<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: baliex</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=baliex</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:51:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=baliex" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would they? They make more money if you pay the $7 up front.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721253</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess that’s how it eventually goes through. When, at random, enough flippers flop or floppers flip that it tips the balance.<p>And once it’s done it’s done. The relentlessness does not continue into, “are you sure?”, it’ll be over.<p>For the record, I’m in the EU and do not want this to pass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711537</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Deno Desktop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is pretty cool, I have an interest in running admin interfaces (think web CMS) for non-technical users locally.<p>I tried out the most basic possible example, from the linked page:<p><pre><code>    Deno.serve(() => new Response("<h1>Hello, desktop</h1>", { headers: { "content-type": "text/html" }, }) );
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It worked, after a little wrangling to get a 2.9 preview (deno upgrade canary). Amazing! So, so, so simple!<p>There's a downside though... that "Hello, desktop" app weight in at 308MB on macOS.<p>Now, I don't know how that compares to an electron app, or the most lightweight app possible handcrafted specifically for macOS, and there are many, many layers of abstraction between my 1 line of code and the resultant but that is enormous!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:11:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649864</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reads like slop.<p>The four emboldened headings that make up the whole article sound like they’re straight outta chatgpt:<p>* what happened<p>* the devil is in the billing details<p>* the big but<p>* bottom line<p>I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a Fortune article before so maybe this is just their style. But I doubt it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520137</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article:<p>> Let us be clear. Artificial intelligence was not created out of thin air. The data and language used by generative A.I. tools didn’t just pop into Sam Altman’s head or Elon Musk’s imagination. A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, images and ideas spanning generations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:25:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386917</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Truly terrifying. I'll admit I was expecting one of the near-15.62 options to be "acceptable". How wrong I was; I should have seen that coming.<p>As one of the below comments says, you just don't know what level of snooping is going on. If you're reading this $CEO, hi!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:24:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386892</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I focus the message box to draft a reply, but there’s already one there. It was also generated by the language model. I delete it, replacing it with my own.<p>The really, really scary thing is how uncommon this approach is. I think.<p>My assumption is that most people roll with automated pre-written reply. Maybe tweaking a few things here and there, but ultimately preferring the all-too-convenient trade-off of the robots having written something close enough to what they wanted to say, using "better" words. Even when what they would have written themselves would have had some personality, even if it was their own flawed human one.<p>For the record, I am 100% with you on your approach (on the odd occasion that I must use gmail).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:26:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376545</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s exactly what I was thinking. And I think you’re saying the same thing, but to be sure: the _wait_ wouldn’t be a timer, it’d be watching the clipboard for changes and proceeding as soon as it changed.<p>If we’re going to do the discovery out in the open.. it would be nice to be able to specify the prompt as part of the Textile (e.g. “Copy the GitHub URL”). And then also showed the clipboard contents it is going to proceed with, before proceeding. A single key press (Enter?) would be ideal to proceed. That protects me from accidentally passing sensitive data through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374219</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "CSS-Native Parallax Effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sounds interesting but it would be a whole lot more interesting if the page was itself an example of said effect!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:51:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368495</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can it wait/prompt for something new to be put onto the clipboard while it runs a Textile?<p>For a use-case where I've copied thing 1, then I start my Textile, then I go and copy thing 2 from somewhere, and then Textile continues with the remaining steps with thing 1 and thing 2?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363948</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I 100% agree with the "please don't fuck up this stable & reliable workhorse" sentiment.<p>I haven't read this in detail but "Six CVEs are fixed in this release. All six are assigned by VulnCheck as CNA. Affected versions are 3.4.2 and earlier in every case." seems like a pretty solid answer to the "why".<p><a href="https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.3" rel="nofollow">https://download.samba.org/pub/rsync/NEWS#3.4.3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343917</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "The Website Specification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a great resource. As someone who’s been making websites for 30 years, it’s amazing to still be picking up some of the basics. Though to be fair many of these didn’t exist back then.<p>I’ll be using this to add some extra tags to my pages.<p>It looks like there are some features noted as “required” that are actually required by the spec (e.g. a title tag), and others that are required by opinion (e.g. https) so there’s an element^ of pragmatic best practice being recommended.<p>I find it curious that setting a colour hint for the browser is recommended. I’m one for letting the browser look as vanilla as possible and letting my pages do the talking.<p>^Pun not intended, blink and you’ll miss it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 07:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343846</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having just moved house, this is fantastic inspiration.<p>To be fair, the huge window by the desk in the article makes it a naturally more appealing space than my own. But it’s enough to make me rethink the layout we have here so far. Especially since we want space for non digital projects too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 18:01:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249734</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Design posters showcasing your country's electrical grid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see two examples, India and Africa. Both of which look great but Africa is not a country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 00:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174514</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% agree that _should_ be totally unacceptable, but how many of these small businesses will actually care? Especially those which are primarily or exclusively non-technical</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 11:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133763</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is absolutely fantastic.<p>I've thought before about trying to render skies on the web as a series of gradients overlaid on top of one another. I expect I could have had some level of success and gotten some mediocre results, but it would be nothing compared to what you've created.<p>Thank you so much for sharing this; it's inspirational, must have taken you a very long time to put together, and I'm blown away by your results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109464</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is anyone else just getting this?<p><pre><code>  <h1>Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act</h1></code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768573</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To play devil’s advocate^, wouldn’t it be plagiarism if it didn’t?<p>^I find that turn of phrase to be particularly pleasing in this context.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:25:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571448</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Facebook offering TikTok and YouTube creators $3k to post content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s either worth it or it will be a very, very short lived experiment. $3k is not even a fraction of a fraction of what you could call pocket change to Meta, of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:03:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442545</link><dc:creator>baliex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by baliex in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you thank you thank you.<p>Parsing dates with anything other than fromisoformat feels totally backwards in comparison. We were using ciso8601 until fromisoformat was in the standard library. And now things are incredibly simple and reliable.</p>
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