Hacker News: lozenge

New comment by lozenge in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

lozenge — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:19 +0000

It really isn't. There is no official "Chinese Export" mark. And it's legal to use the real CE mark just to indicate that you (the manufacturer) believe the product complies with European regulations. Some manufacturers might not know or care what it means and just put it on anyway. And some manufacturers might put a version with the incorrect dimensions on their product. It still doesn't mean "Chinese Export".

New comment by lozenge in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

lozenge — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:04:38 +0000

At least they get recalled. I don't think any Temu products are getting recalled.

New comment by lozenge in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lozenge — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:27:21 +0000

I can understand Android (including the Linux kernel) being "too big" and "too separate" to go into Google3, but why Chromium? When it was forked from KHTML/WebKit it was probably not that big compared to the rest of Google's codebase.

New comment by lozenge in "Nobody Got Fired for Uber's $8M Ledger Mistake?"

lozenge — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:41:51 +0000

Spotify was another big proponent of DynamoDB, does anybody know how that went?

New comment by lozenge in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

lozenge — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:29:08 +0000

You only need a couple of Active Directory and Exchange servers here and there. But who's using IIS or SQL Server these days? Sharepoint also seems to be on a downturn.

New comment by lozenge in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

lozenge — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:34:04 +0000

What is writing if not a way to be perceived by others. Ideally not perceived as an LLM!

I saw it too and OP has likely picked up these idioms from the sheer amount of AI-assisted or generated writing out there.

New comment by lozenge in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

lozenge — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:03:35 +0000

Can we get some pictures with the hinge closed?

New comment by lozenge in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

lozenge — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:08:40 +0000

A thick cable tangles less easily.

New comment by lozenge in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

lozenge — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:58:28 +0000

This has been known for decades, how many audiophiles are still buying this stuff?

New comment by lozenge in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

lozenge — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:27:50 +0000

How could software engineers in London and Stockholm understand the effects of racial segregation on music preferences?

New comment by lozenge in "Files are the interface humans and agents interact with"

lozenge — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:43:07 +0000

I don't think the contents is AI sklop at all. It just haooens to be abiut AI.

New comment by lozenge in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

lozenge — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:07:48 +0000

How big an issue was that really? Pick it up and put it back together and it turns on again.

New comment by lozenge in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

lozenge — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:06:33 +0000

The UK banned disposable vapes, the suppliers now add a charging port and the ability to put in refills. The refills cost as much or more than the vapes so now people throw away the "reusable" vapes as if they were disposable.

New comment by lozenge in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

lozenge — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:38:53 +0000

I don't understand the legal side, but after gaining and kicking a Tiktok addiction during and after COVID, I believe it. I was there 4-8 hours a day and tried to scroll videos while washing dishes (and during nearly any other activity).

New comment by lozenge in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

lozenge — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:58:28 +0000

They are targetting whatever has eyeballs. If people are looking for purchasing advice they have probably come from Google. So if Google is indexing the subreddit it is fair game. That means every subreddit that is not 18+, and Reddit also forbids marking a subreddit as 18+ when the contents isn't really 18+ (as this was a form of mod protest a few years ago).

New comment by lozenge in "CPython Internals Explained"

lozenge — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:08:47 +0000

That's a standard error clause. In the case PyImport_ImportModule threw a Python exception, you need to Py_DECREF any C local variables which are new references(not borrowed references) and return -1.

From the later call PyModule_AddObject, it's clear this code has come from the PyInit_ module initialisation function. This code is running on import of the C extension to initialise the "FruitEnum" module attribute. https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/extension-modules.html#c.PyI...

New comment by lozenge in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

lozenge — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:58:21 +0000

I remember when we used interns as an analogy to explain LLMs, now we've come full circle and are using LLMs as an analogy to explain people.

New comment by lozenge in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

lozenge — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:06:48 +0000

That's the best part, the holes maintain themselves. Heck, they even appear without a site survey or paperwork.

New comment by lozenge in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

lozenge — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:52:19 +0000

The relevant market here is the creators not the consumers. As a creator you have no choice but to accept whatever fees Apple, Google, Steam etc set. Or whatever rates Spotify pays you per stream. The fact you "could" host your own website is irrelevant when the reality is nobody will visit it.

New comment by lozenge in "I made a quieter air purifier"

lozenge — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:25:43 +0000

There are continuous extraction fans, they're called dMEV systems. Eg https://www.epicair.co.uk/products/vent-axia-lo-carbon-reviv...

There's also systems which can move air both ways through the whole house - https://www.ventilation-alnor.co.uk/index/support/alnor-know...

Your DIY solution looks a lot cheaper though.