Hacker News: huijzer

New comment by huijzer in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

huijzer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:48 +0000

I have a physical tulip to sell you

New comment by huijzer in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

huijzer — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:53:42 +0000

> You don't raise this much money this fast without having some success to show the investors.

I’m pretty sure the dotcom bubble had many counterexamples

New comment by huijzer in "Twenty Years of Pandoc"

huijzer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:15:54 +0000

I can imagine that it works great, but at the same time I have also used plain Rust to generate HTML. It’s not that hard to generate valid HTML. Parsing however is a different thing. That’s hard. For Markdown source, there are libraries to parse the Markdown. That’s a bit more work to get right, but at the same time Pandoc also requires some tweaks and configuration to get right, plus getting the dependency installed in your environment(s). I personally would go for the Rust libraries way for a new project for flexibility sake but wouldn’t say the other way is wrong per se.

New comment by huijzer in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

huijzer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:49:17 +0000

> competition in digital payments

What competition? Here in the Netherlands, iDeal (which is already renamed to Wero) has almost no competition. Perhaps PayPal a few percent

New comment by huijzer in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

huijzer — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:25:44 +0000

> I'm glad to see a focus on pushing statistics to do a better job of reflecting that

“You have lies, damned lies, and then you have statistics”

New comment by huijzer in "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research"

huijzer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:26:39 +0000

Another paper for the “Obviously” category. Otherwise the leafs at the top would be brown. But I did a PhD myself and our papers were exactly the same. Noone wants to rock the boat. Professors just want to get to their pension without problems. And people will cite things that are in line with their own stuff. So there you have it. Just proving the obvious time and time and time again.

New comment by huijzer in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

huijzer — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:03:34 +0000

> unfalsifiable distrust

Well, I think it’s pretty clear for starters that politicians lie (and yes this holds for both left and right; although indeed some presidents more than others), and that this isn’t helping trust.

New comment by huijzer in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

huijzer — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:32:45 +0000

In other news, water is wet

New comment by huijzer in "European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage"

huijzer — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:01:34 +0000

Just to be sure to point out the obvious here, I think the main police effort should be on catching the sources of such material. There is the root problem. In a world were we’re ruled by Epstein friends, this is probably not gonna happen though

New comment by huijzer in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

huijzer — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:22:23 +0000

> The data isn't guns though. Guns aren't a dual use technology that have a nonviolent purpose.

Counterexample, guns could be a (non-violent) hobby. I’m not pro guns or violence but just pointing out the logical issue here

New comment by huijzer in "GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app"

huijzer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:49:09 +0000

Is there use for this for individuals? Or is this like advanced note taking apps: you feel productive but are just busy talking about the things you need to do instead of doing the things you need to do

New comment by huijzer in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

huijzer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:06:00 +0000

In theory you are right, but in practice that’s not how it goes.

New comment by huijzer in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

huijzer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:47:04 +0000

I recently switched back from a Tesla to an older car without permanently having a map visible. Suddenly my brain has to think about routes again and it definitively feels like my brain has to put in more effort again to handle it.

New comment by huijzer in "I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline"

huijzer — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:04 +0000

It also makes no sense to go reverse. Maybe practically, but from the Word generated garbage your not gonna get something useful

New comment by huijzer in "I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)"

huijzer — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:41 +0000

I finished my PhD and still hate (or at least severely dislike scientific writing). It just feels so pointless most of the time plus you constantly have to compromise on most of the text until it says almost nothing

New comment by huijzer in "I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline"

huijzer — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:01:29 +0000

Seems it’s currently a percentage: https://forum.typst.app/t/how-to-leave-a-single-line-of-para...

On Pandoc I agree. Word custom styles is possible I believe but it will be a mess (as usual with Word).

New comment by huijzer in "I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline"

huijzer — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:44:13 +0000

Uhm why not Typst? I published my thesis and another book in it and it worked great. They are also working on HTML output which should make it easier to create EPUBs. Until then Pandoc should work I think

New comment by huijzer in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

huijzer — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:59:43 +0000

Interesting. Thanks. The seeming contradiction can be resolved by the statement “no honesty among thieves”. I don’t know exactly about the sect, but I do know that the Templars were not a particularly honest bunch. True criminals without a conscience will also often blame the other side of crimes they themselves conduct; probably to keep blame away from them since the false accusations cause massive confusion

New comment by huijzer in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

huijzer — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:51:27 +0000

Agreed. Crusades have also close ties with gnosticism since the Templars themselves were gnostics.

New comment by huijzer in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

huijzer — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:50:30 +0000

The Catholic church has also burned Christians in various era’s including in the 15th century.