<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: btschaegg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=btschaegg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:25:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=btschaegg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The official firmware, yes, but also Fairphones for years, not Xiaomi or the like (FP2 -> FP3 -> FP5 now). So the "bloat" in question is the Google stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:47:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574584</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the same experience. Repeatedly. IMO it's the software, not the hardware. The issues always start/get worse with a big update to Android or the main Google apps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568850</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "WordPress is now just a liability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><insert "always has been" meme here></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:55:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425737</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Knowledge cutoff<p>> None. Wouter is aware of everything and disappointed by most of it.<p>Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:02:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388227</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Show HN: Ask questions about the Swiss train timetable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's something small, usually yes. But very often, that's still on the same routes (often, not all rails are blocked, so only some connections through the station suffer).<p>But I've also seen my fair share of "trains in this direction won't recover for hours" over the years, and directly after such an incident, the official systems usually don't really adapt all that well. I don't know if they're "massaged" manually after that or if it's just a case of the entire system finally figuring out that an entire station is FUBARed, not only one or two scheduled connections…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:12:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320277</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Show HN: Ask questions about the Swiss train timetable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tested the use case I could've really used this for, but it doesn't seem to be able to do this: "Biel to Zürich, but not through Grenchen".<p>The SBB timetable app and website can become really unhelpful if there has been an "accident involving a person" [0]; other than that, I've got little issues with them day to day.<p>But it seems your model doesn't have a way to know that the IC from Biel to Olten goes through Grenchen (it only presents the obvious routes that wouldn't work in this case).<p>[0]: <a href="https://company.sbb.ch/en/railway-development/services-rus/railway-environment/accident-involving-person.html" rel="nofollow">https://company.sbb.ch/en/railway-development/services-rus/r...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:34:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319067</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "geek" in the title is definitely a lie. I can think of an entire series of fitting expletives to replace it, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315267</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd agree with you based on the language itself; Lua has some annoying idiosyncrasies like e.g. (my main pet peeve) 1-based indexing.<p>But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem more from the standardized environment the language is built around (i.e. how it is embedded into applications): If you don't explicitly pass capabilities like file handling etc. into the script, it <i>CANNOT</i> use them. Sooo many scripting languages get this wrong, it's actually embarassing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181247</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/nplkSmHC780" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/nplkSmHC780</a><p>Edit: Also, if you're looking for earworms and like loopy melodies, check out David Fenn's Soundtrack for Moonlighter: 
<a href="https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moonlighter" rel="nofollow">https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moonlighter</a><p>Especially "Macadamia Mayhem" and "Restless Roots" tend to follow me around for hours each time I revisit the album :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:06:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129503</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "AI "Proves" Collatz Conjecture with Lean 4 Bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>…minutes before a bunch of Vogons show up to finally get started with their intergalactic highway and the result never makes it to the prompter ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102336</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in ""Please just use plain English, I don't understand what you're saying.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine someone sneaking in The King in Yellow into the training sets used by all projects training models somehow, breaking all future models irreparably -- and then the engineers trying to find this poison pill in the dataset and going mad one by one as they find it and aren't able avoid reading into act 2.<p>…should make for an interesting SCP story :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073307</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Introduction to Data-Oriented Design [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note: AFAIU "Data Oriented Programming" (as championed e.g. in the Clojure community) and "Data Oriented Design" (as championed in the video game community) are very different philosophies for different use-cases and diametrically opposed on many dimensions. People knowing only the one phrase and assuming both to be synonymous will be in for a lot of confusion when reading about the other.</p>
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<p>…inefficiently.<p>I can also do nothing at scale just with a hammock :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:39:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052457</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Nearly one-third of Steam users have ten-year-old GPUs [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that's meant as an abbreviation for "microtransactions".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984576</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration.<p>This reminds me of "Youth without God" by Ödön von Horváth:<p>> Perhaps Anne’s mother was right. Perhaps men are mad now—those who aren’t mad haven’t the courage to put their maniacal fellows into strait-jackets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976233</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Primate Is the Last Great Web Framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.<p>SCNR :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:09:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926425</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> every time Space Marine 2 crashes my entire Linux desktop.<p>Sounds like a good situation for the litany of percussive maintenance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:55:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924659</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your right, as are your examples, but I want to point out an interesting thing about your examples :)<p>> - CT and MRI data processing<p>> - scheduling systems for universities and other schools (makes education more scalable)<p>Those two read as if they are of different urgency (#1: whoever needs it urgently is at risk of dying, schedules for "non-urgent" cases will be affected for months, turning many into urgent cases; #2: the education systems will suffer, but it only gets dire after multiple days), until you realize that #2 also applies to e.g. hospitals.<p>Medicine at scale is already barely scraping by as it is (see: overworked staff etc. etc.), but disrupt the internal IT working of hospitals and the indirect body count will rise <i>fast</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793365</link><dc:creator>btschaegg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by btschaegg in "This blog is written in en-GB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because that comma is a crime against legibility.</p>
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<p>> Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {?<p>I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).</p>
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