: How do you retain what you learn from podcasts?"

chistev — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:25:01 +0000

It's the same as reading books. You won't remember everything, but you'll definitely remember parts of it.

If you read more books on the same topic, you still won't remember everything from each individual book, but you'll remember parts of each.

Those bits add up quick, and you'll eventually find that you now know more than you knew before.

If you're in a conversation on something related to what you know you've read before, or you're writing about something related, but you vaguely remember the details you wish to speak about, you can revisit that book and skim it until you find what you were looking for. Now, that part you just found would stick with you for much longer.

All I wrote is about reading books, but it also applies to podcasts.

I too love listening to podcasts and reading books.

I've had threads asking people for their favorite podcasts -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44308854

New comment by chistev in "Ukraine and Weapons of Mass Destruction"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:48:31 +0000

Related discussion thread from 2015 -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554744

Ukraine and Weapons of Mass Destruction

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:48:03 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734312

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by chistev in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:34:27 +0000

I know you're joking, but the game will be released eventually anyway.

New comment by chistev in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:51:10 +0000

This is an interesting thought. I'm waiting to see responses to it.

New comment by chistev in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:42:37 +0000

That makes sense. They should pay, then.

New comment by chistev in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:07:21 +0000

AI atrophies the brain -

https://www.rxjourney.net/how-artificial-intelligence-ai-is-...

New comment by chistev in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:03:32 +0000

Coincidentally and Interestingly, again, I was reading an old thread from 2015 titled - ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway

The top comment says -

"NEVER EVER PAY RANSOM MONEY. Please. Even if your business will suffer it will suffer a lot more if you do pay since now it is known you'll cave. Also: you are making the problem larger for others."

The top response to that comment says -

"From their blog: https://protonmaildotcom.wordpress.com/ At around 2PM, the attackers began directly attacking the infrastructure of our upstream providers and the datacenter itself. The coordinated assault on our ISP exceeded 100Gbps and attacked not only the datacenter, but also routers in Zurich, Frankfurt, and other locations where our ISP has nodes. This coordinated assault on key infrastructure eventually managed to bring down both the datacenter and the ISP, which impacted hundreds of other companies, not just ProtonMail.

At this point, we were placed under a lot of pressure by third parties to just pay the ransom, which we grudgingly agreed to do at 3:30PM Geneva time to the bitcoin address 1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y. This was a collective decision taken by all impacted companies, and while we disagree with it, we nevertheless respected it taking into the consideration the hundreds of thousands of Swiss Francs in damages suffered by other companies caught up in the attack against us. We hoped that by paying, we could spare the other companies impacted by the attack against us, but the attacks continued nevertheless. This was clearly a wrong decision so let us be clear to all future attackers – ProtonMail will NEVER pay another ransom. "

Full thread here -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523583

New comment by chistev in "I Waterboard (2007)"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:30:26 +0000

A related thread from 2015 - Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10531046

I Waterboard (2007)

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:29:46 +0000

Article URL: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-waterboard/430894

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732369

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by chistev in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:00:03 +0000

Satoshi thought of everything, man.

New comment by chistev in "Is algorithm still relevant in 2026"

chistev — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:59:29 +0000

But how do you plan to get the big jobs?

New comment by chistev in "Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002"

chistev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:05:39 +0000

Thanks

Edit: Only the last one had discussions.

New comment by chistev in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

chistev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:03 +0000

OK, wrong word. I meant if automatically registering young men for military service is something that can be done in a democratic society. It seems like you're making young men potentially go to war regardless of how they feel about it.

Seems something that is the mark of an authoritarian society.