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New comment by keane in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

keane — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:45:03 +0000

At least on Windows and Mac (since about 2017), Chrome doesn’t stay in sync with the printers installed on the OS but retains previous (ghost) profiles. So after printer updates (reinstalls) users will report printing working from Firefox, Edge, and Safari but not Chrome. (From the Chrome print dialog the user is selecting a printer with the same name as the current OS printer but the option displayed in Chrome is cached and since deleted.)

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/81894848/mac-printi...

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/5843479/printer-sti...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255327049

New comment by keane in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

keane — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:18:50 +0000

The Spectacle Factory recommends, in order, (1) warm water and a microfiber cloth, (2) Zeiss lens wipes, or (3) an ultrasonic bath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lJ_5Tg9Ms

They recommend (v=5FUUgO95sb4) against both detergent for the sake of the lens coatings and against sprays which may cause grease to accumulate around the lens rim.

New comment by keane in "Airlines Uses AI to Fake Empathy Rather Than Fix Problems: Passenger Sent Prompt"

keane — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:32:30 +0000

This even led to a product: GetHuman

New comment by keane in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

keane — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:18:40 +0000

“potentially deleterious interaction between caffeine and creatine” in https://doi.org/10.1097/WNF.0000000000000102 mentioned later/elsewhere in today’s thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348670

New comment by keane in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

keane — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:23:46 +0000

I know that about the laity. But no matter the country you’ll see language like this used in letters and writings by those serving in or discerning non-lay/ordained vocations (I would imagine).

New comment by keane in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

keane — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:01:02 +0000

Have you ever hung out with deacons or seminarians? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Prayer

New comment by keane in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]"

keane — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:35:58 +0000

I would have thought this would have originally been driven by wanting to prevent a browser mixed content warning given that something like 15% of Netflix viewing happens in browsers (and the browser warnings switched to blocking in 2020 [Chromium] and 2024 [WebKit/Gecko]).

@drewg123 starts discussing this section at 4:21 in the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzfADu1qyAM&t=261 ("we had this mandate that we had to start encrypting communications between our servers and our clients")

Netflix announced the change in 2016, citing viewer privacy from eavesdropping: https://netflixtechblog.com/protecting-netflix-viewing-priva...

However, I wonder if the mandate was led by Apple. It looks like it was 2015 (at iOS 9.0 / macOS 10.11) that Apple began requiring that network connections made by apps use TLS. While exceptions are allowed, they are discouraged and require a justification for App Store review: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/preventin...

New comment by keane in "Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water"

keane — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:14 +0000

I think you're right. Relevant here is the This American Life segment "Call in Colonel Mustard For Questioning" about how Vienna Beef in Chicago had a difficult time determining what minor uncontrolled variable was making hot dogs taste different after they moved production locations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3140528

New comment by keane in "We Are All Rankers Now: Or Why the Internet Has Turned to Shit"

keane — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:08:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum

New comment by keane in "Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)"

keane — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:43:13 +0000

This is a whole thing tracked by r/northernexposure — apparently the version that was until recently included with Prime had maybe ~80% of the original music. And https://moosechick.com/ claims that the UK Blu-rays have all the original songs. More discussion at https://reddit.com/r/northernexposure/search/?q=music

New comment by keane in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

keane — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:34:22 +0000

That was operated by Alexa Internet and the results powered the Internet Archive (same founder) presumably until their acquisition: https://web.archive.org/web/20140528103516/https://alexa.zen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet

New comment by keane in "We accidentally recreated old Facebook"

keane — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:55:55 +0000

This is an issue. iMessage needs a way for a group thread to be set and labeled as low-priority collectively and preemptively (not just individuals muting the thread).

My friends and I have silly group threads but they fizzle out fairly quickly because everyone is worried I think that they could be bothering people during the workday with a rather high-priority notification.

Instagram is better, like you say, because we can absorb the links and gifs passively.

New comment by keane in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

keane — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:40:07 +0000

The tag and robots.txt serve different roles: robots.txt controls crawling, while the robots meta tag influences indexing and other behavior. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

I wonder how archive.org_bot behaves when is present.

New comment by keane in "Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?"

keane — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:35:43 +0000

The real fun one is calling the utility company to report a downed line from a pole snapped in half and the bot agent doesn’t transfer you to a human even when you say “emergency”, “public hazard”, “utility pole obstructing a roadway”, “potential property damage your corporation will be liable for”, “immenient danger to life and limb” or any and all applicable keyword variations that might warrant humanly answering (and, to add insult to injury, cannot take a report of the event either but simply ends 10 of your calls in a row with a texted link to livechat with its textbot sibling). Like +−×÷ says nearby, it’s austerity.

New comment by keane in "I’ve banned query strings"

keane — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:55:02 +0000

Yes, query strings often enable useful features! But Chris's post, "no unauthorised query strings", is only regarding third parties adding them.

New comment by keane in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

keane — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:30:39 +0000

Correct, since 2002: https://arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/gasoline

New comment by keane in "Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)"

keane — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:25:16 +0000

From the update: "Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capit... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149077)

New comment by keane in "A common weed killer left an epigenetic footprint in early-onset colon cancer"

keane — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:05:35 +0000

Link to the study discussed: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04342-5

New comment by keane in "Is my blue your blue?"

keane — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:36:55 +0000

Same with Old and Middle Irish (1200 AD): "glas was a blanket term for colors ranging from green to blue to various shades of gray"

I like to think this may have had something to do with them having both blue and green in their political usage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_blue

New comment by keane in "Is my blue your blue?"

keane — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:43:23 +0000

Quite right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia