<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: adamauckland</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adamauckland</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:17:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=adamauckland" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People send their private photos to their private cloud backups with the reasonable expectation that those photos remain private and therefore not a privacy violation.<p>If it transpired Google or Apple had staff looking through people's cloud photo backups, yes this would be considered a violation because "cloud backup" is framed as a personal solution and not a hosting or processing solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232279</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The kettle was boiling water.<p>The chef was out the back, boiling water.<p>The chef was out the back. Boiling water had spilled everywhere.<p>The seas had turned to boiling water.<p>I dunno, could be down to interpretation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163778</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Speeding is a criminal offence, lying about who was driving is punishable by prison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:16:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734266</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Share" is a big ask. Why should anyone be bothered to listen to something you couldn't even be bothered to write?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668088</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Art is all over the natural world, look at animals which build nests, arrange pebbles, choose shells etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668065</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He gets it on the healthcare like all developed nations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:51:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343041</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46343041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot of people complaining "Why use knobs?" and a lot more people giving the reason "Because DAWs use them" without explaining why DAWs use them.<p>First, it's a visual representation of the value, and it's easier to map "Slightly more to the right" than "an extra 0.7"<p>More importantly, all DAWs can map physical control surfaces to the on-screen knobs, and control surfaces all use knobs and sliders.<p>For example <a href="https://mackie.com/en/products/mixers/onyx-series/Onyx16.html" rel="nofollow">https://mackie.com/en/products/mixers/onyx-series/Onyx16.htm...</a><p>or <a href="https://faderfox.de/pc12.html" rel="nofollow">https://faderfox.de/pc12.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:47:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560177</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where's all this wealth going to come from if nobody has any jobs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538962</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Poisoning the Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:23:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247038</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "People Are Sick and Tired of All Their Subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of going to the store, browsing the titles, maybe discussing with your friends/family what you want to see, grab some popcorn, there's trailers on the TVs. It feels a lot more special than just scrolling through Netflix</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971563</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "How did the viral Willy Wonka experience go so wrong?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lapland new forest 2008? <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:36:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571579</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Is something bugging you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I consider a "bug" to be "it was supposed to do something and failed".<p>Issues around business logic are not failures of the system, the system worked to spec, the spec was not comprehensive enough and now we iterate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359260</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39359260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's entire studies on it, I saw a lecture by some English professor who explained how the brain isn't fast enough to parse words in real time, so runs multiple predictions of what the sentence will be in parallel and at the end jettisons the wrong ones and goes with the correct one.<p>From this, we get comedy. A funny statement is one that ends in an unpredictable manner and surprises the listener brain because it doesn't have the meaning of that one already calculated, and hence why it can take a while to "get the joke"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391518</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38391518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha, does it involve timers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260660</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's pretty simple if your goal is using boring, stable technologies. Django/Postgres/Memcached/Redis/Nginx are all really stable.<p>I've built quite a few projects using almost exactly the same stack over the last 15 years. Almost all are still running, those that aren't are for business reasons not technical.<p>The problem is, they're not exciting The Next Thing real-time javascript somethings, so a lot of devs won't want to use it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533359</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37533359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why should the parent's deny the child a smartphone because Tik Tok has terrible data use policies?<p>You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the plan there?</p>
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<p>Stick a nail in</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498916</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Plastic Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember doing the authorisation by phoning up a Streamline who would give you an authorisation code to put on the credit card form. I worked for Electronics Boutique and we couldn't give the games out without the code</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 13:19:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380209</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37380209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but they were moving from enterprise JAVA which is considerably more verbose</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306454</link><dc:creator>adamauckland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamauckland in "UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You were born in London and say "gotten"?</p>
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