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New comment by hattmall in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

hattmall — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:45:34 +0000

I think they are both generally ok, but also somewhat sketchy. I don't see them as much different from Clinton's pardons, Fords or Andrew Johnson's Christmas day pardons for confederate soldiers.

What big differences do you see?

New comment by hattmall in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

hattmall — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:40:01 +0000

The Democrats literally tried like 6 different ways to get Trump in jail, and arrested and jailed many of his supporters and even some of his administration. I highly doubt that the majority of the voting public which elected Trump will sit idle for any sort of unjust retribution to the current administration.

New comment by hattmall in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

hattmall — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:25:57 +0000

He just had to pick a year where he would have a very good chance of not being alive.

New comment by hattmall in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

hattmall — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:53:54 +0000

Trump and the US effectively control the commerce because they are the only source of insurance. Even with payments and promises from Iran, no ship is sailing without insurance coverage. There is no one insuring the ships other than the US program Trump created.

New comment by hattmall in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

hattmall — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:57:09 +0000

Iran has been keeping it open to avoid attacks. Their first order of business if they get nuclear weapons would be closing the strait and implementing a far more massive toll. They already have ICBM capable of hitting Europe. This isn't really America's problem though, the price of oil won't go parabolic, it will fracture. That's what the current price action is leaning towards. So cheaper oil in the Americas and vastly more expensive oil in Europe.

New comment by hattmall in "Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)"

hattmall — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:12:53 +0000

We do, deebot T20 maps the whole house, knows what type of floors there are, maps furniture etc

New comment by hattmall in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

hattmall — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:31:42 +0000

>mitigate the adverse effects of low socioeconomic status

Makes me wonder how much of it is Sauna, vs just the luxury of having the time to go do nothing for ~30 minutes.

New comment by hattmall in "SpaceX files to go public"

hattmall — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:34:38 +0000

What possible reasonable benefit would there be to datacenters in space? Why would that even be a concept at all?

New comment by hattmall in "SpaceX files to go public"

hattmall — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:31:31 +0000

>They said the same thing about cell phones vs landlines

Did they? I don't really remember that tbh.

New comment by hattmall in "SpaceX files to go public"

hattmall — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:29:41 +0000

I think Airplanes are going to be pretty profitable. They are sort of running a market cornering operation there. But, there will be competition eventually. Starlink is way faster than the alternatives so most airlines have switched and Starlink has rapidly increased their prices for aviation. Idk if it's enough though, they are definitely running lots of promos for home customers.

New comment by hattmall in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

hattmall — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:47:02 +0000

I feel like it's more to say that, "getting eaten was a legitimate concern" they weren't really the single top of the food chain because there were other animals that would reasonably consider them prey. Cave lions were massive and definitely targeted neanderthals.

New comment by hattmall in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

hattmall — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:50:41 +0000

Ice cream isn't engineered to be addictive. Ice cream is, for most people, actually enjoyable and costs money. If ice cream were free but you only got a small amount on random visits to the ice cream parlor then it would be engineered to be addictive.

New comment by hattmall in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

hattmall — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:45:19 +0000

It's not the screen, it's the format. It's an engineered gambling addiction where the currency is time and instead of the house taking your money the arbitrage your time to an advertiser, often surreptitiously.

New comment by hattmall in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

hattmall — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:41:19 +0000

Depression, anxiety, suicide, wasted time, irritability.

New comment by hattmall in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

hattmall — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:04:14 +0000

Any idea why they aborted??

New comment by hattmall in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

hattmall — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:53:38 +0000

Social media apps generally opened up new markets though of their existing user bases as sellers. Perhaps chatgpt could know everything in your house, if you don't actually use it, and pair you with a neighbor that needs it!

New comment by hattmall in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

hattmall — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:18:06 +0000

Thank you, and that was 10 years ago!

New comment by hattmall in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

hattmall — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:15:58 +0000

Sure, but it's a more or less a formulaic process. There's not on the fly decision making or emergency responses like in orthopaedic surgery or any other surgical design. You make a mold or scan of teeth. Calculate the adjustments, make the retainer, repeat. With a more widely available tooling the process could be even more monitored. i.e. Bi-weekly instead of monthly molds for faster and more precise results.

New comment by hattmall in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

hattmall — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:28:03 +0000

So shouldn't this really be something that could be opened sourced. I think I've seen a few write ups of people that did their own, but seems like a highly functional implementation could be democratized.

New comment by hattmall in "Waymo Safety Impact"

hattmall — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:10:04 +0000

> Only a robot could've safely swerved into another lane and avoid the crash entirely.

Do you drive a lot? I feel like humans take evasive actions like this all the time.