Hacker News: seanhandley

New comment by seanhandley in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

seanhandley — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:24:16 +0000

“Phraseology” is subtly different.

You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.

New comment by seanhandley in "Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix"

seanhandley — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:39:45 +0000

Read up on the Jevons Paradox

New comment by seanhandley in "GitHub suffers a cascading supply chain attack compromising CI/CD secrets"

seanhandley — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:18:46 +0000

This is already a month old. Suggest renaming to make this clear, or you've got people jumping on this as a brand new issue.

New comment by seanhandley in "My Time Working at Stripe"

seanhandley — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 17:40:32 +0000

“Pieces of flair”

New comment by seanhandley in "From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up"

seanhandley — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:35:56 +0000

Processed food isn't the same as ultra processed. This is specifically about the NOVA classification of foods.

New comment by seanhandley in "From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up"

seanhandley — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:35:10 +0000

Keep it up for 20 years and let us know how it's working out for you.

New comment by seanhandley in "From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up"

seanhandley — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:32:44 +0000

A good way to think of UPF is that it's "pre-chewed" food, due to the highly refined nature of it. The food matrix (structure) is destroyed, which fundamentally changes how your body metabolises it, bearing in mind this is a system evolved over millions of years to break down a mixture of whole foods in stages.

It's not even about the macronutrients - it's completely mismatched to our physiology. The nutrients are quickly absorbed due to the lack of structure so you get big blood sugar spikes and dips, making it hard to manage appetite (invariably leading to over-eating).

UPF is generally low fibre, so the microbiome is starved. It often contains emulsifiers which have the effect of a detergent in the gut lining, further damaging the microbiome.

It shouldn't be called "food". It's industrially produced pseudo-food with increasingly convincing evidence that it's contributing significantly to heart disease, diabetes, mental health issues, etc.

New comment by seanhandley in "From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up"

seanhandley — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:26:34 +0000

Companies like Coca Cola overplay the benefits of exercise as the solution to health problems so they can continue to sell ultra processed "food" with an extremely healthy profit margin.

UPF isn't food. It's "edible food-like substances" and it exists to make money, not to keep you in good health through your life.

New comment by seanhandley in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

seanhandley — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:55:01 +0000

Would be interesting to know the cost as well as the price.

New comment by seanhandley in "What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism"

seanhandley — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:43:16 +0000

Yep. Every city I’ve visited feels like a giant machine designed to optimally extract money from people. London is no different, though I’d say markedly more expensive than most.

New comment by seanhandley in "What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism"

seanhandley — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:41:36 +0000

So the key difference is that in London the rules are more clearly shared for newcomers?

New comment by seanhandley in "Travle: A daily game – get between countries in as few guesses as possible"

seanhandley — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:36:33 +0000

The goal is to travel through the fewest countries possible, not the most direct land route.

New comment by seanhandley in "Is an All-Meat Diet What Nature Intended?"

seanhandley — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:04:57 +0000

This reads like satire.

> Why eat vegetables when you can eat testicles?

Attention-grabbing nonsense.

New comment by seanhandley in "Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot"

seanhandley — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:45:29 +0000

Indeed. They’re both eligible.

New comment by seanhandley in "Public restrooms are hard to find in America"

seanhandley — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:41:27 +0000

I wonder if this is the death of public spaces. If you want community you need people to be able to leave their homes for extended periods and join each other in public. It should be stable stakes for any civilised democracy to have public conveniences IMHO

New comment by seanhandley in "Microsoft will assume liability for legal copyright risks of Copilot"

seanhandley — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:08:50 +0000

Defining the “what” is just as much a part of the intellectual property as defining the “how”. Both things are hard to do well IMHO

New comment by seanhandley in "Kevin Mitnick has died"

seanhandley — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:27:25 +0000

I met Kevin at a conference in Manchester where he cloned my HID access card and made an amazing demo of how easily this can get a company's workstations compromised with keyloggers. It was like watching a magician - he was a very skilled, funny, intelligent man with a wealth of knowledge. He gave me his business card (which is also a lock-picking kit) and I will treasure it.

Thanks for all you taught us Kevin, and thanks for being a beacon of curiosity and exploration.

New comment by seanhandley in "Personal relations as a manager"

seanhandley — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:14:49 +0000

It's definitely not about being friends - it's about being able to rely on each other.

You relationship with your manager is like your relationship with the company at large - it's a symbiosis, a contract, something that benefits both parties... until one day when it inevitably doesn't.

One day you will either leave the company or the company will leave you. Once the arrangement isn't mutually beneficial any more, the relationship is finished. There's nothing personal about that. In the meantime, you expect your manager to support and help you, set clear expectations, resolve disputes, etc and they expect you to meet the expectations of your role.

New comment by seanhandley in "Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs"

seanhandley — Thu, 04 May 2023 08:34:49 +0000

It's been online for 2 weeks already.

New comment by seanhandley in "OKRs will never be enough"

seanhandley — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:57:15 +0000

Yes, for settings personal goals it can be helpful.

KRs are just "things you can do to achieve the goal", so my process goes:

- What do I wish was different? - What would happen if that thing changed? - What's stopping it from changing? - How can I get over those obstacles?

The answers to "how can I get over those obstacles?" become the KRs that help achieve the O ("What do I wish was different?").