<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: hengistbury</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hengistbury</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:26:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hengistbury" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the difference here between "Android" and "AOSP" (Android
Open Source Project)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046823</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The answer is the ultra-wealthy. Those on welfare are getting increasingly poor, while the ultra-wealthy are getting increasingly wealthy. It's clear where the money is going, and it's not to poor people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551691</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46551691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US administration is threatening to invade the territory of an EU member state, so I'm not sure the use of 'enemy' is too hyperbolic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539924</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Universal Signalling are a company doing exactly this to give better train location information to signallers.<p><a href="https://www.universalsignalling.com/news/latest#h.12nuchpah7nq" rel="nofollow">https://www.universalsignalling.com/news/latest#h.12nuchpah7...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512515</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The city does it for the benefit of the public, the Corp does it for the benefit of the shareholders</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:21:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229290</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This might cause issues with polarised sunglasses</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978892</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45978892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you trust the model when the people releasing it are using it in this way? Can you trust that they won't be training models to behave in the way that they are prompting the existing models to behave?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:12:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520109</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44520109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect many people in this thread don't believe this is genuinely about preventing OpenAI from becoming a for-profit corporation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011495</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43011495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Turn any bicycle electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For most bikes this ratcheting mechanism is in the back wheel, so when going down a hill the pedals, the chain ring, and the chain are all staying in the same position.  
In the demo the chain ring and chain are moving under the motors power, but the pedals are remaining  still.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:40:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811738</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42811738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People in the US have the right to petition the Government, regardless of their eligibility to vote.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:33:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42714107</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42714107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42714107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't claim any expertise here either...<p>But I can imagine that people accessing information about domestic abuse might not necessarily have regular access to internet connected devices, they might not know the best ways to act under stress.
Maybe they won't notice the big red button, but maybe there is some chance that they will notice it, and therefore some chance it will be beneficial to them in that moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 01:20:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815540</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see these points as reasons why it might not be a good idea, but they don't explain why it is a bad idea.<p>Other methods for leaving the site still work. Even if the button isn't the best way to leave the site, if it helps in more cases than it hurts then it's a net benefit.<p>These buttons are essentially panic buttons, and when a person is panicking the big red exit button might end up being the only exit they can find.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797565</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 08:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983668</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Department of Justice says Boeing may be criminally liable in 737 MAX crashes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More accurately, this is a quote from the Fight Club movie</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369283</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "British Placename Mapper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Though interestingly there is a "Portsmouth" in West Yorkshire which is neither a port, nor at the mouth of any river or estuary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:56:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990807</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39990807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "After Appalachian hospitals merged, their ERs became much slower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Governments still have budgets. At the end of the day it's just money in, money out, except private healthcare has someone siphoning money in the middle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837174</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39837174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like DRM is a stretch, the chip in the cartridge is used to track how many washes are left so it knows if it is empty.<p>The dishwasher can be used with regular tablets or powder. I use mine with powder and a small amount of citric acid, and have great results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628661</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This dishwasher is much smaller, so would require smaller tablets to work work efficiently. Certainly possible, and Daan Tech sell small tablets for this use.<p>One benefit of measured detergent is that the wash cycle can dispense the correct amount for different parts of the cycle, for example the pre-wash can dispense a small amount and the main cycle can dispense a larger amount. The rinse at the end can dispense rinse aid.<p>This system offers more control to the machine about when fluids are used, though it would be much better to include refillable tanks instead of the cassette system.<p>I own a Bob and use powder since mine has stopped pumping detergent...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628622</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Bob_cassette_rewinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Daan Tech broke their firmware update mechanism for lots of dishwashers in the field by losing their keys, more than once too. I own one such dishwasher and can't update the firmware without replacing the main board. They could certainly prevent cartridge resetting in newer dishwashers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:04:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628569</link><dc:creator>hengistbury</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39628569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hengistbury in "Meta outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No reason to allow people on the platform if you can't monetise them, especially after monetisation has been paused for a few hours</p>
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