<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: johncoltrane</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=johncoltrane</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:17:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=johncoltrane" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ext in tonga</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357580</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Ferrari's New Jony Ive–Designed EV Is Swathed in Glass and Aluminum"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When will that "dashboard with tacked-on tablets" trend stop?<p>It can somehow be excused in cheap models because new versions are generally incremental evolutions, which would make proper integration of the touchscreen harder/more expensive. But not in a brand new model of a luxury brand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276451</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "The Economist prepares for a two‑track Web: one for humans one for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That would be a third track since the current Web is already (at least) "two-track": humans and search engines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191069</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "What happens when we lose a language?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The world goes on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 18:32:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086511</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A bunch of William Gibsons.<p>Philip K. Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.<p>Clifford D. Simak's City.<p>Classics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:35:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984579</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "The Dark Eye (role-playing game)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a full D&D campaign with the adults during summer camp.  In the following months Casus Belli and Jeux & Strategies, two magazines dedicated to RPGs, gradually replaced comics… and we eventually put together an "official" club at our middle school, where we played D&D for a while, and more games as we discovered them: MEGA II, Paranoia, Rêve de dragons, le JRTM, Call of Cthulu, Zone, etc.<p>Fond memories of Laelith ;-).</p>
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<p>Not sure what's the most surprising to me. That an attack on ANTS happened or that the Entrevue rag still exists. Also, for what it's worth: <a href="https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/communication-sur-la-fuite-presumee-de-donnees-detat-civil" rel="nofollow">https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/communication-sur-la-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:31:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834069</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Do founders' political views affect how you see a product?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Do you separate the product from the founder?<p>Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.</p>
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<p>FWIW, you don't have to do any of that to enter China.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489897</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Shadows Shouldn't Stack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that compositors typically don't have the notion of 3D scene.<p>It's all just a stack of layers, one window per layer. There is no shadow to speak of, only a mask around the window that provides the illusion of shadow. So there is no real interaction between all those items, no source of light, no distance, and no way to do ray tracing or some other techniques.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:27:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487983</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Ask HN: Why does a black line appear on HN sometimes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They add this black line when an important figure of tech dies. It is the HN equivalent of a black armband: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_armband</a><p>Today, it's Tony Hoare: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:28:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333826</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assuming you already had a ~/.vimrc, the only non-defaults in that list are:<p><pre><code>    :let no_man_maps=1
    :let loaded_matchparen = 1
    :set comments=""
    :set matchpairs=""
    :set paste
</code></pre>
All the other lines set options to their default value, which is pointless.<p>The values for 'comments' and 'matchpairs' are incorrect, they should be:<p><pre><code>    :set comments=
    :set matchpairs=
</code></pre>
Enabling 'paste' by default is a very bad idea, with lots of side-effects.<p>Setting the following variable is useless if you don't enable the 'man' plugin, but maybe you do it manually during a session. I don't know. YMMV.<p><pre><code>    :let no_man_maps=1</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324299</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't switch because there was no reason to. And there is still none.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:45:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323994</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Source: Havana Syndrome investigation is "a CIA cover-up" – 60 Minutes [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Conspiracy theorists have that special ability to jump to the most implausible conclusions from the smallest amount of facts.<p>I tried to watch The Age Of Disclosure and, well… Everyone in it manages to stay relatively reasonable during the first fourth of the movie. Until they decide that the most likely explanation of all those unexplained phenomenons is a race of technologically advanced extraterrestrials hiding at the bottom of the ocean for thousands of years.