<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: akurtzhs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akurtzhs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:04:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=akurtzhs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Facts don't change minds, structure does"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He indirectly called the Pope a simpleton, and the Pope took offense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44650757</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44650757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44650757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paypal paid people to open an account or to refer new accounts early on. Inspired Dropbox to do the same thing with free storage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 20:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120550</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44120550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in ""Awful": Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve tried custom launchers but never found anything as good as the Nvidia Shield interface before Google fucked it over with ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395606</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings.<p>They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and finally a future human with psychic powers who steals the revival device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:03:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243055</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kids really need to spend time outside.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148707">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148707</a></p>
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<p>I used Gandi for a long time and switched after they were bought out and registration prices started rising. HN article from 2023 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35080777</a><p>After that I've used spaceship.com, NameCheap's rebrand, without complaint and most recently porkbun.com due to support in dnscontrol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:13:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859856</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’re willing to pay for proprietary software, I’ve been incredibly happy with Roon for music organization. Handles 99% of albums I add without an issue, great multi-room support, best suggestions of any existing service (Rest in peace Google Play Music). They added remote streaming a few years ago and it’s all I use now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 04:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513154</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 04:53:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42162047</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42162047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42162047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "HTML Form Validation is underused"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the number input is lacking and inconsistent. We’ve always fallen back to JavaScript validation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:10:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977980</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Pigeon towers: The rise and fall of a 17th-century status symbol (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives.<p>Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, utensils, the cap on the Washington Monument.<p>Pineapples before Dole setup plantations.<p>Gelatin had two phases: before refrigeration, it needed hours of work in the kitchen. Then the status came from electrification and owning a refrigerator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:05:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40565427</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40565427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40565427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“What’s in the box?”<p>“Perl.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:03:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205201</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YMMV. I prefer hybrid with two days a week in the office.<p>You can dedicate those days to meetings and conversations and keep the remote days for more heads down work.<p>And if you can’t make it to the office due to snow or travel, you’re prepared for remote work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:28:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019133</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40019133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I've resorted to making an "actual_requirements.txt" file manually listing only direct dependencies and whatever version constraints make sense.<p>Pip-tools has an elegant solution for this. You write an requirements.in where you list packages and optionally versions, then pip-compile turns that into a requirements.txt with every package including dependencies specified by versions. You can use it to update specific packages as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820387</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Python Foundation support ended that long ago, but vendors maintained it for longer. Red Hat support for it through RHEL 7 ends 30 June 2024, however, and my guess is they’re the last ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:37:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819781</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39819781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blizzard used BitTorrent for distributing full games, patches and trailers for years.<p><a href="https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader" rel="nofollow">https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612615</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39612615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Netflix's New Chapter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plex is aiming for this with their emphasis on universal cross-service search. If you look at the main page personal media is 6 paragraphs down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34496612</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34496612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34496612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Biodiversity decline will require millions of years to recover"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The sun won't give out until much longer, but life as we know it has far less than that.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Earth,_the_Solar_System_and_the_universe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Ear...</a><p>Look at 500–600 million years. The sun's increasing luminosity means rising temperatures and falling CO2, which means no plant life at some point. The high estimate for plant and animal life is 1.2 billion years.<p>The sun swells to a red giant around 5 billion, swallows the Earth around 7.5, and shrinks to a white dwarf around 8.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 18:39:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280574</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "API Practices If You Hate Your Customers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>returning a null array to represent no items</i><p>To be honest, that's what I'd expect. What do you dislike about that result, and what would you prefer to see returned? Jump straight to 404?<p><i>returning a single object without an array to represent one item.</i><p>So an array if there's multiple results, and a bare object for a single result? That's unpleasant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:37:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767046</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21767046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They already reintroduced AOL keywords in 2011 with their Direct Connect "feature" for Google+, <a href="https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect-with-all-things.html" rel="nofollow">https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-pages-connect...</a>, so one could go straight to Pepsi's Google+ page with +Pepsi.<p>They killed it off in 2014.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 22:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930353</link><dc:creator>akurtzhs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akurtzhs in "Fuchsia is not Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WSL is an attempt at getting developers to use Windows rather than OS X or Linux. That's a very different situation than coming up with the fundamentals for a new operating system.</p>
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