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New comment by thunfischtoast in "Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:37:18 +0000

So India should just keep acting as the waste dump for Europe, US and China because the alternative would be even worse?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Can you stop beans from making you gassy?"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:29:50 +0000

I'm nitty picking now, but for most people you can't cure lactose intolerance because it's not a disease. It's more like the default state that adult mammals have. You might be able to rebuild some tolerance, but it's much easier to just take the artificial lactase and manage intake. One could argue that, biologically speaking, lactose tolerance is the off state and just so happens because we keep consuming breast milk well into adulthood (just not our own mother's).

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:39:39 +0000

Adding onto that: the app is open source. Finding possible weak points was the very reason of this exercise.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

thunfischtoast — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:15:14 +0000

> The best was when she barely unscrewed one of this big DIN connectors so at quick glance it looked fine, but wasn’t fully connected.

That's evil haha. It's the case where you unplug and plug again everything, changing seemingly nothing, but then it works

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:12:13 +0000

I've been working on https://game-pick.eu , a website for friends to easily decide on games to play together. It is voting-based and can show who has which game in their library to see who would yet have to buy it. I'm planning on adding features for finding new friends to play with also. It's my first real web project, so I'm excited how it will go.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:44:12 +0000

The issue and update comment are also clearly generated. I'm not condemning this in general, I prefer a well written generated issue over a badly written manual one. But in this case it has just lead us off track.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:04:38 +0000

From the issue author:

> Update: Root cause found — this was a bug in a tool I built that was running locally for testing, not Claude Code.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:33:04 +0000

The argument is that vibrations of the wind power plants at sea disturb the whales.

Paying for the gas itself would not be an externality. Externalities are for example the worldwide damages caused by extreme weather which is caused by climate change, health problems caused by air pollution or the usage of clean water for cooling

New comment by thunfischtoast in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

thunfischtoast — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:08:37 +0000

Call me incompetent, but I don't get it.

> I switched the build to SWC, and server restarts dropped to under a second.

What is SWC? The blog assumes I know it. Is it https://swc.rs/ ? or this https://docs.nestjs.com/recipes/swc ?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:32:10 +0000

The project life cycle cost: yes. The birds and whales: no. But neither do the fossil power plants.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:27:16 +0000

It's a word play

New comment by thunfischtoast in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:51:30 +0000

Chip of Theseus

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:29:06 +0000

Or random telemetry, or random network usage of some anonymous service that leaves you unable to pretty much do anything internet-related until that service has done it's thing.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

thunfischtoast — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:23:53 +0000

I use both, Windows 11 and Pop! OS (which is Ubuntu, with Cosmic).

Pop! OS is definitely not ready for the average user in my opinion. Some common work-related apps I need like Citrix Workspace straight up don't work. Audio + Camera randomly give out in the middle of video conferences, only fixable by a complete reboot. Some things are only fixable in the terminal.

I use it as much as I can, but there is still work to be done. I agree that Windows is on the wrong path.

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:42:18 +0000

> they know windpower and solar are not viable long term

Why?

New comment by thunfischtoast in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

thunfischtoast — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:20:03 +0000

> These days, exposing an immature brain to the raw internet is basically just handing the brain and personality over to be molded by large corporations and algorithms.

You make the case of todays internet being insuitable for young children. But has this been different, ever, maybe apart from the very first days of the internet? While access through phones has reshaped the internet fundamentally, I'd propose that it has always been dangerous. When I was 12, a single wrong click could destroy your machine, or lead to a physical bill being sent to my parents home (which has happened), or lead to most disturbing pictures and videos.

So I think it's not the case that we should allow kids completeley unsupervised access (like it always has been), but it's also naive to think that we can regulate our way out of this (on state or household-level, like it always has been).

New comment by thunfischtoast in "All the troubles of the world by Isaac Asimov [pdf]"

thunfischtoast — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:16:29 +0000

This story has some parallels to our current usage of chatbots. We've also seen already a display of limited agency (in the sense of proactive actions) through the recent emergence of Clawdbot and alike. What would happen if a model that had direct access to the billions of private chats could give proactive decisions to governments on how to handle single citizens like in the story?

All the troubles of the world by Isaac Asimov [pdf]

thunfischtoast — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:16:29 +0000

Article URL: https://schools.ednet.ns.ca/avrsb/070/rsbennett/HORTON/shortstories/All%20the%20troubles%20of%20the%20world.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177151

Points: 3

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New comment by thunfischtoast in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

thunfischtoast — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:37:32 +0000

Hackers sometimes create things not to actually use them, but because they are curious how something works and to see if they can

New comment by thunfischtoast in "Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)"

thunfischtoast — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Thats pretty cool! Some games like Gothic had dynamic composing of existing sound themes. It would be interesting to research how these could fit together