<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: datenyan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=datenyan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:37:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=datenyan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Don't hijack my mouse pointer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have often thought about trying to figure out whatever Win32 API is responsible for focus stealing and neuter it down to something akin to<p><pre><code>  void steal_focus_when_user_is_least_expecting() {
    // stub, much better :)
  }
</code></pre>
It is the single most frustrating desktop computing experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107853</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love to use Safari more, but unfortunately Facebook Messenger and similar ilk (maybe all messaging apps?) seems to be completely busted on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 22:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088992</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Talking to strangers at the gym"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ... anyone who thinks like this is suffering from abused dog syndrome and unironically has lost at life.<p>I mean, social anxiety - the neurosis itself - is just this. People haven't "lost at life" for having a mental health problem. I think it's quite commendable that someone can recognise their own shortcomings in this regard and work on it in a positive light.<p>What you might find easy, someone else might find exceedingly difficult - for example, people who find it difficult to keep up their health when they are clinically depressed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029940</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor”<p>Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features.<p>Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160082</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad (/s) to see the MBA-ification of tech companies continues uninterrupted as we enter the second half of the decade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:51:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158463</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47158463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So management basically have no clue and want you to figure out how to use AI?<p>This is basically the same story I have heard both my own place of employment and also from a number of friends. There is a "need" for AI usage, even if the value proposition is undefined (or, as I would expect, non-existent) for most businesses.</p>
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<p>Further to this - even if the script doesn't contain malware and you're 100% happy to run with this persons' defaults, you probably still shouldn't, as it doesn't teach you what you're actually doing.<p>Presuming you're a relatively non-technical person who follows this verbatim, what happens when this page goes down? Or Vultr is no longer an option? Do you even really know what you've set up?</p>
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<p>To be fair though, I don't think it's unreasonable for the "average user" to expect that there are sensible defaults for the things they buy / install.<p>Obviously, there's a huge difference between something like a car and your OS of choice (specifically noting the 'of choice' part of that when it comes to installing a Linux distribution), but I feel as though the sentiment is roughly the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:41:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851016</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Show HN: I built the literal Duolingo Killer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To preface this, I'm not a Japanese speaker, so perhaps my fears are misplaced, but learning from anime seems like it'd present users with a very particular flavour of Japanese (i.e. one that is much more hyperactive or exaggerated than how the language might be used in day-to-day conversations between native speakers).<p>That being said, if this is meant to be an alternative to Duolingo, which is insistent that you absolutely need to know that the bear wants a cup of tea, then I guess this is infinitely better in that regard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044070</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46044070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Thunderbird adds native Microsoft Exchange email support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Sticking with just the Gmail interface (or whatever) is so limiting<p>Perhaps it's the fact that I grew up with Gmail throughout my education (and now my career), but most local clients lack one key feature - quick move!<p>My entire workflow around emails is based around opening & reading them, and then using the "Quick Move" button in Gmail to move it into a specific folder by typing the first few letters of the folder and hitting enter.<p>I know there are extensions for Thunderbird like Quick Folder Move [0], but I find these can be buggy, slow, etc. I presume these are just the realities of dealing with email providers who'd prefer you use their webmail clients rather than Thunderbird et al.<p>[0] <a href="https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/eN-US/thunderbird/addon/quick-folder-move/" rel="nofollow">https://services.addons.thunderbird.net/eN-US/thunderbird/ad...</a></p>
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<p>Good lord, that's awful. I'm definitely firmly in Camp Apple for the most part, but this just looks actually atrocious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256973</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45256973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Definitely not an accident - the announcement was made on the TF blog [0]<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809" rel="nofollow">https://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=238809</a></p>
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<p>TF2 definitely looks amazing, but it very much does not perform amazing - at least, not anymore.<p>Source really wasn't built for the amount of particles present in the cosmetics (especially the "Unusuals")</p>
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<p>It absolutely grinds my gears - Chrome's profile system and / or Firefox's container tab system work somewhat, but it feels like a bandaid fix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:29:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394781</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Why Google Takeout is sooo bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oooh, this sounds promising - thank you so much!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 02:47:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713602</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Why Google Takeout is sooo bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The institution I work for is a completely Google-based shop, with an Enterprise agreement with Google for data retention and various other requirements.<p>Even for us, Google Takeout is a complete mess that fails all the time, or straight up corrupts files that need to be exported. It doesn't surprise me at all that the service sucks for general users, but the fact that it's terrible for Enterprise customers really tells you all you need to know about Google.<p>Similarly to the OP, we also run into issues with logs wherein the Google Admin Console also just straight up doesn't provide detailed information about what went wrong, and questions via our relationship manager often get passed around for what feels like years.<p>Thanks, Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700945</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over Apple's ChatGPT integrations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If users could set their own preferred AI bot as the go-to for Siri requests or writing help, like Anthropic’s Claude or — say, xAI’s Grok — it’s doubtful that Musk would be yelling this loudly about the dangers of such an integration.<p>This is basically what I thought of when I saw this headline at first. Musk does not give a damn about the usage of ChatGPT, he's just annoyed that it's not _his_ AI tool that's ingesting Apple user's data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40642608</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40642608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40642608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out of Meta's AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And I'd be willing to wager an even smaller amount of "users" are actually real people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605515</link><dc:creator>datenyan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40605515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by datenyan in "Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “if your objection is honoured, it will be applied going forwards”.<p>It is absolutely wild being in the "before times" (i.e. before any real legislation is applied to the use of data for AI training) and seeing statements that basically amount to "eh if we feel like it, we'll exempt you".<p>Not very often you see an "if" in statements like this.</p>
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<p>Looks like it's affecting anything Bing-related, at least over here in Australia. Same symptoms for Bing and Ecosia.</p>
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