<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: gvx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gvx</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:59:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gvx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a fun little project! I thought it was going to be the 30 Rock one!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:46:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088167</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One who thinks "open source" means blindly copy/pasting code snippets found online.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051629</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone knows investing in cybersecurity is just wasteful spending!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051604</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43051604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could take a look at SELÖVE, a (severely out of date) fork of LÖVE that is intended to make it safe to run arbitrary .love games. (It used to be on bitbucket, but it looks like it's gone? I'm not sure if I have the repo locally :/)<p>Running arbitrary code was such a problem that I just completely ruled it out for bitser. Instead of serializing functions, you can register safe functions as resources. This doesn't solve the upvalue problem, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886755</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Show HN: Ldump – serialize any Lua data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool to see you were inspired by Ser!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:31:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886685</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not exactly. The headline is a bit misleading imho: the article doesn't say that CO2 uptake by plants is up by 31%, rather that new estimates of the CO2 uptake by plants is 31% higher than previous estimates. That doesn't preclude a temporary collapse of carbon absorption (related mostly to forest fires as far as I can tell).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:25:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696870</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>^ That kind of shallow understanding of health is a large part of what makes RFK Jr. so dangerous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 10:15:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593836</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42593836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's very possible that if you showed me the MapHub UI eight years ago, I'd have intuited that I'd need to save manually---I can't tell for sure. I am definitely aware that the way I engage with software nowadays is very different than when I started using computers in the early 2000s, and I don't doubt it is still evolving due to the changing conventions in UI and functionality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:28:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017230</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Is there now a generation of users who never worked with files?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work with files every day, and I'm not sure I would have realised I'd needed to save manually with the original MapHub UI either. A web-based interface that looks like that, I expect it to be transparent. If it'd had three icons (the classic blank page, open folder and floppy disk) in the top left, then I'd assume it would need manual saving. (I'm not saying that's what you need to do, just analysing my own intuitions)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 11:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015816</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "TinyJS – Shorten JavaScript QuerySelect with $ and $$"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With that name I'd expect a tiny implementation of JavaScript.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:19:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725065</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41725065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Is English a “creole Language”?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant xkcd: <a href="https://xkcd.com/793/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/793/</a></p>
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<p>Anything that needs to be read over the phone should probably be written out using something like the NATO phonetic alphabet, split into smaller chunks if needed: "The code? It's kilo eight niner; one three mike; delta echo lima."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583593</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, other details are missing too. For example <i>backgroundStyle</i>:<p>> <i>cover</i> fills the entire width and height of the node.<p>Does that work like the CSS <i>background-size: cover;</i> or <i>background-size: 100% 100%;</i>?<p>> <i>ratio</i> maintains the aspect ratio of the background image.<p>Does that mean CSS <i>cover</i>? <i>contain</i>? Something else?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671728</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39671728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Password may not contain: select, insert, update, delete, drop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is correct.<p>The client sends the encrypted (via HTTPS) but not hashed password to the server, both for changing your password and checking your password. So the server receives the password in plaintext but shouldn't store it.<p>Whatever the client sends to the server, an attacker can send too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:34:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078766</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Lowercase letters save data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What if you actually needed to differentiate jack from Jack?<p>Especially if Jack's your uncle and he's on a horse...</p>
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<p>CONVERTING EVERYTHING TO UPPERCASE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON COMPRESSION STOP IT EVEN MAKES YOUR WEBSITE LOOK LIKE A TELEGRAM STOP</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:31:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067871</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39067871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Ask HN: When LLMs make stuff up, call it 'confabulating', not 'hallucinating'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In terms of communicating with laypeople, I don't think this is a hill worth dying on. "Confabulating" is not a term I think that many people outside of the field of psychology are familiar with in the first place.<p>If you do want to use another term for laypeople, I think "bullshitting" or "BSing" would have connotations that are more relevant than "hallucinating".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 10:39:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37912986</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37912986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37912986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "SQL reserved words – An empirical list"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This might work in the short term, but I don't recommend it as a general technique.<p>This sort of an approach often causes there to be hidden bugs, which do not generate errors now, but will cause some problem down the line.<p>It also has a tendency to lead to cargo cult programming (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming</a>), which is less immediately problematic, but is still not great, especially for whoever needs to maintain that code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846347</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37846347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Show HN: Host a Website in the URL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shameless self-promotion: <a href="https://github.com/gvx/base116676">https://github.com/gvx/base116676</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:18:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419252</link><dc:creator>gvx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37419252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gvx in "Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly, most apps don't need a full name. Just a preferred name is enough.<p>If you really <i>need</i> a full name, it'll be because you need it for a specific institution, like government or bank. In that case, you probably need the ability to provide a separate full name for each institution.</p>
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