<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: picofarad</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=picofarad</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:28:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=picofarad" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tpu were free to bid competitively to have exclusive rights for your company. What's the problem?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527629</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out the Intel Quark, it was a <50mhz x86 that was resized and re-done on a smaller feature fab and runs on a watch battery (its a bios battery), a full x86 SOC!<p>I dont know what feats of engineering went into it, it is discontinued, but it is a very tiny x86</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527599</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Okay now you're someplace without internet but you have your 128GB workstation laptop with a 24GB GPU. Still waiting to work on a project that has assets "online if you just search"?<p>Or are you going to make a font by hand? From memory?<p>Not everything has to be done the way you think it needs to be done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527546</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was an issue recently with synapse, tbe matrix server implementation, where ram usage would grow until OOM.<p>The solution was to upgrade Python. But I won't, because that was the problem in the first place, here, apparently.<p>Oddly if I ran the whole thing under memray with a different allocator, no issue. I say oddly but it isn't.<p>So I guess my matrix server is broken until I rehome it on a new server with a fresh python instead of 3.10.8.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524892</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am pro-choice, but really I'm hoping there is enough advancement in medicine to "fix" genetic issues and the sorts of things people would terminate after a positive test result.<p>If that is actually possible someday, legitimately, I am switching to pro-life.<p>With only rape/incest or mother's certain death as reasons for termination.<p>I realise this is a weird and nuanced take, but I was adopted and it was back when they forced the mother to keep the kid for 6 months before they'd place tbe kid. Puritanical nonsense?<p>Make it so accidental pregnancy is 0.0001% (a thousand times less likely than perfect condom <i>and</i> pill/IUD use;) and the above "can fix", and what reason would there be to terminate?<p>I am anti-death penalty too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:36:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476109</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Smart, what server / service do you use?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:17:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475856</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the most common thing you hear when you do this? Usually its nothing, but the second most common thing is: "no, sir, <i>your</i> email address."<p>It gives me the fuzzies every time to explain I own the domain, and every email address on it is mine.<p>Since I have it on my phone, I can usually receive the email that they send very quickly and prove that everything's working fine.<p>I am wondering how hard it is to do this again today with a new domain though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475839</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Lies we tell ourselves about email addresses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dont use a random IP to host? I use fastmail, even though they're trying to convince me that I need to pay ~$45 now instead of $5/year.<p>And they sent me an email explaining how grateful I should be, that I'm grandfathered in to being able to use my own domain on a "plan" they dont even offer., in a plan that didn't offer custom domains.<p>Well how'd I get all that then? I signed up for fastmail explicitly because $5/yr for custom domains.<p>Anyhow if you pay a host you're probably fine. Or find someone with an old /24 thats had a /31 or /32 unused for a long while, and no other black marks against the /24. And use that IP, set up demarc and all the other new email DNS stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:13:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475809</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> develop and iterate leading electric vehicles so fast.<p>How do you know this for a fact? Chinese press releases? You've driven one? Some auto blogger drove one?<p>After world war 2 Gorbachev or whoever visited the United States and during that trio visited a supermarket. He thought it was a facade, possibly, put on just for him, there's no <i>way</i> Americans are this prosperous (or whatever, this good at agriculture, farm equipment, etc)<p>Also do the race cars have 4 wheel drive, or all-wheel drive? I'm wagering all-wheel with "torque vectoring" and "Yaw control", like a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475495</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd have to see representative examples but there are thousands of models available, obliterated, remixed, distilled, cloned, compressed, and so many more.<p>I really liked the way copilot was last year, but I switched to deepseek because I don't trust MS.<p>Grok cracks me up, but I refuse to give elon more money than I'm already forced to by circumstance outside my control and budget.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:25:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454446</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was software distributed by radio and vinyl i believe, which means my query if minidisc could be used was a silly one (in lieu of a tape drive, not for Sega!)</p>
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<p>They're like $100! That's not affordable for a thing that makes beeps and boops. I can only hope behringer continues to undercut them on things I care about.</p>
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<p>Well, mindless self indulgence is very loud and aggresive, so an album that is a single CD is 2 vinyls.<p>I'd have to use my usb record player and rip some records and determine loudness vs length to get some baseline, though.<p>Then again, maybe most CD albums are two LPs, I only have a half dozen 2-LP albums, most older stuff is single LP.<p>Is that because albums have gotten longer, or louder? Both?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:56:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454163</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Didn't we use to hang cattle rustlers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454002</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how much of that is because if you hear fiber is good for you and then you start doing fiber supplements or eating foods with more fiber, you immediately get gassy for like four days and it hurts. So one just goes, I'll just keep eating hamburgers then...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:32:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453282</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The test for males used to be putting acetic acid on the genitalia and looking for spots under a blacklight, right? So what is it now?  Blood test for the DNA?</p>
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<p>Are the cows pets?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452701</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pressing the stem on your AirPods, or pressing the play button, or pressing function enter on a Mac opens an undeletable application.<p>If you dont have music, this just wastes a bit of time. If you have music, apparently it wastes a lot of time.<p>Cherry or grape?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:36:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452510</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah but does your Mac have a key combo to launch LinkedIn? Windows +1, Mac 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452442</link><dc:creator>picofarad</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by picofarad in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The difference being that install Gentoo would be 15 pages of instructions, not just pipe this into sh.<p>If I were on my computer, it'd actually link the Gentoo script that we used to bootstrap it on AWS.</p>
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