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Optical Storage in 2026: Dead or Dead Useful? [video]

dsego — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:11:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2SPQEPlk8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015665

Points: 2

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New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:33:02 +0000

Honestly, I don't know, translated it would be stomach alignment, it was popularized by a traditional healer and herbalist nun who lived in Bosnia.

New comment by dsego in "Zed is 1.0"

dsego — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:22:12 +0000

It's all in the details, eg. in sublime if you use the goto panel and highlight a file it will immediately show a preview, in zed you have to click on it, so you lose the snappy feeling.

Blessed Syntax and Ergonomics

dsego — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:42:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/04/29/blessed-syntax-and-ergonomics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947522

Points: 3

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New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:11:00 +0000

It's a specific alternative therapy, a traditional practice associated with adjusting or repositioning the stomach in folk healing. The woman who performed this on me is a physiotherapist.

New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:09:30 +0000

Could be, almost like something was trapped and fermented inside.

New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:08:48 +0000

It felt uncomfortable and I needed to pass gas but managed to hold it.

New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:07:52 +0000

Sounded like alternative medicine, but it was supposedly centering my stomach or adjusting the intestines to be in their optimal place, e.g. some people have organ displacement, the stomach is too low or too high, and somehow that affects digestion and health.

New comment by dsego in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

dsego — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:42:02 +0000

Not related to beans, but I had serious issues with bloating, gas and bad smell comparable to sewage. It went on for years until I had a short massage to adjust my stomach, the lady was pushing and shifting things around. This was a few months ago. Ever since I haven't had that type of gas, and I burp now which I haven't for years. I didn't change my diet at all.

New comment by dsego in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

dsego — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:43:53 +0000

It's now possible to carry a spare battery or two, instead of lugging a portable power bank and slowly charging your phone. This is great news for outdoorsy types, travel, long bicycle rides, hiking, and so on.

New comment by dsego in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

dsego — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:43:06 +0000

Some people are just too stubborn, especially if they come from a place of authority and seniority. I'm doing house repair work right now with an older relative. He learned how to do repairs and renovations by himself, things like working laminate floors, mortar, laying tiles etc. The things is, he has his own reasoning and rhythym of doing things and doesn't like to be challenged, but I feel his ways don't always make sense, esp when I feel he is rushing and improvising (a programmer can tell). I haven't done much handy work myself in the past, but I'm a millennial, so I google things, watch youtube videos, and I read instructions. I also know that it isn't rocket science, my parents built our own home brick by brick. And now, every step of the way I have to be pushy to get my way, and make it sound like I'm not imposing or too nitpicky or challenging his "expertise", it's very taxing, I made a big scene once already and the whole relationship is now strained.

New comment by dsego in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

dsego — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:35:05 +0000

I was the yielding type, not speaking up, letting others take charge. In my experience, it's not always worth it, especially if you care about the thing you are working on. I went so far as to just dissociate from everything and distance myself from others. The problem is that people deserve your honest opinion if you care about them, even if it's not what they want to hear. But it's so hard to spend mental energy to listen, correct, try to prove your point... even if you succeed, they will resent you for it.

Book Summary: "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown

dsego — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://nielsbohrmann.com/essentialism-book-summary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822191

Points: 1

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A protective case for your glasses

dsego — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:40:40 +0000

Article URL: https://thangs.com/designer/Gazzaladra/3d-model/Glasses%20case-1511373

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745293

Points: 2

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New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"

dsego — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:32:51 +0000

That's a valid concern. I've seen some hard to grok hooks with polling, async stuff, hard to follow logic, etc. Like with anything, need to have taste, it's easy to dump too much into one hook and like you mention, it gets hard to follow what gets triggered when.

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"

dsego — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:12 +0000

It's not just react query, you can make a quick useFetch and useMutation hooks (or claude can), it's not that complex. If you don't need more advanced features (eg caching), you can easily cut down on 3rd party dependencies.

    import { useState, useEffect } from "react";

    function useFetch(url) {
      const [data, setData] = useState(null);
      const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
      const [error, setError] = useState(null);

      useEffect(() => {
        const controller = new AbortController();

        fetch(url, { signal: controller.signal })
          .then((res) => res.json())
          .then((json) => {
            console.log("Data:", json);
            setData(json);
          })
          .catch((err) => {
            if (err.name !== "AbortError") {
              console.error("Fetch error:", err);
              setError(err);
            }
          })
          .finally(() => setLoading(false));

        return () => controller.abort();
      }, [url]);

      return { data, loading, error };
    }







    function App() {
      const { data, loading, error } = useFetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1");

      if (loading) return Loading...;
      if (error) return Error;
      return {JSON.stringify(data, null, 2)};
    }

New comment by dsego in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"

dsego — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:55:52 +0000

Sorry for being pedantic, but the first example could be rewritten to extract the pattern into a higher level hook, eg useNotifications. One way to simplify components before reaching for store libraries. The reusable hook now contains all the state and effects and logic, and the component is more tidy.

    function Dashboard() {
      const { user } = useAuth();
      const {loading, error, notifications, undreadCount, markAsRead} = useNotifications(user);

      if (loading) return ;
      if (error) return Failed to load: {error};

      return (
        
          Dashboard ({unreadCount} unread)
          
          
        
      );
    }

New comment by dsego in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

dsego — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:58:27 +0000

I found this out when I tried running an old app I compiled on MacOS several years ago, it still has the old title bar gradient and traffic light.

New comment by dsego in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

dsego — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:55:56 +0000

It's not just that you need to get used to gestures, it's that they are not discoverable at all, and that they can be awkward to perform with mobility issues, old hands, short fingers, etc. It's easy to make the wrong gesture, eg. the phone detects a swipe down instead of left to right, more so if you are holding it in one hand, so it's finicky and frustrating to have to rely on it as the only way of doing a common action. Why is it so wrong to have a simple navigation bar, it doesn't take up any more space than the hideous notch at the top?

Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026

dsego — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:20:21 +0000

Article URL: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-publisher-will-no-longer-be-supported-after-october-2026-ee6302a2-4bc7-4841-babf-8e9be3acbfd7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653990

Points: 17

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