<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: jvm___</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jvm___</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:25:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jvm___" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I write this message on thrift store kids doodle tablets regularly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517389</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some poor parakeet is forced to do a half marathon on a treadmill.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:38:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192507</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or a book goes from zlib to my Kobo and I don't leave the toilet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:28:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798517</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you own a USB c to micro-USB to get the file off my phone?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:16:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797588</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I the zlib app on my phone. No clean way from my phone to on my Kobo.</p>
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<p>Sideload without cables is challenging.<p>I download epubs from zlib but then they're on my phone and transferring them to my Kobo is arduous. This makes it easy.</p>
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<p><a href="https://send.djazz.se/" rel="nofollow">https://send.djazz.se/</a><p>This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.</p>
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<p>-Phone notification-<p>Your chinchilla had finished the wash cycle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:18:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754828</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You only get about 10 of each day.<p>Obviously not true. But...<p>Children don't make memories before 4 or 5 and start being teenagers around 15-16. So about 10 years. Sounds like a long time.<p>But what is today, the solstice, June 21. You only get ten June 21sts. That's it. You start with a handful and it decreases from there.<p>A 7 year old has 8 or so left.<p>A 12 year old has 3 of each day left.<p>Enjoy your kids, you only get 10 of each calendar day with them.</p>
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<p>Will programming languages evolve into less human oriented written code and more just calls to a trusted AI.<p>Or will human readable code be less and less of a thing as AI learns it's own, more terse language to talk to other AI's.</p>
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<p>Don't read the original, find a more abridged copy. The original gives too many examples for each point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010784</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we launched a second New Horizons when the last one passed Pluto, the second one would already have passed Pluto as well.<p>Crazy to think how much time has passed since that flyby.<p>Also, one of the program managers was on The Moth podcast describing the panic when new Horizons rebooted days before the flyby.<p>NASA's New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006, and performed its historic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. This journey took 3,463 days (approximately 9.5 years).<p>3,932 days
July 14, 2015–April 19, 2026</p>
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<p>Buzz Aldrin (?) was quoted as recalling holding a pencil inside the capsule as they were out in space and thinking "that wall isn't very thick or strong, I could probably jam a pencil through it pretty easily..."<p>Death being a layer of aluminum away changes your mind.</p>
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<p>Since we're talking trees. Only trees that grow in an area with distinct warm/cold cycles have rings, tropical trees don't and the only way to tell the age of most tropical trees is to have planted it yourself</p>
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<p>It's fun to be on vacation and go visit one of these. They're usually not in tourist areas and are likely to be in well established neighborhoods that a a different vibe than home. Also fun to read and come home with some random book that anchors you to that trip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:39:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212846</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe it was a Canadian rumor? I posted another link.<p><a href="https://www.fodors.com/community/canada/colorful-qu-bec-mai-tai-toms-2019-journey-to-montr-al-and-qu-bec-city-1673111/page2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fodors.com/community/canada/colorful-qu-bec-mai-...</a><p>Jumping Jehoshaphat! The stained glass window up front is a memorial to George Jehosephat Mountain, a British-Canadian Anglican bishop. It was installed in 1864 and was the first monument of its kind in Québec. “The window was made in England and shipped to Québec City in barrels of molasses to protect it from damage.” A sticky situation, indeed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:20:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177177</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A kids field trip to a heritage village in Ontario Canada. So, basically some random volunteer.<p>This page seems to back me up.<p><a href="https://www.heritage-matters.ca/articles/adventures-in-light-and-colour" rel="nofollow">https://www.heritage-matters.ca/articles/adventures-in-light...</a><p>The earliest ecclesiastical windows in Ontario are clear – likely English crown glass, such as is found at the Sharon Temple (1825-31) and the Old Stone Church (1840-53) in Thorah, near Beaverton. This glass was safely shipped from England in barrels of molasses, already cut to size. Coloured glass began arriving shortly thereafter. Using materials at hand, early windows were assembled within wood muntins (strips). Examples include the glorious windows in the chapel of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent, Ottawa (1887), designed by Georges Bouillon and re-erected in the National Gallery of Canada in 1988.</p>
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<p>Darknet diaries</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:25:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165740</link><dc:creator>jvm___</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jvm___ in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They talk about a K shaped recovery in economics.<p>It just depends on if you're on the up portion of the K or the down stick. The larger picture might show an increase but if you split the data apart one leg is actually declining while the other is growing.</p>
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<p>Molasses was cheap because it was the packing material for plate glass - which was only made in England. Place your plate glass in a barrel, fill it with molasses and you can ship it to North America. Just wash off the glass and you're good to go.</p>
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