Hacker News: vondur

New comment by vondur in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

vondur — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:03:13 +0000

The whole thing is stupid. If people want to get an Astrology app, who is Apple to say they won't carry it?

New comment by vondur in "Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others"

vondur — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:47:12 +0000

I'm pretty light skinned and the burn pretty easily. I just put on sunscreen by default when going hiking/mountain biking. I'm really excited for the new sunscreens coming out here in the US that have those new to us ingredients that the Euro's have had forever.

New comment by vondur in "7.1 Earthquake in Japan"

vondur — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:58:55 +0000

That mall was also damaged in a similar earthquake that happened in 2016.

New comment by vondur in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

vondur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:49:15 +0000

Look at the comment above, the sample is from really wealthy parents, not the median income in the US, so I'm sure that skews the data.

New comment by vondur in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

vondur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:34:27 +0000

Sure seems like it if you are excluding property.

New comment by vondur in "Most Americans now say the public should own half of the big AI companies"

vondur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:41:16 +0000

Have any of the AI companies made a profit? Owning them will just give the government a share of their debt.

New comment by vondur in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

vondur — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:40:50 +0000

Not trivial if they a bunch of chargers. I work for the state in California and we have chargers at work but are charged for them around $.29/kWh which is cheaper than Tesla I think.

New comment by vondur in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

vondur — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:16:40 +0000

Yes, but I have an outrageous American English accent which ruins my attempt to speak it!

New comment by vondur in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

vondur — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:58:41 +0000

Yep, how long does it take to replace an F-35 or one Reaper drone? In WW2 we probably could have buried Germany in the amount of tanks we could produce. We are like Germany from WW2 now, with hand stitched upholstery in our Tiger Tanks.

New comment by vondur in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

vondur — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:49:45 +0000

Hahah, that's also what the Constitution of the Soviet Union stated. Tell that to everyone that got sent to the Gulag's for speaking up.

New comment by vondur in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

vondur — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:21:17 +0000

In theory there will be some class action lawsuits that will come about from this now that this report is public. Those can get very expensive.

New comment by vondur in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

vondur — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:55:41 +0000

Aren't most of the tech workers here part of that 10% and I'd assume they own houses in some of the most expensive areas, so they are technically part of the capital class?

New comment by vondur in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

vondur — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:28:54 +0000

I would agree with you. I don’t think it will be enough for them to win in the US.

New comment by vondur in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

vondur — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:45:22 +0000

"My guess is that if they manage to get a positive ruling in Europe, they'll somehow try to use that as case for US courts." That's exactly what they have done, they sued a Chinese company that was making knock-off Strat copies and selling them in Germany. Fender sued them, the Chinese company was a no show and Fender took that as a win to go after PRS who is selling a John Mayer Strat style guitar.

New comment by vondur in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

vondur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:58:46 +0000

I was taking 4000IU of Vitamin D daily along with 100 mcg Vitamin K-2 MK-7. My Vitamin D level was 60ng/ml. I've since dropped down to 3000IU per day. I go outside a lot but am either covered or using sunscreen since I sunburn easily.

New comment by vondur in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

vondur — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:59:20 +0000

In my area kids are doing street takeovers and assaulting people in cars and pedestrians. Laws have been passed to deal with it but there is very little on the enforcement side. Plus kids are riding around in effectively what are electric motorcycles that can hit highway speeds which would normally require licensing and registration like any other motor vehicle. Recently I know of a 15 year old who crashed on one of these bikes and died. Having said that, 15 year old me would have absolutely loved having one of these kick ass ebikes.

New comment by vondur in "Steam Machine launches today"

vondur — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:36:12 +0000

You can get a Miniforums PC with the Radeon 780m for $699 US, but I don't think the graphics performance is on par with the SteamBox. I'm not sure on the reliability of these tiny PC's either

https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-Desktop-Computer-Output-Gr...

New comment by vondur in "Steam Machine launches today"

vondur — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:42:17 +0000

Interesting with the memory. It is 16GB plus an additional 8GB for graphics, or is it just 16GB with 8GB reserved for graphics?

New comment by vondur in "Emacs, how it all started for me"

vondur — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:02:01 +0000

Yikes, that's over 12 hours of videos in that series. Stuff like that scares me away from trying it out.

New comment by vondur in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

vondur — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:37:27 +0000

Homebrew is the default on Bluefin Linux since most of the system is immutable. I like it since I’m so used to it on my Mac.