<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: easeout</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easeout</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:58:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=easeout" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because they're the main prompt injection vector, I think you'd want to distinguish tool results from user messages. By the time you go that far, you need colors for those two, plus system messages, plus thinking/responses. I have to think it's been tried and it just cost too much capability but it may be the best opportunity to improve at some point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703989</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gotta meet your audience where they are. As a Mobile Safari user, the foremost way I feel my use of the web is crippled is that pages assume a bigger screen or are just poorly arranged.<p>This of all web pages ought to be easy to read on an iPhone screen, but the way it's constructed prevents it. You can't zoom the whole page out to see the entire table width because the table is in a scrolling frame and wider than its box. You can only scroll the nested frame sideways to see how row labels relate to iPhone cells. If you give up and use landscape, it still scrolls vertically in its frame. You have to aim for the margin or else you'll scroll just an inch and be halted because you caught the table.<p>Because it's critical that the web be as free as it is:<p>• It's natural that some pages turn out like this<p>• So it's natural the web is a little bit shitty all over<p>• So it's natural the demand for richer web features is low</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478457</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "HopTab – Open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just having watched the video, the session setup, close, and launch seem tied to the idea of a single window per app. Is that right? What kinds of workflows is this explicitly meant vs. not meant to support?<p>The way a user switches window sets with backtick and app windows within them with tab is inverted from the usual major and minor shortcuts. Normally you switch apps with tab and windows within them with backtick, or in the case of stage manager, you switch window sets with tab and windows within them with backtick. As a default I think the keys make less sense than they could.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:53:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478134</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> …requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device…<p>The way I read that, you just have to ask for an indication of age. Like when I'm not logged in to Steam and I want to look at a game with blood, it asks for a birth year and I pretend to be 109. That's not exactly "age verification." Am I missing something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197630</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anybody measure employees pressured by KPIs for a baseline?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:41:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956540</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Software factories and the agentic moment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A problem repeatedly occurred on "<a href="https://factory.strongdm.ai/" rel="nofollow">https://factory.strongdm.ai/</a>".</p>
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<p>Why make a desktop windowing system app, for a user group who runs a bunch of simultaneous terminal sessions with tear-off tabs or tmux panels, and then force everything into one window that can only display a single session at a time?<p>The Open button and then codex resume --last is good, but it's a waste and The Wrong Abstraction not to make instantiable conversation windows from the get-go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:59:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867942</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The main problem I have with the language is compile times. Rust is good at many things, but not that.<p>Xcode is optional, though its primacy has meant less adoption of Swift's first party LSP and VS Code extension.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:59:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843486</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "AI is a horse (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wrote this a long time ago, but I think the metaphor was about generative AI applications vs. traditional software applications, not about AI coding agents vs. writing code yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739237</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "AI is a horse (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, that's my website and my wisecrack article. It was a while ago, but I think the metaphor was that a train is traditional deterministic-ish software, whose behavior is quite regular and predictable, compared to something generative which is much less predictable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739212</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heh, if repression did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082578</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah that was pretty weird. Minimizing harm means both leaving people alone <i>and</i> not denying yourself random pleasant feelings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082570</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46082570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Native performance doesn't earn that much user goodwill without native layout and behavior. You can't make a single design for many platforms and please everyone who chose each platform for what it is. Unless perhaps you are Snap and having a _unique_ UI is part of the appeal for your young-leaning audience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862283</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Gemini in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Baby don't hurt me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:04:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298134</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People who have them love them. I think there's truth to the idea that iPhone Air is a stepping stone to a foldable with thin halves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222277</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45222277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Cursor CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shell commands and files on disk are the classic narrow waist, and this type of tool, exemplified by Claude Code, locates a coding agent down in that ecosystem.<p>Why shouldn't you be able to use the abilities of this tool as a batch command, connected with all your other basic tools, in addition to interactive sessions?<p>Cursor's chat being locked in an IDE sidebar has felt like driving with a trailer attached. For some tasks the editor is secondary or unnecessary, and as a papered-over VS Code fork, Cursor has a lot of warts that you just had to accept. Now you can just use your favorite editor.<p>Companies make apps but want to be platforms, so they try to put everything in one app and help you forget about everything else. VS Code and Figma, for example, make their own extension ecosystems rather than connecting outward, because it makes them platforms-as-apps and harder to leave. But a desktop task workflow spans many apps and windows. You compose it yourself to your needs. We are computer users more than app users.<p>To me as a computer user, a tool that's compact and has compatible outward extension points feels good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:44:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836347</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two operators? Where I live it's zero</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621471</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44621471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is in keeping with the overall problem Figma presents to organizations. If you create a place to design software in isolation while eagerly forgetting about real world software concerns, and you bump the seat license cost until only a few can have them, you're going to make early mistakes due to deliberately limited perspective, for which you'll pay later when they're more expensive to correct. Dev mode isn't there to bring in more perspective. It's there to keep the silos separate, for "handoff" rather than really working on it together.<p>Separately: It doesn't matter whether you downloaded the local app, it's thoroughly a SaaS product, and working offline is the exception to its rule.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:58:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152236</link><dc:creator>easeout</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44152236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by easeout in "Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It goes to show that the common system of employment, in which we spend our time toward the purposes and meanings of others, tends to provide no purpose or meaning for ourselves.</p>
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<p>You must mean "APFS volume".</p>
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