<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: dlandis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dlandis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:44:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dlandis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot of good ideas in Spring and there have been some outstanding engineers working on that framework over the past ~25 years. But it has accumulated so much baggage and relies on and perpetuates so many patterns that simply don't make sense anymore... I would love to see what the team would do with a fresh start. I wonder if they have or are considering doing a complete rewrite or starting something totally new for the next generation that will take us through the next 25 years of Java.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578561</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Last weekend I tried building an iOS app for pet feeding reminders from scratch.<p>Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive results at all yet. Just start using it for small time saving activities and then you will naturally figure out how to gradually expand the scope of what you can use it for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693261</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Regarding the window manager and Finder; I had a better experience with the Windows equivalents way back on Windows 2k or even Windows 98 more than quarter century ago. Truly baffling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592486</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)<p>There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670953</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.<p>It would be just like in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books (and probably other scifi/fantasy books)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290496</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "A critical look at MCP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree... this is an important blog. People need to press pause on MCP in terms of adoption...it was simply not designed with a solid enough technical foundation that would make it suitable to be an industry standard. People are hyped about it, kind of like they were for LangChain and many other projects, but people are going to gradually (after diving into implementations) that it's not actually what they were looking for..It's basically a hack thrown together by a few people and there are tons of questionable decisions, with websockets being just one example of a big miss.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 18:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947791</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43947791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Googler... ex-Googler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a difference between intellectually understanding it, versus actually seeing yourself tossed aside and cast out, while knowing that all the other cogs are already back in motion and pretty much fully adjusted to your absence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 23:49:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687530</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43687530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Animals Made from 13 Circles (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe I missed it, but are there any instructions on how to create them...e.g. how/where to draw the circles? It would be a fun activity with the kids.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584578</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43584578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I do not wear my glasses while at the screen, as it's close enough that I don't have any issues."<p>This could be the problem, especially if you are close to 40 years old. You may be starting to develop presbyopia, which is typical. In the early stages you can still read and focus on closeup things fine, so you may not realize it is starting, but in the background your eyes are, in fact, straining a lot and causing headaches.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:16:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294039</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43294039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For a group that applies rationalism, they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts.<p>Yes, also ironic how they were, per the article, very intrigued by the concept that ideas themselves could be like viruses but were unaware of how they seemed to be heavily impacted by that very thing, many times over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275111</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> attacker can use the cache geolocation method to pinpoint the recipient’s location<p>Agree, good writeup, but also a stretch to say they are "pinpointing" anyone's location.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:00:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783230</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Narcolepsy is weird but I didn't notice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That particular symptom is called cataplexy, and it's my chief narcoleptic symptom. You lose control of your muscles, either in part of your body or in all of it, and then you can't move for a while. Your mouth and face require muscles to move, so if they're undergoing cataplexy you won't be able to use those either<p>What if he fell facedown on something like a blanket and couldn’t breathe??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 04:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680179</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Roberson Still on Death Row?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note this is an opinion piece and Shaken Baby Syndrome has not been discredited or debunked as the author keeps claiming.<p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1" rel="nofollow">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1</a><p>> Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the leading cause of fatal head injuries in children younger than 2 years.<p>> There is no controversy concerning the medical validity of the existence of AHT, with multiple components including subdural hematoma, intracranial and spinal changes, complex retinal hemorrhages, and rib and other fractures that are inconsistent with the provided mechanism of trauma</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 17:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41956307</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41956307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41956307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think more than the specific prompts, I would be interested in how they came up with them.<p>Are these system prompts being continuously refined and improved via some rigorous engineering process with a huge set of test cases, or is this still more of a trial-and-error / seat-of-your-pants approach to figure out what the best prompt is going to be?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:51:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374941</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41374941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "These types of thoughtful personalizations and improvements are only possible if we study and understand how our users interact with Slack."<p>LOL</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 00:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385224</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40385224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GitHub issues and projects</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:17:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403096</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39403096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.<p>And in classic fashion, of course the moderators locked it as "off topic".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 02:22:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036724</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There is no way to know what sources have been memorized vs which have made their mark by affecting other types of functions in the neural net.<p>But if it's possible for the neural net to memorize passages of text then surely it could also memorize where it got those passages of text from. Perhaps not with today's exact models and technology, but if it was a requirement then someone would figure out a way to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:47:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783775</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "Greg Brockman quits OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly...new competitor forming as we speak</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314088</link><dc:creator>dlandis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38314088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dlandis in "After a $1.8B verdict, the clock is ticking on the 6% realtor commission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are a ton of websites that say it’s possible to create an MLS listing for a small fee, for a for sale by owner house.Are you suggesting there is some catch or that that is not actually possible?</p>
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