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New comment by lentil_soup in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

lentil_soup — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:06:40 +0000

Some festivals work just like that, you upload some ID when buying your ticket which they see when you enter the venue. Feels really nice and stress free.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

lentil_soup — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:48:41 +0000

will depend on how it's implemented, you could end up paying via a QR code, contact less NFC, a phone number, the web. I think it could open up a lot of innovation

New comment by lentil_soup in "What Is Date:Italy?"

lentil_soup — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:11:44 +0000

for what is worth, I actually liked the shaded links, they made me smile :)

New comment by lentil_soup in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

lentil_soup — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:33:28 +0000

This is a great point! And not only a compiler behind a subscription, it's also a compiler whose financial interests are not aligned to be the best compiler but the one that makes the most money, which is unclear what it means at this moment. Will it have ads? Will it give preference to some technology over another? Will it steal your code? It's an unreliable and opaque compiler!

Name in Landsat

lentil_soup — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:33:34 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039856

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

After Spain's blackout, its shift to renewables and grid evolution power on

lentil_soup — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/blackout-spain-renewable-energy-grid-solar-wind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936236

Points: 96

# Comments: 43

New comment by lentil_soup in "United Wizards of the Coast"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:30:01 +0000

> Nothing critical is lost if a video game team stops working. Society doesnt need it and there are lots of alternatives.

A union represents workers in a company, nothing to do with society. If workers strike the company stops making money, that's their leverage

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:24:24 +0000

potentially, you're right, anecdotally many artists I've known and worked with have always liked and sought those notebooks

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:16:26 +0000

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this.

This is not some random tie-in to the LOTR franchise. Moleskine used to be one of the main notebooks for artists for a long time, and as the article mentions some of their notebooks have featured artists in their cover, their manifesto is all about "timeless power of handwriting" and "put pen to paper, and unleash your unique voice", etc. Having a company with that reputation and those connections to the art world just go with some AI slop for this collaboration is a slap to the face to its own users for potentially selling some notebooks to unsuspecting LOTR fans.

It's the enshittification of a brand once loved by artists.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:10:22 +0000

> The market will definitely make the decision here

I don't understand this, the market is not a divine entity, you can choose to be passive about it and let others decide, but there's nothing wrong with people pushing "the market" towards what they see is right. Big corporations do it already so it's perfectly fine for people to call attention on this, campaign against it, etc ... which is what this article is doing

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

lentil_soup — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919386

Points: 74

# Comments: 103

New comment by lentil_soup in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

lentil_soup — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:49:07 +0000

OP literally advocated for having a single culture.

And you missed the part I said about how different human concepts don't exist in all languages, do we just not have those? Language is an integral part of different cultures, not the only one, but a pretty big one. Can't believe I'm having to defend this.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

lentil_soup — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:49:05 +0000

What a sad world where we all have the same culture and language. There's many concepts that don't translate from one language to the next, they form a way of looking at the world. What about foods, and stories and music, nah, sounds terrible.

I also want one big world for all but definitely not a single culture or language

New comment by lentil_soup in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

lentil_soup — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:20:16 +0000

how do you make claims, here: https://usuariosteleco.digital.gob.es/? Can't find a way of doing it with Cl@ve

New comment by lentil_soup in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

lentil_soup — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:16:35 +0000

> Cloudflare would rather not block websites without a court order specifying the sites to be blocked.

why would they?

> squabble between two huge corporations

I think this is just LaLiga using it's cultural and economical power, don't think Cloudflare or the courts should be making exceptions just so they can control how people watch football

New comment by lentil_soup in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

lentil_soup — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:36 +0000

ok, then what do you suggest? we don't get involved and decisions at the government level are made for us? I might be naive, but let's not be restrained by the cynicism of any involment in politics and governance is corruption

New comment by lentil_soup in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

lentil_soup — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:49:03 +0000

not necesarilly, any government will make decisions, if there's no one to speak up and inform them why the decision is stupid, like the one from LaLiga, then we end up in this situation

New comment by lentil_soup in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

lentil_soup — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:44:34 +0000

to stop people pirating football streams while matches are on. Insanity

New comment by lentil_soup in "EFF is leaving X"

lentil_soup — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:29:56 +0000

> the 3 have almost nothing in common

Come on, you know what they mean. They're authoritarian populist leaders with a disregard for the rule of law. Cruel men that rejoice in the "destruction" of their political enemies both figuratively and literally. Men with little emotional control that suffer from severe anxiety at anything that doesn't fit their very narrow view of the world.

New comment by lentil_soup in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

lentil_soup — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:41:24 +0000

why pick on space exploration which has such a small budget and provides with a lot of hard science, technology, boosts the economy, etc and not pick on many other things we do that make no sense? why not pick on the military? or fossil fuel subsidies? or the entertainment/sports industry? or ads? why not pick on bureaucracy or war or billionaires? ... all of those have way bigger budgets and ain't fixing any "existential threats", arguably making them worse

It's so easy to pick on the few remaining industries and science that invest on a future that is not the next quarter and doesn't just make the same people richer. Make no mistake, the little money spent on space exploration (or science in general) is not what's causing or keeping us from solving existential threats.