<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: ____tom____</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=____tom____</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:49:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=____tom____" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have no idea what 'the orange cloud icon' means, as I'm not a CloudFlare used.<p>But DNS/Name servers do not see HTML traffic, as the above poster mentioned, so it's not obvious how this change would matter.<p>Is it that they are serving their HTML via CloudFlare, and cloudflare is making changing in its serving of their html?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325627</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you tried YouTube recently?<p>Simply FINDING good media becomes the problem. I have no interest in AI slop, but it's everywhere.<p>I don't choose to consume bad media, but finding good media is getting harder and harder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299927</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good ol' Varth Dader. A completely novel villain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877433</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the spectrum or go gentle vs fight, I'd have to say, now is the time is history where "fight" makes the most sense.<p>This is not abstract for me. I have not one, but two forms of cancer.<p>Both were considered incurable when I was diagnosed.<p>Both have treatments now that, IN SOME PEOPLE, lead to remission.<p>I still don't know which group I am, but I'd be dead from either one by now, if I hadn't elected to treat.<p>New treatments, for SOME cancers  are literally coming out monthly.<p>So the fact that you can't be cured today, does mean there won't be a better treatment by next year, if you can hang on.<p>I should find out soon on my more aggressive one. Either way, I plan on continuing to try.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877363</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah. I'm gonna have an LLM rewrite Star Wars and then film it. Should be fine, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:08:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854175</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "I Changed My Name"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I knew two hyphenates who got married. They picked one non-hyphenated last name.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:02:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854133</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "I Changed My Name"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find this follow on article really helpful: <a href="https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/" rel="nofollow">https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...</a><p>It contains concrete examples of each of the ideas listed in the first article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854120</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's cool. Thanks for the info</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840846</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "I think I have LLM burnout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get burnout from frustration when the LLM just can't follow instructions.<p>Like when I'm trying to get it to create an image, and the first pass is beautiful, but ten different request to modify it, with different phrasing and even example images, produce the same image ten times. 
Or when you tell it not to use a cheap hack in AGENTS.md about six different ways and in your prompt, and it still does it again, and again.<p>It's like arguing with an idiot. And THAT gives me burnout.<p>Also: I've never once seen an emoji in LLM output. What are people talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:01:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840831</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48840831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not an area I'm familiar with, but do the chips really handle up in the gigabit IO? I thought they just handle connection setup.  I had thought the gigabytes were not processed at all by the chips. They just flow through the wires.<p>?</p>
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<p>Ah, but are you remembering to discount the future time saving, to get the net present value of the time savings?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:29:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820933</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Starring the Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No IBM PC references? Not one?<p>I mean the 5150 pc not the 5160 XT they mention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:27:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799395</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, but you can form a syndicate, convince others to buy in, get your money out and still participate in the payout, if any.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799253</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "OpenPrinter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No.<p>Per Google, most HP printers are made in China.<p>A more likely explanation has to do with the economics of ink jet printers. The ink sales are so profitable that HP and other manufacturers subsidize their printers. This leads to prices at or near cost.<p>Since Ali express vendors can't count on follow on ink sales, they can't compete on price. And competing on price is Ali express's reason for existence.<p>So, ink jet printer are harder to find on Ali express. At least, low end consumer focused ink jet printers.<p>Laser printers, which aren't subsidized are common</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:57:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799214</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We need to stop pretending the VC valuations are meaningful.<p>It's like asking someone playing roulette to value "13 black", after they bet on it.<p>There valuations are always based on expectations of huge growth, not current value. Growth predictions with an extremely low confidence level. VCs make up for it by making a lot of bets.<p>The companies NEVER have current profits (The actual measure of value) that would justify their valuation.<p>So, it's comparing gambling payouts to corporate valuations, aka "apples to oranges", which are not related.<p>When the predicted growth doesn't occur, the companies valuation becomes based on its actual value (profits).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669946</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, test prep was considered more for people who were worried about low scores. 1500 vs 1600 wouldn't make much difference in college admissions at that point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:03:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638803</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That tells them everything they'd need to know to discriminate. If you took the SAT 40 years ago, it doesn't really matter if it was 42 or 47.<p>People are biased 25 vs. 55 not 33 vs. 34.</p>
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<p>I somehow doubt that the people that would ask for SAT scores would actually be the sort to think about how those numbers should most effectively be used.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:00:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638772</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48638772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Formal methods and the future of programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unicode never ceases to amaze me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544878</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is probably more money in this as entertainment than architecture. And less liability.<p>How many of us have made house plans at some point?</p>
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