<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: focusedone</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=focusedone</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:51:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=focusedone" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Web Serial Support in Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sweet!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 21:30:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229097</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The shocking thing is that it's taken this long to happen, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:59:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841541</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Smart PR move and motivation to read more privacy policies.<p>Looks like they only offer one plan, $99/month, which is pretty steep but must offset what other carriers make selling customer info.  That's about double what I'm paying now but I do like the idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:35:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579395</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm generally OK with this, but the 24 hour hang time does seem a bit onerous.<p>Most of the apps on my phone are installed from F-Droid.  I guess the next time I get a new phone I'll have to wait at least 24 hours for it to become useful.<p>I'm seriously considering Graphene for a next personal device and whatever the cheapest iOS device is for work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:34:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443820</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Acme Weather"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sweet! Looking forward to the android version. I was <i>slightly</i> bitter when apple yanked the website.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:52:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100858</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47100858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hadn't read that Paul Graham article before, but it was extremely accurate at the time.<p>My degree is in Public Relations and I worked in political PR for a bit before moving to newspapers.  The PR office worked <i>so</i> hard to word things in a way where news editors could lift our copy directly into print.  It was a delicate balance to sell a point of view without sounding like a sales pitch.<p>Later, at the newspapers, I was shocked to learn how desperately editors would snag any text to fill the space between paid-for ads on a page.  A minimal amount of actual journalism occurred above the fold.  Past that we would publish absolutely anything in the English language without filtering.<p>This was all 20+ years ago.  Now we've cut out the middle man, automatically publishing AI generated slop directly as if it were human-produced news. It's all very discouraging.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991601</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>wow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904576</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes!  I keep a basic Casio MS-80s handy for sanity checks and a 30-year-old CFX-9850GB Plus for when things get serious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873535</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "LinkedIn Is Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:59:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861458</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Please Let Me Read – The Web Was Once Good:("]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh, cool!  How does this do with the intentionally obfuscated sites?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:29:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639610</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "How to make a damn website (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't worry, there's one for you too:<p><a href="https://1mb.club/" rel="nofollow">https://1mb.club/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639550</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Please Let Me Read – The Web Was Once Good:("]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with the premise and don't want to knock someone's project.<p>It does seem like a lot of computational effort to achieve what F9 / Reader View does in FF.</p>
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<p><a href="https://1kb.club/" rel="nofollow">https://1kb.club/</a><p>Doesn't take much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608650</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Postal Arbitrage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All of these items appear to have received the HN hug of death.  They're all showing as unavailable for me, who just wanted to drop a friendly lime hello to a friend across town.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:35:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594627</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "US Confirms Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure if this is a direct quote or a creatively written one but I'm afraid to find out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:57:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423297</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was thinking the same thing.  This seems better suited for chatting with arbitrary people nearby, but with zero verification of who you're talking to.  You don't have to set up an account at all, just install the app and start chatting as @anon<number> or change the username to whatever you want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:04:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932172</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45932172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Making Every Windows 11 PC an AI PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work in a fairly quiet cube office.  The nosiest thing is all of the mechanical keyboards (gloriously clicky).<p>The thought of people yammering to their computers in an office environment is deeply disturbing.<p>Imagine listening to someone trying to format a word document by dictating commands to their AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:54:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622574</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45622574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1T. and Doge Didn't Do Much"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Serious question - do cross-party things like this still happen?<p>It feels like <i>everything</i> is done along party lines now with no room for compromise or working together.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532994</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "2010 Photos Show Microsoft Throwing a Funeral for the iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if they hosted a funeral for Google when Bing launched.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:58:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441773</link><dc:creator>focusedone</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by focusedone in "Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed more than 20 years later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hunter S Thompson --> David Foster Wallace --> Caity Weaver / Others?</p>
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