<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dinkelberg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dinkelberg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:21:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dinkelberg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One more relevant study, but on the health effects of long term melatonin use:<p><a href="https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-supplements-to-support-sleep-may-have-negative-health-effects" rel="nofollow">https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-s...</a><p>"The main analysis found:<p>*   Among adults with insomnia, those whose electronic health records indicated long-term melatonin use (12 months or more) had about a 90% higher chance of incident heart failure over 5 years compared with matched non-users (4.6% vs. 2.7%, respectively).
*   There was a similar result (82% higher) when researchers analyzed people who had at least 2 melatonin prescriptions filled at least 90 days apart. (Melatonin is only available by prescription in the United Kingdom.)<p>A secondary analysis found:<p>*   Participants taking melatonin were nearly 3.5 times as likely to be hospitalized for heart failure when compared to those not taking melatonin (19.0% vs. 6.6%, respectively).
*   Participants in the melatonin group were nearly twice as likely to die from any cause than those in the non-melatonin group (7.8% vs. 4.3%, respectively) over the 5-year period."<p>However they were not able to control for severity of the insomnia and used dosage, because that data weren't in the dataset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Melatonin pills seem to have extremely bad quality control:<p>"Melatonin content varied from an egregious −83% to +478% of labeled melatonin and 70% had melatonin concentration ≤ 10% of what was claimed. Worse yet, the content of melatonin between lots of the same product varied by as much as 465%.<p>[...]<p>The last disturbing finding was more than a quarter of melatonin products contained serotonin, some at potentially significant doses."<p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5263069/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5263069/</a><p>"In products that contained melatonin, the actual quantity of melatonin ranged from 74% to 347% of the labeled quantity. Twenty-two of 25 products (88%) were inaccurately labeled, and only 3 products (12%) contained a quantity of melatonin that was within ±10% of the declared quantity. [...] Serotonin was not detected in any product."<p><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804077" rel="nofollow">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804077</a><p>"Half of the products tested met the label’s claim for melatonin, which means they fell between 76 and 126 percent of the claimed amount. Of the products tested, 20 had between 0 and 76 percent of the labeled content, and 35 had between 126 and 667 percent."<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/06/25/melatonin-children-sleep-fda-study/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/06/25/melatonin...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:20:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095993</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not an example, but maybe this is interesting for folks who haven't really heard of the peptide business before. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-peptides-trend" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "How, and why, I invented OnlyFans. In 2004"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clickbait title. He didn't invent OnlyFans. He created a similar site which failed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:03:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have liked a summary before reading.<p>Why is writing a summary a bad thing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192319</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:35:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Why do we need dithering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lena Söderberg expressed her wish for her image to be "retired from tech" in 2019 (see the end of this clip, <a href="https://vimeo.com/372265771" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/372265771</a>), when the above alternative image was published.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:34:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Rust in Android: move fast and fix things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to that blog post (<a href="https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html" rel="nofollow">https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s...</a>), the vulnerability density for 5 year old code in Android is 7.4x lower than for new code. If Rust has a 5000 times lower vulnerability density, and if you imagine that 7.4x reduction to repeat itself every 5 years, you would have to "wait" (work on the code) for... about 21 years to get down to the same vulnerability density as new Rust code has. 21 years ago was 2004. Android (2008) didn't even exist yet.</p>
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<p>Fair point. But probably not going to happen...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45876429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "XSLT RIP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want to keep XSLT in browsers alive, you should develop an XSLT processor in Rust and either integrate it into Blink, Webkit, Gecko directly, or provide a compatible API to what they use now (libxslt for Blink/Webkit, apparently; Firefox seems to have its own processor).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:49:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45875992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have used it a year ago with macOS 14 or 15 and it worked. I've had problems copying too many files at once (don't remember the problem exactly), that's why I only copy about 100 at a time.<p>Your mileage may vary.</p>
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<p>Counter question: How do you know it works?<p>A file manager better be rock solid, I don't want a bug to delete any files or do other shenanigans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:31:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872452</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those who want to use Google's Android File Transfer app for Mac, which for some reason isn't regularly available from Google anymore, it's still available by direct download: <a href="https://dl.google.com/dl/androidjumper/mtp/current/AndroidFileTransfer.dmg" rel="nofollow">https://dl.google.com/dl/androidjumper/mtp/current/AndroidFi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:27:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872434</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chroma subsampling was developed for TV, long before JPEG.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806233</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45806233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "A visualization of the RGB space covered by named colors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you speaking of chroma subsampling, or is there a property of the discrete cosine transform that makes it more effective on luma rather than chroma?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:27:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805209</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry for confusing you!</p>
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<p>Would you tolerate using DANE?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746388</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45746388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TFA itself has an incorrect DOCTYPE. It’s missing the whitespace between "DOCTYPE" and "html". Also, all spaces between HTML attributes where removed, although the HTML spec says: "If an attribute using the double-quoted attribute syntax is to be followed by another attribute, then there must be ASCII whitespace separating the two." (<a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#attributes-2" rel="nofollow">https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#attribute...</a>) I guess the browser gets it anyway. This was probably automatically done by an HTML minifier. Actually the minifier could have generated less bytes by using the unquoted attribute value syntax (`lang=en-us id=top` rather than `lang="en-us"id="top"`).<p>Edit: In the `minify-html` Rust crate you can specify "enable_possibly_noncompliant", which leads to such things. They are exploiting the fact that HTML parsers have to accept this per the (parsing) spec even though it's not valid HTML according to the (authoring) spec.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:17:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721949</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Epiphany (GP had a typo) and Three Kings is the same occasion, in fact. Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday)</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:57:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711030</link><dc:creator>dinkelberg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dinkelberg in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A huge pet peeve of mine is people getting annoyed by phrases like "I mean." :)</p>
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