<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: bmacho</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bmacho</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:57:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bmacho" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> being allowed to train on any data that you can legally obtain ought to be a right for anyone.<p>I have the opposit viewpoint to the extreme. They shouldn't be allowed to even read that data until they are very clear about what they will or not do with it.<p>Can they publish it? Can they store it? Can they use the information in it on prediction markets? Etc.<p>Humans reading texts historically come with little negative consequences, but machines reading and processing texts <i>en masse</i> is more dangerous and should be regulated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:35:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328834</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm so surprised that HN is this much anti-government. I'm a doomer myself, I fear the rich, I fear the terrorists, and I think the only one that<p><pre><code>  - can save my life, 
  - is interested in saving my life
  - i have some control over
</code></pre>
is the state.<p>Yes, they are currently snatching kids of (illegal) immigrant parents and it is horrible, but who else would  protect me against lone nuts in a basement, or robor armies of trillionairs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312155</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Why Books Don't Work: Constructivism over Transmissionism (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This article is my response to Andy Matuschak’s article Why books don’t work (<a href="https://andymatuschak.org/books/" rel="nofollow">https://andymatuschak.org/books/</a>). If you haven’t please read it first. However, if you want you can read this article now. I believe the following content should still make sense.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2021-01-30-why-books-dont-work-constructivism-over-transmissionism/">https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2021-01-30-why-books-dont-work-constructivism-over-transmissionism/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295666">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295666</a></p>
<p>Points: 11</p>
<p># Comments: 7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:31:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.masterhowtolearn.com/2021-01-30-why-books-dont-work-constructivism-over-transmissionism/</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49295666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Squeak 6.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And three/seven Web GUI interfaces.<p>Is there one that uses html (text, div) and not canvas/bitmap?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/">https://hackerpublicradio.org/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547</a></p>
<p>Points: 176</p>
<p># Comments: 30</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:29:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://hackerpublicradio.org/</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "The Glass Famine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Among all these pictures there is exactly 1, the first one that would be an example of someone living in an important place, a middle of a road, and refusing to move.<p>And the occupied place isn't very important to the state, but rather only to a couple of residents.<p>All others just show that demolitions have started, and there are houses not yet demolished.<p>0/1.4 billions of people is actually convincing the other way you intended.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109744</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "design of Plan 9 and how I use it (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Original title: Plan 9: An exercise in futility.<p>Subtitle: I talk about the design of Plan 9 and how I use it<p>I think the secondary title makes more sense in context of HN</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3675">https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3675</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108912">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108912</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3675</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't get it. Can you reformulate/elaborate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057335</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly.<p>So what I wrote debunks your assumptions and proves your argument wrong.<p>This is how conversations normally go.</p>
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<p>This would be the solution for any problem/algorithm, wouldn't it?<p>Factorize big numbers, sort an array, beat stockfish at chess, create a SOTA microkernel OS from English description. All O(1) with lookup table!<p>It's not how complexity works.</p>
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<p>Read the recently frontpaged "There are no instances in ATProto" by dan abramov <<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599515</a>></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:44:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931446</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Netstrings (1997)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a HTML viewer (not mine; use it at your own risk): <<a href="https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ged/tnetstrings.info/refs/heads/live/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco...</a>></p>
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<p>I see now, it gives the same example as the article I linked, even worded a bit shorter. I missed that.<p>TFA certainly doesn't have the tone what I want from an article that talks about <i>facts</i>, compared to the linked/source article that talks about their own experiments, research and results, in plural first-person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:30:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891698</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So bad article. It is waay too long and it is just repeating ~3 claims without even looking like the author is interested in their truthness.<p>Here's a nice pdf version of the sourced article <i>'Pentland, A. (2012) The new science of building great teams'</i> : <<a href="https://globalioc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-New-Science-of-Team-Building.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://globalioc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/The-New-Sci...</a>><p>That one at least tries to look valuable, e.g. they mention someone implemented their ideas and their team's productivity went up (although we don't know if more than what Hawthorne effect would've caused alone).<p>OTOH to be a thought-provoking piece it suffices, and the concepts it defines <i>might</i> turn out to be useful when you try to increase the productivity of your teams.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:42:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890120</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Stop Memorizing Design Patterns: Use This Decision Tree Instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author provides a free medium link after the first paragraph: <<a href="https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-patterns-use-this-decision-tree-instead-e84f22fca9fa?sk=d8ce25c71ba530c026c9b90e9c8d38f0" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-...</a>> (which HN has removed from the submission)<p>but also here's the   
archive link: <<a href="https://archive.is/oldest/https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-patterns-use-this-decision-tree-instead-e84f22fca9fa" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/oldest/https://medium.com/womenintechnolo...</a>></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-patterns-use-this-decision-tree-instead-e84f22fca9fa">https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-patterns-use-this-decision-tree-instead-e84f22fca9fa</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880307">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880307</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://medium.com/womenintechnology/stop-memorizing-design-patterns-use-this-decision-tree-instead-e84f22fca9fa</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="http://danluu.com/teach-debugging/">http://danluu.com/teach-debugging/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862465">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862465</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>http://danluu.com/teach-debugging/</link><dc:creator>bmacho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bmacho in "Java 27: What's New?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I encounter a version number I mostly want to know either:<p><pre><code>  - what are the major characteristics of the program
  - how old is the program
</code></pre>
Traditional software versioning helps in the first case: they bump version after a big event (new feature, rewrite, etc). Date based versioning helps in the second case. (I prefer date based versioning over traditional or semver.) Their numbering system doesn't help anyone in any case. It's just... there. A noise.<p>E.g. just this article title on HN: "Java 27: What's New?" doesn't tell you whether Java 27 is old or new. "Java 26.1: What's New?" would.</p>
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