<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: eob</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eob</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:41:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eob" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My guess it's just the emergent behavior that results when a company doesn't provide developers time to fix bugs.<p>If their week is already booked full just trying to keep up with the roadmap deadlines, a bug ticket feels like being tossed a 25lb weight when you're drowning.<p>You could say: "but have pride in your work!"<p>But if your company only values shipping, not fixing, that attitude doesn't make it through the first performance review.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:23:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525641</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You think like a person who’s debugged large systems failures before :). That feels very plausible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621254</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some outlets reporting T-Mobile and ATT as well.<p>I assume state on state cyber attacks are commonplace but get minimized to avoid public fear.. perhaps this will be the first notable one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621181</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "AI URI Scheme – Internet-Draft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I build coding agents for a living, and I'm struggling to map this onto the set of things I do at work.<p>In general, interoperability and user choice are really important for us to get right as the community of people building AI platforms...<p>Have others reading this document been able to map it onto their work?<p>As a specific example:<p>> ai://bank/service/payments?amount=10&currency=USD<p>I'm not sure what this is representing here. Is it a way to encode a clickable link to chat with `bank` about `service/payments` with a few additional args attached?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293894</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Swift-erlang-actor-system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Third party apps can’t use the network though. Iirc there’s an async message queue with eventual delivery that each app gets, which it can use to send messages back and forth with a paired phone app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:26:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655719</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bravo -- this is fantastic.<p>I've been waiting for this ever since reading some interview with Orson Scott Card ages ago. It turns out he thinks of his novels as radio theater, not books. Which is a very different way to experience the audio.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756200</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Obituary for Cyc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or vice versa - perhaps some subset of the "thought chains" of Cyc's inference system could be useful training data for LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625834</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "AI 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An aspect of these self-improvement thought experiments that I’m willing to tentatively believe.. but want more resolution on, is the exact work involved in “improvement”.<p>Eg today there’s billions of dollars being spent just to create and label more data, which is a global act of recruiting, training, organization, etc.<p>When we imagine these models self improving, are we imagining them “just” inventing better math, or conducting global-scale multi-company coordination operations? I can believe AI is capable of the latter, but that’s an awful lot of extra friction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43582556</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43582556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43582556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "OpenAI Audio Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you comfortable sharing the video & lip-sync stack you use? I don't know anything about the space but am curious to check out what's possible these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:56:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428113</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43428113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Launch HN: Browser Use (YC W25) – open-source web agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks fantastic — congrats on the launch.<p>As an armchair observer, the agents + browser space feels like it’s waiting for someone to make the open source framework that everyone piles on to.<p>Proxy rotation sounds like a solid way to monetize for businesses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:35:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180320</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Moving on from 18F"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was an SF office of 18F -- IIRC it was in the building to the right of the Civic Center park as you looked at it from the Bart stop. They were great folks from every encounter I had with them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:04:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094345</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Web awesome: "Shoelace 3.0" open source web components"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's presume this gets developed to ShadCN/Tailwind level quality.<p>In that world, what would be the tradeoffs between:<p>- NextJs + Tailwind + ShadCN<p>- NextJS + ?? + Shoelace<p>I don't have a good sense of how web components compare to practice of "copy-by-value, then compile-into-binary" UI shipping that's common in the Next + Shad world these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:31:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093325</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: What policies should Sachs pursue as the new US AI and Crypto czar?]]></title><description><![CDATA[

<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339417">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339417</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 13:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339417</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42339417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: An AI street hawker that negotiates and sells licorice]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://edwardbenson.com/2024/11/the-worlds-first-ai-street-hawker">https://edwardbenson.com/2024/11/the-worlds-first-ai-street-hawker</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185300">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185300</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:32:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://edwardbenson.com/2024/11/the-worlds-first-ai-street-hawker</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you ever managed a complex, dynamic, changing system and found that the optimal size based on current conditions was 20% less than it was at some prior time?<p>I can think of all sorts examples.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:11:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995042</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So GCS customers will trust their codegen product. (Engineers aren’t the buyer; corp suite is)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991373</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Family medicine is in decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Taiwan is worth adding to the list of healthcare systems that folks study. I believe it may be similar to the Swiss system.<p>Everyone has national health insurance, but you also get to choose where to go, and some doctors also offer non-insured services that you can pay for out of pocket.<p>The result is universal coverage combined with a competitive market that drives prices down and encourages innovation.<p>I know this is just anecdata, but having held an insurance card there for a while, our family was always able to see our family doctor the same day we called. And the one or two times a specialist or emergency room was needed, there was minimal hassle.<p>I'm sure there are problems with it, too -- I just don't know what they are. As a customer/patient, it seemed to work far better than the American system I'm used to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971298</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A Project Jengo grant for using Agents/LLMs to identify prior art could be a fantastic experiment..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734366</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41734366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "If English was written like Chinese (1999)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is still mostly true. Kids books also have bopomofo rubies, like the kana rubies in Japanese. And occasionally you'll see bopomofo as a typographic choice to represent a sound that feels more natural in Taiwanese amidst an otherwise Mandarin sentence.<p>This is just my personal experience, but I think the big change in the past 15 years isn't Bopomofo -> Pinyin, but rather Wade Giles -> Pinyin. Bopomofo seems equally prevalent, but the Wade Giles romanizations on street signs have begin to get replaced with Pinyin for the sake of non-native speakers who are almost certainly more familiar with Pinyin than WG.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567643</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eob in "Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is incredible --- @chearon thank you for open sourcing this!<p>I think most folks probably don't realize how difficult it is to go from HTML -> PNG programmatically. You get hit with a thousand papercuts related to either Node<>Browser differences or HTML<>Canvas differences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780322</link><dc:creator>eob</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39780322</guid></item></channel></rss>