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New comment by ron_k in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

ron_k — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:29:20 +0000

Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619

A new look at brains transformed by psychedelics

ron_k — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/the-psychedelic-brain-looks-like-chaos-underneath-theres-order/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50037024

Points: 20

# Comments: 4

New comment by ron_k in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

ron_k — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:42:14 +0000

Sure, that’s why sugar is added, but it doesn’t have to be. The point is to remove free water (water that bacteria can use, I don’t know the English expression for that), and you can do that by:

1. adding more sugar

2. cooking it for a longer time

3. adding pectin (either store-bought or from natural sources)

Of course it depends on the kind of fruit, but it’s quite rare to have more sugar than fruit, even without pectin or longer cooking time.

New comment by ron_k in "A Citation to Asimov"

ron_k — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:56:34 +0000

I might misunderstand your comment since English is not my mother tongue, but worth regarding what? If you need a poem, an engineer might be worthless; if I need a bridge, I wouldn’t call a poet.

The greatest ecologist and the patient in coma have the same worth as in “both have the same right to live, to be happy, etc.”.

New comment by ron_k in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

ron_k — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:52:57 +0000

I’m not sure your conclusion necessarily follows from the premise. There are aspiring writers who care about writing and/or publishing, and writers who care about literature. The formers usually are weaker readers. However, most of the readers don’t want to become writers.

New comment by ron_k in "What garbage collection actually costs"

ron_k — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:07:38 +0000

I understand what you’re saying, but I read that phrase in a different way.

Let’s say you have two ways of doing the same thing: both work, both are legit and neither introduce GC bugs. The only difference between the two is that one can be verified by the compiler while the other can’t, so you are stuck with solution no. 1 although both would work.

To phrase it differently: the code that gets verified by the compiler is safe, but is all safe code verifiable by the compiler?

I’m not implying that’s the case, but that’s what I feel the author is saying.

New comment by ron_k in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

ron_k — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:41:46 +0000

I’m sure you’re aware that it _greatly_ depends on the region you’re living in. The fact that consultori are for reproductive health doesn’t mean that there are no obiettori: for some of them the purpose of those structures are exactly to prevent abortions. There are many accounts of women who were pushed to not interrupting a pregnancy.

Haiku, a generative music album for macOS

ron_k — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/ooame/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395580

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ron_k in "We recreated Steve Jobs's 1975 Atari horoscope program"

ron_k — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:21:25 +0000

That’s exactly what “horoscope” means in western astrology, which only uses solar system’s planets + the sun.

New comment by ron_k in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

ron_k — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:14:58 +0000

I can’t, sorry, there’s no edit button, I guess because of low karma. Maybe the mods (or who changed it) can revert it to the old title.

New comment by ron_k in "Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died"

ron_k — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:34:43 +0000

Yes, the title has been changed. The one I posted clearly said "Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation”.

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died

ron_k — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pgdp.net/wiki/In_Memoriam/gbnewby

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666510

Points: 652

# Comments: 105

New comment by ron_k in "Happy BuyNothing Day"

ron_k — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:46:58 +0000

I have a 10€/day rule: if I want to buy something that costs 120€, I have to be sure of wanting it for 12 straight days.

That doesn’t apply to emergencies, of course.

New comment by ron_k in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

ron_k — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:03:31 +0000

This is my only complaint. Most of the websites work fine, but others get stuck. I don’t know if Wipr 2 solved the issue.

New comment by ron_k in "Has Brazil Invented the Future of Money? – Paul Krugman"

ron_k — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:40:13 +0000

It appears so, but that 50$ doesn’t keep going. What happens, for example, when the grocery gets robbed? That 50$ becomes 0$. When money’s involved, whether it’s debit/credit or cash, there’s always a money management cost involved, and cash usually has a much higher cost than debit or credit.

New comment by ron_k in "Libro: a command-line tool to track your books"

ron_k — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:31:47 +0000

Are you saying this because there’s a link between the two?

I thought the reference simply was the word “book” in Italian.

New comment by ron_k in "Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world"

ron_k — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:07:13 +0000

But also Saramago, Gadda, García Márquez, or Victor Hugo and his 800+ words sentence. Stream of consciousness usually has long paragraphs, but it’s quite common in other genres (I feel like genres is not the right word for it. Techniques?). Popular fiction is the only one that usually avoids long sentences/paragraphs/chapters.

New comment by ron_k in "Mastering Osint: How to Find Information on Anyone"

ron_k — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:31:56 +0000

“Stray information” sounds good, though.

New comment by ron_k in "Best Pens for 2024: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens"

ron_k — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:38:50 +0000

It’s the same in Italian. It comes from László Bíró.