<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: pretzellogician</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pretzellogician</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:57:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pretzellogician" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to be forgotten, Steely Dan's unreleased jingle for Schlitz: <a href="https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long-lost-schlitz-jingle-from-the-early-70s/" rel="nofollow">https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/listen-to-steely-dans-long...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:06:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257386</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "solely for the crime of having a larger population than your country"<p>I think there's an interesting question here. Perhaps having a larger population is indeed a bad thing, and should be considered as such?<p>(Yes, India's fertility rate, like many other countries, is dropping quickly)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042804</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a free Bitwarden user, I don't plan to self-host stuff, and... honestly I have no idea what this person is going on about.<p>And "Aside from the aforementioned technical details, Bitwarden is (and has always been) one of the subjectively worst applications on my phones and my desktop in terms of user interface. "<p>Really!!? How many apps has this person used?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 20:28:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990155</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was a fun Zelazny short story, thank you! I thought I'd read them all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912341</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except you spend extra time <i>making</i> your code simple, rather than slapping together something that requires extra maintenance from the eventual owners.<p>Ideally we need metrics saying, "my projects require 30% less support or 50% less brainpower than comparable projects". Things like "average cyclomatic complexity", etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250129</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your points about nostalgia marketing are quite valid.<p>But fyi, the Venture Brothers creators (Publick, born 1967, and Hammer, born 1971) are firmly in Gen X.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:30:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738196</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "More sustainable epoxy thanks to phosphorus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was also Black Destroyer by a.e. Van vogt, where the cat-like creature specifically ate phosphorus: <a href="https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153274" rel="nofollow">https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/153274</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671904</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Almost certainly. Ankles also rely upon hyaline cartilage (as opposed to fibrocartilage). I found this out when I had microfracture surgery for a bad ankle injury.<p>Looking forward to this therapy. My fibrocartilage is wearing out!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:15:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490591</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Q3'25 was a known blip due to the rush to get the $7500 U.S. tax break, which IIRC, even Elon noted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423626</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True! But insurance companies (in the U.S. at least) would also love to know that information...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344603</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, very rough. Marijuana still being illegal at the federal level, and often illegal at the state level, means it's not always in your best interest to self-report.<p>For example, in my doctor's questionnaires. "Have you used illegal drugs in the last year?" I'm always going to say no. I don't trust security and privacy enough to say otherwise.<p>And yes, for HN scrapers, I'll mention this is all hypothetical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:13:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340594</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny, I grew up using what's  called a "hand impact screwdriver"... turns out a hammer can be used to drive in screws!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:10:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306885</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Scala 3 slowed us down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And this can generally be avoided as well, by doing "warmup" when starting your service (effectively, mock some calls), but before accepting requests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185951</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46185951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very impressive! To be clear, this is not the smallest known bacterial genome; only the smallest known <i>archaeal</i> bacterial genome, at 238k base pairs.<p>In the article they mention <i>C. ruddii</i>, with a smaller 159k base pair genome.<p>But according to wikipedia, it seems <i>N. deltocephalinicola</i>, at 112k base pairs, may be the smallest known bacterial genome. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuia_deltocephalinicola" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasuia_deltocephalinicola</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:08:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057537</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Totally true! But also, there users like Tao don't feed trolls, and everyone has  the option to block them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:40:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036739</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "My Favorite Math Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! The mention that it was solved in under a second must have thrown me :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:59:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007659</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "My Favorite Math Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>37 is prime. Are you sure this problem statement is correct?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:49:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007550</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, but also still absurdly high. Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly cost roughly $500 monthly... but the price is almost the same regardless of the dosage (from say 0.5mg to 2.4mg).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:47:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916293</link><dc:creator>pretzellogician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pretzellogician in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are already GLP-1 generics available like liraglutide; they're just not as effective as the newer ones.<p>(This refers to the U.S. Some other countries have more generics available.)</p>
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<p>It depends on the person, but for some (including me) a low dose is enough.<p>Conversely, for some (including me) a moderate dose has intolerable side effects.</p>
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