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Re:Show HN: Tar-minefield shows where tar implementations disagree on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:40PM (#50264655)
Agreed! Unfortunately the choice is not always in your hands.
Re:Sogen Kato on Saturday June 20, 2026 @12:50PM (#48610721)
I also suspect the current record holder for oldest person Jeanne Calment was a fraud. She beat the number two by 3 years (122 versus 119), the record was set back in 1996 but no one came close. But most importantly she had a reason to dupe people, because she sold her house at an old age.

> In 1965, aged 90 and with no heirs left, Calment signed a life estate contract on her apartment with civil law notary André-François Raffray, selling the property in exchange for a right of occupancy and a monthly revenue of 2,500 francs (€380) until her death. Raffray died on 25 December 1995, by which time Calment had received more than double the apartment's value from him, and his family had to continue making payments.

Re:Testing Ads in ChatGPT on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:58PM (#46952091)
Ads are they only way to make a lot of money on the internet.
Re:Making RSS More Fun on Friday December 05, 2025 @10:52AM (#46162913)
Maybe you like my project: https://rssrdr.com/

It's the simplest RSS reader in the world: no badges, registration or download necessary.

Re:The first evidence of a take-off in solar in Africa on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:49PM (#45838011)
The other article on solar takeoff in Africa got some traction, but this one is backed up with some data.
Re:URLs are state containers on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:26PM (#45793115)
I use this for my rss reader!

https://rssrdr.com/?rss=raw.githubusercontent.com/Roald87/Ha...

Re:RSS Is Awesome on Friday August 29, 2025 @12:23AM (#45060162)
RSS is awesome! That’s why I made the simplest RSS reader[1] and a RSS feed of Hacker News classics that’s updated daily[2].

Using this curbed my Reddit usage quite a lot.

[1] https://rssrdr.com [2] https://github.com/Roald87/HackernewsClassics

Re:Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion... on Thursday July 24, 2025 @01:04AM (#44667135)
They mention that in the article. It’s not enough to offset the higher break wear.
Re:Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:27PM (#44399955)
Would you ever trust an AI agent running your business? As hilarious as this small experiment is, is there ever a point where you can trust it to run something long term? It might make good decisions for a day, month or a year and then one day decide to trash your whole business.

Show HN: Rssrdr.com: The simplest RSS reader on the planet

Posted by due-rr on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:04PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://rssrdr.com/

_This project has one (1) daily user. He loves it!_Many platforms increasingly rely on algorithms and it stared to bug me.One way to take back control is to follow RSS feeds, but I could never find a reader that I liked and worked on all my devices.That's why initially created motherfuckingrssreader.com, kind of as a joke. That quickly grew to one daily user, who got annoyed by the long url and...

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Re:Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories? on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @09:08AM (#43832073)
Just like with traffic: you build more roads, but traffic stays the same. It's induced demand[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Re:A Man Powers Home for 8 Years Using 1k Old Laptop Batteries on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @04:08PM (#43550829)
The whole thread is so wholesome. Recommended reading :)
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:03AM (#42734531)
I agree. That’s why I created the simplest possible RSS reader[1]. I use it daily, but so far I’m the only user :D.

[1]: https://motherfuckingrssreader.com/

Re:Show HN: Motherfuckingrssreader.com on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:38AM (#42087159)
Thanks for the inspiration!
Re:Show HN: Motherfuckingrssreader.com on Monday August 26, 2024 @02:34PM (#41360218)
That sounds much better--I'll implement it. Thanks for the idea :).
Re:Show HN: Motherfuckingrssreader.com on Monday August 26, 2024 @02:12PM (#41359972)
Thanks!

I tried your two [1] feeds and it worked for me. Not sure why it didn't work for you, I don't see anything in the logs about a failed request.

[1]: https://motherfuckingrssreader.com/?rss=https%3A%2F%2Fbrecky...

Re:Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better on Monday August 26, 2024 @02:33AM (#41354552)
The big difference here is something the user sees versus the developers as in your example. For users I think the answer is almost always, less is better. For the developers also, but there’s a bit more leeway.
Re:Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Quest, Discovered Off the Coast of C... on Sunday June 16, 2024 @08:25AM (#40696536)
According to this ted talk[1] he wasn’t. He led dangerously unprepared missions and ignored locals advice. Roald Admudsen was more successful and did it without the drama.

[1]: https://youtu.be/b0Z9IpTVfUg

Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:05PM (#40347014)
It takes the #1 and #2 spots on the aider code leader board[1].

[1]: https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

Re:Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Ef... on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:18AM (#39892138)
Love the title!
Re:My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2022) on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:35PM (#39433726)
I love the idea. Do you think he uses Remote Desktop from his phone? Or does he only use a desktop or a laptop.
Re:Astronomers posit that we live in a giant void on Friday December 01, 2023 @12:08PM (#38489167)
Dr. Becky has a nice explainer video of the first paper.

https://youtu.be/-kTe0xRAU1w

Re:Study shows antibodies against PEG in 83% of the German population on Friday October 27, 2023 @11:00AM (#38039359)
Here’s an interesting Twitter thread with various explanations for the obesity pandemic [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1412827749828513800?s=2...

Re:GitHub repo to keep up with the latest LK-99 developments on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:15PM (#36976701)
I have trouble keeping up with the news. Figured it would help to have a public repo to collect the latest developments.

PRs welcome!