<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: PretzelPirate</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PretzelPirate</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:13:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=PretzelPirate" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This actually begs the question<p>I beleive that raises the question. I don't think it begs the question at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:45:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178971</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is charge back. Even with a credit card, your bank is the mediator between you and the merchant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:08:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138998</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> because it doesn't allow chargebacks<p>You can have chargebacks in crypto if the payment is scripted to allow chargebacks. It would be up to the merchant and the buyer on whether or not to allow that, and who would mediate the dispute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:43:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125042</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Show HN: I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had GH Copilot make me a new programming language (LLVM based) with a pretty unique syntax, and it was able to write games in it using SDL easily.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 18:45:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077206</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Ted Turner has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but as a supporter of Bison<p>If you support Bison, why commend someone who killed them for a profit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:17:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039641</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience, Solutions Architects don't do the implementation, they provide guidance. FDEs actually build things alongside the customer engineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952624</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> it's like people are LARPing a Fortune company CEO when they're giving their hot takes on social media<p>At least in large tech companies, they have mandatory social media training where they explicitly tell employees to use phrases like "my views are my own" to keep it clear whether they're speaking on behalf of their employer or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925345</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not who you replied to.<p>Banks are cracking down on PO boxes and CMRAs as the residential address for their clients. It's fine as the mailing address, but people who travel abroad full time may not have a permanent residential address.<p>Right now, you can choose to use a friend/family address, or you can pay a company to provide a residential address for you.<p>We should be able to say "I have no permanent residential address since I'm travelling, please send all mail to this CRMA.", but that isn't a supported scenario today.<p>This all gets complicated for full-time US travellers abroad who may spend all year outside of the country, but they still have to have domicile in some state even when they don't have a permanent address in any state.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835839</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Ask HN: How to become better at software "engineering"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That might be a good approach to become a better programmer, but I don't think it's good advice to become a better software engineer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:04:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833086</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Tesla owner uses emergency solar to trickle charge battery in desert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who doesn't own an EV, I don't understand what this post is trying to tell me.<p>He used the panel, and later a generator from a road crew, to stop his battery from shutting down before he was able to get towed.<p>If I had a gas car, I would stop my car and try to find a tow truck.<p>It seems like an ICE owner would be in the exact same situation without the need to deploy solar panels or talk to a road crew.<p>The article doesn't say why he needed to keep his battery from shutting down - was it to prevent an EV-specific failure mode, or was it so he could keep running the AC?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833066</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks like you're using the Microsoft Whiteboard logo for DrawX: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Whiteboard" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Whiteboard</a><p>You might want to change that to avoid legal issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753375</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Where does all the milk go?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This should have included the insemination and slaughter as well. That cow didn't come from nowhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:40:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707821</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> pretty much full rewrite<p>This is far from my understanding. Changing out this signature scheme is hard work, but doesn't require a rewrite of the VM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666172</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand the title.<p>It doesn't seem like they are trying to figure out why two copies of outlook are installed, they're trying to figure out why neither is giving them access to their email.</p>
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<p>Haven't we moved past using derogatory and offensive words like the one in the title?</p>
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<p>Blockchain-based social media isn't new, so what makes this special?<p>Is there a technical write up where we can see how consensus works and what guarantees you have that the chain history can't be rewritten?</p>
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<p>I already get unlimited tokens at work. I love it, but if they started calling it compensation, I'd worry about that eventually becoming taxable income.</p>
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<p>> I think most people expected Trump Two to be a similar shit show to Trump One<p>While they were being warned that his team spent 4 years planning on how to get rid of anyone who pushed back, and he wouldn't be hamstrung this time.<p>The people who thought 2.0 would be like 1.0 were simply choosing to beleive it despite all of the evidence suggesting otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441976</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Godot is for people who want to make games but don't care for programming and would rather use a GUI for development.<p>You can write a lot of code when using Godot and mix that with capabilities provided by their editor.<p>You never have to use editor features, but can use them to avoid wasting time reinventing the wheel.<p>Your comment is like saying that game engines are used by people who don't care for programming and would rather make a call to handle physics interactions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:53:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294869</link><dc:creator>PretzelPirate</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PretzelPirate in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From your /en route, clicking on a card brings me to the /nl/cards route.</p>
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