<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>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:49:48 +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 "Giving up on smart rings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have all these same complaints about regular rings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715533</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "This Month in Ladybird – August 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And ooenbsd pioneered anoncvs didn't it?<p>That's not really relevant. "anoncvs" was just the ability to retrieve source code from the project's repository without an account, as opposed to being forced to download a tarball. It didn't do anything more than ladybird's public github-hosted repository[1] to facilitate contributions.<p>Think of ladybird's github issues like the openbsd mailing lists. If you start submitting good issues with patches there, and you do it often enough that they would rather let you merge your patches yourself, there's a high likelihood you'll no longer be an outsider. (I don't know this from personal experience with ladybird, but it's the vibe I get from their posts about the matter.)<p>[1](<a href="https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybirdP" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybirdP</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:09:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604936</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SELinux, and that was NSA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378796</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be missing both an ORM and an argument for building without one; I'd have a hard time calling something a "full full-stack framework" without either an ORM or a very well-articulated statement for why that's a non-goal and what convention replaces it, allows for auto-generated admin pages, etc.<p>I don't think an ORM is necessary, but I do think you need to say what people are meant to do instead and how your batteries are included without it, if you're going that direction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:34:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954650</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone got a quick primer on what 7-Oh is? That's a new term for me and the web search doesn't seem reliable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923384</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems odd not to acknowledge and differentiate yourself from [apache ant](<a href="https://ant.apache.org" rel="nofollow">https://ant.apache.org</a>).<p>Failure to do so certainly makes me think the new project isn't very serious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:58:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877317</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Show HN: Bramble – Local-first password manager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> TL;DR: I dislike private-equity and venture funded companies messing with our security, so I created my own Password Manager which is local-first, free, open source and as transparent as it gets.<p>I do too! And I appreciate your transparency about the vibe coding. But nowhere in the repository that I've found so far do you say who is writing this. For something like a password manager, I kind of need to know who's responsible for it, and who's reviewing the LLM source code, what they've done before, what their business model is, etc.<p>Can you share?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:39:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767728</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you read the thread? They don't offer a way to turn it off. Someone reverse-engineered a workaround from the compiled binary, but it's not clear that it works.<p><a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73125#issuecomment-4868544439" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/73125#issue...</a><p>In #30740, customers asked for the ability to turn it off, and anthropic closed it as "not planned".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766671</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Free the Icons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard agree! Not only is it less fun and less visually appealing to me, I think forcing the uniform squircle everywhere makes it harder (than it used to be) to distinguish one app from another by icon alone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:06:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725926</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48725926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was originally pitched as a "distraction blocker" and it works in two modes. As a browser and as a content blocker, if you enable it in Safari's extension settings. I've still got it set up as a content blocking Safari extension (you find that in Settings -> Apps -> Safari -> Extensions) and it still seems to be blocking ads for me. Maybe not as many as it once did, but I just turned it off to see, and that made an unpleasant difference.<p>I think I've been using it for 10 years (or so) now. It's my favorite thing Mozilla has done on iOS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:23:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575464</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hoistbypetard in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What?<p><a href="https://www.firefox.com/en-US/mobile/focus/" rel="nofollow">https://www.firefox.com/en-US/mobile/focus/</a><p>The only thing I use Firefox on iOS for *is* its ad blocker.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:35:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556907</link><dc:creator>hoistbypetard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556907</guid></item><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>
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