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New comment by sleepyhead in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

sleepyhead — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:25:25 +0000

Asle Toje was appointed by FRP and is very much a political appointed member. While there is not really any indication of meddling by political parties with the committee the appointment is very much politically governed.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay"

sleepyhead — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:19:20 +0000

It is not really. They claim so but the members are appointed by the Norwegian government. One of the members, Asle Toje, is very much a political appointed member by the right-wing FRP party.

This process is decided by the Alfred Nobel will.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Show HN: MCP Server for Appointment Booking"

sleepyhead — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:28:10 +0000

Hi HN, founder here!

MakePlans is a SaaS for online scheduling. After 15 years of having an API we now also added an MCP server. So you can add it to your favourite AI assistant and ask things like "Book Anna in for a massage on Friday at 14:00". Hope to have all API endpoints available in the MCP server soon.

Let me know if you have any questions about how we implemented this in a Rails app.

Show HN: MCP Server for Appointment Booking

sleepyhead — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:58:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.makeplans.com/2026/08/15/your-ai-assistant-can-now-manage-your-bookings.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326992

Points: 1

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New comment by sleepyhead in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

sleepyhead — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:45:47 +0000

I flew 747 last month with Lufthansa and asked one of the crew how long they will keep it in operation. «I retire in two years so I don’t care» a very German response but at least they hadn’t made any announcement that he seem to be aware of.

Always fun to be on the second floor despite the seat configuration being a bit dated.

New comment by sleepyhead in "European Alternatives"

sleepyhead — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:00:58 +0000

Their servers are in the US

New comment by sleepyhead in "[dead]"

sleepyhead — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:16:07 +0000

> stop putting words in my mouth

I literally quoted you.

> clear definition of fascism ... attitudes as a business leader

FYI https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

New comment by sleepyhead in "[dead]"

sleepyhead — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:39:12 +0000

Claiming DHH is a fascist is such a dumb take. The article is vile; claiming DHH died. "'DHH has brain worms' is a fact and valid" - grow up.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Why does software have to be part of the left wing or right wing?"

sleepyhead — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:24:35 +0000

> DHH's views would be considered centrist at most

That's not very accurate.

New comment by sleepyhead in "ETFs now hold more than $3.1T worth of just top US companies"

sleepyhead — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:25:18 +0000

No it's not. Actively managed funds will in most cases not beat an index fund. Investorers have learned this and has chosen passive funds. This together with more people investing in funds has increased the size of passive ETFs in the market.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Heroku Is Down"

sleepyhead — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:54:18 +0000

Their EU region was down for 8 hours last November and it took 2 hours before they were aware of it so submitting a ticket is definitively worth while. I'm suspecting their monitoring is not good enough.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Dear "Security Researchers""

sleepyhead — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:50:42 +0000

"Security Researchers" does not know security.txt exists anyways.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Switching to BunnyCDN in Less Than 2 Hours"

sleepyhead — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:36:41 +0000

If Trump steps back from the GDPR US-EU data transfer agreement then your political stance is irrelevant.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Argentinian Farmer Finds Family of 20k-Year-Old Car-Sized Armadillos"

sleepyhead — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:57:07 +0000

Milei deflation

New comment by sleepyhead in "418 I’m a teapot"

sleepyhead — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:17:43 +0000

Sure, but if the server is returning 418 by an error it is likely that it would return some other 4xx error instead of 5xx. 418 is irrelevant here, the server is rogue.

New comment by sleepyhead in "418 I’m a teapot"

sleepyhead — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:50:00 +0000

I don't get it. If the system is so broken it is returning some random http code then I don't see how returning some other random http code is better?

New comment by sleepyhead in "Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial"

sleepyhead — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 10:53:20 +0000

Most data formats used in high performant scenarios, for example in finance, are very basic for a reason. You also get the benefit of being able to start processing the file immediately line by line, instead of having to read and parse the entire file.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial"

sleepyhead — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:24:49 +0000

Showing duration is helpful but so is the exact end time. Visually as a user I would like to see the exact time when the appointment ends instead of calculating it in my head. While it is not that hard to process when an appointment with a duration of 4:15 ends after starting at 2:30 but still.

As for API it makes a lot of sense to expose end time. If you for example are creating a calendar widget then it has start and end datetime for all events. With only duration available in the API output you know how to calculate the end time. More lines of codes for you.

Fetching from the API you would in most cases limit it to certain dates, for example next week. So now you suddenly do have to deal with start and end time. Not having it otherwise makes no sense.

Never had any developers ask for outputting duration in our scheduling API. It would be useful to include it but since no one have asked about it then I think having end time is more critical. https://developer.makeplans.com/#attributes-1

New comment by sleepyhead in "Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial"

sleepyhead — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:25:52 +0000

That would be problematic for database performance. You would have to calculate the duration on demand when querying.

New comment by sleepyhead in "Database Design for Google Calendar: A Tutorial"

sleepyhead — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:24:27 +0000

> you can tell it was designed before XML/JSON were "hot

or you can tell it was designed by people who care more about performance.