Hacker News: chronogram

New comment by chronogram in "Am I German or Autistic?"

chronogram — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:09:45 +0000

I got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that?

New comment by chronogram in "A brief history of instant coffee"

chronogram — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:30:29 +0000

I could only find an article claiming 4% drink 6+ cups per day so a top 1st percentile coffee drinker must go much further beyond that. I'm guessing at least 2 litres per day.

New comment by chronogram in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

chronogram — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:33:59 +0000

What's the idea behind not using capital letters?

New comment by chronogram in "Big Data on the Cheapest MacBook"

chronogram — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:11:29 +0000

Mine started shipping on 8 March to arrive on the 11 March release date.

New comment by chronogram in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

chronogram — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:04:09 +0000

https://chat.deepseek.com/share/ewfxrfhb7obmide29x it understands it perfectly if you don't disable reasoning.

New comment by chronogram in "OLED, Not for Me"

chronogram — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 12:55:20 +0000

Better ClearType Tuner https://github.com/bp2008/BetterClearTypeTuner

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

chronogram — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:02:16 +0000

It created a whole webpage to showcase the SVG with animation for me: https://output.jsbin.com/qeyubehate

New comment by chronogram in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

chronogram — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:42:20 +0000

Third party providers are still cheap though. The closed models are the ones where you can't see the real cost to running them.

New comment by chronogram in "Apple M5 chip"

chronogram — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:13:59 +0000

Mac hasn't used subpixel rendering for fonts since Mojave and has never used it on iOS so there's no difference to font rendering on Apple platforms.

New comment by chronogram in "Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x"

chronogram — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:33:45 +0000

For internal use like that you can also use the library feature. The downside of using long=31 is increased memory usage, which might not be desirable for customer facing applications like Steam.

New comment by chronogram in "Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery"

chronogram — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:47:16 +0000

This seems ideal. The only question I had was whether it's permanent on living cells, "Potentially reversible" at the end makes me think it is.

New comment by chronogram in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

chronogram — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 02:44:39 +0000

I think Canada has it with Novamin, while the US doesn't. The Netherlands does, and Germany doesn't. All with the same "repair & protect" name. It's puzzling. Now Germany does have it under a new "clinical repair" name, of course the "clinical" ones in the US do not, those do contain soap for some reason (sodium lauryl sulfate) which I don't think I've seen in any other country.

New comment by chronogram in "PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again"

chronogram — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:50:32 +0000

That's still not much for wiring in most countries. A small IKEA consumer oven is only 230V16A=3860W. Those GPUs and CPUs only consume that much at max usage anyway. And those CPUs are uninteresting for consumers, you only need a few Watts for a single good core, like a Mac Mini has.

New comment by chronogram in "Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died"

chronogram — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 01:52:42 +0000

I think it is common. In that religion heaven is in the clouds above, and someone going very high up into the clouds but not reaching it then got closer than others did.

New comment by chronogram in "Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’"

chronogram — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:24:32 +0000

HN is a much nicer place than any Facebook group.

New comment by chronogram in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

chronogram — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:17:33 +0000

I sent them an email to unsubscribe one time to take a break too, though I'm European that was many years ago. I hope it didn't get worse.

New comment by chronogram in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

chronogram — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:45:05 +0000

In the Netherlands it's dirt cheap in all supermarkets. 550g package, so 500g of tofu is €3.72/kg, soy milk is €0.80/l.

New comment by chronogram in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

chronogram — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:38:32 +0000

That's got to be an incredible expenditure then. Considering their pricing compared to the better store brand alternatives, while not lacking any scale disadvantages, I expect high margins on the products themselves.

New comment by chronogram in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

chronogram — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:42:11 +0000

> though France and the Netherlands perform somewhat better.

It's all private in the Netherlands, just with non-discriminatory mandatory private insurance, so that makes sense.

New comment by chronogram in "Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app"

chronogram — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:20:42 +0000

It is massive in corporate. I think it's the most used authenticator. On the Play Store alone it's got 2 million app reviews, Google Authenticator 579 thousand, Authy has 86 thousand. The download count seems to stop at 100M+ so I can't compare that.