<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: MollyRealized</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MollyRealized</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:51:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=MollyRealized" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He speaks to three examples: YT videos, podcasts, and newsletters/etc.  With YT videos and podcasts, I either yank the transcript and pipe it through whisper.cpp, or with YT videos, I'll use the built-in "Ask [Gemini]" and ask it to summarize.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:54:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563407</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Did Messages get removed from Google Takeout?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Messages" appears to have disappeared from Google Takeout. Does anyone know why Google removed it, or if there is an official notice or explanation?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253165">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253165</a></p>
<p>Points: 22</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:48:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253165</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "ASCII by Jason Scott"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://textfiles.libsyn.com/" rel="nofollow">https://textfiles.libsyn.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188754</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Men who stare at walls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have to admit, I had hoped that Bluesky would have countered that 300-character limitation and been a true microblog.  I'm not sure why they chose to ape Twitter's limit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:50:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955754</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: I need a reminder-brain – how do you do it?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently read a blog post where someone calendered a reminder for five years into the future, then actually followed up on it.<p>I'm wondering how you guys do it - what your reminder 'systems' are.  I have not really been able to find something that's been very ubiquitious and able to capture my thoughts -- I have ADHD and really need kind of a "braindump -> successfully reminds me later" system.<p>Thank you in advance for the time you take in describing your systems - it would be deeply appreciated.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881876">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881876</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881876</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not insane, but we are talking at cross-purposes here.  It is not insane to tell someone to write for their audience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:17:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853221</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't have a Mac now, but this makes me a little excited for the next time I go that route, to know this feature now exists. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757831</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quite pleasantly surprised to see Jasika Nicole in this short.  Really quite an actress in FRINGE; she was excellent here, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421011</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Ask HN: Hacker News Fixed Width for Widescreen Monitors" Userstyle?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190582</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Hacker News Fixed Width for Widescreen Monitors" Userstyle?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does anyone has a copy of the "Hacker News Fixed Width for Widescreen Monitors" userstyle?<p>I've checked several of the Userstyles.org mirrors, as well as more modern websites, but cannot find this particular userstyle I used all the time.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017850">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017850</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:04:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017850</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "There's a hidden Android setting that spots fake cell towers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I've been able to determine, the main feature this article speaks to is not even on the Pixel 9 - it is only a feature on the Pixel 10.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:15:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685252</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46685252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Google broke my heart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IANAL, IANYL, and I am not his lawyer.  I did work with publishing companies to get my grandmother's books freed up for CC0/public domain, but I'm at most a talented layman (and legal administrative assistant, but not in IP).<p>As far as I can understand from what the blog's author reproduced, it looks as if the problem was that his DMCA requests may have not been compliant. Go to [1] and do a Ctrl-F downward for "Elements of Notification."<p>If I were filing a DMCA request with Google, I would do it as follows, matching the requirements laid out for a valid DMCA notice. The below should not be considered legal advice or the practice of law.<p>[1] - <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512" rel="nofollow">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512</a><p>~~~~<p>Both via Google's webform and as an e-mail to: dmca-agent@google.com<p>To whom it may concern:<p>This is a notification of claimed infringement under 17 USC § 512(c)(3), for purposes of 17 USC § 512(d)(3). To maintain the limitation on liability under § 512(d), upon receipt you must respond expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the reference(s) or link(s) identified below.<p>If you believe that the material below is insufficient for the requirements of § 512(c)(3)(A), I ask you to specify precisely what you feel is absent from this notice yet necessary to meet those requirements.<p>REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(ii)<p>I identify the copyrighted work as:<p>- Title: [FULL TITLE]<p>- Author: [AUTHOR]<p>- Copyright owner: [YOUR NAME / ENTITY]<p>- First publication date: [MONTH DAY, YEAR]<p>- ISBN/ISSN (if any): [NUMBER]<p>- U.S. Copyright Office registration no. (if any): [TX/VA/PA-…]<p>- An authorized copy is available from [PUBLISHER] at [BOOK PAGE ON PUBLISHER WEBSITE].<p>- The infringing material reproduces the work in full.<p>REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iii)<p>I identify both (1) the infringing material and (2) the specific reference(s)/link(s) on Google that must be removed or disabled as follows:<p>A. Infringing material (destination URL(s)):<p>1. [FULL INFRINGING URL 1]<p>2. [FULL INFRINGING URL 2] (if the same file is reachable via more than one URL, list each exact variant you can find, including http/https, with/without "www", trailing slash, and direct PDF/EPUB links)<p>B. Specific Google reference(s)/link(s) to remove/disable (information-location results):<p>1. Google Search results page URL where the reference appears:
[PASTE THE FULL GOOGLE SEARCH URL SHOWING THE RESULT]
