<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: saalweachter</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saalweachter</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:51:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saalweachter" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So her recollection is that she was in the house to view Lincoln's funeral procession.  She didn't, because she was three and got scared, but it was still an event she was a part of.<p>Even if she didn't remember whether Teddy was standing at that window at that time, she probably knew that she at Teddy and his brother were at the mansion for the event.<p>So we have the Roosevelt mansion, knowledge that not many boys would have been allowed to be in that window, and confirmation that Teddy Roosevelt was there watching at that time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810005</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was working at a crawling-based business around that time, and we thought it was because bandwidth contracts at that scale were symmetric, so the idea was that Google could serve video for ~free because they were crawling the whole Internet constantly and serving extremely light weight pages of ten blue links.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:36:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772349</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Corn produces something like 15M calories per acre, soybeans like 6-8.<p>When you feed those 36M calories to chickens, you get back 12M calories of chicken, which is actually less than 6 x 3 = 18M calories for the soybeans, so I'm misremembering something (maybe it's just an equivalent amount of protein? maybe chicken feed is a 3:1 corn:soy ratio?) or was just wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:11:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772136</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually, the last time I looked into it, if you grow 2 acres of corn and 1 acre of soy, and feed it to chickens, you get out a similar number of calories (and more protein?) as 3 acres of soy.<p>Soy is pretty good, but corn is <i>insane</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:15:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770074</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Insider threat model".<p>Basic security hygiene in the modern world is "assume your employees can be a threat", either because they're incompetent ("I accidentally deleted the shared spreadsheet, I thought it was my copy"), malevolent ("I will show them all!") or compromised ("I clicked a link in my email and now my computer is slow.")<p>If you aren't designing your systems to be robust against insider threats, they will fail.<p>(If you design them to be robust against insider threats, they will probably also fail, so you have to be constantly working to understand how to limit the consequences of any individual failure.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766728</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The simplest recipe for writing "almost bug-free" software is:<p><pre><code>  1.  Freeze the set of features.
  2.  Continue to pay programmers to polish the software for several years while it is being actively used by many people.
  3.  Resist adding new features or updating the software to feel modern.
</code></pre>
If you do that, your program will asymptomatically approach zero bug.<p>Of course, your users will complain about missing features, how ugly and ancient your products look, and how they wished you were more like your buggy competitors.<p>And if your users are unhappy, then you probably lose the "used heavily by a lot of people" part that reveals the bugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760178</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing about the human body argues for solid engineering principles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705858</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Am I German or Autistic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:45:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704457</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "SpaceX files to go public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only NASDAQ so far; S&P 500 is apparently "reviewing its rules" but hasn't changed them yet.<p>So you've got a full year to wait on that index fund, assuming they don't cave.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605528</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "SpaceX files to go public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The five stages of Elon Musk:<p><pre><code>  1.  Elon is a genius, a real world Tony Stark.
  2.  How dare you!  You're just jealous!
  3.  Ok, regardless, he's done more to advance EVe and space travel than anyone else alive.
  4.  Oh God, he's going to cripple US development of EVs and rockets, isn't he?
  5.  Eh, Mars was never happening in my lifetime anyway.</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605357</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are statistically around 15 women AFAB with XY chromosomes in the NCAA by those numbers (assuming no correlation between Swyer syndrome and athletic performance).<p>There are currently around 10 openly transgender women in the NCAA.<p>Small numbers either way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533586</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Methane only gets you to 100K.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:16:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532362</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The movie term derives from a different piece of slang, a WWII term for a large bomb that could destroy an entire block.<p>Before movies bombing was a bad thing, a successful movie was "exploding" like a blockbuster bomb.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531190</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it's hard to imagine biological life (chemical life?) without water or carbon, since they're such good solvents and building blocks, but we can at least imagine electronic or mechanical life which don't require them.<p>But what you can't get away from is <i>heat dissipation</i>.<p>Any life will use energy will generate heat will need to dissipate heat to maintain homeostasis.<p>Could you dissipate enough heat to exist at <10K, to maintain a technological civilization?  Or would you be reduced to supercooling your entire environment?<p>Are there naturally occurring pools of liquid helium out there in the universe, maintained by natural processes, or are you left with vacuum relying on radiative cooling?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:59:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524420</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Goodbye to Sora"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends, did you also fire the people who told you not to do it, and layoff the people who reluctantly installed the stove and preheated it for you as part of your exciting stove-touching initiative?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:27:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510409</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe they saw the 30% cut Apple and Google were taking on their app stores and wanted in on the action?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:41:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508913</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Is it a pint?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 19th century, at the same time they went stone-mad (and redefined the hundredweight as 8 stone or 112lb), the British redefined the pint as 20 oz.<p>After this point, there was no where the whole world round where a pint was a pound.<p>(The US standardized on the wine gallon, so a US pint is and was 1.04 lbs.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:08:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495819</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Waymo Safety Impact"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe I replied to the wrong person!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:39:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457073</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Waymo Safety Impact"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Results: A 5-mph increase in the maximum state speed limit was associated with an 8.5% increase in fatality rates on interstates/freeways and a 2.8% increase on other roads. In total during the 25-year study period, there were an estimated 36,760 more traffic fatalities than would have been expected if maximum speed limits had not increased—13,638 on interstates/freeways and 23,122 on other roads.<p><a href="https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/bibliography/ref/2188" rel="nofollow">https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/bibliography/ref/2188</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450716</link><dc:creator>saalweachter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saalweachter in "Waymo Safety Impact"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pffft, like a bot couldn't fake metadata.</p>
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