<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: eastbound</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastbound</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:20:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eastbound" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working alone, I often look at the Git Blame and wonder “Wait, did I write that or did AI write that?”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284955</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, I am saying that I don’t trust anyone who trusts obviously-bad science and requires me to believe it.<p>Some parts of science became political. The goal seems to convince a population, not determine what is true or not.<p>So if you extract one field which is extremely corrupt, with practices that would seem obvious to anyone who studied Stalin, which soils the ideas and principles of sciences, and another fields rejects the idea of denouncing the first field: that demonstrates that they are both <i>politicized</i> sciences. Covid science, climate science and social sciences all three ask you to “trust the science” and use authority to become right.<p>Meanwhile a researcher who is funded by private companies for technical advances, generally produces good science. They don’t usually need to jail their opponents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 06:18:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263957</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Having doors flying off one of your planes (…) definitely not a bit of politics.<p>It’s a checkmate of the American system. Boeing delegated construction in parts of the country that needed jobs (=politics), who then botched the job and didn’t get sanctioned because it was bad optics to accuse those providers (2013 airframes). More recent events are also a checkmate of the ultrafinanciarization practices, a checkmate of the consultancy / provider / controller model, and a failure of corruption (the FAA/Boeing dinners inherited from the Macdonnell management) in a context where USA rips at the seams (industrial failure, no-one can be trusted as trustworthy) and tries to renew its ideology (apogee with the Trump elections).<p>That is a fair bit of politics that made Boeing fail.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 19:41:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250700</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tommy R was thrown feces upon him in a jail cell for 8 months (along with noise torture and losing 15% of his body weight out of food privation). Torture chambers fully exist for thought criminals in UK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:54:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175395</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a giant tragedy of the commons. I’ve fired remote people who pretended to work, knowing that I wouldn’t hire remote workers ever again after AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:45:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168879</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And yet, some people argue that you shouldn’t ask a <i>developer</i> to align 3 “if” and 1 “for”!!!<p>The energy spent arguing that those 4 instructions in a row “are not a mark of someone who can write code” would have better been spent firing them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 12:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159787</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since real-life situations involve AI, banning AI would make CTFs just a simple game, not a demonstration of capabilities and talent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:16:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158008</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple knows better than to buy a pile of incompetent smugs. Intel was rock bottom before Europe determined it was a “strategic move”[1] to buy factories in Europe from the only manufacturer that hasn’t innovated since 20 years, quickly followed by the US. In both cases, governments aren’t the most savvy spenders.<p>[1] A “strategic” expense is named like this when you can’t justify it by any rational means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 04:46:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131200</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For minors, caning is with half-inch cane, which is the only one available in supermarkets. Only judicial caning is with the inch cane.</p>
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<p>That’s generally the solution for bullies. I wonder whether that is also the solution for victims, making them strong enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 06:09:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059235</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The gender gap in compassion is always surprising. There is never “educate boys to fix society”. The argument is as follows: “But girls get raped, so we need to save them” “Who rapes girls?” “Boys” “What opportunities do they have?” “Drugs, army, and the street” “Wouldn’t they too deserve to be given care, notably the care that was too given to girls?” “No, [various reasons]” “But don’t you care that girls get raped by boys?” “Yes” “So what do you do?” “Take care of the girls”.</p>
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<p>Maybe wisdom gives another perspective on the ideals we had in our youth?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053132</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It makes you intolerant, as you are unable to comprehend the opinion of other normal people in your society.<p>The action of performing real-life drastic sanctions against people you don’t tolerate is an extremism.<p>And it is the general opinion of most Mozilla idealists. Mozilla is a political project, and is dangerous to our democracy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:49:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035148</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your perspective only confirms that it’s popular within the Mozilla audience to ban people for their political opinion when it’s slightly out of currently-approved opinions. TODAY. Not 18 years ago. Today.<p>Making Mozilla a politically-extremist organization intolerant to other opinions than theirs, and thus incompatible with being a steward of the global web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 11:44:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035114</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the benefit you get from coming up with this idea is that you can publish it for the world to see, and that's the only way you can benefit from it<p>That’s your opinion, but it’s not the spirit of the law. I’m personally fully against Intellectual Property, including for movies and music, for reasons that are obvious (public money is being spent aimlessly trying to prevent two private individuals from copying things that are copied by their very nature of being published - or trying to prevent people from using ideas that are contagious - what next, put a copyright on political ideas? on dance moves? on beautiful colors?) but that’s not the law.<p>> we would have gone thousands of years with no method<p>There are other methods: The 4 arrows. The tab method is much more efficient and easy to implement, but we would have gone with the 4-arrows-to-navigate-fields method.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:59:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027676</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If Mozilla fired its CEO for a private political donation from 10 years earlier, it will not hesitate to do much worse to its users. Mozilla isn’t on the good side here.<p>He’s the founder of Brave, by the way.</p>
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<p>And yet, you haven’t. That’s the problem with dominant platforms: Slight inconveniences + inertia are enough to ensure no-one moves (even without monopolistic abuse – and I’m talking about Microsoft here).</p>
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<p>If that is true, we’ve discovered that offering a product for $1 the $17, yields to dramatically shorter runway but possibly more addicted users. Can’t wait for products offered at $1 the $100.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:57:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934680</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I regret the difficulty of mounting an SSH connection as a filesystem. It requires Fuse and giving permissions to the kernel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925424</link><dc:creator>eastbound</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eastbound in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>—So what would theoretically happen if we flipped that big red switch?<p>—Claude Code: FLIPS THE SWITCH, does not answer the question.<p>Claude does that in React, constantly starting a wrong refactor. I’ve been using Claude for 4 weeks only, but for the last 10 days I’m getting anger issues at the new nerfing.</p>
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