<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: fishbacon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fishbacon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:27:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fishbacon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Making"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The intro followed immediately by obvious AI slop put me so off that I stopped reading.
They may be trying to make a point. But the way they are doing it is off putting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:22:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018417</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was hoping for a kind of joke. Like saying "idiot" as the last thing in your post and getting "Please don't sign your posts" as a reply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:47:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285021</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excellent set of commands.<p>Of course the two most useful ones would never be useful in the code base I am currently working on.<p>"fix" might be the single most common commit message, and after that comes "."<p>Trying for two years, to get people to include at least some information in their commit messages, has exhausted me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701177</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Hold on to Your Hardware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pop-up is about disabling javascript, to avoid this kind of website doing this kind of thing.<p>I thought it was clever. But it also seems ham-fisted, and in poor taste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:37:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541454</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The (very clearly AI-generated) watercolors were an immediate sign to be wary of this. But I read it because I liked the first paragraphs.<p>The prose is decent, I like the premise, thought provoking idea.<p>One issue though: I had to use firefox' reader mode, because the contrast between text and background was terrible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437189</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thinking about how my television was only ever on the internet for 5 minutes in 2016. It must think the world is tiny.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255808</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told.<p>I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately.<p>This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:55:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253157</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.<p>Fun idea though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810939</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Project Shadowglass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks amazing.<p>A recent game, Eclipsium[0], was a short horror game with a similar esthetic. I really liked it for the simple gameplay and the short (less than 4 hours) completion time.<p>I wonder if it can carry a larger scale.<p>[0] <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/Eclipsium/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/Eclipsium/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:04:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744378</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If sponsored projects and in-video sponsor spots dried up because of low view count I feel like a +20% loss would be something they would feel on their bottomline?<p>I suspect their business still requires that revenue.<p>But my example could be better. Take any moderately sized youtube channel which has a sponsorship in each video. Maybe one of the gaming channels that figured this out? If they lose the sponsorships it would probably not be great for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:26:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288771</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is completely unspoken by most of the youtube channels that are making videos about this. The reason they are worried is not because of the algorithm or vanity. Especially for channels like LTT it is economical. They get the vast majority of their money from getting a lot of views.<p>The interesting thing here is that since youtube did not change anything, it is actually adblockers successfully making sponsored content less viable. Something  youtube has been trying to, at least on premium ([ytp]), where I get a little "Jump ahead" button on all platforms when sponcon is detected (in aggregate people skipping forward, it also does it for intros and similar).<p>I wonder if it will have a measurable impact on placement in the algorithm for channels like RLM that are seeing the drop. But rely on crowdfunding and youtube ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:11:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286924</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Dotfiles feel too personal to share"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I share my .emacs with people who ask. Not really for privacy, but because I would feel bad: If someone tried to use any of it and was not able to ask me what I was thinking.<p>The usual answer is that I was not and we should change it.<p>I would also have to distribute a couple of novel go programs that I am not proud of if I was sharing it publicly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:08:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813051</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.<p>This seems positive, no?<p>I love the idea that young people want to make stuff and tinker in their free time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:36:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692180</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kagi seems to genuinly have a good mission when it comes to the internet.<p>I want small web search. I want good results. I will pay for search!<p>I do not want to support Russia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 09:07:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653962</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The database they are comparing to is probably not only youtube videos. So the freebooted or matching video, in their database, has a creation data which is earlier than the 3blue1brown video.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620551</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Comic Mono"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love the idea. But a quick test tells me it is not appropriate for anyone who uses any non-ascii characters. A shame.<p>Loved all the recommendations in this thread. I have been thinking about getting away from Source Code Pro for a while.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:15:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41589681</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41589681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41589681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like this just validates the idea that Patreon did not need to be an app. The website works just fine and I doubt people are using the app for discovery or content creation?<p>I know Patreon wants to capture as much of your time as possible, because they are now on the infinite growth destruction trajectory. So the app is going to stay and they will keep pushing it and probably remove features from mobile web because of it.<p>Imagine if Patreon was just a for-profit company and not a growth monster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41232838</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41232838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41232838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazing, they are indeed adorable!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695353</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am concerned that there are no pictures of the adorable cats in the post.<p>It sound like the manufacturers just see USB-A as a convenient and cheap connector for delivering power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695029</link><dc:creator>fishbacon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38695029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fishbacon in "UK to crack down on plant-based food and drink labels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there much consumer confusion here? Are people buying oat drink "dairy alternative" and thinking they can use it 1-to-1 in place of milk?<p>This feels like a silly way to go about it, especially as we should be lowering our consumption of these animal products.<p>I do not know if these products are better for the environment, so in general I just avoid the category. Except for cheese, can't not have cheese.</p>
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