<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: arwhatever</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arwhatever</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:43:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arwhatever" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Jules Verne's Lost Novel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was it 'The Camera-Phone'? <a href="https://theonion.com/long-lost-jules-verne-short-story-the-camera-phone-foun-1819567554/" rel="nofollow">https://theonion.com/long-lost-jules-verne-short-story-the-c...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:07:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311305</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50311305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wallet by Lindsay Owens became available today, and I have purchased ebook and will begin reading today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900578</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm guessing it might be less easy to physically drive, though.<p>I'm sure the wildly circuitous routes generated will be useful for rhetorical purposes though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885722</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49885722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is however allowable to correct grammar nits if done in the midst of a prison riot, as in The Naked Gun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:46:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870653</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49870653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was angered and frustrated to find (the hard way) that some states have statutes which explicitly relieve storage companies from responsibility in the event of loss from theft.<p>The entity in the best position to know how to secure the premises is not liable to do so at all in some states.<p>Oh, and don’t get me started on ballooning but opaque rental rates.<p>I wanted to pay up front for 2-3 years of storage but most places “couldn’t” quote me what the rate would be beyond 3 months in advance.<p>Such a scammy industry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:04:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751439</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Trade (and Tariffs)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>| In general, stop trying to steelman the looters. Sometimes a con artist is really just a con artist.<p>Re-read my comment in the context of the message to which it replied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475334</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Trade (and Tariffs)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe even use the tariff proceeds to provide incentives to those very same domestic industries?  (I am not an economist.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469568</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“You think you’re better than me?”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:27:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079354</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49079354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We’ve got to be sure the manufacturers get a solid decade or two to profit off of these schemes, so that future manufacturers know it will be worthwhile perpetrating future schemes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:43:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841426</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even prior to that, how long is your commute?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837585</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I became interested in OpenWrt when I noticed that the <i>cloud portal</i> for my ISP reported to me the names and types of devices that were associated to my home access point/router.<p>Suddenly I want to put every IPS device into dumb bridge mode, and run my own damn router.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:48:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810316</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48810316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Wouldn't you consider defining the schema doing the domain modeling?<p>To an extent, yes.<p>But to the extent that a so-called impedance mismatch exists, this is going to put your domain model on the faraway/difficult side of that impedance mismatch.<p>And will result in your domain model existing in an (on average) less expressive language which is more difficult to test.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789369</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm happy making one-shot payments for most types of media.<p>But I want to start a new bittorrent tracker for individual movies or episodes for which the provider requires you to create a recurring subscription, to rip off such content unabashedly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watched it. It reads interesting indeed. Makes me suspect that, at least during the Fitzcarraldo period, Herzog might’ve thought misery was valuable or even necessary to good filmmaking - misery in the form of stunts and geographic setting, and misery in the form of lead actor’s personality.<p>Best part of My Best Fiend was Herzog’s own thoughts (soliloquy?) on nature and the jungle itself. Those bits were some pure solid gold Herzog.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always enjoy hearing from him because he’s so unorthodox and I never have any idea the approach he’s going to take when giving an interview or answering a question.<p>And I always feel the need to point out that Grizzly Man was a truly good movie.  I’d heard about it for years and based on the premise expected to have a low brow appeal, something for dumb people to feel superior to someone. But no, it was a respectful and in-depth character study (with some downright poetic narration) and probably Herzog’s best movie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:47:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The real cost of owning a home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Corporate apartments raise their rents in lockstep with the market, whereas at least some randos will leave it stable for some years in a row.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:08:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I might suggest that anyone who wants to make it concrete to go through the article<p><a href="https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types-making-illegal-states-unrepresentable/" rel="nofollow">https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...</a><p>while visiting <a href="https://dotnetfiddle.net" rel="nofollow">https://dotnetfiddle.net</a> and typing the code samples in, experimenting with what manner of changes and additions to the code cause the compilation to fail, and considering how you would leverage those abilities in your everyday development work.<p>I think this would be even more powerful if you then come back and re-read some of the pro-Union comments in this very thread.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The Art of Money Getting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Knew a guy who owned an I.T. consultancy who was fond of (privately) saying, "This job wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the customers and the employees!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used Claude Code to prepare my personal income tax return this year, and so far the IRS hasn’t come after me.<p>Had Claude generate yaml files for the input/source documents, then had it generate code to process the return into output yaml files.<p>Manually typed the results into the IRS Free File Forms website, and was pleased to see that it did some input validation.<p>Had it generate Code modules to match the IRS forms and schedules by name, keeping the nomenclature in code as close as possible to that in the official IRS instructions.<p>Spot checked a whole lot of it and found very, very little of it that needed correction.<p>Stored all of it in git so that I could monitor the diffs as it went along.<p>Maybe the neatest part was when I asked Claude why I wound up owing so much it gave me a list of reasons and dollar amounts in descending order.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:25:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That maneuver they were attempting looks WILD.  Would have been amazing to have pulled of.  Or, perhaps to have regularly pulled off until today.  I'm guessing that must be some sort of vectored thrust trickery.</p>
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