<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: danhorner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danhorner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:51:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=danhorner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tripped over the double-entendre of the teaser quote and then found it ironic that the author is a copy writer.<p>>> “AI agents are the future of software development. We won’t need developers anymore to slow down the progress of a business.”<p>> And so, to me, a copywriter, what’s happening here is that the same message is meaning two different things to two different audiences.<p>I couldn't tell whether to parse this as "We will be faster without those slow developers", or more cynically as "We don't need developers to slow us down; We can now be slow with ai agents". I suspect that with creeping complexity the latter reading will hold up better for large projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:30:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114097</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started reading this and it gave a strong whiff of Richard Stallman’s “the right to read” - once dystopian and now a commonplace.<p>Then I started scrolling and thought the author was just verbose like RMS.<p>When it just kept going I was just mad to have fallen into the AI tarpit.<p>Fun idea. 5x too long. I need to calibrate my ai spidey sense better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:38:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433709</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Anti-stringing device for a coin acceptor (1996)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha! I remember experimenting with coins on strings as a kid in the early 90s.<p>What a rush when i realized it worked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:02:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321193</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>xe.com is competitive with wise rates and answers the phone. My KYC/AML journey was brief and they came through within their stated timeframe.<p>However all of the online companies sell the happy path and your experience will be diminished the farther you deviate from it. The right answer may be for a business to maintain a second-source in this as in all critical supplier relationships.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767379</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live in Washington and bats occasionally wander into our cabin. As others have pointed out, there is a difference between pre-exposure (Vaccination) and post-exposure protocols.<p>The rabies vaccine is given pre-exposure and can be obtained at travel clinics. It's generally only given to people travelling to high-incidence areas or sometimes to those working with wild animals. I believe this is because it's only effective for a year or two.  Although, there was one documented non-fatal incidence of human rabies in an individual who had been vaccinated years prior if memory serves.<p>The rabies post-exposure protocol is much less pleasant. It includes Immunoglobulin against the virus as soon as possible post-exposure. This needs multiple injections just to make up the volume. It's much more expensive and a little unusual, so ER visit. A child-sized dose was 4 simultaneous injections into buttocks and arms.  It's followed by vaccination+booster at travel clinic, a couple of weeks apart.<p>If you are able to preserve the bat without touching it, local authorities can examine it.  They will need to decapitate it and examine the brain tissue, so the brain needs to be intact and not frozen to get good tissue. ie. Don't put it in the freezer.<p>Having said that, bats are super-adorable and I've been able to move them with heavy gloves by placing a tupperware over them, sealing with a piece of paper, and relocating them outside before anybody gets close to them.  We just had one borderline experience (no confirmed contact) where we felt it was better to be safe than sorry. Post-exposure protocol is criticial if there was contact with the bat because the stakes are so high.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/stories/paul-allen-computer-collection-d946162ef5744d7bb43c4459733bf9cf">https://www.christies.com/en/stories/paul-allen-computer-collection-d946162ef5744d7bb43c4459733bf9cf</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087953">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087953</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2024 17:14:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.christies.com/en/stories/paul-allen-computer-collection-d946162ef5744d7bb43c4459733bf9cf</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Pico.sh – Hacker Labs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for posting. There are many things down this rabbithole and I hadn't seen pico.sh before.<p>The github repo has the sources for the backend, but the services themselves are accessible over https at eg: pico.sh, prose.sh, pastes.sh, pgs.sh<p>Onboarding to the free stuff is easy by sshing with an existirng Identity to pico.sh, which creates subdomains for you at the various services above.<p>The central idea is to expose a whole bunch of simple services using SSH for auth and for tunneling, and occasionally rsync as a file-transport. While this may not be an efficient way to run high-traffic services, it's a great way to stand up simple back-of-house tools and I wish more people were doing things like this.<p>Love the aesthetic and the commitment to proving this out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117441</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "How to commit part of file in Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came here to say this. `git gui` is nearly ubiquitous and has saved me for years from learning how to use `git add -p`. I don't use many graphical git tools but its options "stage hunk" and "stage line" are more intuitive and fine-grained than the hunk-splitting in `git add -p`</p>
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<p>This observation seems unwarranted (and a little unkind). For a voluntary personal project - not to mention one that involves a bit of personal risk/discomfort - they can publish the data in whatever format they please and revise it at will.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:18:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324498</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33324498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a great presentation.<p>A similar project worth mentioning is Voltron, which can decorate your gdb session with accesory windows. (Use tmux for window layout).<p>No experience with this dashboard but looking forward to trying it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:13:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803942</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30803942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisided_record">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisided_record</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436293">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436293</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:14:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisided_record</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29436293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Ask HN: Any indications Copilot scans your local files?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, "do the following experiment" sounds more natural. IMO, "Conduct" conveys precision and is appropriate for more formal writing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2021 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151426</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "A patent troll backs off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the contrary, this patent could now be useless even if it doesn't get invalidated:<p>It's expired for future use, and according to Sparkfun's response it can't be asserted against prior infringers because Huawei owned it and shipped devices without marking the patent on them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004847</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "A patent troll backs off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One aspect of this defense was failure to mark: A previous owner of the patent produced processors covered by the patent but did not mark them as such.<p>It turns out that systematically not marking your patent on your products invalidates claims for infringement unless it occurred after the owner notified future infringers of the violation.<p>The striking thing about this for a patent troll is (if I understand this correctly) that it's easier to shake companies down if your patent has never been used to ship anything.<p>That seems odd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:50:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004600</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29004600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been suspicious of their cloud config and run a docker image of the controller locally.<p>I'm still on version 5.14 and all of the cloud features are optional. I just ignore them. I guess now I know not to upgrade!</p>
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<p>Thanks for the throwback. We LOVED the collect call thing as teenagers too cheap to drop a quarter into the phone:<p>- "You have a collect call from AtTheStationMyBusLeavesIn18Minutes. Do you wish to accept the charges?"<p>- "No"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:25:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029695</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you scan 35mm slides? It turns out a family member needs this service. If you unpause it, my email is in profile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:51:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842704</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24842704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Ask HN: How to hire when your company and Glassdoor reviews are genuinely bad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an enlightened and contrarian POV and I'm glad for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356816</link><dc:creator>danhorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18356816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danhorner in "Paul Allen has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Previously known as EMP - the experience music project</p>
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