<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: aczerepinski</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aczerepinski</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:18:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aczerepinski" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "They See Your Photos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used a photo of me in the car and it said my fashion interests include sweater and seatbelt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:04:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752159</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Book is better but they’re both good. I don’t think order matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517777</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "AirPods Max 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe that one day they will return to an ergonomic phone that is comfortable for one hand use and fits in pants pockets. Until then you need some other way to carry giant phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399156</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a parent, I think you’re understating how difficult it is to provide a specific amount of internet access (and no more) to a motivated kid. Kids research and trade parental control exploits, and schools issue devices with weak controls whether parents like it or not. I’m way at the extreme end of trying to control access (other than parents who don’t allow any device usage at all) and it has been one loophole after another.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:57:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130234</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Will West Coast Jazz Get Some Respect?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Easy listening implies that there’s not much of anything there. Nothing surprising or unique about the song or the performance. No insightful message and nothing worth reflecting on after.<p>I don’t think the alternative is “difficult” for its own sake. Rather, those who would use the term as a pejorative are likely seeking new experiences and viewpoints in their music and get bored by same old diatonic melodies over plain inoffensive grooves. Novelty is a source of dopamine for some.<p>A lot of jazz music is difficult to the untrained ear, and I have distinct memories of hearing albums that I now feel are too conservative but in my youth thought they were too chaotic. I now understand that it was never difficult from the performer’s perspective - just high level musicians playing the music they hear. I wish everyone could hear jazz just once through the ears of a jazz musician.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:28:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256720</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a musician, I read my music from an iPad. A phone or a laptop monitor would be impossibly small for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:55:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211867</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "iPhone Pocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same. I got so excited by the thought of a new iPhone that would fit in my pocket, but clicked on the link to see… phone socks?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888857</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Why we still build with Ruby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if AI will eventually make faster languages (eg Rust, Crystal) nearly as simple to ship with, and therefore a better choice. Or maybe that will end up being a new language entirely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961879</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44961879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for that suggestion - looks like you're right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:49:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199895</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or deathblow?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using Elixir with Gemini for the past couple days, and the LLM is less successful than it has been with other languages I use. It gets stuck sometimes - for example it couldn't figure out how to use a JWT encoding/decoding library so I needed to intervene. Have I already gotten this spoiled by uncanny performance with Go/Ruby and especially JS/TS?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195171</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44195171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a jazz musician I’d estimate that there are at least an order of magnitude more seventh chords than triads in jazz songs. I question a dataset that says there are more triads. Makes me wonder what else is wrong with the data.<p>For instance, G being the most common key in jazz doesn’t ring true. I’d wager that it’s Bb, Eb, F in some order.<p>Maybe all of the songs in this set were simplified for guitar players?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:09:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728799</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43728799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Fitness Trackers Are Only 67% Accurate, New Research Finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can someone help me understand the percentages? Does 80% accurate imply that the measurement could be 20% inflated?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371510</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They can under my proposal. But if they die without having donated all their wealth their kids can’t inherit it either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256622</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43256622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Show HN: Sonauto API – Generative music for developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Creating music is the most rewarding thing I’ve found in life, and I can’t wrap my head around why anyone would want to automate that away.<p>Less of this, more robots they do my dishes please.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255159</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43255159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Taxing estates over 1B at 100% would move the needle a good amount. Rich people will insist that if you remove their incentive to earn more than a billion they’ll stop working and I’m ok with that. There will always be plenty of non billionaires left to pick uo the slack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221262</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me part of the appeal is to have something physical that I truly own and can enjoy without being tracked by algorithm. Blue Note Tone Poets (which are analogue all the way) got me into the hobby but I also buy new records, especially when they are available in a signed version.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219651</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Doge Claimed It Saved $8B in One Contract. It Was $8M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It wasn’t $8M either since some of the contracted amount has already been spent. They should have used $5.5M in the headline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:52:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102156</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Think more along the lines of exploits that allow turning off a power grid, spinning a centrifuge too fast, or releasing a dam.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:23:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967126</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I moved from the east coast to the Midwest during the pandemic. Any lobbying I would have done during early elementary years would have gone to waste.<p>And even if I hadn’t moved I would have had to lobby at not just my elementary school but the other two schools that feed into the same middle school.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42727239</link><dc:creator>aczerepinski</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42727239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42727239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aczerepinski in "Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your children?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ADHD is a real neurological condition that people are born with; not something learned via an app. Post links to research please.</p>
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