Hacker News Reader

most of my exposure to them is from cleaning up spammers, so yes.

steanneon AI Weiwei: What I Wish I Had Known About Germany Earlier

the picture is a play on/update of https://www.moma.org/collection/works/117098

steanneon How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods

the original is, but in the usa 'greek' yogurt is often thickened with additives instead.

steanneon Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap

adding a little extra time doesn't necessarily break the schedule. often when i've flown we've arrived early due to favorable winds.

steanneon Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap

> The proposed detours typically result in a 1% shift (and again, this is only for a small percentage of flights). That means increasing fuel use and flight time by around 1%. So if your flight is three hours long, it’s only adding an extra two minutes. For a 10-hour flight, six minutes. This seems socially acceptable to me; most people would barely notice.

steanneon Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It's Under Russian Attack

at least some of that is gonna be shipping.

steanneon Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

didn't they try that 20 years ago and repeal? and back then it was voluntary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006

steanneon Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

https://www.tmonews.com/2025/08/t-mobile-cuts-employee-pay-o...

steanneon Happy BuyNothing Day

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag

steanneon Happy BuyNothing Day

especially with art, "how hard is this going to be to clean?" helps too

steanneon Happy BuyNothing Day

you can even put some empty boxes in bags for them to carry out

steanneon Circadian justice (2022)

i'm not sure if this is still active looking at the 'in the press' section, but...

https://www.b-society.org/

steanneon One diet soda a day increases type 2 diabetes risk by 38%

that term is not really us-specific as a whole.

https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18fyz9q/use_of_pop...

steanneon Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s

there are trikes that can lean. this is one, and not the one i remember see an article on a few years ago, so there's at least two companies out there doing it.

https://youtu.be/9LwqIIqysZ0

steanneon Ask HN: Anyone else roll eyes at startups that went from "X" to "AI-powered X"?

three panel soul in 2018 and 2023

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/new-paradigms http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/newer-paradigms

steanneon Full power outage in Spain and Portugal

now mannheim shows offline

steanneon Everyday life improvements since the 90s (2022)

lactose-free milk does taste different, but i didn't notice a difference between regular lactose-free and protein-fortified lactose-free (aside that it comes in cartons just slightly visually smaller that adds up to a 12oz difference).

steanneon First hormone-free male birth control pill enters human trials

it's been a few decades, but i don't recall sperm in seminal fluids being entirely limited to the grand finale, only mostly.

steanneon Bye, Prime

and i'll still do that, if it's a small thing that would be silly to ship and the shop is conventiently located, but i have to know what i'm looking for is there first.

steanneon A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)

almost all of my spam is in french, which is an assumption on the part of the spammers based on the email username. almost all my gmail is spam, because i have directed most real email elsewhere. therefore, almost all the mail i receive at gmail is in french. this has lead to google blocking things (like voter registration confirmation!) that are in english because they're "not in your normal language."

steanneon 'Your showerhead is lying to you'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_pollution

"When water used as a coolant is returned to the natural environment at a higher temperature, the sudden change in temperature decreases oxygen supply and affects ecosystem composition. Fish and other organisms adapted to particular temperature range can be killed by an abrupt change in water temperature (either a rapid increase or decrease) known as "thermal shock". Warm coolant water can also have long term effects on water temperature, increasing the overall temperature of water bodies, including deep water. Seasonality effects how these temperature increases are distributed throughout the water column. Elevated water temperatures decrease oxygen levels, which can kill fish and alter food chain composition, reduce species biodiversity, and foster invasion by new thermophilic species."

steanneon Ultima VII: Revisited

this is just a recreation, not an expansion, but xu4 is playable on linux without wine.

https://xu4.sourceforge.net/

steanneon Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system

we're gonna have a shiny new sovereign wealth fund to loot!

steanneon Quiet Quitting: Why Employees Are Demanding Fairness and Boundaries

i'd file that with

- Lack of obstacle/roadblocks to actually doing good work

...good having more than one meaning

steanneon ADHD should not be treated as a disorder

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42012807

steanneon MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program