<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: dreamcompiler</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dreamcompiler</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:43:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dreamcompiler" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is both a bad and a good idea.<p>First the bad: Helium is very expensive to extract and store. You'd need a lot of venture capital. And you'd have a tough time competing with Qatar which produces between 1/4 and 1/3 of the world's supply. Qatar already is the DeBeers of helium.<p>The good: When the US/Iran war started helium prices shot up, so there might be an opportunity for a helium supplier not dependent on the Strait of Hormuz.<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/helium-prices-soar-qatar-lng-halt-exposes-fragile-supply-chain-2026-03-12/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/helium-prices-soar-q...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:03:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948239</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This USB-C toothbrush is something I've been looking for so I don't need to bring a special charger.<p>What would be even better is an electric toothbrush that doesn't contain a battery that would work with USB-PD plugged in. Why? Because I like putting my electric toothbrush in my checked bag because it's not essential, and technically you're not supposed to put lithium batteries in checked bags.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914807</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48914807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Just Let Me Write Digits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Likewise usurping Ctrl-F with their own shitty global search function rather than the perfectly good page search provided by the browser. Looking at you, Confluence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908142</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Just Let Me Write Digits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And of course you often cannot paste a 6-digit number into these fields. You have to type all 6 digits by hand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908033</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Why Vanilla JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>React was invented to make multiple DOM changes quicker and set up DOM event dependencies declaratively. Fine. Some websites benefit from this. Most do not.<p>Since React's invention, it has gotten more bloated, browsers have made living DOM changes a lot faster, and the vast majority of websites still only change one or two DOM objects in response to events. Those could easily be handled much faster with plain old AJAX. The latency overhead React adds to a website is quite noticeable and unnecessary. Airbnb.com for example would be a great deal more pleasant to use if they would ditch React.<p>The fact that React had to reinvent server-side rendering is all you need to know to see that React has jumped the shark.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892526</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't bought a Sony product since 2005 when they put a rootkit on music CDs. Apparently their customer-hostile attitude hasn't changed much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:47:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865029</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of C as more of a dark side language because it's basically a portable assembler. Lisp at least prevents you from doing the stupidest things like overrunning array bounds or writing to freed pointers*, which C is perfectly happy to let you do.<p>* Of course there are no user-visible pointers** in Lisp so the concept of free vs. not free doesn't come up because memory allocation and garbage collection are automatic.<p>**Under the hood most everything in Lisp is a pointer, but the user cannot see them or mess with them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854125</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh of course. Mycelium is just the tip of the iceberg e.g. "Spock had a secret sister." Oh come on!<p>Yes some Trek scripts are better than others, as are some entire shows. But the creators of Disco seemed like they had never watched a single episode of "real" Trek or understood what made it work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:29:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849501</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yet another thing they didn't teach us in Texas history class.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:15:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847330</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think regime change is likely to happen within two years. Just not in Iran.</p>
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<p>And Anthony Rapp (the actor who plays him) went through some awful stuff that made him famous for another reason and he seems to have come out stronger. Good for him.<p>As for the whole mycelium plot in <i>Discovery</i>, I found it so ridiculous that I refuse to consider that show canon.</p>
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<p>I grew up in Texas and took Texas history. I learned things like Texas being the only US state that was once an independent country and where the Six Flags came from (later the name of an amusement park empire that originated in Texas).<p>But they never taught us much about New Mexico.</p>
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<p>TIL Bonnie Tyler was the female Meat Loaf.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:02:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846052</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are a number of lesser-known chunks of American history like this.<p>One of my favorites is that Santa Fe has been the capital city of Nuevo Mexico since 1610. Acoma, another city in modern-day New Mexico, is about 500 years older still.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo</a></p>
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<p>How long ago was this? In the last 5 years rent has increased dramatically in many of the historically LCOL cities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:35:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841034</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even better question: Compute the <i>moving</i> median.<p>Computing a moving average with samples being pumped through an n-element buffer is easy. Doing so for the median requires more thought. It's also very useful e.g. for removing single-sample noise from an audio track, so it's not a meaningless exercise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839988</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought it was funny that almost every alien planet on Stargate SG-1 looked like British Columbia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825335</link><dc:creator>dreamcompiler</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dreamcompiler in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was trying to keep it simple. Yes you can buy n-acetylcysteine but OTC versions can vary in purity and dosage and it's not the only treatment you might need. With an acetaminophen OD you really want to be in a hospital.</p>
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<p>There is an antidote available for acetaminophen overdose, but it's only available in the hospital. So if you think you took too much, get to a hospital quickly before your liver suffers permanent damage.<p>Untreated acetaminophen overdose is an extremely unpleasant way to die.</p>
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<p>Until the late 1960s, codeine was considered the definitive over-the-counter cough medicine. It worked well. Maybe a little too well, because it was easy to get addicted to it. So the FDA banned it from OTC sales and dextromethorphan was substituted. Which brings us to today.</p>
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