(Example format: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=…&…" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=…&…</a> )<p>a. Google Surface: Google Search (web results) at google.com<p>b. Locale: United States / English<p>2. The specific result on that page that must be removed/disabled:<p>– Result position: [e.g., "Result #3 on the first page"]<p>– Result title as displayed: "[TITLE SHOWN IN RESULTS]"<p>– Displayed URL as shown: "[DISPLAYED URL]"<p>– Snippet text (first ~15–25 words as displayed): "[SNIPPET]"<p>– Target/destination URL that result resolves to when clicked: [INFRINGING URL]<p>– If available, the Google redirect URL for the result (copied via "Copy link address"):<p>[PASTE THE <a href="https://www.google.com/url?…" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/url?…</a> LINK]<p>3. Any Google-served cached/stored version of the same infringing material (if present):<p>– Cache URL: [PASTE webcache.googleusercontent.com … URL]
(or: "The ‘Cached’ link (if shown) for the above result.")<p>4. When observed: [DATE + TIME, TIME ZONE]<p>5. Screenshot attached showing the result described above (due to webform limitations, attached on e-mail message only).<p>REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iv)<p>I am the complaining party.  My name is [NAME].  My postal address is [POSTAL ADDRESS].  My telephone number is [TELEPHONE NUMBER].  My e-mail address is [E-MAIL ADDRESS].  [Alternately, use business contact information, or your agent's contact information.]  Please redact this information in any public copy of this notice.<p>REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(v)<p>I have a good faith belief that use of this material in the manner I am complaining of is not authorized by the copyright owner (myself), any agent that might have the right to authorize such use (there is none), nor the law.<p>REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)<p>By my electronic signature below (satisfying § 512(c)(3)(A)(i)), under penalty of perjury, I certify that the information I provide above is accurate, and further certify that as the owner of an exclusive right I allege is infringed, I am authorized to act on my own behalf.<p>/s/ NAME</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:53:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530779</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Tell HN: Happy New Year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2025 was a difficult year for me.  I am trans, and transitioning at a late age (post-50s).  I am confronting a lot of my own self-hatred in the process.  It is also a discouraging thing to be trans in this current national (sometimes global) climate.  I also had a cardiac episode.  There were definite achievements, but it was unabashedly a mix.  I'm hoping 2026 will be a better year in most respects where I can build on the good parts of 2025.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465814</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, I'm not anyone related to them, but considering you just kind of baldfaced admitted to it right there in your title, I'd get some lawyers on retainer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:13:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860938</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45860938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Library that maps clock times to human terms ("early morning", etc.)?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am wondering if people have already done the work on what I'm about to describe.  I'm going to try to define what's in my mind by explaining the working circumstance.  The humidity part of the below, however, is solved - I'm just trying to explain the kind of substitution I'd like.<p>For me, temperature doesn't mean as much as stickiness.  So I worked out a script that takes the dew point and maps it against a humidity comfort index.  I have both the next 24 hours, and the next six days.<p>Right now, my script reads out the next 24 hours like this:<p>"From 5-10 AM, it will be pleasant (0). At 11:57 AM, it will be sticky (1). At 12:57 PM, it will be pleasant (0). From 1-10 PM, it will be refreshing (-1). At 11:57 PM, it will be pleasant (0). From 12-4 AM, it will be sticky (1)."<p>What I'm wondering - before I try to reinvent the wheel - is if there is basically a generalized library or reference that lets you define things using more ambiguous, human terms.  I imagine it would have to define not only morning, afternoon, and evening, but also have "early", "mid", and "late" adjectives, as well as overnight.<p>For example, if this library existed, I could implement it into the script and then it might say:<p>"This morning, it will be pleasant (0).  At noon, it will be sticky (1).  The afternoon and night, it will be refreshing (-1).  Overnight, it will be sticky (1)."</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397198">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397198</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:26:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397198</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45397198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll also have to add, though, that you'd have to figure out a way for it to be cross-platform or live outside just macOS.  Unfortunately, that's a very uncommon choice in the legal world (or anywhere else).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388102</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a litigation legal admin - I have been for 25-30 years.  I instantly brought this up to an associate, telling them, "Maybe not now, but before you retire, this'll be the norm in the industry."<p>She had been complaining the day before about having to reconstruct a huge bunch of little 0.1 entries involving e-mails to various individuals in cases.  If it could be done automatically, through a local LLM?  <i>chef's kiss</i><p>Trust me, law is definitely where you want to land this thing.<p>In all honesty, I have absolutely no negotiating power or decision-making authority for my firm, but it's a big one -- if that's a direction you want to go, can't guaranty I can swing enough weight, but I probably could find you the right people to talk to, give you an introduction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:09:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388093</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Always Invite Anna"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Person A declines Group B's invite.<p>Group B thinks that it's a desire-based decision: that Person A does not want to participate.<p>They don't always realize - because for many, this simply doesn't "track" - that Person A may simply consider themselves unworthy.<p>This is something I think I am learning now, painfully late.  I'm 51.  I think I'm beginning to realize that I was a feral kitten for much of my life, claw-swiping at the milk syringe out of fear when people were trying to be nice to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362818</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "What is it like to be a bat?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Answer: You are a creature of the night, terrible, able to strike terror into a superstitious, cowardly lot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:16:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120971</link><dc:creator>MollyRealized</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45120971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by MollyRealized in "Monday – A personality experiment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Monday = Wednesday (Addams).</p>
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