<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: bch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:15:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See too the Porsche 917[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917?#Construction" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_917?#Construction</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:05:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615150</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Last week, Meta[...] agreed to a settlement of up to $18bn [...].<p>><p>> But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users [...]<p>Where did that "but" clause come from?  Has that <i>ever</i> been a priority?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:39:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596183</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Research carried out using NetBSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> lol, how am I only hearing about this now?<p>You're one of today's lucky 10,000! [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://xkcd.com/1053/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1053/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593994</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Research carried out using NetBSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=52407" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-online-scheduler-for-hardware-accelerators-on-general-purpose-operating-systems/" rel="nofollow">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-onli...</a></p>
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<p>> Literally all baby formula<p>Not sure attracting attention to baby formula will have a positive outcome[0].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott</a></p>
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<p>Also sounds <i>incredibly</i> compute intensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:58:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537336</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The concept of searching a bunch of search engines made sense to me.<p>It made sense to somebody else[0], too.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo</a></p>
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<p>Not <i>really</i> safe for work. Enjoy.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/WpnM37A4P_8?si=SSRvgD4yvhAcdh0e" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/WpnM37A4P_8?si=SSRvgD4yvhAcdh0e</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:07:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510689</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>G400 was the first gfx card I <i>cared</i> about - dual head Debian bliss...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:55:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506112</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The question becomes [...]<p>"<i>A</i> question is...". To my mind not the most important question, if one plays-out to a logical conclusion the scenario you're proposing.<p>> [...] if it's still a time saver, even with the increased review load, then it's a win, correct?<p>No - and that's bordering-on (if not fully) rude disrespect of reviewers time and effort. One way to think of this is in terms of Brandolinis Law[0]. Pushing work back to submitters is going to have to happen. Low-effort "submissions" are first and foremost "low-effort" - that's going to have to be driven home.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492589</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "EasyEffects can massively improve laptop speaker sound quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I appreciate it’s more sophisticated than a simple 5-band e.q. - but it’d still be interesting to hear unprocessed/processed.</p>
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<p>I can't find any before/after audio samples - can anybody point any out? I'd have thought it's about the first thing you'd do to show off the differences (I get it - it might not (probably won't be (?)) be tuned for my particular speaker... Still wouldn't hurt to hear an example).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:42:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484018</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Art of Production</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:44:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470986</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you want to offer support contracts and actually make people use them, don't use MIT. You can't have you cake (accepting public contributions and free labor) and eat it (sole profiteering) too.<p>I can't speak to how successful it is, but Daniel/Curl have been running with this model[0][1] for years. Probably not too different from 'drh and SQLite[2][3].<p>[0] <a href="https://curl.se/support.html" rel="nofollow">https://curl.se/support.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https://rock-solid.curl.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://rock-solid.curl.dev/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://sqlite.org/support.html" rel="nofollow">https://sqlite.org/support.html</a><p>[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272832">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272832</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451426</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right - I mentioned BSD because it’s what I run/am-familiar-with, and it does have *.S files [0], but those (or at least the naming convention) came from pre-existing AT&T Unix - so my example does indeed use BSD[1] first released 1978, which is after C[2], created 1972, but The Original Unix[3] (of which BSD is but an embodiment) was started in 1969, before C.<p>[0] <a href="https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-9/src/sys/arch/sun2/sun2/locore.s" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-9/src/sys/a...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:57:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403234</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So what's a comfile? Clearly it's a shell script, yeah? So why're they called comfiles? It's short for "command files".<p>The vestige I'm amused by on my (BSD) systems is <foo>.S files.  "S" for "Source". From the time when "source code" meant "assembly". Python, zig, C++, C, etc would be invented later...</p>
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<p>> I mostly find the Sprawl trilogy a chore to get through<p>I'm in the same boat - I wanted to re-read, but couldn't find my copy of Neuromancer (which was a chore to get through the first time I read it years ago), so I've started Mona Lisa Overdrive - same thing. Everything is desribed in some dense street subculture patois or as some Sony or Mitsubishi future-product. I guess if the point is "things are recognizable, but this is now a well-established 'different' culture" - mission accomplished. As mentioned though <i>it is a chore</i>. An unrelenting chore. Once you're done though, it's satisfying to reflect on it.</p>
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<p>> raised heat is a kind of pollution<p>> water is not unlimited<p>> you don't want to release a bunch of acid into a river<p>> I know next to nothing about this<p>> I know basically nothing<p>> corn is one of the thirstiest major crops grown in the US<p>What is this rant supposed to inform? Whats wrong with OP being concerned about the costs of operating a DC?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384449</link><dc:creator>bch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bch in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Apple is expected to enter the market with a foldable iPhone<p>Is it time to bring Jony Ive back?? Have some backbone, Apple...<p>> that, rumor has it, includes all of the above and adds <i>iOS too.</i><p>Ok, this snippy comment is for The Verge - what crack reporting got you the scoop that Apple would be releasing an iOS phone?</p>
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<p>> I remember what a revelation Google search was when it came out in 1999<p>Maybe I just learned it’s ways, but I feel like I was ~satisfied with AltaVista… I think Google came to eat their lunch in part because they took search way more seriously than DEC did.</p>
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