<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: fransje26</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fransje26</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:51:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fransje26" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Which is often what the users want too.<p>Or at least to start practicing how to make babies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:44:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931655</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> that you remove and *secure* before the search.<p>In a dark body cavity?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920723</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> see this event as probably the largest nail ever driven into the oil coffin.<p>It will probably go like this:<p>war -> fuel costs explode -> economic crisis -> AI bubble burst -> bigger economic crisis -> eventually rebuild on the ruins of what is left and go electric</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:17:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910877</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is the price system set up when re-injecting to the grid?<p>Do you get the full 5 minute spot price, or do they then charge you re-injection costs per kWh?<p>And are the grid-costs fixed yearly, or do they also charge you per kWh re-injected?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906620</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "US Forces Exit Iraq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I remember a certain powerpoint presentation ...<p>I remember a speech at the UN, with a certain vial being held..</p>
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<p>Isn't the article explaining that it is supposed to be the "better" version?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:58:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882770</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah. Completely insane.<p>10 years ago, an "equivalent" entry-level Renault Twingo was about €10.8k.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:37:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878708</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49878708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Intellectuals Are Fucking Idiots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Savour the irony.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876187</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49876187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> VW doesn't sell new ICE models in the sub 25k€ segment anymore.<p>Knowing VW, I read that as: <i>"VW doesn't sell cars in the sub 25k€ segment anymore."</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:51:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841855</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't know what Microsoft is thinking if they allow this.<p>First time?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828405</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can restrict SSH access arbitrarily to ensure whatever security or access guardrails you need.<p>How, specifically for VSCode?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828402</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then again, good luck writing a coherent paragraph in French without an "e".  :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828338</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Attention is all you have"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Keeping track of what a car costs you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800355</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49800355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, if Google search actually returned anything useful, other than the SEO-rigged trash and AI generated slop it pushes forward as results to queries, then there would be a reason to actually use Google.<p>For the time being, AI seems to be doing a much better job in most cases, so as we say: So long Google!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798713</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny, I just finished that book.<p>They were using a few more mappings per number for instance:<p>0: 's', 'z', soft 'c'<p>1: 't', 'd', 'th'<p>6: 'j', 'sh', 'ch', soft 'g'<p>etc<p>The problem I have, is that they present them from 1 to 0, and the first 4 have some mnemonic logic added to them:  a bar in 't' for 1,  two bars down in the 'n' for 2, three in 'm' for 3, and the 'r' from fouR in 4.<p>Great. And then mnemonic logic goes out the door. 5: 'l'. Ah. A single bar. Err.. is it 1 or 5..?  7: 'k'. Imagine the K looks like a 7. Ok, maybe.<p>So the mapping itself starts getting confusing.  Unless you do what they claimed all along the book you shouldn't do: rote memorization..  Which was grinding my gears a bit..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:10:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798380</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gotta adapt to the decreasing attention span economy.</p>
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<p>I have no doubt that Dr. J. Sun, tenured assistant professor at the TU Delft faculty of Aerospace Engineering, has absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the impact of temperature on aircraft performance.<p>> To give you an idea of data complexity, all airliners come with hundreds or thousands of pages of closely printed tables giving performance at specified weight, temperature, altitude, etc.<p>Make you wonder about who comes up with the theory on how to write those performance tables..<p><i>Scikit-decide, hosted by Airbus.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:25:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724390</link><dc:creator>fransje26</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fransje26 in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks!</p>
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<p>Tangential, but how good/useful/approachable is the book you cited as example?<p>How would it compare, in your experience, to other (modern) cooking books with a similar scope?</p>
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<p>Ah. I see we are going around the autocratic circle. Past and present!</p>
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