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New comment by huhtenberg in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

huhtenberg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:56:23 +0000

Wait for the Italian where "cc" makes a "ch" sound and "ch" is "k"

* When followed by e or i.

New comment by huhtenberg in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

huhtenberg — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:46:14 +0000

Keanu was excellent in Fart :)

New comment by huhtenberg in "Don't use your phone while you poop"

huhtenberg — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:48:31 +0000

Back when we lived without phones, we used to read instruction labels on all and any household cleaning products that were stored in the bathroom.

I bet there too was some obscure newspaper column that advised against that.

Yet, lo and behold, we survived!

New comment by huhtenberg in "Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made"

huhtenberg — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:51:12 +0000

> what the final product should taste like

To each their own, obviously, but I find it utterly unpalatable.

Especially compared to something like genmaicha, which is absolutely delightful.

3D-printed metal wristwatch with LED matrix display

huhtenberg — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Watches/comments/1ui3lvy/project_my_brother_and_i_designed_our_own/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715289

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by huhtenberg in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

huhtenberg — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:11:29 +0000

What did you have exactly?

With calcifications, physio without the shockwave component definitely doesn't allow going back to the normal gym routine. It's just not enough.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Wolfram Language and Mathematica version 15"

huhtenberg — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:37:27 +0000

As opposed to what?

New comment by huhtenberg in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

huhtenberg — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:15 +0000

Or some version of RMS :)

New comment by huhtenberg in "The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once"

huhtenberg — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:23:42 +0000

https://finviz.com/map says Hi :)

New comment by huhtenberg in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

huhtenberg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:03:13 +0000

No pm on hn, mate.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:23:20 +0000

At 26MB setup package it most likely doesn't.

New comment by huhtenberg in "US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO(stationary orbits)"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:40:47 +0000

> A new kind of Russian satellite is now in the mix. This satellite, officially known as Kosmos 2589, was launched in June 2025 into a highly elliptical orbit alongside a smaller spacecraft designated Kosmos 2590. The two satellites performed a series of high-altitude rendezvous and proximity operations with one another before Kosmos 2589 began moving toward a more circular geosynchronous orbit, where it arrived in April.

> One of the US military’s GSSAP satellites was waiting for it. The US inspector spacecraft is now looping around Kosmos 2589, swinging near the newly arrived Russian satellite twice per day, coming as close as 8 miles (13 kilometers).

Someone's full-time job is this. Crazy stuff.

US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO(stationary orbits)

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:37:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/threes-a-party-us-china-and-now-russia-are-on-the-prowl-in-geo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182738

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by huhtenberg in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

huhtenberg — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:31:24 +0000

Good luck with random AS blocks. Sounds thoughtful.

New comment by huhtenberg in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

huhtenberg — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:34:34 +0000

> https://www.n1kdo.com/meter-clock/index.html

Can't access it. Connection attempts time out.

New comment by huhtenberg in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

huhtenberg — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:23:25 +0000

Give "Please Don't Touch Anything" a try.

New comment by huhtenberg in "France pulls last gold held in US"

huhtenberg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:56:21 +0000

Gold is down 10+% since its recent peak. They likely sold then and repurchased later.

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:53:04 +0000

Probably more on imaging / as going up and \ as going down.

I'd think that associating pitch increase/decrease with up/down works for the vast majority of people without any second thought.

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:48:55 +0000

> ë

What else is there with ë except for Noël and Israël ?

New comment by huhtenberg in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

huhtenberg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:10:39 +0000

If there's one thing I wish someone pointed out when I was just starting learning French is this:

  é - the accent is pointing up, so it's a higher-pitched e

  è - the accent is pointing down, so it's a lower-pitched e

That's it. That's how it should be explained.

* It's also in their names - aigu and grave, but this requires knowing what these words mean.