<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: Finnucane</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Finnucane</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:10:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Finnucane" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The search seems a bit weird. A search for salmon includes almonds in the results, and a search for spinach includes Tahitian taro.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387878</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was my impression also. Anyone working with complex xml documents is going to want xslt/xpath 2 and 3 and probably xquery as well. This isn't going to offer any improvement over that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356578</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "After decades on Linux, FreeBSD gave me a reason to switch operating systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is definitely sending some mixed messages. BSD is stable, but the software he tries to install keeps crashing. BSD is really fast, but everything takes longer to do. Just reading this, I have no idea if I can use this for anything or not! (And I say that knowing the Mac I'm typing on right now has BSD ancestry in its kernel.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 21:00:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349688</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"But to date, the settings on these tools are somewhat oblique to end users."<p>At least we can say this wasn't written by AI. Only a human with a spellchecker would have made this error.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 19:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348923</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And have been convinced there is no alternative. And if you suggest investing in public transit or building mixed-use neighborhoods that don't require car access they'll pop their suburbanite heads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:15:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322715</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Most people default to automating tasks they dislike rather than tasks most valuable to the company,"<p>Well, no shit, but also: suggests those tasks have questionable value? And also: this is why I learned to write code in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:28:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308696</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Can we have the day off?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Let My people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.'2 And Pharaoh said: 'Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let Israel go.'<p>3 And they said: 'The God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest He fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.'4 And the king of Egypt said unto them: 'Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, cause the people to break loose from their work? get you unto your burdens.'5 And Pharaoh said: 'Behold, the people of the land are now many, and will ye make them rest from their burdens?'6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying:7 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.8 And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof; for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God.9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard lying words.'<p>10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying: 'Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.11 Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it; for nought of your work shall be diminished.'12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.13 And the taskmasters were urgent, saying: 'Fulfil your work, your daily task, as when there was straw.'14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 01:27:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303164</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Smartphone Sales Are Tumbling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Price goes up, people are facing other inflationary pressures, worries about job security, etc. New phone is totally optional, easily punted. When was the last time phones had a really good new feature? (says guy with 2020 iphone SE that still works just fine)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302298</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tech CEOs are psychotic. Most CEOs are psychotic, disconnected from most of the actual work going under them. This is just a new drug for them to huff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297038</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "I Bypassed Adobe and Microsoft to Build a Git-Tracked Book Production Pipeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When we get a Word doc from an author it is sent to the typesetter for reformatting. A standard set of style codes is applied and other corrections made so it can be directly imported into the design template. This the version the copyeditor works on. Also: once proofs are set this version is basically trash. In ye olde dayes, when this was all done on paper, the edited ms would eventually go back to the author, but sometimes they didn't want it. Now when the book is done the production manuscript files get deleted.<p>For ebook production, you could definitely do worse than follow Standard Ebooks' method. That will get you a decent standards-compliant file with basic accessibility features accounted for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285394</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "The real cost of owning a home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you live in a house long enough, you will have to deal with things. There will at some point, be a new roof, a new furnace. New windows. Some of it will be optional, some will not. If you are renting, part of your rent is going to the landlord to cover these things. And you are dependent on them doing it. One way or another you are the one paying. If you own, at least you have the choice of doing it the way you like.<p>Probably the biggest factor of considering the rent/buy question is how long to do you expect to be there. We paid off our mortgage after 16 years, so now it's 'free', except for ongoing maintenance and taxes. And we're looking at some nontrivial reno in the future: the kitchen is quite beat, and someday we'll need to deal with the asbestos siding (one of four layers on the house!). But it least it's our choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283584</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Companies pay billions to show ads to bots. We can pay humans instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is 'person only looking at ad because they're getting paid to do that' a better model? Advertisers presumably want ads to go to people who might be interested in what is being advertised. But if other people are willing to take the bullet, and it means less crap for me to have to look at, sure why not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269782</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Companies pay billions to show ads to bots. We can pay humans instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Digital ad fraud is projected to cost brands $172B by 2028.<p>There's another obvious solution to that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257972</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your local library keeps papyrus scrolls on open stacks? I mean, sure, yes, there are libraries that haves such things (the university I work for does), but generally they will be kept in special boxes and you need to ask nicely to get to see them. And don't get me started about the crapitude of your average new book these days. Personally, I prefer print books too, but lasting forever is not really why.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 22:40:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252301</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "On The <dl> (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We've always used this in our ebooks for abbreviation and glossary lists. The problem I've always had is that you need to use a bit of css to make two lined-up columns. I've done it with floats. Now, some ebook readers will support grid and flex-box, which give better results, but the Kindle still does not. Kindle is sort of the IE6 of the ebook world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248640</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would not have believed that they had 'engineering' or 'operations'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 17:15:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238670</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "SpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>too bad they can't send <i>all</i> the billionaires.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238016</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. One of the tools they created was a special high-speed optical shutter. Those microsecond exposures that make the explosion look like an expanding bubble wouldn't have been possible with a mechanical shutter. EG&G was involved in building equipment for the testing program for many years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 13:28:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235573</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48235573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is, as I say, a small list. 100 Suns, of course. Also, American Ground Zero (do not try to read all at once), At Work in the Fields of the Bomb (interviews and portraits of Los Alamos and Livermore weapons scientists), and How to Photograph and Atomic Bomb. I might also include the souvenir book I got at the Nevada test site when we went on the bus tour in 2003.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:55:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228762</link><dc:creator>Finnucane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Finnucane in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I keep a small collection of nuclear testing-photography related books, looks like I'm going to have to add this one.</p>
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