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New comment by maxweylandt in "Show HN: 18 Words"

maxweylandt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:38:06 +0000

Going two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed

New comment by maxweylandt in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

maxweylandt — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:56:49 +0000

Do blook banks have a way of filtering out PFAS? Or are we giving each other forever chemicals through blood donations?

New comment by maxweylandt in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

maxweylandt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:35:21 +0000

What was the other time?

New comment by maxweylandt in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

maxweylandt — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:54:18 +0000

Related: institutional isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism_(sociology)

New comment by maxweylandt in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

maxweylandt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:00:49 +0000

> Verwaltigung

is not a word -- I think you mean Vergangenheitsbewältigung?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergangenheitsbew%C3%A4ltigung

New comment by maxweylandt in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

maxweylandt — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:22:39 +0000

https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/business/trevor-milto...

New comment by maxweylandt in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

maxweylandt — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:48:13 +0000

Comedian Ronny Chieng has a bit about this: (sorry for short) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1cmCueTZz1A

New comment by maxweylandt in "King – man + woman is queen; but why? (2017)"

maxweylandt — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:52:12 +0000

I've seen in readings (and replicated myself on a set of embeddings derived from google books/news) the capital cities:

Berlin - Germany + France = Paris , that sort of thing

New comment by maxweylandt in "America is now one big bet on AI"

maxweylandt — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:41:39 +0000

I also suspect using 2020 as a baseline will inflate how large the increases appear. Cursory google, but this dataset suggests pretty steady number apart from the covid downturn and now the recent crackdown:

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/uni...

New comment by maxweylandt in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

maxweylandt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:06:50 +0000

another example: packing paracetamol in blister packs seems to have reduced suicides.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/

> Suicidal deaths from paracetamol and salicylates were reduced by 22% (95% confidence interval 11% to 32%) in the year after the change in legislation on 16 September 1998, and this reduction persisted in the next two years. Liver unit admissions and liver transplants for paracetamol induced hepatotoxicity were reduced by around 30% in the four years after the legislation.

(This was posted here on HN in the thread on the new paracetamol in utero study that I can't seem to dig up right now)

New comment by maxweylandt in "Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world"

maxweylandt — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:56:28 +0000

neat! Small typo in 'Paul's first Journey' :

>This first trip laid the framework for hsi other trips further afield.

should be 'his'

Fidel Castro and Dairy (Wikipedia)

maxweylandt — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:16:03 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro_and_dairy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44886249

Points: 4

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New comment by maxweylandt in "Friction and Not Being Touched"

maxweylandt — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:48:27 +0000

> Counter to the authors claim my experience is that friction is an essential building block of literally any organization.

I don't read the author as claiming that at all. In fact I came away thinking this was an argument for friction, if anything.

New comment by maxweylandt in "What happens when an octopus engages with art?"

maxweylandt — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:54:19 +0000

Would that be stressed on the last syllable? (octopodés? Don't know how to formally mark stress, sorry)

New comment by maxweylandt in "I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)"

maxweylandt — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:29:01 +0000

How is public transport to nearby commuter towns? If it's affordable/convenient/reasonably quick that can help a lot, I suspect. (But am quite ignorant so appreciate correction!)

Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe

maxweylandt — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 11:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/687123/23andme-anne-wojcicki-acquisition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275676

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxweylandt in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

maxweylandt — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:50:33 +0000

Hello, please specify Fully Remote (US) in the heading of your post

New comment by maxweylandt in "Shared DNA in Music"

maxweylandt — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:34:43 +0000

Thanks for teaching me about this! I listened to it and immediately thought I recognized it from Jamie XX's Oh my Gosh. In the event I was wrong, it samples Lyn Collins -- another classic sample I believe, certainly in hip hop. But I'm sure I'll hear it pop up in lots of places now, always nice to learn a piece of history.

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/343380/Jamie-xx-Gosh-Lyn-C...

New comment by maxweylandt in "A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive"

maxweylandt — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:57:19 +0000

Very well done, always nice to see non (not yet?) professional scientists contribute :)

This reminds me I've been meaning to set up a moth trap.

New comment by maxweylandt in "Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom"

maxweylandt — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 09:38:56 +0000

It's a good poem. I learned the original off by heart two months ago to recite it to my sleep-averse child as part of their bedtime routine. It definitely benefits from recitation, which really unearths the lovely wavelike rythms.

(edit: this translation does a good job of matching the syllable count, almost perfectly. It does mean it strains a bit in places. But compromises always have to be made!)