Hacker News: markdown

New comment by markdown in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

markdown — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:15:51 +0000

That comment was written tongue-in-cheek.

New comment by markdown in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

markdown — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:15:05 +0000

Why did you need to be a citizen of three countries?

New comment by markdown in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

markdown — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:13:39 +0000

The President confirmed this. They're not sending their best.

New comment by markdown in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

markdown — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:36:19 +0000

That's the ugliest spaghetti i've seen in a long time. Why would anybody want to do that to themselves or their co-coders?

Yes, separating html out in jinja2 or whatever is far superior.

New comment by markdown in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

markdown — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:34:14 +0000

Yes

New comment by markdown in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 23:37:21 +0000

Thanks. The dirty water is temporary, if by temporary you mean months. Do you think that disrupting water supply for more than a few hours is acceptable?

In any case, why are you defending the giant corporation doing this?

New comment by markdown in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:26:59 +0000

> Data centers just use some water for water cooling of cpus, there isn't anything to pollute.

I wonder why they're using up and dumping all the water then. If the water was clean they'd consume none... it'd just flow through their CPU's, into tanks, and back into municipal water supply.

New comment by markdown in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:22:35 +0000

It's the title that makes it murky. Should be "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center construction".

And yes, when water flows from a tap into a cup it gets "shaken up" plenty.

New comment by markdown in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:15:11 +0000

The only thing it's missing for me is secure notes for me to store my 2FA recovery codes in. So I mainly use Apple Passwords now, but still keep Bitwarden going for secure notes.

New comment by markdown in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:12:58 +0000

The Apple Passwords app does all this just fine. The only thing it's missing is secure notes to store my 2FA recovery codes in.

New comment by markdown in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:45:43 +0000

> * Web sites: Typescript, or maybe Go.

lol, no. Just no. Python is far superior for website backends unless perhaps you're running one of the top 20 websites in the world.

New comment by markdown in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:57:26 +0000

> "Everything was about how do we become more effective at extracting profits from this business."

FTFGoodarzi

New comment by markdown in "Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:06:29 +0000

Where I grew up, fish and chips was wrapped in actual newspaper.

New comment by markdown in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:08:41 +0000

These damned wallpapers gave me my worst experience with Apple. MacOS would delete them and redownload automatically over and over again, using almost a terrabyte of data per week.

And I wasn't even using video wallpapers at the time.

Just discovered I had no internet 3 days into the month as my ISP had cut me off. Had to dig deep and spend hours I'll never get back trying to find out where all the data was going.

Here's a thread I just found now that shows others having similar issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1ii38g8/macbook_wall...

New comment by markdown in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

markdown — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:40:33 +0000

> Those kinds of jobs might largely vanish.

have already largely vanished

New comment by markdown in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

markdown — Tue, 19 May 2026 04:08:47 +0000

You think people care? The average guy on the street doesn't even think about the fact that part of the price they paid for their lunch went to Panama for the use of a canal.

New comment by markdown in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

markdown — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:36:56 +0000

It was always funny to us as kids, and we often laughed at the poor bugger who had earned that punishment (and were laughed at when it was us).

Our teachers didn't abuse us like some do in other societies, with extra homework and detention. We new the rules and punishment for breaking them, and made choices accordingly. Wonderful teachers who I remember fondly decades later, though some of them have passed on.

New comment by markdown in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

markdown — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:58:06 +0000

Yup. I and all of my peers would vastly prefer to get a caning, or belting, or piping (hit with a short length of garden hose), or any other form of corporal punishment over something torturous like extra homework.

We'd watch Hollywood movies and be bewildered by the misbehavior and lack of respect shown to teachers in classrooms.

Every class has square pegs, but with strict teachers, they'd stay in line and not ruin the learning environment for the rest of the class.

Part way through high school, corporal punishment by teachers was banned nationwide, with only the headteacher allowed to administer that punishment. Since then I believe not even headteachers are permitted to strike students.

Might have been as a result of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Schools have gone downhill since.

New comment by markdown in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

markdown — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:50:53 +0000

lol, standard practice in schools where I grew up, though not with a wooden rod but the wooden back of the blackboard duster.

New comment by markdown in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

markdown — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:02:47 +0000

Do you not have small claims court? They're usually free.