<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: RaftPeople</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RaftPeople</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:57:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RaftPeople" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't want to sound like I'm trying to one-up you, but I've basically vibe coded the entire internet.<p>I'm surprised nobody thought of it before me but basically the LLM's are trained on the internet and I just had it spit back out everything.<p>It's running in parallel so I can validate it, which of course I'm using LLM's to do that.<p>Once it's ready I will put it on the market, but get this, my internet will be cheaper than the current internet.  I'll probably just make it one cheaper, like if the current internet costs, for example, 7, I'll make my internet cost 6.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:06:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679898</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>a prevailing sentiment of savings value and above all else things like rebate and cash back.</i><p>I did some consulting work there a long time ago building some software to manage inventory in one of their departments.<p>When we asked about their goals, like improve margins, they said "absolutely not, we will not increase beyond 14%".  When we asked why, they said "the minute our customers think we are increasing margins, we will lose members, and membership is the goal."</p>
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<p>But they have the choice to buy those from other stores.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651329</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. I think it gives a quicker view of what is happening and for some subset of diagrams I have wanted to use tools that do more of this to help people build a mental model.</p>
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<p>> <i>they will just hype something else</i><p>"Tesla Cold Fusion (TM) will be powering all of our vehicles by 2031."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:19:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406400</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47406400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Trying is the first step towards failure." - Homer S.</p>
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<p>> <i>I like this but would think "Semantic" is pushing it a bit</i><p>It would be nice to get to the feature level, meaning across files/classes/functions etc.</p>
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<p>I've been thinking the same thing although not specifically about ASICs.<p>I was thinking any breakthrough in hardware (e.g. spintronics etc.), even if just partially effective, means all of this hardware would need to be replaced.</p>
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<p>> <i>Guess what the average selling price of a new car was in 1989? $12000</i><p>I bought my first new car in 1989, a Camaro with T-Tops and it cost me, $12,250.</p>
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<p>From article:<p>> <i>Cause and Effect: If Neuron A fires just a few milliseconds before Neuron B, the brain assumes A caused B. The synapse between them gets stronger.</i><p>A recent study from Stanford found that it's more complex than this rule, some synapses followed it, some did the opposite, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:20:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223534</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a friend that left Iran just before the Shah was overthrown.  Over the years he has gone back multiple times to visit family and friends etc.<p>He told me years ago that the majority in Iran were not aligned with the new regime, it was a minority of the population that were.</p>
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<p>> <i>This is why I never use a calculator.</i><p>I always use the calculator.<p>But, because the numbers that get returned aren't always the right numbers, I try to approximate the answer in my head or with paper and pencil to kind of make sure it's in the ball park.<p>Also, sometimes it returns digits that don't actually exist, and it's pretty insistent that the digit is correct.  If I catch it early I just re-run the equation but there is a special button where I can tell it that it used a digit that does not actually exist.<p>Sometimes, for complex ones, it tells me it's trying to calculate and provides some details about how it's going about it and keeps going and going and going, for those ones I just reboot the calculator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:28:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208720</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The guy did seem to be wearing a warm coat and gloves so obviously pretty cold where the video was, probably just below the frost line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979873</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46979873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Prolok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Central Point Software, the makers of Copy II PC, was one of our customers (we created back office software, order processing etc.).<p>It was a pretty healthy business, not just for the copy protection breaking but also the general tools software.<p>Funny story:<p>I was at their offices working on a project when they were getting ready to ship out the new version.  Their warehouse was connected to the office building and they were producing all of the final copies and loading them on trucks to get sent to the distributors.<p>In the morning they gave the all clear for the first wave of trucks to leave, then about 4 hours later someone found a bug and they had to call all of the trucks back to the warehouse, unload, re-create new clean product etc.<p>They did this about 3 times before that version finally made it to the distributors.</p>
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<p>So did I. We joked that BPCS stood for: Better Programs Coming Soon<p>It was actually a well designed and functional system, just too many bugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:35:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879662</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Once Thought to Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out to Be in Charge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Researchers also know that astrocytes are active participants in computation for some areas that have been studied (vision and also memory).<p>The article seems about 5 to 10 years late.</p>
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<p>Ya, RPG assumed character based IO so probably a safe bet that they just ported stuff that ran on IBM character based terminals and just made it run in DOS.  (I worked in RPG in the 80's)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857793</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except for in the brain (13% to 41% of neurons with variation, deletions, additions, etc., first discovered in 2001, study below from 2013 confirmed).<p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243472" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1243472</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850488</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>The cells in your eyes have exactly the same DNA as the cells in your big toe</i><p>Is that true?<p>I know that cells in the brain have significant variability in DNA, but not really aware of what non-neuronal and non-brain cells in general typically have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847057</link><dc:creator>RaftPeople</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RaftPeople in "Ask HN: How much emphasis to put on unit testing and when?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Link to ACM paper from 1969<p><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800195.805951" rel="nofollow">https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/800195.805951</a><p>Quote:<p>"Unit test:<p>testing, outside of thesystem, of a part of the system thatmay have less than a complete function.<p>Component test:<p>testing, inside of the system, of parts that have been successfully unit tested.<p>Integration test: 
testing of new components to ensure that the system is growing functionally; in addition, retesting of successive system builds to ensure that they do not cause re-gression in the capabilities of the system.<p>Regression test: 
testing of the system for unpredictable system failure.<p>Scaffolding:<p>coding that replaces not - yet - completed functions..."<p>I was taught in the 80's about this by a woman that had worked at some company that was more formal about software dev than we were at the small company I worked for.</p>
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