<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: fireflash38</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fireflash38</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:28:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fireflash38" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shift enter should always put in a new line. Good luck exiting a block though with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:31:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751053</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's because enter does different things at different times in the exact same text box.<p>Write a code snippet/block text. Does [enter] insert a newline, exit the block, or send the message?<p>What about in a bulleted or numbered list?<p>And my 2 biggest pet peeves with MS Teams:<p>1. trying to edit the first letter in a `preformat block`. It's not possible. It will either exit the block or go to the second letter.<p>2. Consistency with bold/italics. Bold a selection of text. Then backspace once. Are you going to write bold or normal? What does ctrl-B do? Anytime you backspace into a bolded section, it will convert your editing back to bold, and you <i>cannot disable bold</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:29:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751037</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Judge people by actions not what they say.<p>You are arguing the opposite, that we should judge by what they say and not what they do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742066</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it's OK now? Or it wasn't OK then or now?<p>You claim about fallacies later, but this is a also a fallacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:28:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711082</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Peptides: where to begin?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I imagine the entire Joe Rogan sphere with being anti vax (or vax skeptical)... While promoting a billion supplements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673446</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If your HSM vendor isn't actively working on/have a release date for GA PQ, you should probably get a new vendor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:03:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667879</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's much easier to talk about how something is deficient/untested than to do the testing yourself.<p>The same site that complains so much about replication crises in science too...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652652</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a cost for me to scrape LLM.<p>It is a cost for me for LLM to scrape me.<p>Why should I care about costs that have when they don't care about the costs I have?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573645</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Log File Viewer for the Terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Memory safety doesn't mean it's safe. And C++ doesn't mean it's unsafe.<p>Browsers are in C++, do you not use them? Curl is in C, do you not use it? Kernel is C...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:23:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501604</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47501604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Windows native app development is a mess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think android is a big difference here. What about excel or Google sheets? Word?<p>If you're building win32 you're not targeting android.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482254</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When would you want that when it wouldn't be covered by more domain-specific use cases?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478366</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh good. So you'll still be dead, and they <i>might</i> get a reprimand. If you're lucky they'll lose their job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444910</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "The 49MB web page"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You want to know why so many people either jump straight to comments or use alternate sources (archive, llms)? Because if you load the actual site, it freaking blows to <i>use the damn thing</i>.<p>So much hostile user design.<p>Edit: NPR gets a little shout out for being able to close their annoying pop-ups by clicking anywhere that's not the notification. So it's still crappy that it hijacks the screen, but not awful I guess?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:49:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397772</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who are the bagholders in these scenarios?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:35:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357480</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47357480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's a completely binary choice of "election was valid" and "election was invalid" without any partial verifications of results, I think it's still a massive step back.<p>By which I mean: paper ballots have problems. But a fault in a handful of ballots doesn't mean the rest of the ballots need to get tossed out.<p>I do not believe that a system managed by humans can be faultless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340834</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having reviewed a lot of Ai-written python code, I think it's absolute nonsense.<p>It never picks a style, it'll alternate between exceptions and then return codes.<p>It'll massively overcomplicate things. It'll reference things that straight up don't exist.<p>But boy is it brilliant at a fuzzy find and replace.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:34:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325542</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a reputation economy. Like review sites. They start off truthful, and then as time goes on incentives shift to bad actors to subvert it. Or they just sell out their reputation.<p>Yelp, TripAdvisor, wire cutter, hell even Google results themselves.<p>Once you start poisoning that well, it's difficult if not impossible to claw it back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250279</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "Microslop Manifesto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a consistent Microsoft design?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218420</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe they should stop insulting their users with the slop they put out and charge for then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:06:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216949</link><dc:creator>fireflash38</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fireflash38 in "South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a happy guillotine. The French are also off the hook because they were so damn happy to be guillotining people.</p>
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