<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: sndean</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sndean</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:19:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sndean" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s fine and it is of course security theater / jobs program. I was put off by the feigning of disability to avoid a scanner and/or some inconvenience. This kind of behavior is okay, even great, but please come up with a more tasteful way. Otherwise I hope it’s a parody.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:31:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866114</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I, too, dislike walking far. Here’s how I faked my way into a handicap parking tag.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:16:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865998</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the same thing but noticed my dark mode extension changed the dark gray font into light gray. It looks fine to me with that extension turned off. Not sure if that happened to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260191</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Putting email in its place with Emacs and Mu4e"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought was Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) to do this in Emacs via R, but I bet there are many alternatives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216977</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The smartest thing to do would be to check your car’s windows for any indication (the AAA report, page 19, cited in the article has examples) of whether they’re laminated or tempered. AFAICT, whether my new-ish Subaru Ascent’s windows are laminated depends on location (front or rear) and installation differs between the Ascent trims. Best to check for your specific car and where you’re likeliest to be sitting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:17:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089569</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you had (or are having) a good day. Or if it wasn’t good—stressful, tiring, etc.—here’s to hoping for some great sleep.<p>I don’t remember kids being out of school for so long around Thanksgiving when I was younger. All I can hope for is eight hours of sleep after a full week of childcare. I guess I’m most thankful for teachers and schools being open.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:29:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074769</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blackrock and Vanguard own surprisingly large portions of Rheinmetall, Siemens, Airbus, SAP and other German government/defense/security contractors. If avoiding their investments is the goal, there’s a lot of work to do.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/">https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848754">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848754</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "GrapheneOS is ready to break free from Pixels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could estimate ~1% (+/- 1%) given the Graphene user estimates [1] and the tens of millions of Pixels sold at this point.<p>[1] <a href="https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21946-grapheneos-popularity?utm_source=chatgpt.com" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21946-grapheneos-popularity...</a></p>
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<p>As someone who has worked on bubbles from a bioengineering/synthetic biology perspective, it is definitely play at some level. Like “what happens if we freeze dry them?” And of course determining which extremely specific kind works best for whatever application, etc.</p>
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<p>I don’t doubt that some Americans are deported each year from South Korea but I was unable to find any examples in the news other than this one in 2017. I wonder how regular it really is, or maybe it doesn’t get reported by any news source?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163562</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On page 8 of the supplemental material, they pasted some R code, at least. Hopefully that code runs once you load the packages they reference. I wish they made it easier to download and start working with the data, though. It’s from a national registry, so I suppose it’s available to those who look/make a request, but I’d like a 100 MB CSV.<p>But to really answer your question - not really. In fields where Jupyter Notebooks are common, those are generally available via a Github link, but in medical fields code and data are still relatively difficult to find.</p>
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<p>This is more of an issue with there being a low number of cases (both < 300) for of those two Neurodevelopmental Outcomes categories than anything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:32:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718287</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Benzene at 200"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah an apparatus like that and work out that benzene had a very different carbon dioxide to water ratio than something like hexane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:04:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290855</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44290855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "Brian Wilson has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This might be referenced in one of the replies but basically 1) it doesn’t have the normal verse-chorus structure, 2) not really any drums, 3) the chord progression don’t follow an obvious pattern for the time and genre, and 4) the end just fades out where you can imagine it simply continuing forever. I really like the song, and maybe it stands out as a favorite because of these features like someone commented above. I just wanted to point out that it’s unusual unlike nearly every other pop song.</p>
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<p>Just related to Pet Sounds, I remember God Only Knows has been cited by Paul McCartney and others as their favorite song of all time. Even though the song is very odd in many ways.</p>
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<p>I wonder how much of this is brand name? Like Kleenex. Non-tech people might not search for LLM, generative AI, etc. ChatGPT may just be what people have heard of. I’m assuming OpenAI has a large advantage over Anthropic, and the name helps, but I bet the name is exaggerating the difference here a bit. Not everyone buys Kleenex branded Kleenex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240799</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44240799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "The Who Cares Era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a lot of people are just kind of shit at their jobs.<p>Is this similar to the Peter principle, though? And not that it is exactly that concept, but that book is from 1969. People have been making this observation for a while.<p>In this context, it's more comforting to really pay attention to very competent people. I had a home inspector spend ~5 hours on my house and was amazed by every little detail he discovered and documented, and how knowledgeable he was, etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 13:54:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116066</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44116066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "You can choose tools that make you happy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Emacs is a Gnostic cult. And you know what? That’s fine. In fact, it’s great. It makes you happy, what else is needed? You are allowed to use weird, obscure, inconvenient, obsolescent, undead things if it makes you happy. We are all going to die.<p>There’s a handful of things like Emacs and APL/J/K that HN introduced to me a decade ago that actively reduce my productivity — and I don’t need your explanations for how I’m using them wrong. They’re, to me, like a good book I’ve already read but keep rereading in-place of books I haven’t read. The reduced productivity is fine because we’re some unknown time away from nuclear war or falling down the stairs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 01:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093056</link><dc:creator>sndean</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44093056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sndean in "The Logistics of Road War in the Wasteland"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Great Toyota War is interesting to read about. Libya spent billions and lost ~800 tanks to Chad’s Hiluxes and Land Cruisers. Specifically the Battle of Fada was very lopsided with Chad dominating. If you ‘s/Toyota/drones/g’ you get some similar situations in more current battles.</p>
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