<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: dfltr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dfltr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:33:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dfltr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes: Premodern and Legacy. Personally I like Modern and don't mind having things shaken up fairly regularly, but if you want more stability play Legacy and if you want ultimate stability with no new cards ever, play Premodern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GSD has a reputation for being a token burner compared to something like Superpowers. Has that changed lately? Always open to revisiting things as they improve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Claude Composer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We make art because humans are compelled to express themselves. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's not stack ranked. Humans make art because, in the words of Pile, "I want answers to some questions that I can’t speak."<p>The idea that you'd stop trying to express yourself because you're comparing your own artistic voice to the output of an LLM and somehow seeing it as less valid, or less worthwhile, is just sad.<p>I don't mean that as an insult, I mean it's genuinely sad for you and for all of us as a species.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Learning music with Strudel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strudel is dope and a ton of fun, but every single piece of its interface seems determined to confuse people who already know music theory and composition.<p>That's not really a point against it, it's a great tool and it's a ton of fun, but I wish there was a way to use it that at least kind of sort of mapped back to traditional music notation, especially rhythm notation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:13:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "What Killed Perl?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I vividly remember the first time a friend showed me PHP in the late 90s. You're saying I can just write a script that generates HTML and throw it in /foo/index.php and that's the whole thing?<p>It's wild that right up until Rails got popular, we were writing code that served billions of requests off of homebrewed MVC-ish PHP frankenframeworks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Awesome, thanks for the clarification. So are the rumors around Cheetah being based on a Grok model just straight up untrue? I want to try Composer but have a pretty strict no X/Grok policy.</p>
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<p>Is it true that Cheetah is Grok Code Fast 2? Does this mean that the new Cursor model is also based on Grok?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good old "sketch-resistant materials". If a tweaker can't get through your lock/chain before the cops (might) show up, you're probably fine.<p>When all else fails, drummers are the best security anyway: <a href="https://loudwire.com/sleeping-drummer-stops-band-trailer-theft-attempt-archspire/" rel="nofollow">https://loudwire.com/sleeping-drummer-stops-band-trailer-the...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only there were some way to take all that work of pedaling and efficiently translate it into torque on the rear wheel, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:18:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I assume there'd be a big single rectangular bounding box or sphere, and only once a projectile is in that range, then animations occur.<p>Now that's a fun one to think about. Hitscan attacks are just vectors right? So would there be some perf benefit to doing that initial intersection check with a less-detailed hitbox, then running the higher res animated check if the initial one reports back as "Yeah, this one could potentially intersect"? Or is the check itself expensive enough that it's faster to just run it once at full resolution?<p>Either way, this stuff is engineering catnip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 23:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497512</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45497512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You'll annoy the hell out of some people, and thats fine.<p>Some of those people sign my paycheck though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440777</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This kind of exploratory/creative programming is bar none the most fun you can have as a software engineer. I love reading write-ups about projects like this because you can practically feel the nerdy joy radiating off the screen.</p>
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<p>Plus the translation issues, where you can have an absolute sledgehammer of a haiku that would need to be watered down in order fit the "correct" meter in English:<p>in kyoto / hearing the cry of the cuckoo / i long for kyoto</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:17:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416301</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Should we drain the Everglades?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Until the scenery gains an appreciation for them, you might say.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267745</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45267745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's amazing how much fuck-you-and-fuck-who-you-fuck-with Russell managed to fit into a few ink smudges on a piece of paper.</p>
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<p>Don't forget to implement the crucially important "no returnsies" security algo on top of it, or you'll be vulnerable to rubber-glue attacks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:11:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975345</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44975345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone got a recommendation for a replacement? I'm currently using Warp and the history/context-aware autocomplete-on-meth is nice, but I don't use any of the new agentic features.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:50:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954902</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44954902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Emacs as your video-trimming tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love that (and I say this with zero shade intended) you can never really tell which "Use Emacs for x" posts are goofs and which ones are serious.</p>
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<p>> ...and farm labor has been limited in recent years.<p>"Train routes across Germany have been a bit congested recently."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:13:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715735</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember that as well, but only because it's mentioned in book 8 of The Expanse.</p>
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