Hacker News: hashmush

New comment by hashmush in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

hashmush — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:45:34 +0000

That's covered by:

> Some cars it does not support because nobody has been interested in testing it out.

The issue is that the percentage of new cars that could be supported drops as more and more starts encrypting the CAN bus.

New comment by hashmush in "The $LANG Programming Language"

hashmush — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:13:35 +0000

I use that every day at $WORK!

New comment by hashmush in "Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health"

hashmush — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:35:11 +0000

The incentive is to not be poor and have more than the bare minimum.

I, for one, am happy to pay taxes to fund this.

I've never understood the argument that people would choose to live like that. It doesn't make any sense.

New comment by hashmush in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

hashmush — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:01:33 +0000

Agree, I did a double take on this too.

Values of the same type can be sorted if a order is defined on the type.

It's also strange to contrast "random values" with "integers". You can generate random integers, and they have a "sorting" (depending on what that means though)

New comment by hashmush in "Read your way through Hà Nội"

hashmush — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:08:28 +0000

Ehm, like in Vietnam's neighbors Laos (ພາສາລາວ) and Cambodia (ខ្មែរ)? Sure Vietnamese used to (a long time ago) be written in its own version of the Chinese script, I'll give you that. But most languages in the region do not use a script derived from Chinese.

New comment by hashmush in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

hashmush — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:15:52 +0000

> But also, does that mean that you have to pay a bank transfer fee every time you buy anything?

No, not at all. The Swish rails are free to users. But I've never had to pay any transfer fees for domestic transfers anyway. They are just much slower than using Swish (instant transfers) and much more clunky (bank account number etc. vs. phone number/QR-code).

New comment by hashmush in "AI is different"

hashmush — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:21:58 +0000

I dunno, it seems you have figured it out too, probably before LLMs?

I'd say all speakers of all languages have figured it out and your statement is quite confusing, at least to me.

New comment by hashmush in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

hashmush — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:56:00 +0000

As much as I'm also annoyed by that phrase, is it really any different from:

- I had to Google it...

- According to a StackOverflow answer...

- Person X told me about this nice trick...

- etc.

Stating your sources should surely not be a bad thing, no?

New comment by hashmush in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

hashmush — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 21:40:55 +0000

The one without that clause was still fun to think about, so no harm done!

New comment by hashmush in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

hashmush — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:52:17 +0000

> You have a 50/50 chance of getting it right.

What is the right answer? Doesn't it depend on the DB? Postgres at least shows rows ordered by last updated time (simplified, I know).

I would be fine if it was "... near the top or bottom" though.

(Or maybe this comment is the correct answer?)

Klarna files registration statement for proposed Initial Public Offering

hashmush — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-files-registration-statement-for-proposed-initial-public-offering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367250

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hashmush in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

hashmush — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:08:46 +0000

You know what? I've noticed the same thing with eating snacks etc., if you don't buy any, you won't eat any. It's amazing!

New comment by hashmush in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"

hashmush — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:34:39 +0000

Uhm? The site doesn't show what week it is..? It's currently week 9 of 2025, but the site shows W7 of Q1. (Maybe that's what you meant? Searching for the current week in the quarter?)

New comment by hashmush in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

hashmush — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 09:55:12 +0000

Sweden has a sensible solution to this (im sure others do too). When you register a name you specify which part is the tilltalsnamn (lit. name of adress). In your case, the names would be disambiguated as Joe Frank Smith and Joe Frank Smith.

Not all systems use that piece of information, but most do.

Some children starting school "unable to climb staircase"

hashmush — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 13:12:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/30/some-children-starting-school-unable-to-climb-staircase-finds-england-and-wales-teacher-survey

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898033

Points: 3

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New comment by hashmush in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

hashmush — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:19:29 +0000

It absolutely helps. It tells everyone that the car is on!

Anecdote: coming from a country where this is mandatory, visiting a country where it's not, I almost got run over because I assumed a car was parked when I glanced left before crossing the road.

Of course, might not prove that one or the other is safer, but it did show me how often I subconsciously use headlights as an indicator of off (=> stationary => safe) vs. on (=> potentially moving => potentially a "threat")

New comment by hashmush in "Swede dreams: How Sweden is embracing its sleepy side"

hashmush — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:41:39 +0000

25 days are the mandated minimum. Many have 30 days or more.

Buy not only that, you are entitled to 4 consecutive weeks during the summer months.

Having 4 (or more) weeks off during summer is the norm in Sweden.

So the question is rarely about if you're gonna be off, but rather how you're going to spend that time.

New comment by hashmush in "Why is zero plural? (2024)"

hashmush — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:47:50 +0000

This is incredibly confusing. Of course the plural of zero (as a noun) is zero(e)s. But then you state that you understand that it's not about the noun, and still go on to say that the answers sharing your view are wrong..?

New comment by hashmush in "Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot"

hashmush — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 08:35:54 +0000

There are constant debates about them in Sweden. Especially after fatal accidents or incidents involving teens driving at speeds above 100 kph. [1][2]

The original law considered tractors and other farm equipment, AIUI. You can drive these so called A-traktor with only a moped or tractor license when you're 15.

[1] Swedish article from 2022 with some examples (there are many more since then): https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ungdomar-manipulerar-a-tr...

[2] Example police chase: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CqcEqhXWiYE

New comment by hashmush in "Enum of Arrays"

hashmush — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:30:48 +0000

I don't get it, why wouldn't you just store tag + count instead? Am I missing something?