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New comment by somedude895 in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

somedude895 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:18:10 +0000

> that the current admin thinks this is what secondary education is about

Why should the taxpayer fund someone's liberal arts degree, or rather their professor's livelihood? You can think that they should, but that's a question not just "the current administration" is asking.

New comment by somedude895 in "Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (2015)"

somedude895 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:59:11 +0000

All I wanted was to see a picture of a snail's tooth.

New comment by somedude895 in "Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe"

somedude895 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:19:42 +0000

People on HN don't understand what Germany's like these days. I know people who have been off work for over a year still getting paid quite handsomely, even though they're perfectly fit to work. There's been a lady in Berlin recently who has been on sick leave for two years but still tried to run for some office and was defended for it by the usual suspects. It's really out of control. Doctors are handing out sick notes like candy. Germany has developed a really unhealthy relationship to work ethics after years of being coddled with benefits and victim ideology.

New comment by somedude895 in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

somedude895 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:13:09 +0000

If it wasn‘t for the European Greens’ (partially oil lobby funded) anti-nuclear propaganda starting in the 60s, carbon emissions today would be much lower than they are.

New comment by somedude895 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

somedude895 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:47:00 +0000

Meta and Google both are companies that got lucky and managed to carve out a quasi-Monopoly in their space. Sure, they did a lot of things right at first and provided a popular product, but for the past years/decades they've been using their money to buy other companies, adding a veneer of "innovation" to their image, constantly coming up with "cool stuff" that they're unable to market successfully, but ultimately they're just milking their insanely profitable core product they came up with 20 or so years ago, like any legacy corp. I have no respect for either of those companies having to work with them in my day job, knowing how lazy and incompetent they are with the services that actually make them money.

New comment by somedude895 in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

somedude895 — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:52:12 +0000

Most industries or companies that have a brand or make something people are passionate about, get away with paying lower salaries since they'll attract workers who want to work specifically at that company or in that industry. Companies that do boring things have to compete harder for workers.

New comment by somedude895 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

somedude895 — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:03:38 +0000

"If you don't like AI, you're a nazi."

New comment by somedude895 in "Germany Power Prices Turn Deeply Negative on Renewables Surge"

somedude895 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:26:16 +0000

For anyone thinking negative prices is a good thing: It's not. It's a panic signal because there are no takers for an oversupply of energy, making the grid unstable.

New comment by somedude895 in "NY Times publishes headline claiming the "A" in "NATO" stands for "American""

somedude895 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:25:53 +0000

I thought this meant published online, but no they PRINTED that! Wow. How on earth does that hit shelves?? What's going on over there?

New comment by somedude895 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

somedude895 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:18:25 +0000

> Culture can be changed.

Over the course of a hundred or so years maybe. Culture is hard work.

New comment by somedude895 in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

somedude895 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:35:20 +0000

YouTube is absolutely flourishing when it comes to quality content. It‘s the only UGC platform I use anymore. Besides the only thing I consume on the internet at this point is the news and check HN once or twice a week.

New comment by somedude895 in "Cuba's regime is in dire straits"

somedude895 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:47:49 +0000

Not sure if you're just trying to be edgy, but hundreds of thousands of Cubans have fled to the US over the past few years. Not very many have gone the other way.

New comment by somedude895 in "Possession of porn featuring strangling to become a crime in the UK"

somedude895 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 05:16:07 +0000

You can already screw over former partners by simply saying that some sex was non-consensual.

New comment by somedude895 in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

somedude895 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:36:17 +0000

That's exactly what I want is for my car's battery to be drained overnight.

New comment by somedude895 in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

somedude895 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:23:07 +0000

I had a Samsung TV ten years ago. While watching Game of Thrones with friends, it overlayed an ad at the top of the screen recommending I play Fruit Ninja on my TV. I immediately disconnected it from my WiFi and have not bought a single other Samsung device since, except for one thumbdrive that I needed. Avoiding Samsung as a brand when buying electronics has been really easy as well.

New comment by somedude895 in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

somedude895 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:05:51 +0000

Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual > Background Sounds

It's quite hidden in there but I think you can create shortcuts / quick access to it.

New comment by somedude895 in "Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June"

somedude895 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:19:36 +0000

What's also often omitted is population growth resulting in more / larger buildings being built in any given place, so the same event in the same area from 50 years ago would result in much more damage in $ today.

New comment by somedude895 in "BYD builds fastest car"

somedude895 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:23:06 +0000

Yes, pretty much every modern F1 driver started in karting.

New comment by somedude895 in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

somedude895 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:08:18 +0000

It's fitting that solar installations are also very popular in third world countries where the government can't provide reliable / affordable power to their citizens. Godspeed, Germany.

New comment by somedude895 in "Reichstag Fire Decree (1933)"

somedude895 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:24:48 +0000

Holy wow, where do you spend your time to arrive at that narrative? I read both right and left wing media to get a balanced view, but I haven't seen anyone that far off the deep end yet. The most reasonable actual fact from this whole thing that I've read is that the guy was terminally online and that's what drove him crazy. Some people could learn from that.