<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: inportb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=inportb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:13:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=inportb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try bamboo chopsticks. They are smooth because they are made parallel to the grain. There is minimal end grain surface area, so you rarely have to interact with the rough bits. And they do almost everything you'd want a consumer-oriented utensil to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267049</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Burner Phone 101"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, but you should probably use a control. Two phones, same hardware, same software. One inside the faraday cage, one outside, both in the same room with the same conditions otherwise.<p>Repeat the experiment a few times. Then cross over: liberate the caged phone, cage the free phone, and repeat the experiment a few more times. Or alternate the phones' positions between experiments. This mitigates hardware and software differences that might've been overlooked (such as a faulty battery, etc).<p>Analyze the results, draw your conclusions, publish, and encourage others to reproduce.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:10:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008654</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An interesting solution to a challenging problem. Thank you for sharing it.<p>I must admit, I had some trouble following the author's transition from "celebrity" with many followers to "bot" with many follows. While I assume the work done for a celebrity to scatter a bunch of posts would be symmetric to the work done for a commensurate bot to gather a bunch of posts, I had the impression that the author was introducing an entirely different concept in "Lossy Timelines."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109601</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Profit.<p>I use these guidelines all the time in the PDF format for free, and I'd love to have these in a structured format. For $3000/year you could get 50 users access to PDF prescription templates to speed up their work. That's not bad, but it's still all PDF.<p>For the nice low price of "contact us for pricing," though, you could have EMR integration. They couldn't justify $$$$ for EMR integration if all this information is easily accessible.<p><a href="https://www.nccn.org/compendia-templates/nccn-templates-main/ehr-integration" rel="nofollow">https://www.nccn.org/compendia-templates/nccn-templates-main...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:27:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504669</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42504669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing, but I do find it amusing that we're comparing Boeing aircraft with guided missiles. How the mighty have fallen :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 02:26:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169189</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42169189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "GDDR7 Memory Supercharges AI Inference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it could really do that, then it wouldn't be DDR, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971458</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Came here to say the same. The shipit program relieved a major pain point that prevented me from getting into Linux at the time: dial-up networking. It was a clever idea :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:12:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900134</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41900134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use this and this was the first issue I encountered. And I fixed it by making an exception for my home network.<p>Now if anyone showed up with random MAC addresses, well, it ain't me :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418267</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is more similar to iVentoy, which implements PXE boot, but is closed source. netboot.xyz, on the other hand, requires boot images to be extracted and served in an iPXE-friendly format, which their CI/CD system does automatically. These solutions are good for facilitating OS installations across a fleet of computers on a network.<p>But for system rescue purposes, Ventoy still wins. You bring your own boot images, which could be arbitrary ISOs, and don't have to worry about networking availability.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:28:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294719</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41294719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not surprising that seeds need little more than moisture, earth-like atmosphere, and gentle heat to sprout. They contain all the nutrients and instructions required to start new life.<p>It's also not surprising that too much frass would inhibit growth. Even in earth-like soil, too much fertilizer is toxic.<p>But it's good to know that Mars-like soil doesn't inhibit plant growth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:18:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963268</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40963268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Why are we templating YAML? (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with you about YAML's treatment of tabs. I still use YAML because there's often no other choice.<p>Python is actually flexible in its acceptance of both spaces and tabs for indentation.<p>Maybe you were thinking of Nim or Zig? Nim apparently supports an unsightly "magic" line for this (`#? replace(sub = "\t", by = " ")`), and Zig now appears to tolerate tabs as long as you don't use `zig fmt`. I haven't used either yet because of the prejudice against tabs, but Zig is starting to look more palatable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103171</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even the camshaft-crankshaft system could be considered an analog computer that renders (in realtime) the positions of the valves based on the phase of the pistons. Any car with an internal combustion engine has "computers."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 23:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38767247</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38767247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38767247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Kolibri OS: fits on a floppy disk, programmed using interrupts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hobbyist effort is human labor for the hobbyist's benefit, not someone else's benefit.<p>If the Kolibri OS folks experience unique enjoyment from developing this project that they would not obtain from Menuet OS, then the labor would not be duplicated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473315</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38473315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would this be a tiny internal combustion engine?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728010</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37728010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Water-purifying cup makes drinkable water from creeks and streams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a result of using this device, you'd drink only the microbes that are not attracted to your electrode?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:42:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301324</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37301324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This project seems to perform some rudimentary 3D to 4D conversion by rotating the object as a function of time. A first step, perhaps, on the path to inferring entire timelines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 00:13:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993825</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Overlooking the cell chemistry issue...<p>... you cannot just dump unlimited current through a superconductor. Once you exceed the critical current density, your superconductor becomes a regular conductor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 22:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963862</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36963862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "WordPress Playground: A WordPress that runs entirely in the browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ooops! I suppose it does not work in private browsing mode.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:47:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36730387</link><dc:creator>inportb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36730387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36730387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inportb in "Unix Koans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it does! Neat. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterimage</a></p>
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<p>Agreed. A good error message could help the user make it work.</p>
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