Hacker News: zeech

New comment by zeech in "Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds"

zeech — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:27:18 +0000

Discussion about the article this post is talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726586

New comment by zeech in "AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic"

zeech — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:26:01 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619227

New comment by zeech in "GPU World"

zeech — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:53:22 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517584

New comment by zeech in "Show HN: How to mentally calculate the day of the week for any date"

zeech — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:33:31 +0000

Cool site! When I do this trick I prefer using Bob Goddard's 'first Sunday' method [0]. It minimises the number of operations you need to do and makes it so you only need to keep track of one running total.

[0] https://firstsundaydoomsday.blogspot.com/2009/12/quick-start...

New comment by zeech in "My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992"

zeech — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:49:54 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622814

A Diary from the Psychic Capital of the World

zeech — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/06/12/diaries-from-the-psychic-capital-of-the-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511140

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

How liminalism became the defining aesthetic

zeech — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:12:19 +0000

Article URL: https://hyperallergic.com/how-liminalism-became-the-defining-aesthetic-of-our-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431085

Points: 199

# Comments: 110

New comment by zeech in "MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool"

zeech — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:03:49 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996668

Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC

zeech — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://leetusman.com/nosebook/yvi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025540

Points: 87

# Comments: 49

New comment by zeech in "How to Disable Firefox's New Emoji Picker"

zeech — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:29:24 +0000

> We don't even have configurable search engines from the settings anymore

It's annoying, but you can still toggle `browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh` to true and it will restore the add/edit/remove buttons for search engines.

New comment by zeech in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

zeech — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:59:24 +0000

Moka pots don't make espresso though. True espresso requires ~9 bars of pressure to make. Moka pots can create at max 1.5 bars (though optimally it would hover between 0.5 and 1 bar).

So while they make very good, rich, full-bodied coffee, it's just not espresso.

New comment by zeech in "Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"

zeech — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:54:25 +0000

> Are LGBTQ people at a higher risk for suicide?

There was actually a study done on this [0] that found LGBTQ youth are around four times as likely to attempt suicide compared to their non-LGBTQ peers.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/su/su6901a3.htm

The largest collection of black markers

zeech — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:37:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.prune.dirt.fyi/p/prune-getting-high-on-your-own-supply

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819327

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zeech in "I made a terminal pager"

zeech — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:36:39 +0000

I went looking for a 'new' pager a couple years back and settled on this [0]. I've since gone back to `less` since it got annoying jumping between systems and having different pagers, but when I used it it was quite nice.

[0] https://github.com/walles/moor

A Hopkins professor's mushroom trip led to 1k paintings of cigarettes

zeech — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:04:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebanner.com/culture/arts/nate-brown-cigarette-paintings-psilocybin-BNOREZMRNBCITAT5CXJASKK2SM/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276717

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zeech in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

zeech — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:19:22 +0000

Whoops, nice catch - comment edited.

New comment by zeech in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

zeech — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:16:42 +0000

Graphene already uses binary blobs (though one can disable them if they want). Info at [0].

[0] https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

New comment by zeech in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

zeech — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:13:26 +0000

Good point. It's a good thing that, say, Google is notoriously independent from the US government, and has never had any ties to it whatsoever.

New comment by zeech in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

zeech — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:40:44 +0000

Reminds me of the classic Sludgefest [0]. (For the uninitiated it's a collection of Chipmunks records slowed until the voices sound roughly human.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlW9DbeV6B4

New comment by zeech in "Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study"

zeech — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:47:56 +0000

> "Ultraprocessed" is at least a tangible definition

The Nova system's classification for UPFs seems to be what the majority of people who refer to them use as a definition.

In the Nova system, there are four main groups of food:

- Group one has 'unprocessed or minimally processed' foods, e.g. grains and fresh fruits.

- Group two has 'processed culinary ingredients'. These include foods that use naturally-derived ingredients like salt and flour.

- Group three has foods that combine the first two, like salted nuts, and can also include things with some added preservatives or flavourings.

- Group four is ultraprocessed foods. These are defined as industrially-manufactured foods made with multiple ingredients (typically multiple oils, sugars, fats, and salt) and ingredients with minimal culinary use.

The issue with group four is that it's far broader than it should be. For instance, under the Nova system sparkling water is a UPF because it's carbonated, and carbonation is considered a chemical additive. It also classifies anything with, say, Stevia as a UPF even though it's a perfectly safe artificial sweetener. It's broad enough that it covers tofu, various cheeses, and various breads, to name a few.

It also ignores the actual nutritional content of the foods (which the original Nova paper touches on, I think, specifically saying it's not meant to be used for nutrient profiling).

> How would you prove that a given food item is "hyperpalatable"?

I was recently looking at a study about this [0]. The three criterion that have been found to best define hyperpalatability are as follows:

(1) Foods with over 25% of calories from fat and more than 0.3% sodium by weight

(2) Foods with over 20% of calories from fat and more than 20% of calories from simple sugars

(3) Foods with over 40% of calories from carbs (not counting dietary fibre and simple sugars) and more than 0.2% sodium by weight

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31689013/