<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: IncandescentGas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=IncandescentGas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:10:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=IncandescentGas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not always the case.<p>Last week, my monitoring system sent me 20k emails in a few hours in response to a server attack.<p>When those hit my gmail inbox, gmail marked them all as spam. Myself, the user, did not mark them as spam. Gmail did that for me. But their reputation system is behaving as if 20k people marked 20k emails from us as spam.<p>In response to those 20k emails marked as spam, now our domain sender reputation with gmail is LOW, and our low volume of legitimate email with customers goes to their spam folders.<p>The gmail client gives me no way to unmark these messages as spam, except to click on each message, one at a time, and dig into a submenu to find the "Not spam" button.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:05:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754111</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spotify forcing me to hear a bunch of ads on the desktop client today. I'm a paid subscriber.<p>Seems widespread, the spotify subreddit is actively removing discussion of the problem</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391</a></p>
<p>Points: 151</p>
<p># Comments: 128</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:11:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "I Predicted the 2008 Financial Crisis. What Is Coming May Be Worse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This time, the danger isn’t financial engineering. It’s that our financial system has attached itself to the vulnerabilities of our physical world — power grids, water, land, supply chains — and created hazards that markets have no framework to analyze.<p>Why is it a danger for the value of money to be correlated with major things happening in the real physical world.<p>If my house burns down, the value of my house changed.<p>If a bank gambles it's deposits on snake oil like Tesla or Ai Companies, and the market wakes up to the true value of those companies, the worth of that bank rightfully collapses.<p>Is the author arguing the value of money should be divorced from the physical world?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:21:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414809</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does someone as young as Cavanaugh become so homophobic. I wanted to believe our society was past this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:31:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353386</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Good software knows when to stop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The counter-example, in classic MMO terms, is Ultima Online adding non-PVP game instances in response to player feedback. Without the dramatic threat of PVP conflict at most times, UO was less emotionally engaging. The non-PVP players were bored without the emotional excitement (stress, danger, whatever) of ad hoc PVP. The PVP-focused players were bored when all the reputational mechanics became more or less meaningless in a world only occupied by PKers.<p>The release of Arc Raiders captured that original UO social dynamic perfectly. Players flooded forums with requests to make PVP optional. In that case, the devs knew better than to listen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264594</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Telco infra runs on autopilot?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622318</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has none of the usual expected perks like rental car insurance or damage/theft protection on purchases. Guess purchase protection would be a threat to applecare revenue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:28:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537895</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46537895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).<p>Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:10:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278888</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:24:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983024</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just got an invoice from ups to pay a $16 brokerage fee to jpmorgan for collecting a $0.60 tariff on a sticker included in a box with a custom keyboard shipped from Taiwan. Seems like wall street is making out better than the US on this arrangement</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:05:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941867</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45941867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Obsidian Note Codes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you consider renaming the note to contain a reference to the generated code? Such as "Thoughts on Hedgehogs.md" becomes "Thoughts on Hedgehogs [AB-99].md"<p>This preserves your goal of having the system rightfully not need another source of truth outside the markdown files, but also lets the markdown file carry the identifier across renames without adding a YAML block.<p>And it lets you find the note in the "open note" dialog box by typing the code, so no other kind of search interface is needed. Or even to find the note with any other filesystem utility if you have your reference code.<p>Were you inspired by the Zettelkasten Method for your plugin?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:01:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335345</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Itch.io: Update on NSFW Content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The payment processors have been held criminally and civilly liable in court for processing payments for pornhub. I don't see how we can expect Visa/MC to not censor their customers, if we also intend to hold them criminally liable for the actions of their customers in such cases.<p>If Visa spends years in criminal court because a book store accepted a credit card payment for an illegal book, then yes, expect Visa to start placing limits on card processing for bookstores.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672841</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44672841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Matt Trout has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RIP mst and thanks for all the fish. DBIx::Class and Catalyst are still a core part of how I pay the bills.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521982</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Working on databases from prison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since the top comment seems to be judging the worthiness of this individual to work with databases after prison, for those considering working with or hiring someone with a criminal record, I'd beg you to consider:<p>You're hiring the person as they are today, long after any punishment, rehabilitation, parold, probation, and personal growth. Not who they were at the time of past actions.<p>Having your own mini trial, where you sit in judgement over the candidate, from your ignorant position of privilege, using whatever details you can dig up with google may be entertaining for you, but is tells you nothing of what kind of employee they might be. Your mock trial may be especially traumatic to endure for the candidate, because their side of the story is rarely included in any reporting you can dig up. Especially for those unfairly convicted.<p>With everything going on today, do you really trust our justice system to be fair, especially to someone who is not a wealthy and connected straight white male?<p>If you're only willing to give people a chance when you judge their offence to be trivial by your own ethics, you're not actually providing second chances for those that need it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:17:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291429</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44291429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. You can restore your icloud backup to another target iphone without wiping the source iphone, as long as the target iphone has enough storage capacity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:30:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636669</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right! Backup planning is not black magic. And neither is testing icloud backups.<p>It's quite easy to restore an icloud backup to a different phone or even ipad for testing purposes, if one were reliant on icloud to hold their data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:28:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636630</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your phone could become damaged and inoperable every day. From dropping it in the toilet, being stolen, a house fire, etc. If you're "petrified" of losing your data, it's worth the work to ensure your data backup procedures are adequate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633616</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "'Hey Number 17 '"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>=~ s/server/serve/ :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:40:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175639</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "'Hey Number 17 '"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I think everybody can agree that improving efficiency is a good thing<p>At what point does demanding top efficiency from a human every minute of every work shift cross the line into abuse? I would argue this tool is miles over that that line.<p>Workplaces should server the workers too, not just the capital interests of the owners.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:39:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175625</link><dc:creator>IncandescentGas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IncandescentGas in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you arrest a road worker because the highway onramp they just repaved was used by bank robbers to flee the scene of the crime?</p>
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