<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: Nebasuke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Nebasuke</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:44:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Nebasuke" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A similar but not as strong decline. Taking the one but last datapoint for both (stackoverflow/tex respectively): 4436 and 394. If you compare this to how it looked like between 2015-2020 you get (my guess from scanning): 160,000 and 1700. So Stackoverflow as a whole went from 160K -> ~4.4K. That's like a 35x drop, compared to tex, where it's a 1700 -> 394, 4x drop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:10:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483707</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46483707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Antlr-Ng Parser Generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think this a fair interpretation of the parent comment as it's not about ownership of language. The website literally says "The next generation of ANTLR" and says "It's the successor of ANTLR4".<p>It's about a tool claiming to be the successor without seeming to be part of the ANTLR organisation. Are they completely different people, did the ANTLR4 owners stop writing it? There seems to be deliberately no clarification on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232252</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45232252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "LLM Inevitabilism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They really wouldn't. Even people who BOUGHT VR, are barely using it. Giving everyone free VR headsets won't make people suddenly spend a lot of time in VR-land without there actually being applications that are useful to most people.<p>ChatGPT is so useful, people without any technology background WANT to use it. People who are just about comfortable with the internet, see the applications and use it to ask questions (about recipes, home design, solving small house problems, etc).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:20:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570375</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Accountability Sinks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The UK should not be included in here. There is no official national system for keeping track of citizens and municipalities barely cooperate. This means you have to keep proving your address for things like an opening a bank account.<p>This is due to a historical political issue and repeal of a national identification system, see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Cards_Act_2006</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 16:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880207</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "The average college student today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is a good point. I found the following sentences of the article shocking:<p>>  I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes.<p>It makes you wonder whether the lecturer actually values the time of the students. Having to take notes because they are not provided, rather than getting value from a lecture due to interactive participation sounds like a waste of time. This sounds exactly like the type of lecture I would have skipped.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:05:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527151</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are good devices for only music / audiobooks, but they're often aimed at younger kids. For example Yoto players (<a href="https://yotoplay.com/" rel="nofollow">https://yotoplay.com/</a>) or Toniebox (haven't used this one). Basically screenless, except for the number of the playlist.<p>You can use an app/website to create and upload playlist and couple them to your custom cards (so you don't have to spend money on buying loads of cards).</p>
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<p>Not really. Google tries to recognise it when you re-upload the same game using a different dev account, and will actually ban you for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:27:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41332797</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41332797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41332797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Open Source Farming Robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get maybe 50 or so tomato plants in about 1 square meter in my garden, just from the seeds that are left in the ground from last year's tomatoes. (Of course I don't let all 50 grow and instead give most away.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 20:20:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156057</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Location: United Kingdom (near London/Cambridge)<p>Remote: Yes (or hybrid)<p>Willing to relocate: No<p>Technologies: Haskell, Scala, Java, Go, compilers, ad technology, theorem proving, functional programming, finance, automated trading.<p>Skills: Software Engineering management, team building, project management, hiring management, product strategy.<p>Résumé/CV: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/basvangijzel/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/basvangijzel/</a><p>Email: nene.kotan+jobs@gmail.com<p>Open to hearing about Software Engineering Management roles, Director level roles, or Team Lead positions with a considerable management/mentoring component.<p>I have multiple years of experience managing and mentoring teams, and a strong technical background in functional programming (Haskell, Scala). I enjoy directly working with product, and have a strong user focus. I also have 3 years of full-stack software engineering using Dart and Java. Happy to pick up any technology needed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:19:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877330</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Things are about to get worse for generative AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think that's a fair analogy. One forces 99% of websites to make a change, while the other is something that would need to be done by the big companies doing the scraping.<p>A Do Not Track flag being legally binding would force small websites, e.g. a local restaurant website,  to implement something they likely are not aware of and secondly do not technically understand.<p>A company that is mass scraping data for their AI model is much more likely to understand and respect that scraping the data has legal implications, and would be technically capable in implementing a scraping solutions that accounts for a robots.txt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815674</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38815674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Ask HN: What is your policy regarding smartphones for your children?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FYI: YouTube Kids does have ads, although a lot less so than YouTube. It also mainly shows an ad at the start, and often only after one episode (for me at least).</p>
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<p>The UK government has done this various times in the last couple of years to argue against (high) pay rises for the National Health Service and other government institutions.<p>One of the more recent articles: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-annual-wage-growth-72-excluding-bonuses-three-months-april-ons-2023-06-13/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-annual-wage-growth-72-ex...</a>
Or here: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/would-a-wageprice-spiral-cause-inflation-to-get-out-of-control" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/would-a-wag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:57:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484189</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Things I am or was actively using (and mostly liked):
Inbox, Domains, Reader, Wave, GChat, (Hangouts, but it doesn't fully count), AdSense mobile app, Google+, goog.gl, Play Music (YouTube Music sucks), Buzz, Labs (particularly in Gmail), Google WiFi app (the home app is worse), Picasa, and I can probably find more.<p>I have stopped using any new Google product, and am slowly phasing out my reliance on their other products.</p>
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<p>You would assume wrong in the case of the UK. "Extreme pornography" is already illegal, even when staged, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_63_of_the_Criminal_Justice_and_Immigration_Act_2008" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_63_of_the_Criminal_Jus...</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687304</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35687304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stadia also failed as a technical solution on various of the boring bits. Stadia did not even support the new Chromecast for at least half a year, so you were expected to get the older Chromecast Ultra until then.<p>I was employed at Google at the time, and within Google this was treated as a matter of fact problem that was not that important. The planning was to support this most likely in the first or second half of the next year. I found this shocking, and to me it made it clear that Stadia was unlikely to succeed if it couldn't even support its main hardware components close to launch.</p>
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<p>One of the worst things is that the great online course for SICP (6.001 iCampus) is now also retired, and MIT is not willing to recover it. I remember seeing a message that their server crashed and they were not able/willing to recover it, but that seems to have disappeared as well.<p>It's really sad as this is the course that actually made me love programming.</p>
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<p>Maybe if you live in the US (and quite a few other countries), but if you live in the UK, you can get a prison sentence just for not disclosing your encryption keys: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...</a></p>
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<p>This might depend on where you are. If you're from the UK, the only way of getting this diagnosed within any reasonable time frame is a lactation consultant. Most NHS staff is not trained to diagnose tongue tie, which is not surprising given their historical roots.<p>Tongue tie was quite obvious for my first daughter (it even runs in my family), but hospital staff still refused to do a proper diagnosis and said it was fine. It was not, and impacted the breastfeeding.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 08:49:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849035</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32849035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, I don't disagree and it's silly/illegal when it happens, but this doesn't mean you can't protect yourself (sometimes without much more effort) to prevent damage or even just more effort. I think most people have spoken to a support agent who said they'd cancel a phone/broadband contract, or worse, had to do something slightly off script and then confirmed that the agreed XYZ would happen?<p>Regularly XYZ does not happen, or not exactly in the way you agreed. They cancel your broadband too late, or your internet starts a few weeks too late, etc. You can try to get compensation, or even sue, but some of the damage has already been done at that point. While this okay for temporarily overpaying broadband, this is probably not the case for a company's main production system, where the risk is very high. The company might not even survive to sue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:26:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562371</link><dc:creator>Nebasuke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32562371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Nebasuke in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think an email from support is more like "confirmation that they checked whether the car has seen me".<p>I'm not sure how successfully you've dealt with support with companies, but I have almost never been able to rely on the promises of a support agent, as they are simply not the ones actually making the decisions (in this case on whether your account gets suspended or not).</p>
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