Hacker News: mchanson

New comment by mchanson in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

mchanson — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:28:48 +0000

This is an amazing top comment. Like maybe almost anything. So many better options. For one if I were the subject of this harassment I would prefer the cops to never come.

New comment by mchanson in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

mchanson — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:39:26 +0000

You are naive about cops, at least in the US, and what they will or will not do and what consequence they may or may not face.

New comment by mchanson in "Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike"

mchanson — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:21:04 +0000

Weight, price, drivetrain all are terrible as others have said you would be much better off spending much less on a simple al bike.

New comment by mchanson in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

mchanson — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:05:05 +0000

Yeah. And creating those resources cost less and less with less human labor every year.

New comment by mchanson in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

mchanson — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:02:53 +0000

Part of the deal with progress should be that we all start working less. If not is the progress all that attractive?

Improved health so we can all work more is kinda stupid.

New comment by mchanson in "Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town"

mchanson — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:18:49 +0000

It's not equally distributed. In Boston, MA area kids have as much autonomy as their parents wish to give them AFAIK. It's not uncommon to see 10 year olds in my town nearby they are doing all sorts of biz around town on their own.

New comment by mchanson in "50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)"

mchanson — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:00:09 +0000

This is just doomerism and painting with a planet wide brush. IMHO it's not so simple.

There has been much laudable and scientific progress in the past 50 years. Higgs Boston discovery and mRNA vaccines being two that come to mind.

And examples of progress that science helped start and then international and national institutions brought to the masses: Smallpox eradication, HIV treatment, lower childhood mortality, etc.

New comment by mchanson in "CrowdStrike unhappy with Delta litigation threat, says airline refused free help"

mchanson — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:33:28 +0000

Crowdstrike certainly comes out looking terrible. The fact that Delta might have also made mistakes is weak sauce.

New comment by mchanson in "More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work"

mchanson — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:09:48 +0000

I think you just don't come off very convincing.

New comment by mchanson in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

mchanson — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:28:42 +0000

Probably not.

New comment by mchanson in "Wegovy could be covered for at least 3.6M people under new Medicare rules"

mchanson — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:25:18 +0000

Blue cross has $450 / mo negotiated rate. Medicare can do better than that and government has started doing negotiations for drugs.

New comment by mchanson in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

mchanson — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:39:03 +0000

There are a lot of things China does which limits US reach within their country that the US, as a more free society, would not be a good fit for the US.

This seems to me to be one of things we probably should not have done.

New comment by mchanson in "Waymo illegal overtake into wrong-way driving"

mchanson — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:21:11 +0000

It’s kinda funny that the Waymo car is so impatient. I’m pretty sure in this situation I would have just waited until the group ride cleared out to ahead of me and then continued. I would not want to crowd or find my way around them. If I wanted to get past such a big group ride I would probably reroute onto another block since they would keep catching me at stop lights.

New comment by mchanson in "Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language"

mchanson — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:01:50 +0000

The debugger is called Chris Hansen.

New comment by mchanson in "Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich"

mchanson — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:50:45 +0000

Dude all the numbers are normalized to after tax and inflation.

New comment by mchanson in "From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up"

mchanson — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:10:41 +0000

I often find the definition of ultra processed difficult. I put pea protein powder in my smoothies. That is certainly ultra processed however it has good macro nutrients and is not empty calories.

I understand the concept of “empty calories”, but ultra processed seems like a blend of that and how the food was made.

New comment by mchanson in "Crusty, the Indestructible Mac"

mchanson — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:07:25 +0000

Pretty sure, for all you weirdos with poor senses of humor, that the folks behind this do more to preserve retro computers than most of you put together.

This was a beautiful art project that is well and humorously presented.

New comment by mchanson in "ARM's "Blackhawk" CPU Is a Plan to Have the Best Smartphone CPU Core"

mchanson — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:30:29 +0000

Single core still lags way behind. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 has same single core at a 3 year old A15.

They are staying even / besting apple in multicore through adding more cores than apple does.

New comment by mchanson in "YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again"

mchanson — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:59:46 +0000

I wonder if they QA with different ad blockers. This would be much more interesting if we knew the exact mechanism of the slowdown.

New comment by mchanson in "[dead]"

mchanson — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:31:02 +0000

Selective enforcement is difficult to discern, even with large population statistics, and more so in individual cases. It requires comparing similar situations and then constructing an argument that will probably be unsatisfactory.

However, it is readily apparent that large donors to universities exerting pressure through their financial contributions is problematic. This not only undermines the integrity of the institution but also complicates the effective management of the university.