<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: bastijn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bastijn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:25:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bastijn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And some commercial:<p><a href="https://migaku.com/" rel="nofollow">https://migaku.com/</a><p><a href="https://jointoucan.com/" rel="nofollow">https://jointoucan.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:01:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306175</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Mechanical Watch: Exploded View"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe he hand-codes everything from scratch in WebGL and plain js. Which is amazing. [0] is an example.<p>[0] <a href="https://ciechanow.ski/js/watch.js" rel="nofollow">https://ciechanow.ski/js/watch.js</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:57:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350219</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44350219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It has come to our attention that an unlicensed tool has been used in the workplace. Please be advised that the use of unlicensed software is strictly prohibited, as it may pose significant legal, security, and compliance risks to the company.<p>Effective immediately, any further use of this tool must cease. Failure to comply may result in disciplinary action, up to and including termination, in accordance with company policy.<p>If you have any questions or require guidance on approved software tools, please contact IT or Compliance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165053</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43165053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything has text search. Either through advanced search menu or through content:”text” - though not an indexed search. Or did you mean OCR text search on images?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:32:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426447</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42426447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Im there with you, my wife as well as myself are in fact like your girlfriend and I work an highly educated software engineering role. I simply don’t care, still on my iPhone 11
Pro Max which I got as a present from my parents at the time.<p>I think battery power drain is even not fast enough for phone companies to sustain the selling
Model. My guess is sooner or later they realize the real control point is software updates and they forcefully shorten OS and specially OS security updates under a bullshit reason they still can get away with to get us all back in line of buying regular phone upgrades in fear of hacked internet banking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41494411</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41494411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41494411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:<p>Nx - <a href="https://nx.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://nx.dev/</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 22:23:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620589</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Practical Vim command workflow (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All posts I read on VIM always compare to a barebone editor without proper refactoring plugins enabled it seems. Would love to see a proper comparison against state of the art refactoring and against a skilled user of those systems.<p>First one for instance with resharper plugin enabled or in any IntelliJ IDE: Ctrl R R, type new word. Bonus; replaces all instances of the variable and recognizes scope in the file so if you have two locals with the same name over two methods it would change only the one you want. You want all, multi-carrot expansion Ctrl D D until you hit what you want and replace. Multi Carret is so powerful, find a repeating pattern, can be anything and even if it occurs further down where you don’t want to change just stop hitting expansion. Sure, you can do the same with VIM but comparing VIM to modern refactoring plugins is way more fair.<p>Things like extract method, extract variable and replace all instances at once are also one keybind away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:51:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198346</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40198346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Programming, Motherfucker Do you speak it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Say bug again. SAY BUG again! And I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker! Say bug one more time."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:06:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496291</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Show HN: YTPics – Download pictures from YouTube videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I giggled at "This extension does not contain any malicious or tracking code. No viruses. No ads. Only good software.". If only everybody added this statement we would not have malicious addons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:58:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287988</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On point but C# is now widely available on any OS under .NET (core) iso .NET Framework. It should be included in the shortlist in my opinion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082854</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how this would feel in hand, grip seems to have unbalanced weight when I mimic on my iPhone pro max 11. Like it wants to tip over but maybe if you really have something physical at the bottom it is not that bad.<p>Blackberry sacrificed screen for the keyboard so balance was all OK.<p>I also caught myself thinking these buttons were too round and too tiny as compared to my on-screen keyboard. Also not having the luxury of seeing all my special characters appear on the keys when pressing the 123/#+= etc to toggle keyboards would be something to get used to. E.g. Type a {} or ~.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38872113</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38872113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38872113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plus in the 70s I can imagine life was far more physical than today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2023 06:02:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095069</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38095069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "OpenAI’s Code Interpreter Is About to Remake Finance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Note: I’ll have to do some creative image sizing here because I don’t want to expose our bank account info. Images will all be supplemental and are not necessary for reading this piece.<p>I hope the author was running a self-hosted option, else it is already public waiting to be extracted.<p>The following passage doesn't inspire hope though:<p>> I am a moron. I am not technical, and I sling essays for a living. Despite that, I was able to automate a significant portion of the labor our auditors do.<p>Be warned. Everything you ask the public instance on openai is kept as input and returned when asked for. Recently Samsung learned that the hard way [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-company-secrets-by-using-chatgpt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-compan...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 21:47:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364381</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK, misread the tone of your previous comment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:47:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317977</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the risk they take, indeed. Also the risk for anyone who migrates as chances are the alternative is not profitable either. In the end, to sustain the offering party needs to be profitable or at least break even.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317945</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People are there of all types, no matter their age.<p>My take is feeling offended is a choice. Personally, I just let it slide off and continue my life. Life's to short to get offended by these things. But we are different and that's fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317784</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But in this case the alternative is not MacOS or Ubuntu, but a distro nobody has ever heard of. Third-party app users may be the more die-hard/advanced user group - and the minority - but I wonder how many of them are willing to switch to a small distro which might not have the content or might have an even shittier app experience.<p>If there are no alternatives, which today there aren't to the best of my knowledge, my guess is Reddit will win this stalemate. Sure, people will leave but not nearly as many as the leaders of the strike would like to think. At least, not for long.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:15:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317477</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point is for any that is like you my guess is there are 2 more like me. Or 20, or 200. Never checked how much people use 3rd party apps vs. total users.<p>Honest question, what is so bad about the Reddit app that you would give up browsing the content you like?<p>I experience little ads, and if I would be annoyed by it I would probably find ways to get rid of it (pi-hole style). I'm OK with how the app displays comments, I can fold them etc. Don't need much more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317067</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36317067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm reading new ones that aren't doing the blackout. Need for content didn't change.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316830</link><dc:creator>bastijn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bastijn in "Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That awkward moment you realize Reddit is in a better position to win this war because people like us just want to have a digital place to spend time, not fight a war.<p>Truth be told I don't care much about all of this, I just want my subs back or replaced so I can mindlessly scroll them. Wasn't using a third party app, but if I was I'd probably feel unhappy for a week before I simply switch and don't think back.</p>
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