<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: hoistbypetard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoistbypetard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:25:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hoistbypetard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sectigo used to be Comodo's CA business. If memory serves, that business was purchased by a US PE firm and renamed "Sectigo". Sectigo Inc.'s corporate headquarters is now in Scottsdale, AZ.<p>There's no reason to believe they're any less subject to US jurisdiction than LetsEncrypt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465284</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The M1s have the modular ports, if iFixIt is to be believed:<p><a href="https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+14-Inch+2021+USB-C+Ports+Replacement/150905" rel="nofollow">https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+14-Inch+2021+USB-C+...</a><p>I've only changed a battery on that model, not the ports, so I haven't verified, but those steps are detailed enough and consistent enough with what I observed, that I believe them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:43:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417212</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The piece I linked, along with the parts for sale in the iFixIt shop seem to contradict your assertion. The piece says:<p>"The Neo has the same modular bits and bobs we’ve applauded in recent MacBook designs. The USB-C ports are modular, so a damaged charge port doesn’t turn into logic board work."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:46:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384028</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>macbooks have modular ports.<p><a href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years#:~:text=Modular%20Ports%20and,logic%20board%20work." rel="nofollow">https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...</a></p>
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<p>Looking at their repository, they're taking it that direction:<p><a href="https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/blob/main/CLAUDE.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/blob/mai...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:11:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354816</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you assume that good judgement is an inherent attribute that can't be developed, that might be a sensible option.<p>I've found that it's a thing that develops over time with experience, though. And I want people I'm training to develop that skill rather than farm it out to an LLM that never gets it right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 04:41:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319124</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard disagree. If I only cared about immediate results, I'd just ask Claude myself, sure. But I care about developing people's judgement, longer term. And if they're just parroting back what Claude says, I'm not doing that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296675</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kyanka</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:33:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182682</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I semi-regularly offer drive-by PRs to projects I like and use. They're real PRs, not generated with AI. They range from papercuts to doc fixes to attempts to add that one feature that I want. Sometimes it's a drive-by group of PRs. Or an issue and a PR. I try to conform to what the maintainers prefer.<p>Unless I knew the maintainers personally, this would prevent most of my contributions, which are most often accepted. Maybe it's worth losing out on my small contributions to avoid slop. But things would absolutely be lost this way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:32:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182670</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mine (a US 2017 subaru impreza) supports both and doesn't have built-in navigation/maps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:52:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140321</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree. I rode Server 2003, then after that Server 2008 (which kept most of the 2000-era gui, though the start menu got more vista-shaped) for my Windows development desktop machine for as long as I could. By the time Server 2008 reached end-of-support, I didn't need a Windows development box anymore, and my only contact with Windows has been sporadic, but feels like a distinct downgrade. I've had VMs of each major desktop version for odd small tasks, and have been grateful not to need to spend a lot of time using them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 12:17:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134347</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Automation helps eliminate the silly mistakes that come with manual, repetitive work.<p>Sometimes it does that. And sometimes it lets you fuck things up at scale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:49:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023280</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Ti-84 Evo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We made multi-player games over the link cables in the early 1990s. We certainly learned a ton from building those. It's not clear how much the calculators added to the math and chemistry classes where we were supposed to use them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:24:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981197</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If none of the money is yours it means it is not your profit. A license expressed in terms of profit instead of revenue would be suitable for you.<p>I like this idea, but the devil is in the details. "profit" is less defined than revenue. You have to specify your accounting principles. What counts as an expense that deducts from revenue to help define profit?<p>It's not impossible, but there's a lot more variance depending on locality, business structure, etc. than there is with just "revenue".<p>Of course, I suspect it all comes down to whether the entity offering the license is large enough and well-enough legally armed to force an audit of the organization taking the license. If they're not able to do that, it's all self-reporting anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922322</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you do that and don't follow robots.txt, you are blocked. If you do that and follow robots.txt, fine. That's all we wanted you to do anyway. Just follow the instructions that well-behaved scrapers are meant to follow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:23:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564537</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/mog" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/mog</a></p>
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<p>It was eye-wateringly expensive and required a high-end system, though. It was good, and I liked it too, but it's not the same as being usable from pretty much anywhere for $0.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:43:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283093</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an english speaker (not a lawyer) I'd have read the "and" in "applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols" to mean that all three were required.<p>Why do you read that to mean just one is required?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:48:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203819</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Eight more months of agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> To me that statement is as obvious as "water is wet".<p>Water is not wet. Water makes things wet. Perhaps the inaccuracy of that statement should be taken as a hint that the other statements that you hold on the same level are worthy of reconsideration.</p>
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<p>Bleh. I still get through for now. I'll be sorry when I need to go find an alternative, because I don't know of another that works as reliably as archive[.ph|.is|.today] for me currently</p>
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