<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: jeffalyanak</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeffalyanak</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:17:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jeffalyanak" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "Ask.com has closed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least queryquinton is still around:<p><a href="https://queryquinton.com/" rel="nofollow">https://queryquinton.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 13:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986214</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "Ask.com has closed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least queryquinton.com is still alive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986201</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your plumber was doing regular work for you that brought you significant, expensive-to-replace value then you _should_ pay him more.</p>
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<p>Rather than outright disabling it, I wish it was a permission the site would have to request.<p>That way trusted sites that used it responsibly could be given permission, but it could not be used by any random site.</p>
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<p>I could definitely see value in filters for "has RSS" and "has recent posts"—maybe even as the default view—but I absolutely agree that this is much less interesting to me without the wider world of interesting, small sites.</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure that NobodyNada knows this, but for pedants out there using Bb instead of A# is specifically a classical European music notation thing.<p>There's nothing wrong with using A# and plenty of other notations do. For a modern, hacker-y example, tracker notation only uses sharps).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:33:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963435</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Okay, semantics aside, companies will not make things more repairable if they aren't required to do so.</p>
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<p>Corporations will do anything they can get away with. Without consumer-friendly regulation I don't really see why all corporations _wouldn't_ eventually do this type of thing in markets like this.</p>
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<p>Ideally build it in away from your house, as others have said, but in terms of actual safety systems:<p>-get a high quality BMS from a reputable source, it should supports current limits and thermal probes
- configure current limits with as much overhead as possible, the less you drive them, the cooler they'll stay
- make sure you have sufficient thermal probes inside key points in the pack(s) and that they're configured in the BMS to cut draw
- add thermal fuses as well, knowing where to put these is important, too
- house the packs so to minimize fire risk and cascading issues, especially if space is not a concern</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869896</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "Content-Aware Spaced Repetition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the language learning world there are some great tools already for adding content-awareness.<p>AnkiMorphs[1] will analyze the morphemes in your sentences and, taking into account the interval of each card as a sign of how well you know each one, will re-order your new cards to, ideally, present you with cards that have only one unknown word.<p>It doesn't do anything to affect the FSRS directly—it only changes the order of new, unlearned cards—but in my experience it's so effective at shrinking the time from new card to stable/mature that I'm not sure how much more it would help to have the FSRS intervals being adjusted in this particular domain.<p>1: <a href="https://mortii.github.io/anki-morphs/intro.html" rel="nofollow">https://mortii.github.io/anki-morphs/intro.html</a></p>
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<p>If you really want to allow for another browser to authenticate a login request, you can at least limit it to sessions coming from the same IP.<p>That would let you authenticate your desktop browser from an email you opened on your phone if you're on your home network, but without becoming widely exploitable by phishers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:50:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628031</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That paper doesn't disprove my point. It indicates ~7% home vacancy, which means the total number of vacant homes is higher than the number of people without homes.</p>
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<p>Most expensive homes yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of livable homes and apartments that are _empty_ at any given time. Canada has a lot of vacant houses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542194</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42542194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "The inventor of the automatic rice cooker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They replied to a comment about the bimetalic switch in this cooker with "I thought the circuit that powers the cooking was …".<p>While both you and they are correct that more modern devices work that way, that's not how this one works.<p>It's possible that they didn't miss that fact, but their comment reads as being a direct response to the discussion of the control circuit of the first rice cooker.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 08:53:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058215</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "The inventor of the automatic rice cooker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm getting multiple downvotes here. Am I wrong? What am I missing?<p>I wouldn't have downvoted you for it, but it sounds like you missed this from the article:<p>> While the rice cooked in the inset pot, a bimetallic switch measured the temperature in the external pot.<p>While more modern rice cookers may use curie point magnetic switches, that's not what the original rice cooker used.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032575</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "The inventor of the automatic rice cooker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> How about a clock?<p>How would the rice cooker know when to start the clock? It needs to be started only after the water reaches a boil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032466</link><dc:creator>jeffalyanak</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42032466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jeffalyanak in "I've never used cohost but I miss it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I only knew of them because the top-level comment specifically references the financial updates and some of the numbers from them.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if you actually read their previous financial reports, but their expenses were somewhere around $50,000-60,000, that doesn't indicate an inflated dev budget.<p>If you add up server costs, the cheapest possible accounting and legal services, and any other miscellaneous business costs, it doesn't really leave much of a budget for development.</p>
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<p>It's an OS or API emulator, not a computer system emulator. It's a different scope, but still fits the definition of an emulator.</p>
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<p>I work for an on-prem cloud provider and while AI is part of the reason we're seeing growing adoption, it's as part of a wider move to data and compute sovereignty.</p>
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