Hacker News: dry_soup

New comment by dry_soup in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

dry_soup — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:44:03 +0000

The one time I flew from Austin, there was a band playing at a restaurant in the ticketed area. Going through security it was bad (you could only really hear the drums) but once I was through it was downright painful. Really makes you wonder how these decisions get made.

New comment by dry_soup in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

dry_soup — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:34:18 +0000

I’ve witnessed some of the most talented leaders of my generation hit rock bottom due to burnout—hustling through the grind at 4 AM, hungry for that next breakthrough.

These are the visionary disruptors, chasing that high-level synergy between ancient wisdom and modern innovation. They’ve faced the struggle, stayed up in low-budget home offices, and scaled their mindset while contemplating the future of the industry.

They’ve been transparent about their journey, showing true vulnerability under the pressure of the city, and finding inspiration in the most unexpected places. #Leadership #Resilience #Innovation #Mindset #Entrepreneurship

New comment by dry_soup in "Flightradar24 for Ships"

dry_soup — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:26:42 +0000

Sounds like Flightradar24

New comment by dry_soup in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

dry_soup — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:33:36 +0000

From the article, using UNLOGGED tables puts them in memory, not on disk

New comment by dry_soup in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

dry_soup — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 07:46:20 +0000

I block YouTube ads on iOS by watching in the browser (with no YouTube app installed) and using AdGuard.

New comment by dry_soup in "Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update"

dry_soup — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 07:16:31 +0000

Thank you. The only IOC I know of is the International Olympic Committee.

New comment by dry_soup in "Show HN: Kis.tools – A directory of tools that work"

dry_soup — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:42:26 +0000

It looks broken in mobile Safari as well

New comment by dry_soup in "What will enter the public domain in 2024?"

dry_soup — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:26:49 +0000

So the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, who died in 1973, will enter the public domain in New Zealand (and other countries) next year? Or do they not, as he presumably published his works in the UK? Or they enter the public domain in New Zealand et al. but not in other countries?

New comment by dry_soup in "Ask HN: Why Linux development happens on mailing list instead of Git?"

dry_soup — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:07:15 +0000

I'm aware of that mirror. What I'm talking about in my comment is that there was a time when the development of the Linux kernel actually moved to GitHub, due to problems with the regular Linux kernel development infrastructure.

New comment by dry_soup in "Ask HN: Why Linux development happens on mailing list instead of Git?"

dry_soup — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:11:23 +0000

Linux kernel development happens on Git. In fact, Git was created for the Linux kernel. Maybe instead of Git you mean GitHub? I can't find a link now, but if I remember right there was a brief period when Linux kernel development had to move to GitHub. Maybe when kernel.org got hacked? Linus Torvalds didn't like the way that GitHub formatted merge commits [1] (from a later date, but I think it was the same issue).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjbtip559HcMG9VQLGPmkurh5...

New comment by dry_soup in "Scientists report world’s first X-ray of a single atom in Nature"

dry_soup — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 05:46:50 +0000

Isn't that the point of X-ray spectroscopy? As a layperson I don't know of any point in trying to "photograph" a single atom, but surely being able to do spectroscopy on a single atom is really useful.

New comment by dry_soup in "Dell goes back on WFH pledge, forces employees to come back to the office"

dry_soup — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:35:34 +0000

It's quite clear to me that tech companies know that reneging on WFH will cause some employees to leave. I think that this is actually the entire point. You can do a soft layoff, without ever having to say the word layoff, and without ever getting "Tech company XYZ announces layoffs" headlines.

New comment by dry_soup in "Fairbuds XL review: noise-cancelling headphones you can fix"

dry_soup — Sun, 14 May 2023 17:36:46 +0000

The classic first reply to the Show HN: Dropbox thread lives on in this comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

New comment by dry_soup in "Cantonese Font with Pronunciation"

dry_soup — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:47:18 +0000

If you scroll down on the article in the OP, you'll see that Cantonese readings of Chinese characters are also context-specific, and they appear to have solved that problem with ligatures.

New comment by dry_soup in "Show HN: Walkie-talkie for teams"

dry_soup — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:29:39 +0000

"Badass developers" is barely less trite than "rockstar ninja developers"

New comment by dry_soup in "GNOME 44"

dry_soup — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:31:33 +0000

I must have missed a few versions. The last version of GNOME I remember using is 3 point something

New comment by dry_soup in "FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns"

dry_soup — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:39:43 +0000

You might as well be describing YouTube or Twitter

New comment by dry_soup in "Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off"

dry_soup — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:47:36 +0000

I too was hoping that this was a bizarre crossover between aviation and entomology

New comment by dry_soup in "Finland’s most-wanted hacker nabbed in France"

dry_soup — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 22:40:16 +0000

There wasn't much talent involved in this hack. The CEO and solo self-taught developer of the psychotherapy place left a test server running on the public internet with the username and password root / root.

New comment by dry_soup in "North Korea – teenagers executed for distributing South Korean movies"

dry_soup — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:55:32 +0000

Radio Free Asia has repeatedly put out exaggerated or sensational claims about North Korea, at least some of which have turned out to be false. Nobody is endorsing NK, executions, etc.