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New comment by itchingsphynx in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

itchingsphynx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:57:20 +0000

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjorl.2023.101382

One simple question detects motion sickness susceptibility in migraine patients: While riding in a car or bus, can you read without getting motion sick?

New comment by itchingsphynx in "How iPhones Became Birth Control"

itchingsphynx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:56:55 +0000

>Our results point to one possible answer. The fertility drop is concentrated among young populations and largely operates through declines in unintended births (Buckles et al., 2025), suggesting the operative margin may be less about the cost of raising a child and more about whether the relationships and sexual activity that produce children are forming at all.

So the current rate is closer to true ‘planned’ rate.

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

itchingsphynx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:08:21 +0000

Great website!

Tinnitus – Nature Reviews Disease Primers

itchingsphynx — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41572-026-00702-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335200

Points: 2

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New comment by itchingsphynx in "Vanguard Investor Choice"

itchingsphynx — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:16:19 +0000

I’ve always appreciated Vanguard’s relative transparency and education material and insight into their thinking. However, I think they should be taking a stronger stance on long-term effects e.g., climate change, as good stewardship for all businesses and economy ad a whole. Allowing the owners to contribute to voting is a small but useful step.

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Magnifica Humanitas"

itchingsphynx — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:38:17 +0000

Indeed, the Industrial Revolution was the topic of a previous encyclical, which inspired this one.

RERUM NOVARUM ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON CAPITAL AND LABOR

http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/docume...

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Opus 4.7 Part 3: Model Welfare"

itchingsphynx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:01:25 +0000

Perhaps relevant here is Melanie Mitchel's comment on LLMs a few years ago:

>"AI researchers are still grappling for the right metaphors to understand our enigmatic creations. But as we humans make choices on how we deploy and use these systems, how we study them, and how we craft and apply laws and regulations to keep them safe and ethical, we need to be acutely aware of the often unconscious metaphors that shape our evolving understanding of the nature of their intelligence."

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adt6140

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC"

itchingsphynx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:37:59 +0000

"Does Quad9 offer content filtering? No. Quad9 has no plans to provide content filtering. Quad9 is dedicated solely to internet security and the blocking of malicious domains, such as phishing, malware, and exploit kits." https://quad9.net/support/faq/#dns_crypt

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC"

itchingsphynx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:44:17 +0000

Quad9 has enabled DNS over HTTP/3 (DoH3) and DNS over QUIC (DoQ) across its global resolver network.

Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC

itchingsphynx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:44:17 +0000

Article URL: https://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-enables-dns-over-http-3-and-dns-over-quic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610777

Points: 69

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New comment by itchingsphynx in "Physicists Trace Sun's Magnetic Engine, 200k Kilometers Below Surface"

itchingsphynx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:50:59 +0000

Magnetohydrodynamic fluids are so cool! The fundamental concept behind MHD is that magnetic fields can induce currents in a moving conductive fluid, which in turn polarizes the fluid and reciprocally changes the magnetic field itself. Thus, a self-generating dynamo.

50 Years of Thinking Different

itchingsphynx — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:10:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/50-years-of-thinking-different/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373563

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by itchingsphynx in "iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day"

itchingsphynx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:00:39 +0000

Looks like this is for older devices only. “Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation” so doesn’t include iPhone 16… nor is available on my device.

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Traffic Noise Generator"

itchingsphynx — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:48:11 +0000

A tool to generate a ton of randomized traffic noise using 30+ personas, 10 parallel generators, chaos modes, live headlines, and more! Bash, Python, or both!

Traffic Noise Generator

itchingsphynx — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thumpersecure/palm-tree

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46853826

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by itchingsphynx in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

itchingsphynx — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:58:15 +0000

+1 for TM to ZFS - although over samba. A ZFS snapshot at each successful disconnection means any occasional corruption is simple to rollback. Also I’m using nightly Arc backup to B2 of critical files.

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Opentrees.org (2024)"

itchingsphynx — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:48:20 +0000

You can send emails to trees in the city of Melbourne http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au

Apparently they get a lot, even more than 12 years later: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-21/tree-love-letters-for...

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

itchingsphynx — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:30:27 +0000

Maggie had many great articles. Technology x anthropology.

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity"

itchingsphynx — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:13:17 +0000

>Most systems that include ZFS schedule scrubs once per month. This frequency is appropriate for many environments, but high churn systems may require more frequent scrubs.

Is there a more specific 'rule of thumb' for scrub frequency? What variables should one consider?

New comment by itchingsphynx in "Ask HN: Anyone have a good solution for modern Mac to legacy SCSI converters?"

itchingsphynx — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:54:16 +0000

I used to be an Apple service technician. We kept an old mac that had SCSI in an expansion port and Ethernet in another for precisely this reason.

I once transferred all 20MB of a Mac Plus hard drive, an author’s lifetime work, to a new iMac with this method.