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New comment by ostacke in "Allow babywearing carriers on planes"

ostacke — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:07:43 +0000

I work in child car seat development and I can second that the main issue for our mechanical engineers is preventing neck injuries. Rearward-facing car seats really are a lot better on that front.

ADAC is indeed the main test, but even more difficult than getting a good ADAC score is passing the plus test[1], which focuses on neck spinal forces.

[1]: https://www.vti.se/en/services/laboratory-and-testing/crash-...

New comment by ostacke in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

ostacke — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:14:40 +0000

You are correct, they state that on their website.

New comment by ostacke in "iPhone Duo"

ostacke — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:51:39 +0000

Anecdata of course, but my experience with Windows Hello is that it only works under perfect circumstances. Me just being positioned slightly differently in my chair is enough for it to not recognize me. As opposed to FaceID that has (for me) worked flawlessly for these past almost ten years.

New comment by ostacke in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

ostacke — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:55:41 +0000

This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.

How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree

ostacke — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:26:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-build-a-thousand-year-old-tree/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495953

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Glacier Mice

ostacke — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:58:13 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424320

Points: 334

# Comments: 72

New comment by ostacke in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

ostacke — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:40:19 +0000

Well, even if you don’t get your 50 cents back you usually have an incentive to leave the restroom when you’re done.

New comment by ostacke in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

ostacke — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:28:59 +0000

Reminds me of https://everyuuid.com/

Jeremy (Snail)

ostacke — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:20:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_(snail)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181250

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ostacke in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

ostacke — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:21:12 +0000

IANAL, but that's not quite true right? As per your own citation, återgivningsrätten gives the right to use any piece of art (not in digital form) in conjunction with a piece of critical text.

New comment by ostacke in "Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian"

ostacke — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:06:59 +0000

Broken in Firefox.

New comment by ostacke in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

ostacke — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:48:05 +0000

Isn't the simplest homelab humanly possible just... no homelab?

New comment by ostacke in "The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki"

ostacke — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:11:05 +0000

Seeing Miyazaki’s Pippi makes me so sad that we never got to see that movie. I’ve been reading a ton of Astrid Lindgren with my kid lately, and for many of them I see them in my mind’s eye as Myazaki films, and especially Pippi. Myazaki and Lindgren have a lot in common, I think, in how they tell stories from children’s perspectives. What we’ve got for Pippi movie adaptations instead are very poor things.

35mm analog camera on a drone [video]

ostacke — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEtYXA88X9w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441453

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Maintenance: Of Everything – The End of Combustion Vehicles

ostacke — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:06:38 +0000

Article URL: https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everything/vehicles/the-end-of-combution-vehicles/5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440755

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans to Observe the Offline World

ostacke — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:49:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-agents-are-recruiting-humans-to-observe-the-offline-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438496

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tree veteranisation – using tools instead of time

ostacke — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:30:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344336914_Tree_veteranisation_-_using_tools_instead_of_time

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438240

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ostacke in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

ostacke — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:35:50 +0000

Bu that's not really what danlitt said, right? They did not claim that it's impossible for an LLM to generate something different, merely that it's not a clean room implementation since the LLM, one must assume, is trained on the code it's re-implementing.

New comment by ostacke in "Malm Whale"

ostacke — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:20:45 +0000

It's definitively not the source of the word, but it might very well be the reason the decided to have a "fest i val". Gothenburg is famous for their puns, and even today they open up the mouth of the whale for visitors on two occasions - valdagen (election day) and Valborgsmässoafton (Walpurgis eve).

New comment by ostacke in "Bet on German Train Delays"

ostacke — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:52:01 +0000

Reference: https://youtu.be/ykj3Kpm3O0g