Hacker News: hfsh

New comment by hfsh in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

hfsh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:41:48 +0000

Do minors drink less than they would if we allowed (or even encouraged) them to drink or use drugs?

New comment by hfsh in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

hfsh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:04:23 +0000

*cries in ghettoblaster and Maglite D cells*

New comment by hfsh in "Be Like Clippy"

hfsh — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 20:23:28 +0000

This clippy white-washing is annoying as hell. Just like clipppy was.

New comment by hfsh in "GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking"

hfsh — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:55:41 +0000

Or more likely, they set up a temporary redirect 7 years ago thinking 'oh we need some time to figure it out', and promptly forgot about it.

New comment by hfsh in "Scientists growing colour without chemicals"

hfsh — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:26:13 +0000

I mean, even then you're growing it from chemicals. Unless you're straight up converting energy to matter (in which case, it would be kind of odd the first practical application they think of is making colors).

New comment by hfsh in "Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in Georgia"

hfsh — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 09:28:53 +0000

Trying to get the English name for the country to include a letter that does not exist in English is just the kind of trolling we've grown to expect.

New comment by hfsh in "20 years of Google Scholar"

hfsh — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:47:14 +0000

>which is Google's primary product

Which used to be Google's primary product, way waaaay back when. Their primary product now is advertising, and has been for a very long time.

New comment by hfsh in "Experimental digital camera with a color eInk display"

hfsh — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:10:56 +0000

Neat idea. But also, somebody's definitely going to take some kind of inappropriate picture just as the charge runs out, and will be stuck with it at the worst time. And somehow this makes it even better.

New comment by hfsh in "Former President Trump has won the presidency"

hfsh — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:45:07 +0000

And by 'pay more' he means 'buy more US weapons'. NATO is a conveniently captive market for the US arms manufacturers, and no way they're going to want to pull out of that while they still have stock to sell.

New comment by hfsh in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

hfsh — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:23:11 +0000

> To my knowledge this isn't recognized anywhere as a disability (though it is associated with a standard diagnosis)

I have the same issue, and I strongly suspect it has to do with my ADHD. I absolutely hate ads in pretty much all forms.

New comment by hfsh in "The Lonely Funeral Project in Amsterdam"

hfsh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:14:15 +0000

> But, just as much, the dead do deserve our attention and respect.

They do in a way, but don't fool yourself that it's actually about the individual dead. It's about humanity in general, and the contribution – good, bad, or meaningless – that every single human life has made to our collective existence. It's good that we admire rainbows, but that doesn't mean we should revere every droplet of water.

> The dignity of a person doesn’t cease when they are dead.

It doesn't 'cease' inasmuch as it becomes a meaningless term. The dead don't have dignity, they are no longer people. It's the memories of the dead have dignity. Those memories are not a part of the dead, they are a part of the living that remember them.

New comment by hfsh in "Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025"

hfsh — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:07:31 +0000

Sure, but nobody but chx even brought up Thinkpads in the first place.

New comment by hfsh in "‘Less than half’ fresh produce sold globally makes any profit"

hfsh — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 22:10:57 +0000

> while also being dramatically better for the environment?

[citation very fucking much needed]

New comment by hfsh in "Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner"

hfsh — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:23:29 +0000

Malaria used to be quite common in Europe and the USA...

New comment by hfsh in "Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner"

hfsh — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:20:29 +0000

That is not at all what that paper is looking at.

New comment by hfsh in "Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity"

hfsh — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:27:58 +0000

They were basically the ultra-rich landowner class. The actual farm laborers doing all the work weren't quite as well off. There's a reason that area still has the last traces of the communist party still active in local politics.

New comment by hfsh in "Farms that create habitat key to food security and biodiversity"

hfsh — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:49:41 +0000

Wow, that's quite an unfortunate name to use for a farming co-op. You can tell it wasn't started in the North of the country where the historical 'herenboeren' were an actual thing.

New comment by hfsh in "How many shipwrecks are there in the world's oceans?"

hfsh — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:23:53 +0000

> the most powerful warship in the world.

Prime example of 'theory vs. practice'.

New comment by hfsh in "Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics: study"

hfsh — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:32:34 +0000

> by design

Yeah, no. Quite the opposite in fact.

New comment by hfsh in "What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?"

hfsh — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 09:45:20 +0000

You don't expect the watch to hang around forever, either. You'll lose it, sell it, or it will break. We don't want a future with indestructible watches littering the streets.