<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: GavinMcG</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GavinMcG</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:28:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=GavinMcG" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn’t imagine most people consider anchovy paste a sauce?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830384</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think one factor is the lack of variation.  Sure, a copywriter might use those techniques as a hook, but there’s far more content using them paragraph after paragraph after paragraph than I’ve ever seen before.<p>You might also reframe how you read those comments. Perhaps when people are labeling a piece as “written by AI,” they’re just conveying that they perceive it to use the same “voice” that LLMs use, and judge that voice negatively. Sometimes people say things non-literally and don’t need proof.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629308</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s the fake drama. Punchy sentences. <i>Contrast</i>. And then? A banal payoff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:34:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615075</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Something unexpected: Sunbathers live longer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The abstract refers only to “sun exposure,” but it really did focus on sunbathing:<p>> Four predetermined questions were posed regarding sun exposure: (i) How often do you sunbathe during the summertime? (never, 1−14 times, 15−30 times, >30 times); (ii) Do you sunbathe during the winter, such as on vacation to the mountains? (no, 1−3 days, 4−10 days, >10 days); (iii) Do you use tanning beds? (never, 1−3 times per year, 4−10 times per year, >10 times per year); and (iv) Do you go abroad on vacation to swim and sunbathe? (never, once every 1–2 years, once a year, two or more times per year).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:50:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569541</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most people who use a keyboard aren’t using it for c like languages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:50:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421699</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "“This is not the computer for you”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d bet 99% of professional developers have never peeked at kernel source code or built their own device drivers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360331</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you’re taking “necessary” literally, whereas the author is posing a question about morality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841712</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you imagine that =1931 wouldn’t be equally confusing in some future decamillenium? Arabic numerals have only been around for (charitably) 0.12 decamillenia. Sorry, =.12 decamillenia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:24:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697934</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NSDR, rather—Non-Sleep Deep Rest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773717</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why on earth should your brand new account be considered trustworthy when it comes to commenting on either party?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:29:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524216</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45524216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is a lightweight easy-to-read plain text markup language the right tool for that job?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:39:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407782</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not that it couldn’t be trivial in the abstract, but I’m struggling to imagine a use for a nested list item containing a table of blockquotes.  It doesn’t seem at all surprising that a tool wouldn’t anticipate that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398274</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Why We Spiral"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course it’s not a given as to any particular person, but regardless, it’s the right presumption.<p>And yes, of course there are things outside your control. Is that really “equally worthy” of your consideration and energy?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242288</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45242288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For what it’s worth, I don’t think there’s much about Gleam’s design that is specific to “the functional patterns the BEAM was built for.” If you’re getting stuck in abstraction hell, consider asking the community for advice on what would be more idiomatic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056100</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article admits that the 700k figure “assumes the worst-case scenario that you take the high valuation of the financial authorities (factor 13.75) as base valuation for your exit tax. Instead, you could also find someone to assess the real value of your company, which is likely lower…”<p>A reasonable person could absolutely think it’s fair to impose a very high exit tax on someone who doesn’t want their books examined even when it would save them money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:11:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837185</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44837185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps a stack-based language like Uiua would be well-suited.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763977</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44763977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "A Virginia public library is fighting off a takeover by private equity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might be a case of ginned up accusations of “poor management” to cover for political animus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517193</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44517193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What makes you think things need to be special in order to be pushing toward the future? A lot of the work of building something better is incremental and not especially innovative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:08:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258709</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44258709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It found it helpful that it was presented that simply. The point isn’t what <i>else</i> is or isn’t deductible, it’s that engineering salaries went from being deductible to being amortized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:28:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226812</link><dc:creator>GavinMcG</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by GavinMcG in "We Tested 7 Languages Under Extreme Load and Only One Didn't Crash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Learning a bit more than “absolutely nothing” about Erlang would make a conversation more productive.  The Wikipedia page [0] has some material relevant to your question under the “‘Let it crash’ design philosophy” heading.<p>[0]<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language...</a></p>
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