<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: gsinclair</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gsinclair</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:33:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gsinclair" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Answers to a lot of questions, with breadth, depth and nuance. And assistance in carrying out work on a lot of fields, not just programming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256274</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bullet journals are the opposite of a fad that fetishizes perfect notebooks. Proper bullet journals are very pragmatic.<p>Some people then add layers of fetishizing to that, because humans gonna human, but the actual idea itself doesn’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:18:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152286</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I resemble that remark!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954340</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“…the person you don’t care about…”<p>Your comment is below the intellectual and interpersonal standard that makes HN a good place to be.<p>I don’t doubt your sincerity and I can abide your opinion, but you should be restrained in ascribing such points of view to others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:37:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791508</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I sometimes want to create PDFs that contain text (Python code) that is not selectable. I want my students to type it in, not copy and paste.<p>I don’t know whether this tool enables that, but the idea is in the neighbourhood of “make it look scanned”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:25:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613120</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s a serious misreading of the NeoVim ecosystem, and I’d bet good money against your predictions coming true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:52:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540521</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wrote a TUI to search for words/phrases in a crossword dictionary. I’ve never written a reactive TUI before, and never written Go either. I was very happy with the assistance rendered by  ChatGPT.<p>Of course, it was great to have exactly the features I want, and I enjoyed learning some new things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:40:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459250</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think seeing superiority or obnoxiousness in the comment you replied to was a pretty large reading error on your part. The tone was sympathetic to people whose inboxes receive more than they can handle.<p>The last sentence of your comment sounds quite condescending.</p>
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<p>Same here on all counts.<p>Garages in duplexes typically are not big enough to fit an average car comfortably.</p>
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<p>That’s a huge exaggeration. Tall buildings require a much greater footprint than a single detached home.<p>Knock down three adjacent homes and you can get maybe 6-8 levels, which would be no more than 40 families.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280404</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I had the “lots of money” required, I’d try out a zero-day work week instead!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:02:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262260</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you made income, and enough gain in stocks to pay that much in tax, you should be happy.<p>I want to know why you are keen to become an Australian citizen if you’re not enthusiastic about contributing your share.<p>Constructive discussion about appropriate levels of taxation is important, but let’s at least agree that the things we rely on (roads, hospitals, schools, defence, …) cost something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262256</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The car wash example is interesting, as something I’ve seen and experienced but never thought about in that way.<p>I wonder how it truly factors into productivity, though. How is productivity measured, and does that measurement capture what is true?<p>You mention automated car washes as a baseline. I never used those in the past because I figured they’d be rubbish or would scratch the car or whatever. So I’d occasionally wash the car myself, and that’s it. Now that we have manual car washes available, I use them from time to time. They clearly (I assert) do a better job than anything automated. And they do it inside and out.<p>So I find the comparison interesting, but in need of elaboration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:24:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262030</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you need to make a case for DEI being “one of the industry’s greatest strengths”. It’s not obvious to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101781</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our doctor told us <i>not</i> to give the baby/toddler a bath every day. Didn’t need to tell me twice.<p>(Every second day is fine, and better for their skin.)</p>
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<p>People have developed plugins for this. Check out “sesh” for instance.<p>Switching between sessions with fuzzy finding, and creating new ones when needed, is a wonderful feature.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:37:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754610</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depending, of course, on how many artworks he’s sold.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:01:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687944</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s more than one issue. It’s not wrong to try to solve one of them.</p>
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<p>Yes, Music for 18 Musicians is such a wonderful companion for sustained focus. I look forward to checking out Electric Counterpoint more closely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669070</link><dc:creator>gsinclair</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsinclair in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Take a look at the site guidelines.</p>
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