<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: roelschroeven</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=roelschroeven</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:23:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=roelschroeven" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In addition to sibling replies, function keys are very useful in debuggers (to step in/over, set breakpoints, ...). And lots of other things that don't immediately come to mind.<p>I'm old enough to remember WordPerfect on DOS, with a paper template to put over the function keys on your keyboard as a little cheat sheet for all their functions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476996</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's poorly worded. There aren't three motors per axle, there are three motors total: one on the front axle and two on the rear axle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:44:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473854</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't know how to write an email without it making the spacing between paragraphs/lines larger than I would like. (I.e. double-spacing)<p>The Compose window by default uses Paragraph style. Change it to Text instead, that works like you want. You can change the default in the settings. Still not ideal because in some cases after certain types of formatting it still reverts to Paragraph style.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:28:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450367</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aha, that's what I missed. That explains it all. Thanks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:55:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209819</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I probably should have said Toyota-like hybrid system, to include manufacturers that either licensed Toyota's system or developed something similar themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208454</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What surprised me in the video is that Alec was telling how his engine can charge his battery while in the car wash. I had a 2016 Auris which I had to put it in neutral in the car wash, and in neutral the engine couldn't charge the battery. That was never a problem, I never had an empty battery in the car wash or even came close to it, but it does seem different from Alec's experience (unless I misunderstood).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207445</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but specifically about the Toyota's hybrid system. Other systems are more complex, they have a traditional engine and transmission and an electrical system on top.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:24:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207329</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48207329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/hantavirus-complacency.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.DlIr.LBYWDlTrHKKC&smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/hantavirus-compla...</a><p>An interesting view on this. No need to panic, but we should take this outbreak, and others like it, more seriously and not leave things to chance, crossing our fingers and hoping for the best.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110176</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For scrolling large distances in large documents, that's an important use case to me. As an indication of progress is another important use case, but also as an indication to show the size of the document relative to the viewport.</p>
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<p>Absolutely, but there are many programs that don't use that accent color, making it less useful than it should be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:10:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109486</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also some, or even many, people think that intercontintental communications use satellites rather than cables.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 23:25:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089194</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really think so. Already in the first stages of this outbreak we're not doing any quarantine, instead we're infecting airline passengers and personnel and let them spread the virus uncontrolled. That doesn't indicate a proper prepared response.<p>Official knowledge is that Hanta transmission required prolonged close contact, but there are increasingly indication that Hanta can be transmitted through the air. That is going to be ignored in favor of the official but possibly outdated mode of transmission, leading to wrong or insufficient response.<p>Also I feel like people will be more hesitant than in 2020 to adopt behavior that avoids virus transmission.<p>If mutated Hanta variants turn out to be very effective at transmission, and if we don't have the luck of a quick vaccin as we did with Covid, we're cooked.<p>Hanta is a lot more deadly than Covid, and that can possibly be a good thing because that's the one thing that could lead to proper effective response. It has the potential to lead to rigorous measures to stop transmission instead of allowing it to spread to the whole population, leading to fewer cases and fewer deaths.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 09:41:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060827</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"If there were air". Air at which temperature though? Th sound of speed, and hence what Mach numbers mean, depends on the temperature of the air. The temperature air would have at the moon's surface? By day or by night? Or the air at Earth's surface? Or at some other altitude?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:17:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981627</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you're going to color-code bytes in a hex dump, I would expect each ASCII character in the right column to have the same color as the hex byte in the left column, making it easier to pair them. I wonder why that wasn't done here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874267</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I found some more information in this other article: <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/teen-discovers-first-ancient-greek-artifact-found-in-berlin/a-76833757" rel="nofollow">https://www.dw.com/en/teen-discovers-first-ancient-greek-art...</a><p>""After we understood where it came from, I had the task of figuring out where this coin was found exactly. Fortunately, the boy was very precise and showed me exactly where he found it on a map. Then we went into our findings registration and found that this agricultural site was actually a well-known place," Henker explained.<p>Berlin'sMuseum for Pre- and Early History has been systematically conducting surveys on empty land in Berlin since the 1950s to determine where possible excavation sites might be.<p>In this particular spot, explains Henker, the upper layers of the soil were surveyed in the 1950s and 70s and again later. "Every time, they discovered a few distinct finds that made them say 'ok, there's probably more in the ground here'."<p>Over the years, fragments of ceramics, Slavonic-era knives and a bronze button have been unearthed on the site, as well as burnt human bones, leading researchers to conclude that this are was used as a burial ground dating as far back as the early Iron Age — and has been in use throughout the centuries."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:28:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807687</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"At first, archaeologists wondered if the coin was a “modern loss”—perhaps dropped by a collector in recent years. However, a professional excavation of the discovery site suggests a much deeper connection.<p>The field was found to be a multi-layered historical site, containing Bronze Age and Iron Age burial remains, Roman-era artifacts, and even a medieval Slavic knife fitting. This “archaeological context” suggests the coin likely arrived in the region centuries ago, rather than falling out of someone’s pocket last week."<p>If I get that right, the student somehow managed to find the coin in a field, and after archaeologists started digging and found a whole historical site.<p>Since the location is a field, I imagine the coin had come to the surface when the farmer was plowing the field, or something like that. Still, why was the student walking in a field? Germans are known for going on walks, but why in a field? Was he or she in the field with the express purpose of trying to find something interesting, maybe even using a metal detector? Or was it a purely accidental find?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:23:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807623</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Veracrypt Project Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are different types of trust, but at the very least with such a signature you can trust that the piece of software is really from Veracrypt and not from a malicious third party.</p>
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<p>No worries. I played Kerbal Space Program so that shouldn't have surprised me but it did, and it took me a few seconds before the penny dropped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:53:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674561</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "My Google Workspace account suspension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think their "Don't be evil" was pretty close to the truth, as much as it can be for large corporations, until around the time Google purchased DoubleClick. That was in 2008, so that seems to match your experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:05:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652771</link><dc:creator>roelschroeven</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roelschroeven in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have a look at the tracker at <a href="https://issinfo.net/artemis.html" rel="nofollow">https://issinfo.net/artemis.html</a><p>They're already at a point where they see the moon from a different angle than we see it from Earth, enough to see a bit of the side that we can't see from here.</p>
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