Hacker News: zarq

New comment by zarq in "Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100%"

zarq — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:08:28 +0000

> should be a website

Yes, and please make the website one that actually works on mobile.

In some restaurants, I've seen the QR code go to a full-page PDF version of the menu. Like, thanks, but I can't read that on a mobile device.

New comment by zarq in "800 Years of English Handwriting"

zarq — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:10:54 +0000

There's a blue button at the bottom center to revert to the original language.

New comment by zarq in "Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)"

zarq — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 12:49:17 +0000

That is literally #8 in the list

New comment by zarq in "Magnet-free induction motor aims to nearly halve carbon emissions"

zarq — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:14:22 +0000

They seem to be saying that the absence of rare earth metals makes the overall lifecycle carbon emissions be 40% lower than those that do use these metals. It does not seem to be related to the efficiency of the motor per se.

New comment by zarq in "Elon Musk Texts Parag Agrawal"

zarq — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:06:50 +0000

You don't need to go through everything to form an opinion. I bet they're only interested in a couple of specific points, and not a full review of every single line.

New comment by zarq in "Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack"

zarq — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 21:17:46 +0000

Even if browsers did this, you can still execute this attack. As long as not all of your users know what the expected behavior is, you can trick them with a fake UI as long as it looks believable.

New comment by zarq in "The Fun Scale (2014)"

zarq — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:28:46 +0000

Well see you were just optimizing for the wrong things. You thought avoiding wet was the thing to optimize for, but now, with experience, you find other things are more important to you and you aim at optimizing those. What things are wrong and right vary by person and by purpose (and probably by time, too).

New comment by zarq in "Giant Pyrosome"

zarq — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:30:58 +0000

Likely the appearance of the colony being a single, gigantic, thing.

New comment by zarq in "Ask HN: Was Your Turkey Dry?"

zarq — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:06:59 +0000

The best thing I did for not having dry turkeys or other meat, is a meat thermometer. I, like your aunt, just didn't pay attention to anything before.

New comment by zarq in "EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]"

zarq — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 20:25:37 +0000

Hunted, a Dutch TV series, is a reality show featuring exactly this kind of investigative resources. A lot of times, the players (the hunted) are tracked down because they used some form of communication that is compromised by the hunters.

New comment by zarq in "Global Climate Report – September 2021"

zarq — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:16:59 +0000

It's clean in the sense that it isn't generating CO2. But it is a finite resource. Also, the environmental impact of a nuclear power plant is non-negligible.

New comment by zarq in "Suez Canal blocked briefly as container ship runs aground"

zarq — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:48:25 +0000

Have the worldwide trade delays from the blockage with the Ever Given been resolved?

New comment by zarq in "“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.”"

zarq — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 22:50:43 +0000

A self-respecting company doesn't let their customers just be stuck like that. While fixing the issue may not be feasible, there's usually a workaround that the company can help their customers find or implement. But then again, not every company lives up to these expectations.

New comment by zarq in "O.mg Cable"

zarq — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:40:20 +0000

"motivation" is usually the answer. Motivation can be (gaining) money, power, politics, etc.

New comment by zarq in "Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch"

zarq — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:35:10 +0000

That's an easy fix; just put a repeater on Mars...

New comment by zarq in "Barry Diller: The movie business as before is finished and will never come back"

zarq — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:58:06 +0000

Subtitles!

New comment by zarq in "Heart inflammation cases in young men higher than expected after mRNA vaccines"

zarq — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:28:13 +0000

> spent the last year field-monitoring vaccine trials

As an adult that was vaccinated, thank you for doing your part to get us all here.

New comment by zarq in "Why Russians do not smile (2002)"

zarq — Fri, 28 May 2021 23:25:53 +0000

Fun experiment, try asking "how are you" a second time. A lot of Americans will respond instinctively, without wondering why you asked again.

New comment by zarq in "Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain"

zarq — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:39:52 +0000

Or someone has it on their cart on the way to the checkout.

New comment by zarq in "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"

zarq — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:17:15 +0000

It's really hard to fight this though, because it may take many years, even decades, to thoroughly answer a follow-up question. By then, everyone has forgotten about the original reason something got published.