Hacker News: michaeljohansen

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Drones Are Key to Winning Wars Now. The U.S. Makes Hardly Any"

michaeljohansen — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:44:00 +0000

"Drones are key to not losing wars".

Oslo airport train launched a hotel for your jacket

michaeljohansen — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:10:56 +0000

Article URL: https://flytoget.no/nyheter-og-presse/nyhetsarkiv/2025-01-29-reis-uten-vinterjakke-med-flytogets-jakkehotell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023799

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Random black bar above HN header?

michaeljohansen — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:42:07 +0000

A thin black bar will occasionally appear above the HN header. It contains a table row with an image called "s.gif". What is it, and why does it appear at random?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652498

Points: 1

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A new life in Norway for a 55 year old Ukrainian refugee

michaeljohansen — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/eit-nytt-liv--1.16707341

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38959759

Points: 1

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New comment by michaeljohansen in "Ask HN: Is anyone else getting AI fatigue?"

michaeljohansen — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:06:09 +0000

If you're tired of AI now you're gonna hate where we are going. Strap in!

(…or take a good step back from the news cycle, check in once or twice a week instead of several times daily. News consumption reduction is good for mental health.)

Play Cyberpunk in Your Tesla

michaeljohansen — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:16:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhBzX-6FjA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33977677

Points: 1

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New comment by michaeljohansen in "Ask HN: How do you keep marching?"

michaeljohansen — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 08:58:25 +0000

This could lead to never finishing anything. OP is asking about how to get through the infamous "valley of death". Just stopping is not necessarily the right action.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use"

michaeljohansen — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:04:47 +0000

Some humans are programmed to stop using printers after a certain amount of use

New comment by michaeljohansen in "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)"

michaeljohansen — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:39:43 +0000

Are you me? I've been keeping a txt file for the last 12 years too.

Synced in Dropbox, only available on my laptops (on purpose), only ever opened with Sublime Text, and using my own syntax highlighting, keywords and autocompletions. A new block of text for every day. Nothing is ever deleted. Consistent writing style, lots of checkboxes, and an onthology of tags to categorise everything.

File size at time of writing: 3.5 MB.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan"

michaeljohansen — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:36:39 +0000

23andMe provides checkboxes for everything you could want to change. Even better than checkboxes on a paper form, these are consents you can give / retract at any time:

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/privacy/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/research/

- https://you.23andme.com/user/edit/records/

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

michaeljohansen — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:23:47 +0000

Are you sure about that? Appears to me that you need a registered trademark in Cape Verde, which Marcaria also has a process for (costs a lot and takes up to a year). I'm fairly certain your domain will expire within three months after purchase without a valid trademark certificate.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Ask HN: Are we in tech-stock bubble?"

michaeljohansen — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:37:37 +0000

S&P500 has a total market cap of $31T. Tesla's current piece of that index is ~2%. A bubble pop would be unlikely to "take the whole economy with it" (thankfully).

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris"

michaeljohansen — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:59:16 +0000

After emissions is solved (EVs), tyres is the next big challenge in a sustainable car. Been thinking a lot about this problem. Up until I saw this video I thought it was almost unsolvable because something needs to touch between car and road. That friction will rip something loose. The fact that those microplastics are positively charged is, at least to me, very good news. Maybe micro debris from the asphalt / cement can be captured as well.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Roof blows off new Tesla Model Y"

michaeljohansen — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:26:26 +0000

(I get that you're trying to be funny. That's OK.)

Nevertheless: He means that electric cars have a "low center of gravity" which matters immensely in collision scenarios.

See this short video of a Model X in a capsizing test: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/1310623334367989761?s=...

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence”"

michaeljohansen — Fri, 29 May 2020 15:13:14 +0000

Plunging is a strong word, but this is still an excellent point. Just bought the stock for support.

Continue

michaeljohansen — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:43:58 +0000

I had a discussion with another developer about HTTP status codes, and he said he also had questions about the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is 100 Continue. Life also involves a lot of 300 Multiple choices and 402 Payment required. Sadly life ends with a 410 Gone. Mostly, however 218 This is fine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22807785

Points: 1

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New comment by michaeljohansen in "Norwegian Air to cancel 85% of flights and temporarily lay off 90% of staff"

michaeljohansen — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:06:14 +0000

Well. We Norwegians joke that SAS stands for "svensk alt sammen" (Swedish all together). Some of us consider Norwegian Air Shuttle to be more of a Norwegian airline.

And yes, a bailout is likely. The govt will likely help keep Norwegian Air's planes flying during the Coronavirus period. Additional help is possible.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song"

michaeljohansen — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 15:34:41 +0000

This is not the Bond villain we want.

New comment by michaeljohansen in "Norweigan oil fund"

michaeljohansen — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:38:31 +0000

Norwegian software developer here. I pay my taxes with pleasure, knowing that the money supported my education, my ability to go to the hospital, good roads, good airports, and lots of other public functions that are great because we collectively invest in them. I think anything below 20% in taxes simply means a country's public functions will suffer.

It's weird to me that Americans have so much against taxes. If a country has a low degree of curruption, and has incentives to innovate in the public sector, then taxes are a good thing.

Obviously I can't speak for the general population, but as for my close proximity: My colleagues think taxes are good too. No brain drain here.

Hyper 3.0.0

michaeljohansen — Mon, 06 May 2019 10:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zeit/hyper/releases/tag/3.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19838241

Points: 90

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