<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: bombcar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bombcar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:34:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bombcar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dropbox was huge before everything built in sync as SaaS. I still fondly recall the Dropbox backend to 1Password.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:41:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268203</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to be someone, man, I was a dreamer, a programmer, a <i>man</i>!<p>Now I'm a human slave copying text from web browsers to chat windows to get around JS rendering bullshit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:37:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228724</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the big questions for an algorithm is - when do you recalculate the path? A real "human" doesn't recalculate until they receive information that the chosen bath is blocked/changed (they see the road closed sign, etc).<p>But many games recalculate distance to target (one ping only) over and over again each step, so moving a single block half a map away causes an entire army to repath immediately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227934</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You use an AI to make the spaghetti.<p>You use another AI to document the spaghetti.<p>You use the third AI to make a spicy meatball from the spec.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227777</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, good to see a fellow hot grits enjoyer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:03:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220650</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can find affordable walkability across the US - if we define affordability as "not that much more expensive than the new McMansions outside of the smallish town" - the usual downside is you have to accept whatever that small town offers in its two mile radius.<p>You're not getting affordable NYC or SF.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:55:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220291</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I have your unlocked iPhone, I could probably reset your Apple ID because I have access to your email and your texts so I can reset your Apple ID password unlock your phone unlock. Remove it from Find My and reset it.<p>It makes me wonder if there’s some way to put a third lock on there that’s not normally unlocked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202592</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The email is what most people miss. Unlocked phone = SMS and email for most people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:07:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202578</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Decimate is like Checkmate but even BIGLY.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202369</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Poles of Inaccessibility in the San Gabriel Mountains (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It turns out that Claude at least loves devouring arcgis maps, and has already found interesting things about my area that were always out there, but not correlated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:45:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200658</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ever since phones became pretty immune to reselling-theft (steal phone, reset it, sell it) people have been snatching phones and trying to empty crypto, banks, etc before it locks. Some apps don't reauthenticate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:43:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200636</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Especially when you can easily do things while playing that require tons of work to notate; like sliding key changes, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195576</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's one of those "lies programmers believe" kind of things - we like to think that there is one definitive "notation" of a piece of music - but even when there IS accurate sheet music, it only tells part of the story.<p>Music before recordings was much closer to jam-band style than people realize; and in the Middle Ages you could hear substantial differences in the same song just by traveling a few tens of miles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192161</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta doesn't have to give a shit, because they're huge.<p>Tiny providers have to scramble, because they'll be destroyed by a single failure to handle it fast enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:32:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189327</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was hammered into me that moonless nights could be as or MORE dangerous to me than flying into weather - at least when you fly into a cloud you KNOW you're fucked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:01:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184704</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's one of the reasons that they spell it out, or do things like "define what month is, and then the payment is due X months out" and not on a specific date.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:13:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173499</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking of contracts that say "payment is due on 6 October" from before they knew the date of the change.<p>It's one of those "well <i>technically</i>" things programmers love to obsess over and the judge just says "everyone knows what was meant, stop being an idiot."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170998</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was really expecting this to start with "Hokay, so here's teh ert."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:14:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170973</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Contracts and other similar types of financial instruments existed by this time there must be some way they handled it because something that said that it happened on a date that never occurred - sounds like what lawyers live for.<p>I’ll draft a <i>Dubia</i> so that when future popes change the calendar they will include a representative code sample and details about how we handle this.<p>(It’s important to remember that the pope and friends were operating much more like an international standards body than a religious leader when doing things like this.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:54:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169849</link><dc:creator>bombcar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bombcar in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We don't build robots because the "hard/boring part" for the human is often NOT the hard part for the robot.<p>Take the dishwasher, for example, loading it is very hard for a robot, but easy and quick for a human. Washing the dishes is boring for the human, but a robot gets a sort of sick and twisted pleasure from cycling that dirty water around for hours on end.<p>In fact, we've <i>removed</i> some labor-saving features of houses (laundry chutes went away decades ago, and only recently has "laundry on the bedroom floor" become somewhat standard) for "safety".<p>MAKE DUMBWAITERS GREAT AGAIN</p>
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