<p>It went from "we don't know anything" to "it's threatening aquatic ETs" in a heartbeat. It was almost scary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320718</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Ask HN: Do you have a good solution for isolated workspaces per project?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can try what Apple calls "fast user switching", which is actually pretty fast. The last (and only) time I used it, my days were split half-and-half between two projects for two clients, each with its own infrastructure. I did that primarily to help me focus but it had one pretty cool perk that I've been missing ever since: isolated accounts meant that I never had to worry about which Git/$SAAS/whatever user was currently authenticated and managing keys and such was a breeze as there was no "managing" needed, really.<p>I could do it because I had _some_ level of control on my work machine. Now that I work for a much larger organisation… I can't even imagine how hard it would be to have such a setup.<p>I don't know how usable it is in practice if you are switching contexts every 10 minutes, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271908</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "I built a real-time RER/train tracker for Paris commuters (PWA, no app store)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good work!<p>FWIW, I use Chrome 145.0.7632.117 on a M1 MacBook Pro and I just got a notification suggesting me to "correct" the o'rer tab because it used too much resource. I was looking at the details of my Transilien station.<p>Also, looking a the same "details" popin, I see some irrelevant info when I click on the "alert sign" of a Transilien line (Line N in this case): something about bus stops.<p>I have a couple of questions about the API:<p>I've looked at the data provided by IDFM and SNCF a few times but I was never able to find a way to match a commercial train number, say "134671", to a physical train number, say "211L" or "Z50421/22" or the more complicated EVN. Did you, by any chance come upon such a thing?<p>Also, could you confirm that the only data available concerns _departure_ times?<p>Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265162</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "The Saga of Kowloon Walled City"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny how they use the term "City of Darkness" a few times, without ever referring to the book "City of Darkness", by Greg Girard and Ian Lambot, from which most of the pictures in the article come.<p>Strongly recommended.<p><a href="https://cityofdarkness.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://cityofdarkness.co.uk/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197443</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All text editors have always supported markdown, even before markdown even existed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164041</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I prefer my background dark so light colorschemes are not really an area I've explored seriously. Also, dark colorschemes are much easier to design than light ones due to the disproportionate amount of light a white, say, background emits compared to the amount emitted by text. It dramatically reduces the number of colors you can use.<p>I have one here: <a href="https://github.com/romainl/vim-sweet16" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/romainl/vim-sweet16</a> but it is intentionally weird and essentially unmaintained.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:39:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062898</link><dc:creator>johncoltrane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johncoltrane in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it means making choices, breaking assumptions, etc.. They have made it user-customizable so they don't have to go through all that.<p>FWIW, the current de-facto standard is set by xterm. Here is a relevant excerpt of its source code:<p><pre><code>    ! Disclaimer: there are no standard colors used in terminal emulation.
    !
    ! The choice for color4 and color12 is a tradeoff between contrast, depending
    ! on whether they are used for text or backgrounds.  Note that either color4 or
    ! color12 would be used for text, while only color4 would be used for a
    ! background.  These are treated specially, since the luminosity of blue is
    ! only about half that of red/green, and is typically not accounted for in the
    ! RGB scheme.
    !
    ! Blue text on a black background should be readable.
    ! Blue backgrounds should not be "too" bright.
    !
    ! Originally color4/color12 were set to the names blue3/blue
    !*VT100*color4: blue3
    !*VT100*color12: blue
    !
    ! They are from rgb.txt respectively:
    !  0   0 205  blue3
    !  0   0 255  blue
    ! However, blue3 is not readable on a black background.
    !
    ! Another choice was from the Debian settings:
    !*VT100*color4: DodgerBlue1
    !*VT100*color12: SteelBlue1
    !
    ! From rgb.txt:
    ! 30 144 255  DodgerBlue1
    ! 99 184 255  SteelBlue1
    !
    ! Some users object to this choice because the background (color4) is brighter
    ! than they are accustomed.  Others point out that the different weights for
    ! the red/green components make it appear to be not really blue.  Finally, it
    ! provides poor contrast against color13 and color14.
    !
    ! The current choice uses equal weights for red/green (effectively adding a
    ! gray to the result).  It is brighter than the original choice, and provides
    ! more contrast between color12 and color13, color14 than SteelBlue1 did.
    ! Contrast of color4 against black is slightly improved over the original.
    !
    ! Some refinement is certainly possible (you are welcome to try) -TD
</code></pre>
Make that what you will :-).</p>
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