<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>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:49:40 +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 "Ear Training Practice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No sound on an iPhone. They keyboard visually responds.<p>Tried safari and Firefox focus</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:52:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501599</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd fund "clone fablepool" for $5. Should be plenty.</p>
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<p>Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:51:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497490</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neither is Motorola. And yet ...<p>The company doesn't have to go away, the app just has to have issues. At least with web apps, you aren't depending on the manufacturer investing in nearly continuous upgrades to work in the rapidly changing phone environment<p>A web UI will continue to work for decades. And app will likely not last a year without updates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:03:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432829</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really. Because it looks less useful than its source.<p>If I search for Apple on food central, I get offered different types of Apple, like Fuji, honeycrisp, etc. with nutripedia I just get raw and cooked, which are within each type on food central.<p>In addition, nutripedia has a bunch of what looks like AI written text that is not particularly useful.<p>Writing an AI generated wrapper around something is not enough to be interesting. What do you see as your value add?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391759</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Saffron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Web page is first found in Archive.org in 2011</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341853</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, do I just disable updates?<p>How do I do that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341815</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder what the performance loss is for each level?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:38:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320646</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But can it run Endive?</p>
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<p>Sounds like the second system effect. (The Mythical Man Month)<p>First one is simple and focused, the second one tries to be & do everything.  And frequently never ships.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 12:08:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221329</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48221329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can't rely on commercial offerings anymore. They vanish with increasing frequency.<p>Yet another reason to use open source.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183643</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"When exposed to a trigger -- such as a small amount of heat or a catalyst -- the molecule snaps back into its original form, releasing the stored energy as heat."<p>That's a bit concerning. Runaway waiting to happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172427</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One important difference is that costs are bounded on your own machine. Like with cloud providers, I'm always worried that cost may accidentally explode if I launch an agent swarm wrong.<p>Now, it looks like the providers I use have good limits. But I do worry about this.</p>
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<p>Modern OCR is amazing. That image is full of noise and ChatGPT did it  without any errors that a I can see.<p>I compared it to another OCR of the same image, using <a href="http://ocr.space" rel="nofollow">http://ocr.space</a>, and ChatGPT was correct in all the small number of differences, even preserving misspellings in the source.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:22:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172335</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Halt and Catch Fire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The oldest reference I know of to "Halt and Catch Fire"  is shown here : <a href="https://www.facebook.com/larry.langerholc/photos/d41d8cd9/7401079199914503/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/larry.langerholc/photos/d41d8cd9/74...</a><p>1960s era. Humorous instructions for the IBM 360/69.<p>If the image link doesn't work, I've OCRed it:<p>IBM SYSTEM/360 MODEL 69 FEATURES AND DEVICES<p>Early Card Lace<p>1401 Incompatibility<p>407 Emulation<p>Chinese Character Set<p>Branch on Burned-Out Indicator<p>Branch on Blinking Indicator<p>Branch and Hang<p>Branch on Chip Box Full<p>Branch on Power Off<p>Branch on Sleepy Operator<p>Inquire and Ignore<p>Reverse Parity and Branch<p>Branch on Bug<p>Read While Write While Ripping 
Tape<p>Add Improper<p>Divide and Overflow<p>Subtract and Reset to Zero<p>Add and Reset to Zero<p>Scramble Program Status Word<p>Pack Alpha and Drop Zones<p>Pack Program Status Word<p>Punch Invalid<p>Rewind Card Reader<p>Backspace Card Reader<p>Read Print and Blush<p>Forms Skip and Run Away<p>Stacker Select Disk<p>Write Wrong-Length-Record<p>Write Noise Record<p>Seek Record and Scar Disk<p>Eject Disk<p>Rewind Disk<p>Backspace Disk<p>Punch Disk<p>Punch Operator<p>Execute Invalid Op Code<p>Read Card and Scramble Data<p>Select Stacker and Jam<p>Read Invalid<p>Rewind and Break Tape<p>Write Record and Run Away<p>Make Tape Invalid<p>Reverse Drum Immediate<p>Transfer and Lose Return<p>Print and Smear<p>Read Chads<p>Sharpen Light Pencil<p>Transfer and Drop Bits<p>Erase Card Punch<p>Read Inter-record Gap<p>Read Noise Record<p>Erase Read Only Storage<p>Destroy Storage Protect Key<p>Update and Erase Record<p>Move and Drop Bits<p>Circulate Memory<p>Move and Lose Record<p>Move and Wrap Core<p>Move Continuous<p>Execute No-Op and Hang<p>Develope Ineffective Address<p>Halt and Catch Fire<p>Scatter Print<p>Re-initialize Meter<p>Update Transaction<p>Reduce Thruput<p>Print and Break Chain<p>Lose Message and Branch<p>Burst Selector Channel<p>Invert Record and Branch<p>Illogical "or"<p>Illogical "and"<p>Bite Baudy Bit and Branch<p>Triple-Pack Decimal<p>Slip Disk<p>Stacker Upset<p>Uncouple CPU's and Branch<p>Scramble Channels<p>Edit:formatting.</p>
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<p>I feel this is about as accurate and relevant as if I were to write an article on senior copywriters.</p>
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<p>>  recall a few times everyone promised, if this gets promoted then we will rewrite it from zero. Never happened.<p>Old quote: "There is nothing so permanents as a temporary hack."</p>
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<p>I didn't see a key section of a COE: "What are we doing to make sure this can't happen again?"<p>Apologies if I missed it. There's some discussion of things under what could have gone better, but prevention is key, and the reports not done without it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 06:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105077</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fauxreilly!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081322</link><dc:creator>____tom____</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48081322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ____tom____ in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I doubt the fonts on my iPhone identify me. As far as I know, they would be the fonts it came with. Or can apps install fonts?</p>
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