<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: inopinatus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=inopinatus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:27:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=inopinatus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good writing doesn’t exclude it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:54:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510779</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your argument goes as follows: “I’m incapable of it, therefore no-one is capable of it”.<p>Followed by, “You should abandon your preferences because I don’t share them”.</p>
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<p>Just sit there in silence whilst you cogitate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:21:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503790</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Thermodynamics rules future orbital data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Solved problem”. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain</a><p>It merely remains to build one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492094</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "AI misidentification results in wrongful arrest; man seeks justice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>origin is geoblocking. <a href="https://archive.is/DtYSf" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/DtYSf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:59:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469470</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t understand why the obnoxious popover didn’t automatically manifest when I scrolled its own doco. Needs more IntersectionObserver. Bonus points if the component props thereof are named like “selfArmTrigger”, I suppose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453621</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We don’t need a special term for interoperable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:11:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185695</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Claude for Legal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m excited about the upcoming Claude for Surgery, Claude for Autonomous War Robots, Claude for Soufflé, and Claude for Nuclear Waste Reprocessing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154556</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The press location is surely double-digit seconds sonically from the launch site. So the simultaneous launch rumble is also an edit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 11:46:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093768</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Is it a client bug?<p>Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 21:39:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088366</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's not mince words. Whoever made this call is a lily-livered, paternalistic chickenshit startled by their own shadow. A nasty case of moral cowardice, coupled to poor judgement, to no-one's benefit.</p>
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<p>You are in:<p>Dark<p>You can hear nothing, smell nothing, taste nothing, see nothing, feel nothing,
and are not even certain who you are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:57:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671217</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Usenet Archives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me too, but not for usenet. The server-to-server protocol is a low ceremony, high observability, standardised and battle-proven gossip-flood protocol with hierarchical channelisation and robust mature tooling, ideal for eventually-consistent distribution of telemetry and control messages over a node mesh of uncertain reliability up to global scale. What's not to like?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658984</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was forced to consider the possibility of this being a collection of late entries in an April Fools contest:<p>A pen that doesn't work properly.<p>A notepad you have to make yourself.<p>Grid paper with lines missing.<p>A device making books hard to read.<p>A paper stubby holder.<p>A calendar, but it's difficult to tell the date.<p>Maybe it <i>is</i> satire. It reads like confected pseudo-intellectual slop. Perhaps it merely demonstrates that the Japanese can have terrible ideas just like the rest of us.</p>
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<p>Quite so. The old posts (2023 and earlier) have a fresher writing style. Compare to this latest which feels like an entry for <i>Pseuds Corner</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658229</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you pay closer attention you can see when they switched to frequent use of em dashes for parenthetical asides, around about January 2024.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:11:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658186</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Tailscale's new macOS home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Unless you install the bare OS from scratch<p>This caveat is doing enough heavy lifting for an Olympic podium.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624589</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Tailscale's new macOS home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I don't have any experience with that problem, it follows that no-one has that problem".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:20:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620351</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "Tailscale's new macOS home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That phrase "just works" speaks more to vertical integration than it does to any more specific claim about UX, alignment to preferences, or immediate productivity, and to demonstrate how foundationally this is encoded, you implicitly alluded as much in that opening phrase "a mac, the OS" that directly conflated the hardware and the software.<p>Frankly, I prefer the mac because there's so little arsing around with drivers. Not out of any blinkered misconceptions about quality, usability, or an otiose love for Apple or their products otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:07:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620201</link><dc:creator>inopinatus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by inopinatus in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There’s a ton of detail in the report so perhaps I missed it, but yes, the underlying structural/governance flaw of conflating a service, with the IP that runs that service, is a root cause here and seems insufficiently called out.  The tragedy of misconception -> misconstruction -> misconfiguration is common when the bridge between governance and engineering is crossed.<p>The takeaway for the rest of is that separation of such concerns isn’t an abstract notion but needs to be reflected in the mechanical implementation of organisations, lest you get a train wreck later when perspectives don’t align and the whole picture crumbles.</p>
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