<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: seszett</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=seszett</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:27:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=seszett" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Iran will come across as Lebanon's saviors.</i><p>"Come across as", as much as I despise Iran's regime, it seems like it is de facto the only country actually doing anything other than strong words for Lebanon.<p>Too bad the US blunder happened too late for Gaza and Palestine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:08:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539565</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>The medical establishment and journalism have found it extremely uncomfortable over the past decade to notice that obesity has negative health consequences because it might embarrass some fat people, and this is more of that.</i><p>I can't help but think about the same thing with "co-sleeping". It's been discouraged altogether on the basis that it increases the incidence of sudden death syndrome in newborns, which sounds like a sensible policy until you notice that co-sleeping actually only increases risk of SDS <i>with obese and/or smoking parents</i>. But you have to actually read the research for that, and it's never communicated like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:01:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448800</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's true. But it's also so much easier to measure weight that I don't understand why some (mostly American) recipes still use volumes for solids. In practice most people I know also measure liquids by weight when cooking, anyway. You you put your bowl on a scale and everything's easy and you don't need to make a measuring cup dirty.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442419</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I'm not so much interested into the details of fluffy pancakes as we make flat <i>crêpes</i> here (I'm kinda surprised to see <i>pannekoeken</i> mentioned and not Breton <i>crêpes</i> which are as far as I know better known in the English-speaking world - they are the same, except the Dutch ones are usually garnished with an approximately 1 cm-thick sugar layer afterwards).<p>Anyway, I'm more interested into good flour blends, from wheat, buckwheat to rice and tapioca flour. Flour can make everything different but it can also make pancakes pretty much impossible to bake correctly if it's not the right blend, and I find it difficult to predict.</p>
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<p>For Americans it is.<p>Meanwhile, in Europe (I don't know Latin America well enough, although I know a few well-known right-wing leaders that didn't have stellar records) <i>socialist</i> governments consistently have a better record on basically everything from press freedom to economy to public health compared to <i>economically liberal</i> ("centrist") governments. But they're socialist so it doesn't count.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:38:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408825</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a nitpick but Latamber is not directly north of Karachi and it's about 1000 kilometers away (the closest coast is 950 km but not in Karachi). It's easy to see and to measure on a map.</p>
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<p>The article explains at length what they mean by "deskilling" and it does not mean that individuals lose their skills.<p>The author having worked with various technologies over time is also not an example of "deskilling", it's a way of asserting that they have had time to observe the deskilling of the domain (since deskilling means a particular domain requires less specialised skills than it did before, not that the workers are losing skills) happen.</p>
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<p>OVH is one of the cheapest and works satisfactorily for me. I went back to OVH when Gandi stopped being a recommendable company.<p>OVH's API allows full control of an account, but I don't know how that compares to DNSimple.</p>
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<p>> <i>It's hilarious to me that 34mpg is considered remarkably good, though</i><p>I was curious too, I have a manual, petrol engine, Citroën C4 Picasso (called a minivan in English I think? but then I didn't think a Golf GTI was called a minivan so I'm not sure) from 2011 that's not hybrid at all and that's about what I get (7 L/100 km). It's comfortable to be in but not interesting to drive at all though.<p>I get a very consistent 4,3 L/100 km (54 mpg) on my diesel C4 (basically the same size as a Golf GTI) from 2013 and I like driving this one.<p><i>edit</i> now that I've read the sibling comment, Google uses US gallons for its conversions and that's what I've used here.</p>
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<p>At 50 km altitude above Venus (where pressure is about 1 bar) you are not really in the "upper atmosphere" as there is still about as much atmosphere above you as on ground level on Earth. So UV radiation is not a problem.<p>The atmosphere of Venus is just very thick. Also it contains many useful elements, C, O and H, which can be used to build basically anything if you have enough solar energy. The problem is the (comparatively small) amounts of other elements.</p>
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<p>> <i>People on here talk like it was some belief or suggest I am somehow profiting from "hyping" AI.</i><p>Not really, the "people on here" rather consider that Anthropic and co. are profiting from you by making you think it's better to give them money to develop your app rather than do it yourself or hire a developer. The hype is there to steer you towards AI.<p>20 hours a week must be quite expensive in tokens.</p>
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<p>Swedish speakers in Finland are not immigrants anymore than Dutch speakers in Belgium are, though (the Dutch speaking area also generally does better than the French speaking areas, for a variety of reasons).</p>
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<p>I'm saying that it is common for some people to advocate for jettisoning other parts of their country, especially if they are far away from where they live.</p>
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<p>Many self-described anticolonialists forget that "self-determination" doesn't actually mean "people who live far away from the mainland should just fuck off and take care of themselves".<p>I've experienced it a bit as a Frenchman (and we have quite a few remote territories as well) who has lived on a couple of remote places (that were uninhabited as well before becoming French, but that shouldn't actually matter) and it's incredible how puny, short-sighted and simply egoistical some people can be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148141</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>Are you referring to technical implementation or the poor anti-privacy decisions they keep making when you say 'slightly better'?</i><p>Which ones are you talking about? I'm talking about Firefox, not the Mozilla Corp to be clear.</p>
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<p>I still don't understand what problem you guys have with Firefox. I really don't, and comments like yours are always very vague and seem to assume that it's obvious.<p>For me Firefox is (slightly) better than is used to be, not by a wide margin but it's not gotten worse either.<p>I've been running it since it was Phoenix so I think my experience is at least somewhat valid, which is why I'm so confused by these comments.</p>
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<p>> <i>I’ll bet the exemption requires some sort of testing/certification that makes it significantly more expensive for smaller firms to bring devices to market.</i><p>Maybe that would be the case in the US but since that is the EU it will likely be some kind of self-certification where the manufacturer swears that they're not lying, and if enough people complain then maybe one of the national regulators will look into it and ask the manufacturer to do better.</p>
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<p>Well... there are worse places than Belgium for sure, and as a foreign citizen who has been living in Belgium for about a decade I think it's a reasonably well functioning country for west European standards, but I wouldn't use either SNCB/NMBS as an acceptable example as I'm not sure I have even had a single train be on time in the last few years (well I don't take the train much anymore for obvious reasons, but I still have to do it a few times a year) and cell service is absolutely not as good as it should be for such a small and dense country.<p>And my experience is only with Flanders which is basically one large city, I can only imagine how it is in the less populated areas of Wallonia or Limburg.<p>But I absolutely think that nuclear is a good option for such a small and dense country. Taking over the plants as they are nearly decommissioned is a stupid move though, but you can't expect anything sensible from this government.</p>
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<p>I always wonder what these unspecified ways that iOS is better than Android actually are.<p>These posts always have a few comments like that, but they never actually say what they find to be better on iOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:17:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937465</link><dc:creator>seszett</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by seszett in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In French, turquoise is "bleu turquoise", so obviously blue. So I'm not surprised it says "For you, turquoise is blue."<p>In Dutch it's called "appelblauwzeegroen" (apple-blue sea-green, yes it's weird) so it's not surprising either that my wife sees it as green I guess.</p>
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