<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: edoloughlin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=edoloughlin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:52:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=edoloughlin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or your provider randomly decides you need to be on an enterprise plan: <a href="https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website" rel="nofollow">https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:32:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676927</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switched to Niri (<a href="https://github.com/niri-wm/niri" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/niri-wm/niri</a>) about six months ago and I find it does wonders for focus.<p>Set the default window width to 1/4 or 1/3 of the screen width (depending on the screen size) and it's easy to keep just the right context visible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629014</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And that’s fine because that photo (probably) has some utility to you.<p>The 39.99MB of ads accompanying the 2KB of text you want to read possibly has less utility to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483485</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An absolute mess for you. A tidy profit for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413733</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I set up Elementary OS for my 79 yr old mother. No issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002589</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s reductio ad absurdum to make a point. But you could argue that income from Patreon forms part/all of a creator’s salary.<p>I don’t agree that this is an Apple hating thread. Its commentary on a pretty despicable action that Apple is taking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807857</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://nixos.wiki/wiki/CUDA" rel="nofollow">https://nixos.wiki/wiki/CUDA</a><p>It’s not too bad. As others have said, AI makes it easy to get right.</p>
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<p><i>and the whole swiping from the button [bottom?] kept making the screen go down to the bottom half</i><p>This happens to me way more than I would like. For the life of me, I can't figure out the utility in being able to move my lock screen 1/2 way down the phone and have blank space on top. I don't know what this feature is or how I would activate it if I actually wanted to.</p>
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<p>> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry...<p>As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions...<p><i>What need you, being come to sense,</i><p><i>But fumble in a greasy till</i><p><i>And add the halfpence to the pence</i><p><i>And prayer to shivering prayer, until</i><p><i>You have dried the marrow from the bone</i></p>
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<p>I'm amazed that I had to scroll this far to find a comment on this. Then again, I don't live in the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596958</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>I also don't have any concrete examples jumping to mind</i><p>I do (and I may get publicly shamed and shunned for admitting I do such a thing): figuring out how to fix parenthesis matching errors in Clojure code that it's generated.<p>One coding agent I've used is so bad at this that it falls back to rewriting entire functions and will not recognise that it is probably never going to fix the problem. It just keeps burning rainforest trying one stupid approach after another.<p>Yes, I realise that this is not a philosophical question, even though it is philosophically repugnant (and objectively so). I am being facetious and trying to work through the PTSD I acquired from the above exercise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796876</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given that Gemini seems to have frequent availability issues, I wonder if this is a strategy to offload low-hanging fruit (from a human-effort pov) to the user. If it is, I think that's still kinda impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796738</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43796738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they agree to mine crypto for you then you send valid data.
Is this a win-win?<p>(I feel I need to preemptively state that I am being sarcastic.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514939</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm being trite, but if you can detect an AI bot, why not just serve them random data? At least they'll be sharing some of the pain they inflict.</p>
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<p>Isn't CUDA a pretty good moat for Nvidia?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:15:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877841</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by edoloughlin in "CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think finding a meaningful way recognise a significant contributor in a way that doesn’t really impact anyone is something to be encouraged. I imagine that most people would use the hex code anyway and only devs/designers would see the name in their tooling.<p>I can’t see how to apply logic to naming a colour. It’s fundamentally a perceptual and, dare I say it, emotional process.<p>I also think your comment is uncharitable and tone deaf.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163673</link><dc:creator>edoloughlin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42163673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://quickpoint.me">https://quickpoint.me</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808569">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808569</a></p>
<p>Points: 27</p>
<p># Comments: 35</p>
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<p>Looks really nice on an initial view. Will explore in a bit more depth and check back later</p>
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<p>> But I don't see how it's not authoritarian.<p>If this thread continues for a few more levels, I think you’ll end up justifying hiring your own private police force.<p>Ownership requires that a state exists to enforce your rights. There are tradeoffs with this arrangement, one of which is that the state gets to set boundaries/limits on how you can use the thing you own. Ideally, acting with the best interests of the population. This sometimes includes ensuring areas are off limits to transient inhabitants so that a society can develop.</p>
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<p>The universe could also spontaneously stop existing[1] but I still put my seatbelt on when I get into my car. It’s about probability.<p>1. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay</a></p>
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