Hacker News: nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nslsmHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 23 May 2026 02:03:26 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]>>Just to state the obvious: 2020 was the year of COVID, which played hell with peoples' social lives.

No, it was government mandates that played hell with peoples' social lives.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:58:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879031nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879031https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879031<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"]]>…yes? My point is if someone can break the law 547 times and no one is affected then the law is stupid.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:33:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878690nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878690<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "To Protect and Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets"]]>Has he ever hit something or someone? If the answer is no, then speeding laws are too strict and must change.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:33:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876989nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876989<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Who Killed the Florida Orange?"]]>The Irishman taught me how to put vodka into a watermelon.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:49:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869123nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869123<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "What killed the Florida orange?"]]>Why not just eat the orange. I can't be the only one who finds eating the pulp alone icky. Like chewing on a damp rag.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:42:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867569nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867569<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Why Musicians Are Manufacturing Sold-Out Shows"]]>I thought venues paid artists.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:30:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864181nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864181https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864181<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"]]>The goal is that if you’re poor you can’t own a car.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:14:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856770nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856770<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"]]>Given the population pyramid, it would be impossible for them to change the law until they are well into old age.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:58:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854430nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854430<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"]]>It’s awesome to decide what your children, once they are adults, can’t do? Seems borderline psychopathic. Kinda sums up democracy in current times though.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:19:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851703nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851703<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan"]]>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORBBap-m0tY

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:09:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850785nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850785https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47850785<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"]]>I can see how this happened: the employee was home, his kid wanted to play some roblox, he installed roblox and gave the kid the laptop, the kid decided to install the cheat.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:32:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846935nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846935https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846935<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"]]>I don’t see what’s so funny about them, especially the last one.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:00:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838998nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838998<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]>> I suppose someone will say that this law is necessary for environmental reasons, regardless of people's preferences.

Welcome to democracy and lawmaking in 2026. We know better than you!

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:52:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837014nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837014<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]>In the meantime, my daily driver here in reality land: https://i.imgur.com/8yEEJVb.png

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:15:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835557nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835557https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835557<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]>Damn, recently I had a phone with a battery that wasn’t properly glued and it would turn off when shaken. I hope this doesn’t become the norm from now on.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:57:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834435nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834435<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Louisiana Advances One of the Country's 'Cruelest' Anti-Homeless Bills"]]>Citation needed.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:06:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828887nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828887https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828887<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "The RAM shortage could last years"]]>>The grid in every country is getting ridiculously stressed by datacenters.

In every country? Citation needed.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:01:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828032nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828032https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47828032<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]>Thankfully the CRUD app that is being developed by some random startup is not likely to cause as much harm as the THERAC.

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:46:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820525nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820525<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]>It's very easy to know when code is wrong: it doesn't work the way it's expected to. So you explain to the AI what's wrong and the AI fixes it.

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:11:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819554nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819554https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819554<![CDATA[New comment by nslsm in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"]]>It’s a democracy when people vote for what I want.

]]>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:44:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815888nslsmhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815888https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815888