<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: hvb2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hvb2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:21:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hvb2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except that in many cases there's people living downstream doing agriculture using that water for irrigation. There's just this tiny dispute about that in the nile delta between Egypt and Ethiopia<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742769</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The word CAN is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.<p>Let's not pretend like the track record of energy production is free of externalities.<p>We CAN also produce almost all of our plastics from recycled ones. We don't, because those are more expensive than new.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:22:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742709</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> She's talking about more than 30 million voters there. She's actively rejecting them, and criticising Trump for engaging with them.<p>Ok, but let's say there are 5M xenophobic people. What's your proposed solution for bringing them back into the fold?<p>It used to be that there was a shared basis of facts. Numbers don't lie, you can explain them any way you want though.<p>In the past 10 years, America has really just lost it's ability to look at numbers. Partially because of them being explained differently by both sides but mostly I think because of actively discrediting them by one side that doesn't want to talk numbers, but feelings.<p>Trump wants to address feelings, he'll lose any other debate. He doesn't know his facts, he doesn't care about them, he's basically built his life on selling a brand. And a brand is whatever you think it is today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:00:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722931</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plenty of people will use those pans and<p>Overheat them, which means the stuff gets into the air. Many many pet birds have died of this only because they're more susceptible<p>Use the wrong material in them meaning the start to scratch the Teflon layer.<p>I'm not saying you cannot use them right, but too many people don't and the product isn't safe when improperly used. This is true for many products but in this case plenty of people aren't aware they're holding it wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720074</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> if people don't care about PFAS in their tap water<p>People don't? Sounds to me like they need to look at history a bit more.<p>To me, this looks very much like some of the other magical materials...<p>Lead in gasoline, asbestos as building material, tobacco etc</p>
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<p>> If we turn our back on the voting population you have to accept that someone else who reaches out to them gets their vote.<p>So you need to start spreading fairy tales too?<p>A bunch of those votes are from people that don't like what's going on. But if you ask them what they do want, you get blank stares. It's easy to, mostly with hindsight, say what things were bad decisions. It's much harder to be in favor of something because that makes you 'vulnerable'.<p>To keep it US centric, some person campaigned on cost of living issues and how he would fix them all. He got plenty of votes for that and just doesn't care (paraphrasing).<p>I can campaign on lower taxes, better healthcare, better schools, higher wages and more jobs.... But unless I have a way to actually get there, accounting for political realities, that doesn't really mean anything...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:28:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710404</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That has a capacity of 7M barrels a day, so not an alternative. It'll lessen the blow a tiny bit but that's all it does</p>
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<p>Just saying, but this is not really fair. It's not like you use that 2TB. So you shouldn't compare it to a 2TB bucket. Most of these plans have limits to prevent abuse but they're well beyond the 'I need to care' level.<p>Maybe you use 1TB, maybe just 10GB. As a user on this site I expect you know that a 10GB plan and a 1TB plan won't be that much different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674816</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  Iran has already kidnapped a US civilian (a reporter, Shelly Kittleson) and are holding her hostage.<p>Expect there to be a lot of operatives of the US in Iran. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it wouldn't be the first time a CIA or something operative is caught and this is the cover.<p>In war the first victim is always the truth</p>
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<p>If you mean what they started in the 90s? That's not what this is about. The conversation was about not being able to rightsize today.<p>Germany did jumpstart their market successfully but that was in a wildly different time. Want to talk about what a typical KWp of installed solar cost at the time?<p>Hindsight....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628926</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Scale that mindset problem up to a national grid and I imagine the challenge is the same.<p>Except that we have raw data there? The only question is how fast it grows, but since we're transitioning that's mostly a question of how fast you decommission fossil plants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628363</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, didn't know that existed...<p>I would've still put it in the submission itself but that makes sense</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625011</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, sure but I think it would be helpful to explain a couple of things.<p>How it was decided which vendor is an alternative, what were the criteria etc<p>How can this be kept up to date?<p>Can I submit missing data, if so how?<p>This isn't unique at all, so what sets this one apart from the others?</p>
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<p>Is this just to plug the site? What's unique about this, there's quite a few others already?</p>
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<p>And who would be buying this from them? Let's say you're anthropic, would you give money to your competitor?<p>I'll also add that Google is already a player in that space so more likely to easily sell it off.</p>
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<p>But if Gemini doesn't end up using the compute because of whatever reason, Google has other ways to monetize that compute. OpenAI doesn't?<p>So the same money spent by OpenAI and Google doesn't carry nearly the same amount of risk?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597101</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The goal is not to cover everything, the goal is to cover 90% of the use cases.<p>For C#, I think they achieved that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591050</link><dc:creator>hvb2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hvb2 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're developing for the web your attack surface is quite a bit bigger. Your proposed solution of copying a few files might work but how do you keep track of updates? You might be vulnerable to a published exploit fixed a few months ago. A package manager might tell you a new version is available. I don't know how that would work in your scenario.</p>
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<p>By having a much higher launch cadence and then analyzing the flight hardware afterwards.<p>Also, they don't have anything human rated going beyond LEO. Coming back from the moon means you're going significantly faster and thus need a better heat shield</p>
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<p>Are you actually using this? Their status page seems to indicate that their main service is unhealthy for the past 6 days?<p><a href="https://status.codefloe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.codefloe.com/</a><p>Unhealthy doesn't mean unusable but it sounded great until I checked that.</p>
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