Hacker News: rasse

New comment by rasse in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"

rasse — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:31:48 +0000

Do NOT put your phone on permanently silent so that phone calls don't ring.

Disable most notifications altogether, especially: email and any form of group messages (like WhatsApp group).

For 1-on-1 instant messages / SMS, display a silent notification.

For specific email, create a special notify tag and sparingly assign it to urgent threads and some sent messages. You can also use filters to assign the tag automatically.

Deny notifications for most apps.

All calls should ring. It may be something urgent even if you don't recognize the number. It may be someone close to you calling with a hospital phone before heading out to emergency surgery. It may be the police. This is why you don't want to default to blocking hidden numbers unless you really have to.

New comment by rasse in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

rasse — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:33:14 +0000

You don't _need_ the competition, either. Just pretend it's 2005 and acquire food some other way.

New comment by rasse in "How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?"

rasse — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:42:43 +0000

You should update your CV accordingly: "Likely to pass several technical interviews (as assessed by the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau)."

New comment by rasse in "Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4k employees"

rasse — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:24:34 +0000

I thought it was a coherent story with a lot of short pauses for comedic effect rather.

New comment by rasse in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

rasse — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:07:52 +0000

In the context of documents, the lack of font choice regarding Times New Roman could be partly attributed to the fact that it was the default font on Microsoft Word until 2007. The irony is, of course, that it was replaced by none other than Calibri.

New comment by rasse in "PR adding custom progress bar themes to GNOME Bazaar rejected, citing "racism""

rasse — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:46:24 +0000

Beware of the racist under construction progress bar.

New comment by rasse in "My Favorite Math Problem"

rasse — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:35:34 +0000

Nice problem! I wonder if there is a generic way of testing such a problem with different board arrangements. For example, could you apply knot theory or another concept?

New comment by rasse in "Eleven Labs Debuts "Iconic Marketplace" Feat Michael Caine, Judy Garland, Others"

rasse — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:50:35 +0000

I'd personally want to hear new voices, not more of the same. I wonder if products like this take away from the opportunity for new talent to arise.

New comment by rasse in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

rasse — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:59:54 +0000

It's important to note that there's geographic variability in guidelines. Also, the article doesn't give enough information about the author's other risk factors. For a similar patient (based on the initial lab results), treated by a doctor adhering to the European guidelines, at least the following items would have been considered:

- Lipid lowering drugs

- ApoB testing

- Coronary CT (if the pre-test likelihood of obstructive coronary artery disease was estimated to be > 5%)

- Diabetes tests

- Kidney tests

New comment by rasse in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

rasse — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:22:05 +0000

There are numerous other options for supporting smoking cessation that do not risk lung injury.

New comment by rasse in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

rasse — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:10:45 +0000

How about en dash usage? Has that been used as a similar false indicator?

New comment by rasse in "Lördagsgodis (Saturday Sweets)"

rasse — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:53:58 +0000

As a matter of fact, even the good ingredients are 100% chemical.

New comment by rasse in "I trapped an AI model inside an art installation [video]"

rasse — Wed, 21 May 2025 06:20:36 +0000

Congratulations! Beautiful work!

New comment by rasse in "A New Form Factor for Drones: Vertical and Coaxial"

rasse — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:05:46 +0000

It's not a new form factor for Ascent Aerosystems, either. They did a Kickstarter for a coaxial drone in 2017.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ascentaerosystems/sprit...

New comment by rasse in "ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)"

rasse — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:51:22 +0000

These algorithms do exist.

Indeed the victory for the AI here is the ability to convince the author to take immediate action. The second win for the AI is the concise one liner the author tells the triage nurse so that her further diagnosis and treatment may proceed. A regular human being would be likely to start with a long form story of not feeling well for some time.

New comment by rasse in "[dead]"

rasse — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 18:33:05 +0000

What is this? The Journal of Tautology? They repeat the exact same thing 6 times in a row.

> Back in the day, cops used to touch the tail lights of cars they pulled over in order to leave fingerprints as evidence. Reader’s Digest spoke with experts who said that the practice marked a car in case the stop went wrong — leaving evidence that the officer had been there:

> According to Nick Fresolone, a retired police-academy instructor with the New Jersey State Police Academy in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the “taillight tap” leaves fingerprint evidence on the glass of the taillight to prove that the officer was present at the scene. Ultimately, says Fresolone, if things escalate or otherwise go awry, the officer’s touch to the car’s taillight will have left a fingerprint in a place where investigators would know to look for it.

> Criminal defense attorney Joe Hoelscher says that this routine maneuver serves as a sort of breadcrumb left to prove that the police officer had approached that particular vehicle. “Leaving a thumbprint on the brake light is an old-school way to tag a car with a fingerprint, so it can be identified conclusively as the vehicle involved in a stop should the officer become incapacitated,” explains Hoelscher.

New comment by rasse in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

rasse — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:13:51 +0000

You might want to look into books about H. Tracy Hall. He's one of the inventors of lab-grown diamonds, the hardest things ever done.

New comment by rasse in "Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?"

rasse — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:07:49 +0000

Wake up, shower & toothbrushing, out.

New comment by rasse in "It's 10am and Dad's Doing Jell-O Shots. Must Be Parents' Weekend"

rasse — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:23:53 +0000

"The very definition of news is something that hardly ever happens. If an incident is in the news, we shouldn't worry about it." — Bruce Schneier

New comment by rasse in "The sad state of font rendering on Linux"

rasse — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:10:55 +0000

I know it's subjective but...

Font rendering with ClearType on Windows used to be so awful you had to install an external library[0] to get something closer to a Mac experience.

[0]: https://github.com/CoolOppo/GDI-PlusPlus