<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: 98codes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=98codes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:14:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=98codes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isometric sims make it easy to build something that looks good. CS & PZ can make things look incredible, but it's a PITA to get there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:26:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311254</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "AI is making me dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone now firmly in the "used to be a developer" part of my career, AI use seems like good old atrophying of the memory muscle of coding. Whether it's because you just don't code anymore at all, or offload that thinking to AI, the effect on you is the same. You start to forget.<p>Don't have AI do anything you want to stay sharp on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:18:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142020</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Talking to strangers at the gym"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only if you think of it that way -- making every human interaction purely transactional.<p>Conversely, there's something I've used as a guiding principle for a while now that isn't quite the same, but in the same direction: to receive help, be helpful.<p>Both of these also fall under the greater umbrella of "treat others as you would like to be treated".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010793</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Talking to strangers at the gym"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saying someone's name back to them is also a memory trick to help yourself remember their name for next time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:19:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010730</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ahh, the three relevant numbers in development: 0, 1, and infinity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720714</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got reeeeally good at producing repro gifs that I could plug straight inline into email replies to "can't repro"; it's forever clear that most developers either don't know how to test the product they are building, or simply can't be bothered to try.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524504</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "I quit editing photos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That emotion is nostalgia, whether real or perceived.<p>Absolutely. One of my prized possessions is a book I had made from digital pictures I took on a family trip when my kids were 3 & 4 years old. The pictures are of single-digit megapixel quality, but are perfect for what they needed to be: a reminder of that trip, and the memories contained within.<p>It seems to me that the slightly fuzzy aspect of old pictures better matches our fuzzy memories of that time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:55:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504571</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> serious damage from typical daily use<p>Doing what? I've used one of those laptops for years, and it still looks and acts fine, hardware-wise. Windows though...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251909</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "I baked a pie every day for a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK then... let's see, it's citrus season -- meyer lemon meringue it is, with a swiss meringue[1] of course.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-swiss-meringue-recipe" rel="nofollow">https://www.seriouseats.com/easy-swiss-meringue-recipe</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:01:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170498</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Google Street View in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For my life, I don't understand the gestures for the 3D map. It would seem that I can ONLY manipulate that view by accident.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:32:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170071</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "I baked a pie every day for a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I already did for October, November (twice), and December. Does that count?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:29:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170015</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47170015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a human who writes like that, because mobile and desktop OSs have made it easy—so easy—to include things like em-dashes and other formerly uncommon punctuation. I also come from an age where people were taught things like proper grammar and punctuation, so go figure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158669</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Facebook is cooked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a dad that stopped using facebook when I got divorced, so there's a bit of anecdata for you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:09:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094010</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "ai;dr"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> assume<p>There's your trouble. The real problem is that most internet users are setting their baseline for "standard issue human writing" at exactly the level they themselves write. The problem is that more and more people do not draw a line between casual/professional writing, and as such balk at very normal professional writing as potentially AI-driven.<p>Blame OS developers for making it easy—SO easy!—to add all manner of special characters while typing if you wish, but the use of those characters, once they were within easy reach, grew well before AI writing became a widespread thing. If it hadn't, would AI be using it so much now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992804</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uses for Siri:<p>1. Checking the current temp or weather<p>2. Setting an alarm, timer, or reminder<p>3. Skipping a music track or stopping the music altogether roughly 3 seconds after hearing the command, or 1 second after you assume it didn't work<p><end of list></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115159</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46115159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>New Jersey Transit trains use something similar to this, but with many more segments<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/recluse26/286211358/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/recluse26/286211358/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036230</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "The American Tradition of Trying to Address Anxiety with Parks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I first started hearing about it 20 years ago, and was able to confirm it for myself earlier this year. In order to truly de-stress, to let go, you need 3 weeks away. Doesn't have to be a 3 week vacation, just 3 weeks of not thinking about work.<p>If you can do it, I highly recommend it if for no other reason to clearly see just how much stress your work is adding to your life, even if everything seems "fine".<p>I say that fully acknowledging that very, very few people will get that opportunity, "unlimited" PTO or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930642</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got one sentence in and thought to myself, "This is about discovery, isn't it?"<p>And lo, complaints about plaintiffs started before I even had to scroll. If this company hadn't willy-nilly done everything they could to vacuum up the world's data, wherever it may be, however it may have been protected, then maybe they wouldn't be in this predicament.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:29:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902969</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "iPhone Pocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's November, but I still had to make sure the date on the page wasn't April 1st.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:43:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893288</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 98codes in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why would we want to?<p>Because crimes should be prosecuted.<p>> Should we do the same to her?<p>Obviously yes. Why would we give a damn? See also: Epstein files & Clinton. Release them, round him & the rest of them up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:10:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686423</link><dc:creator>98codes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45686423</guid></item></channel></rss>