<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: MatthewWilkes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthewWilkes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:55:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MatthewWilkes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's certainly not my experience that the M3 is overpowered for browsing. With the proliferation of SPAs for everything from messaging to word processing, my Macbook Air reminds me of a Chromebook in more ways than one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:15:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126380</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The last time the succession rules were changed (2013), it was following an agreement by the relevant countries. It was called the "Perth Agreement".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:32:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087300</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Show HN: A website that makes your text look cool anywhere online using Unicode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely. The argument that screen readers shouldn't gain a heurisric for identifying this kind of text and normalising it down to pronouncable words is just prescribtivism, to my view.<p>ALL CAPS, SpOnGeBoB cASe, clap  emphasis, and others carry specific meanings in colloquial written language, the use of other letterlike symbols can also. These should be presented in an accessible form to the user, rather than demanding that people refrain from using them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 07:54:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360462</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "MacBook Air M4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought an XPS 16 recently. 4K screen, 64 GB RAM (+8 GB VRAM), 2 TB storage (4 TB was an option). It cost about 3/4 as much as a similarly specced MBP.<p>I know many people still love MacOS, but it lost me a few years ago. I've also, frankly, had much better milage out of Dell machines than Apple ones over the last ten years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:46:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277544</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Uncut Currency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US has a small set of valid bank notes. It's not like other countries that have multiple issuers, each with their own schedules for when to update designs.<p>On top of that, this isn't just a design that a person hasn't seen often, it's a denomination. Think of the 500 EUR notes, they were unfamiliar to many people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:43:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620564</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2048 is a brilliant game, I love it. I understand that it's been used widely (I even saw it on a plane IFE system last month) and that likely didn't generate much ot any income, but the first impression when opening this was a bit dodgy. There are over 700 'partners' you want me to consent to sending data to? Come on, you know that nobody could make an informed decision on that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:40:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943972</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41943972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, September 2018 for me.<p>> After some internal discussion, we have determined this is a known low risk issue. We may make this functionality more strict in the future, but don't have anything to announce now. As a result, this is not eligible for reward under the Bug Bounty program. Below is a reference to our instructions for users to remove sensitive data from a repository. <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-from-a-repository/" rel="nofollow">https://help.github.com/articles/removing-sensitive-data-fro...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:20:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41078414</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41078414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41078414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Norfolk County Council beats Apple in £385M iPhone row"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure I quite understand your questions.<p>I'd say that Apple are directly harmed, by the court order to pay £385 million. I haven't seen any suggestion that there has been a transfer of shares as part of the settlement, so it wouldn't align with a stock buyback. Equally, this seems like the opposite of friendly, and the money involved here is tiny compared to Apple's dividend payments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726253</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "No Robots(.txt): How to Ask ChatGPT and Google Bard to Not Use Your Website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The title is "how to ask..." not "how to force...".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:43:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38770591</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38770591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38770591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Certificate to own car in Singapore rockets to $106,000"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's a taxi medallion?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:27:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782179</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "A Duodecade of Numberphile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That video was enough for me to lose all interest in this channel. Misrepresenting basic maths with something obtuse that is obviously false pushes people away from the discipline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:22:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368945</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37368945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surprising that the only mention of intellectual property in the FAQ and the legal terms page is about copyright that the service claims in the outputs, not restrictions on the inputs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:49:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481348</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36481348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the first things the author of the article does is breaks it down into the 5 code points and explains their individual meanings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:43:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165762</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36165762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A Google image search for each will probably be best. They are relatively technical terms within highways, most people wouldn't be able to describe them as well as the person you replied to, so there aren't all that many good diagrams comparing the types.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:47:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30115228</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30115228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30115228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe that one of the responsibilities of the board of auditors is hearing complaints against officeholders for waste of public funds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114854</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30114854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My Samsung Ultrawide has a 3840x1080 resolution. Once or twice it's been misdetected as normal horizontal resolution, when switching PIP off. I suspect you've been the victim of a driver/host issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421718</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29421718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was very involved in GSoC from an open source perspective for many years. I think this is the best tweak they've made in years. There is so much talent outside of the University system, and widening this will give lots of motivated people opportunities they otherwise wouldn't have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:05:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181573</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Google Summer of Code in 2022 – No longer limited to students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't speak for Google, however I was involved in Summer of Code from the open source side when this decision was made. The reason given was that they were concerned that the amounts were having a disproportionate impact on some students, paying significantly more than the jobs it was meant to compete with to the extent that getting into Sumner of Code was one of the main objectives for students rather than a nice to have.<p>I can tell you that when it was announced it was a very unpopular move with the mentoring organisations, where the strong feeling was that equal work deserves equal pay, but ultimately the decision for mentoring orgs is to participate or not, and the vast majority chose to participate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2021 22:02:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181528</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article "WhatsApp can read some of your messages if the recipient reports them."<p>Is this surprising? Any third party can read part of an e2e encrypted communication <i>if one of the participants forwards it</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:21:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448746</link><dc:creator>MatthewWilkes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28448746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MatthewWilkes in "Amazon Kindles with 3G will start to lose cellular network access in December"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even just the kindles, I carried mine with me so much when it first came out as an emergency communications channel.</p>
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