Hacker News: mrleinad

New comment by mrleinad in "Bob Odenkirk would like to remind you that life is a meaningless farce"

mrleinad — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:23:43 +0000

I doubt Bill Hicks was that rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzQuE1pR1w

New comment by mrleinad in "Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows"

mrleinad — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:10:35 +0000

In Spanish it's commonly "dardo venenoso" (venomous dart), no "dardo ponzoñoso" (poisonous dart). So it's probably incorrectly used in English.

New comment by mrleinad in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

mrleinad — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:05:44 +0000

Or zombified to make requests on a specific target, to harm them or you.

New comment by mrleinad in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

mrleinad — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:01:59 +0000

Did you try running it through a pi-hole?

Samsung confirms it will begin showing you advertisements on your refrigerator

mrleinad — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2025/09/19/samsung-family-hub-refrigerators-advertisements/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437919

Points: 4

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New comment by mrleinad in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

mrleinad — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:34:48 +0000

Can you comment on the finantial situation that allows you to do that?

Vitamin D Supplements May Slow Process Linked to Aging, New Study Says

mrleinad — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:16:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vitamin-d-supplements-may-slow-process-linked-to-aging-new-study-says-5862503

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44097644

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrleinad in "GenChess"

mrleinad — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:28:24 +0000

Are there banned words? Seems like there's no way to generate an Alien like chess set.

New comment by mrleinad in "Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms"

mrleinad — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:48:14 +0000

They probably intercepted communications between those other houses and the target, and determined they should also pay the price.

You can't parse [X]HTML with regex

mrleinad — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:11:50 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41643346

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by mrleinad in "Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)"

mrleinad — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:07:13 +0000

Any better tea to recommend? I'm used to Twinnings as the best I can find where I live, but I'm open to other brands if they're better.

Understanding the Limits of Innovation –| Peter Zeihan

mrleinad — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF4YTDsxcnc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37305803

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrleinad in "Electronic Structure of LK-99"

mrleinad — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 01:59:57 +0000

Next is that UFOs are real

New comment by mrleinad in "Fitch Downgrades the US Rating to 'AA+'"

mrleinad — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:39:51 +0000

Welcome to Argentina

Remote Work Is Inexorable (2021)

mrleinad — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:52:35 +0000

Article URL: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/remote-work-is-inexorable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926118

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrleinad in "A call center worker’s battle with A.I."

mrleinad — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 22:59:46 +0000

I can think of at least one scenario where you need that call center worker. Let's say internet goes down in your area, but you're not sure where the problem is. Allowing a customer to call for a technician to come check the connection in your house might be a waste if the problem is regional. If too many people do that, the waste of resources compound. And you could argue that AI could diagnose where the problem is and choose what to do, but maybe it can't. You need that human to disambiguate the course of action.

Remember the First Time Colorado Tried Fracking with a Nuclear Bomb? (2019)

mrleinad — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 11:17:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cpr.org/2019/09/06/remember-the-first-time-colorado-tried-fracking-with-a-nuclear-bomb/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825274

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by mrleinad in "FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding"

mrleinad — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:23:17 +0000

I don't understand your point, but alcohol is not safe either.

New comment by mrleinad in "FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding"

mrleinad — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:22:31 +0000

> What if a diabetic wants a cookie? Or ice cream?

Diabetics can eat cookies and ice cream, they just need to shoot themselves with insulin afterwards. It's having too much of it the problem.

Besides, if something is bad for you, you avoid it. Period. There are infinite other flavors in life to make it all about that single one. "But I want it" is not a reasonable argument.

New comment by mrleinad in "FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding"

mrleinad — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 19:17:58 +0000

> And given the alternative is sugar

No, the alternative is to learn to enjoy bitter beverages. We don't need sweeteners.