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abcd_f··on US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says
> Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

They forgor Tajikistan. Or may be it was just too hard to spell.

abcd_f··on Postal Arbitrage
> ultra cheap shipping prices

It’s either "ultra cheap shipping" or "ultra low shipping prices". Prices can't be cheap. /nitpick

abcd_f··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
Having read just the name I assumed it was a brewing project dealing with mate (drink) aging.
abcd_f··on Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)
The article on the trio of de Havilland passenger jet crashes from 1950s (linked from the post) is very interesting -

https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...

abcd_f··on Is the golden age of Indie software over?
It's basically a blog post to plug links to author's (presumably) struggling projects.

The majority of established ISVs are perfectly fine and have long adapted to new realities, be that the existence of AI coding tools, subscription licensing or what have you.

The fundamental - making something to solve users' pain points - is still there and it's now easier than ever to go from identifying a niche to shipping a solution. If anything, the golden age is now.

abcd_f··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
They had one. Until he made a fatal mistake of giving a tenner to the wrong people.
abcd_f··on Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
IPsec to be precise, not IPSec.
abcd_f··on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
How many came from AWS, Azure and GCP IPs? ;)

Seriously though, a per-country breakdown would've been very interesting to see.

abcd_f··on Robert Louis Stevenson's Art of Living (and Dying)
Use the uBlock, Luke...
abcd_f··on Weighting an average to minimize variance
If A and B have different volatilities, it's rather counter-intuitive to allocate proportionally rather than just all to the one with the lower volatility... :-/
abcd_f··on Show HN: Pegma, an open-source version of the classic Peg solitaire
There's also smegma, which is not a whole lot better.
abcd_f··on Transparent computer monitor designed to protect your vision
There is an eye exercise for short-sighted people that involves painting a dot on a window glass and then repeatedly changing focus between the dot and the scenery behind the window.

Basically, focus on the dot for 10 seconds, then on the back. Rinse and repeat several times, 2-3 times a day.

I was given this exercise over 30 years ago and its goal was to stop the worsening of the eyesight. Fwiw, in my case, it seemed to have worked.

abcd_f··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
Political volatility and the dirty nasty hustle on the Trump/republicans' part that will precede the mid-terms. Combined with the general state of bizarre market bonanza of the past few months. It's a powder keg just waiting for a match.
abcd_f··on Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
The market will correct before mid-terms next year. This is almost a certainty. By how much and when exactly - now, that's where the shorting profits are.

PS. Burry infamously made several more bets after the "big short", bets that misfired. That is, his record is far from being 100% right.

abcd_f··on Austria: Pylons as sculpture for public acceptance of expanding electrification
The rule of thumb is that if there's a mention of or a link to the Yanko Design website, you know it's a pipe-dream design concept detached from reality.

Here it features the review by YD, so, yeah, that's not just not built, it's not buildable in principle :)

abcd_f··on Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to recent TLDs?
.300 would seem more appropriate
abcd_f··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
The problem is not the lack of patches. The problem is with websites refusing service based on client's version from the user-agent or breaking by using cutting edge features without a polyfill.
abcd_f··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
"Firefox version 115 is the last supported Firefox version for users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1."

That's a version from over 2 years ago.

abcd_f··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
Browsers are the problem.

Firefox outright refuses to install on older Windows versions for a couple of years now. Very lazy and negligent move on Mozilla's part.

abcd_f··on Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake
> AIUI

?

abcd_f··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
"Function" link in the Examples section of the poof repo is 404.
abcd_f··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Do I understand correctly that in order to pay someone through your service I need to first create an account and then link it to a conventional card?

If so, it's ultimately a PayPal remake?

abcd_f··on Solar panels + cold = A potential problem
I read it as a problem with solar panel voltage going over declared threshold of 37v in certain meteo conditions.

That is the issue is with the wrong labeling of things that are being plugged into this vendor's device, not the vendor's own labeling.

abcd_f··on Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles
Starbucks exploded also because there was a void created by anti-smoking campaigns. People needed a healthier vice and something to do on their smoke breaks - et voilà, Starbucks offered just that.
abcd_f··on Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles
Starbucks Reserves are quite impressive though.

I've been to one in Milan, in the old postoffice building right smack in the middle of the city and it has an astounding selection of coffee styles and very cool ambiance [1].

But, yeah, I agree that regular shops are underwhelming and overpriced by local European norms.

[1] https://www.roastery.starbucks.it/

abcd_f··on Starbucks permanently closes both Seattle Reserve locations
Error 451

It appears you are attempting to access this website from a country outside of the United States, therefore access cannot be granted at this time.

abcd_f··on GNU Midnight Commander
Must be something recent then. From an Internet meme or something like креведко?
abcd_f··on GNU Midnight Commander
This is incorrect.

Ортодоксальный doesn't carry these connotations at all.

If anything, it describes something that is stuck in old ways and/or pointlessly rigid.

abcd_f··on Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"
I would never go with my kids on a bike on any road that's shared with cars. The risk, as small as it is, is still unacceptable to me.

Don't know about Germany, but in Netherlands it's solved with having proper cycling infrastructure. It's the right approach, but it is still more of an exception. Where I am at they just painted cycle paths on existing roads and then tried to make it safer by cutting speed limit in half and eliminating lots of street parking. And now it's a mess that doesn't work well for anyone. Next elections are in a year, will be interesting to see how that will go.

abcd_f··on South Korean workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home
> Like, have you every flown somewhere to attend a conference and a meeting? Same thing.

I flew to an expo where our company had a booth and the US border patrol took me aside and started asking if I'd be selling things there or working at the booth in some other form. I told them that I am a tech going to see other companies' stuff. They then discussed something between themselves for 10 minutes and let me pass. This was 20 years ago, so them being picky is certainly not a new thing.

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