Hacker News: johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=johnoftheseaHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:57:17 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"]]>Can you be more specific?

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:30:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501966johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501966https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501966<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"]]>First, Gatekeeper was introduced, but you could globally set in system preferences if unsigned software is enabled. Then this setting option was removed. What will come next? I do not know but I started to migrate off the ecosystem. Just in case.

(At least on macOS one can still disable routined. Unlnike on iOS.)

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:08:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365863johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365863<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"]]>On the other hand homebrew maintainers a deprecating software that is not signed (like Allacritty and Librecad).

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:02:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365786johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365786https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365786<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"]]>Common sense would be not prioritising inefficient technology to automate few things and instead invest in people?

]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:47:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956573johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956573https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956573<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"]]>> vehicle sizes in all other countries have also been increasing

Yes SUVs are more common in Europe now but still size is much smaller than in US.

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:17:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651590johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651590https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651590<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"]]>I just wish Homebrew was not planning to remove packages because of this.

> $ brew doctor

> Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled. You should find replacements for the following casks:

> alacritty

> librecad

Is there workaround? Probably. But macos lost benefit of OS X's "it just works". Time to move elsewhere I guess.

]]>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:49:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083182johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083182https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083182<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"]]>Or the Prince.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:12:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689750johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689750https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689750<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"]]>> AI is eroding copyright, so there may no longer be a need for the GPL. GNU should stop and rethink its stance, chuck away the GPL as the main tool to fight evil software corporations and embrace LLM as the main weapon.

Is this LLM thing freely available or is it owned and controlled by these companies? Are we going to rent the tools to fight "evil software corporations"?

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:21:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312111johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312111<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"]]>This comment needs another 'EDIT'.

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:01:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122439johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122439https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47122439<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"]]>> with lots of #hashtags

I missed this one. What was it about?

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:18:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732137johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46732137<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"]]>I tested it using a local keyword, as I normally do, and it took me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know existed. So thanks for that.

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:38:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730876johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730876<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"]]>Better late than never.

> The French index is at an advanced stage of completion, we have started creating the German language index, and the English one should start shortly. All progress is quickly integrated into the Qwant STAAN API.

https://noc.social/@327ppm/115934198650900394

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:21:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730734johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730734https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730734<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?"]]>> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't?

My RSS reader is subscribed to:

- one Youtube channel

- several blogs (most blogs do have RSS, for example Wordpress provide it by default)

- Hacker News (few keyword-based feeds)

- Gitlab and Codeberg projects (Github provides RSS, but I'm not currently subscribed to any, because I need to be logged there anyway)

- podcasts (podcasts are basically just RSS)

- few Mobilizon sites for events

- OpenStreetMap QA tool that checks my edits

- two subreddits

Maybe in general, you are right. I know just my bubble and even there are few sites without RSS (like Bandcamp).

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:01:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310406johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310406<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?"]]>For those that are subscribed to Youtube channels: no need to have account. Youtube has RSS.

]]>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:30:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310210johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310210<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "The Rust Performance Book (2020)"]]>> > If an enum has an outsized variant, consider boxing one or more fields.

Clippy (at least pedantic one) will suggest this if needed.

]]>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:52:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037628johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037628https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037628<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"]]>Ruter operates in and around Oslo where temperatures higher than average. Anyway some of old (diesel?) buses had broken heating and were heating even if it was warm outside. These are still improvement.

]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:42:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826302johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826302<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Typst 0.14"]]>> [1]

There is one example with Fletcher... I find these also nice: https://typst.app/universe/package/fletcher

]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:36:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697729johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697729https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697729<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "CRDTs: Convergence without coordination"]]>https://p2panda.org/2025/02/24/group-encryption.html

]]>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:40:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688294johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688294https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688294<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use"]]>Just for curiosity there is also: https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu

Which seems like interesting UX.

]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653854johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653854https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653854<![CDATA[New comment by johnofthesea in "How I'm using Helix editor"]]>I just use “d” for empty line.

]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:36:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560571johnoftheseahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560571