<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: bityard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bityard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:29:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bityard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, there is some popular misunderstanding about what IPFS is... a lot of people seem to think its essentially free or subsidized distributed cloud storage. But the more you dig into it, the more you realize it's just a fairly inefficient caching system.<p>LOCKSS looks interesting but it seems like it's exclusively for libraries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768240</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As usual, it's a good first step but doesn't go far enough. I don't want my back-button hijacked by _anything_.<p>My issue with back-button hijacking isn't even spam/ads (I use an ad-blocker so I don't see those), but sites that do a "are you sure you want to leave? You haven't even subscribed to our newsletter yet?!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:06:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764531</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is exactly why I run Linux instead of an OS that I'm not allowed to modify for my needs.</p>
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<p>I already have one! (But it's technically a soldering iron...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:46:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724048</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeesh. People. C'mon. It's okay to use some common sense here.<p>Keychron is a keyboard/mouse company. It is VERY reasonable to interpret "non-commercial use" as meaning "don't sell mice/keyboards built or derived from these designs."<p>NOT "we are going to sue you if a 3D-printed copy of our mouse ends up in the background shot of your movie," or similar contrived madness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:35:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723356</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47723356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Broadcom (and to a lesser extent, Realtek) devices had always been anywhere between hit-or-miss and completely unworkable on Linux, LONG before Raspberry Pi came around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:30:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705759</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> successful class-action suits prevent further litigation from being allowed for the same issue.<p>Only if you don't opt out. Individuals who opt out of being part of the class can still file their own suits. (Although it's not clear how successful you will be if your situation/harm is not substantially different from the other members of the class.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705541</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Speak for yourself, I can tune out a steady beep much easier than the sound of a seagull being strangled to death. (That's what the ones around here sound like anyway.)<p>On a more serious note: the loud beeping backup alarms were DESIGNED to be annoying and difficult to miss. I would not be surprised in the least if a study showed these "less annoying" backup alarms correlating to a higher number of children being run over by reversing vehicles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693260</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "How to get better at guitar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, it kind of sounds like you hated the whole process and didn't care about the result either. What was your reason for taking up the guitar as a hobby in the first place?<p>I suspect it's actually impossible to get reasonably good at something without some amount of passion for it, to some degree or another. Most musicians are in it for the thrill of learning something that most people find hard to do, or because they love music, or because they want to be part of a community that values music. Occasionally because they think they can make money at it.<p>I play an instrument or two, but only for fun. I love music, but I'm at a point in my life where I will never be good enough to be in a band. I have enough other hobbies anyway. I take a random 15 minutes out of my day to play a few songs, maybe practice a new song I'm learning, watch a short Youtube video about it here and there, and that's enough for me.</p>
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<p>Lots of us felt the same way since the beginning of ebooks. If you lose your Amazon account, you lose your books, which means you never really owned them.<p>There are (and have been) DRM-free eBook stores. You _might_ be able to strip the DRM from your Amazon books. However, the process and ease of doing so seems to change often, I don't know if it's easy or hard right now.<p>In the future, consider supporting ebook manufacturers and stores that don't lock down your device, and sell DRM-free books. Kobo is one example. We have a bunch of these in our household. They don't require an account, I can just upload books via USB port on any computer, and they are pretty hackable.</p>
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<p>Okay, this is reasonably genius. I have quite a few USB devices lying around that are either old enough or were niche enough that they don't work on modern _anything_, even Linux. One of them is a GameBoy Advance flash cartridge.</p>
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<p>Neat! I was big into Quake years ago. This looks like something I could waste a weekend on.<p>Are these all single-player maps? Are there any that are designed for (or would at least be suitable for) 1-4 player deathmatch?</p>
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<p>Thanks for the counterpoint, interesting to hear that things are better than I have experienced so far. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668835</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "What being ripped off taught me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just for my own general curiosity, once a bill is overdue, how often do you nag the customer about it? Or does it look more like an escalation process? (Start out with a polite email, then a phone call, then a phone call to their manager/business partner, etc?) Do you ever "fire" customers who always pay, but always pay late and only after they've been reminded 3 times?</p>
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<p>This has been my (admittedly limited) experience as well. LLMs are great at initial bring-up, good at finding bugs, bad at adding features.<p>But I'm optimistic that this will gradually improve in time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663460</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The use case that Anthropic pitches to its enterprise customers (my workplace is one) is that you pretty much tell CC what you want to do, then tell it generate a plan, then send it away to execute it. Legitimized vibe-coding, basically.<p>Of course they do say that you should review/test everything the tool creates, but in most contexts, it's sort of added as an afterthought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663415</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The assertion in the issue report is that Claude saw a sharp decline in quality over the last few months. However, the report itself was allegedly generated by Claude.<p>Isn't this a bit like using a known-broken calculator to check its own answers?</p>
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<p>I like the concept but ambient as a genre doesn't really do anything for me. It makes me want to go take a nap.<p>Haven't added anything to it in a while, but over the years I built a youtube playlist of songs that help me focus while working. Generally rules are: predominantly electronic, has some kind of beat, zero vocals. I'm up to over 500 songs at this point: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTpQwBMaBI&list=PL2A7B99AB93F1E522" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dTpQwBMaBI&list=PL2A7B99AB9...</a></p>
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<p>SomaFM is the best! They now have a Groove Salad Classic channel which plays all the great stuff they _were_ playing in the early to mid 2000's.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:28:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661387</link><dc:creator>bityard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bityard in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Browsers like Vivaldi that cater to power users are gaining in popularity. They are not trying to be the next Chrome, they are just out to serve their niche well.<p>Firefox has nothing to differentiate itself from Chrome at this point.</p>
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