Hacker News: zerofor_conduct

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

zerofor_conduct — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:52:59 +0000

Spolsky and co. sold SO in 2021 - timing IS everything.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

zerofor_conduct — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:30:04 +0000

A recent investigation by Consumer Reports found that plant-based protein powders, particularly those made with pea protein, contain significantly higher levels of lead compared to animal-based alternatives, with over two-thirds of tested products exceeding safe daily lead intake levels.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

zerofor_conduct — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:34:52 +0000

And here are some of the reasons why:

1. high risk of severe allergic reactions and cross-reactivity

2. contamination with pathogens, toxins, and heavy metals

3. digestive and nutritional drawbacks, including anti-nutrients (no pun intended) and imbalances

4. and last but not least, the good old precautionary principle: limited research on long-term human health impacts and emerging hazards

if you still want to eat zee bugz, consider yourself warned !

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

zerofor_conduct — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:24:43 +0000

https://archive.ph/WQ9sq

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Ÿnsect, a French insect farming startup, has been been placed into liquidation"

zerofor_conduct — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:36:29 +0000

Ynsect-crushing reality - nobody really wants to eat bugs

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

zerofor_conduct — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:04:14 +0000

Freud was not a scientist, he was a great artist. It is not clear whether any of his patients got better after Freud's treatment.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"

zerofor_conduct — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:02:20 +0000

Fascinating and well told - many thanks!

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

zerofor_conduct — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:40:44 +0000

Lamarck has entered the chat

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "FPGAs Need a New Future"

zerofor_conduct — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:36:06 +0000

completely agree, it's a miserable environment for software developers. The Xilinx environment was a 1 GB download, EACH TIME they issued an update. I actually met with someone from higher up to give them some feedback, but they were clearly not interested in the slightest in making any changes.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me"

zerofor_conduct — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:01:52 +0000

From a French novel: Elle n'avait qu'un seul défaut : elle était insupportable.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

zerofor_conduct — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:14:59 +0000

Anyone can develop a Zen attitude by committing to Zen meditation, or other forms of meditation. It may sound trite, but depression can come from managing the past, anxiety from managing the future. But the past is gone, the future is just a fantasy, what is real is what is happening now. The more time spent in the present, the less anxiety and depression. This is one of the benefits of meditation.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

zerofor_conduct — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:08:22 +0000

yes, felt like one long humble brag after that. how tiresome.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"

zerofor_conduct — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:28:25 +0000

I think the focus should be on more and better APIs, not MCP servers.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

zerofor_conduct — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:45:35 +0000

100% Rust kernel - I felt that

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Oliver Sacks Put Himself into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?"

zerofor_conduct — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:51:33 +0000

https://archive.ph/0MFPK

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

zerofor_conduct — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:11:32 +0000

here is a (somewhat biased) comparison between OnlyOffice and Collabora Online

https://www.collaboraonline.com/comparing-collabora-with-onl...

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

zerofor_conduct — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:25:41 +0000

program like a fighter pilot? that makes no sense.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "MinIO is now in maintenance-mode"

zerofor_conduct — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:11:31 +0000

“The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.” ― Jean Renoir

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

zerofor_conduct — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:31:30 +0000

I feel that training copilot on Github repos without maintainer consent was a betrayal - this pushed many projects over to Gitlab.

New comment by zerofor_conduct in "Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too"

zerofor_conduct — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:28:15 +0000

"The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance."

A. Grothendieck

Understanding mathematical ideas often requires simply getting used to them