<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: holycrapwhodat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=holycrapwhodat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:50:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=holycrapwhodat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Apple has not approved any...<p>They've approved - at the very least - AltStore, Epic Games Store, Aptoide, Onside, and Setapp Mobile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:03:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495599</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's an honest-to-god Tesla solar roof tile house in my South Bay neighborhood. They got them installed 5(+/-) years ago.<p>They look fine.<p>I don't know what their power generation is like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:29:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394503</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Waymo in Dallas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The problem with Waymos is there's no human driver, so they'll adjust pick up and drop off in a way that could be dangerous for the passenger. A human driver isn't going let a passenger off into a dangerous situation.<p>In this situation, you absolutely can (and are encouraged to) press the support button in the car to talk to a human agent. They have the ability to tell the car to go somewhere it normally wouldn't go for any situation that humans can reason about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:47:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176319</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>New NES were still available in the US through at least Christmas 1992, and in Europe deep into 1995, both selling alongside the SNES since 1991.<p>The final new international games were released in 1994, but Europe still got new games into 1995.<p>Japanese Famicoms were still being sold in Japan when the PS2 released. They sold <i>more</i> in Japan in 2001 than in 2000.<p>So no, calling the NES "retro" in 2000 wouldn't have made all too much sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637242</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Telefon Hírmondó"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The verb "to herald" means to be a sign of something that is imminent.<p>But the noun "herald" literally means "official who tells the news"<p>So this still definitely checks out.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_it0G2KcrM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_it0G2KcrM</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:22:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271447</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML...<p>WebKit has been a fully proper open source project - with open bug tracker, patch review, commit history, etc - since 2005.<p>Swift has been a similarly open project since 2015.<p>Timeline-wise, a new high profile open source effort in 2025 checks out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 02:36:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231894</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Declarative Web Push"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.<p>Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push.
It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - <a href="https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/sending-web-push-notifications-in-web-apps-and-browsers" rel="nofollow">https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:56:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577889</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Declarative Web Push"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since there <i>is no service worker required</i>, if ITP removes the service worker, declarative web push continues to work.
I believe this is explicitly called out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:53:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577870</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Declarative Web Push"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly talking with the other browser engines and web developers at the W3C TPAC conference, making concrete proposals to the relevant web standards githubs, taking feedback, etc.<p>Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 02:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577859</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43577859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Safe and efficient C++ interoperability via non-escapable types and lifetimes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is Swift interop needed for that?
C/C++ are first class citizens in Apple's toolchains, and Obj-C++ interop has been a well supported thing for 25+ years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:12:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42142253</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42142253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42142253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with Switch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But, you can still pair most types of extra controllers to it (including a set of Joycons), and the eShop is aware of games the few games that can only be played on a tv and warns of incompatibility.</p>
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<p>It is not USB-C powered.<p>It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:44:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987312</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Nearly all the combined work of humanity has been "lost to time," and society seems pretty okay with that.<p>Pre-digital age, preserving the combined work of humanity was actually quite difficult. The cost to preserve everything outside of "obviously important" artifacts would've been preventative (or even impossible) for society as a whole.<p>I believe many (if not most) folks native to the digital age believe that digital artifacts should be preserved indefinitely by default - as the cost in doing so is comparatively trivial - and laws in democratic nations will catch up to that.</p>
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<p>Yup!<p>Much of Santa Clara Valley has "R1-8" zoning, which means "detached single family homes, 8 per acre."<p>43,560 / 8 = 5,445 sqft lots.<p>7,900 sqft is larger than average for many comparable neighborhoods.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174975</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "In-App Browsers: The worst erosion of user choice you haven't heard of"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Safari on iOS supports extensions, and - while I don't know - I'd be shocked if Chrome on Android didn't?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:21:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852681</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Generating Power on Earth from the Coldness of Deep Space"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our universe is a closed system. We cannot change its overall heat content. We can only move heat around within it.<p>Without tapping into another universe - which we're nowhere close to being able to even theorize about - all we have the ability to do is create a localized heating crisis within our universe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 03:34:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418940</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38418940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Are 200-3kb/s sufficient for a realistic attack?<p>Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32072822</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32072822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32072822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As both a software developer and a pilot...<p>We're (much?) closer to Fully-Self-Flying planes than FSD cars because the problem space is - perhaps counterintuitively - MUCH smaller to tackle. And we have a lot more experience tackling it.<p>Additionally there could easily be remote pilots as backup in case of catastrophe (See remote piloted military and border patrol UAVs)<p>And pulling a parachute at 1000'+ altitude actually has quite a bit of precedent (See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_System" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...</a>)<p>Now... There's probably a lot of cultural and regulatory reasons why the "string of automated glider ports" idea will never come to fruition.<p>But... As far as technical hurdles go, there's not much new technology that would need to be invented here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:19:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835587</link><dc:creator>holycrapwhodat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by holycrapwhodat in "New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Modern supercomputers are obscenely parallel machines built to chew through embarrassingly parallelizable tasks.</p>
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