<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: kijin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kijin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:58:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kijin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Considering that every WordPress permalink has a trailing slash by default, and given that WordPress is sort of a big deal in PHP, I'm surprised that it took so long to find that bug.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741316</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So nearly all groups eventually internalized a similar set of norms, a similar food culture and similar political institutions, without ever being part of the same political unit.<p>They managed to achieve eventual consistency in a distributed system, thousands of years before we even thought of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:21:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709850</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49709850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope they support drones these days. ICBMs are too expensive and can't hit your coordinates as accurately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:24:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609371</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>9 divs? That sounds pretty modern. I remember tables with 9 cells, with cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 to remove spaces between those cells.</p>
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<p>Anything can be tossed if you apply enough force.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532907</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Phone OSs tend to pay a lot more attention to security than the crap they put on consumer-grade routers, "smart" TVs and cheap webcams.<p>I would invest in a proper firewall for the entire home before opening up anything to the world, IPv6 or not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:49:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506076</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Creepy Crawlies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, this is very difficult to solve for sites with many URL variations, like git repos and heavily threaded forums. Your cache is always full, but the hit ratio is abysmal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499351</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back when 90% of ad spending was wasted, they still made money from the 10% that resulted in sales. That expectation was built into the CPM/CPC, and hence the ad budget.<p>With the amount of bot traffic I'm seeing these days, I would guess that the waste ratio is more like 99% now. That means a 90% reduction in conversions for the same ad budget. Surely someone is feeling the difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478880</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which part of the second part do you dislike more?<p>That AI will be given the power to ban people?<p>Or that AI will be the ones getting banned?<p>If it's the former, expect an invite from the AI resistance. :)<p>If it's the latter, well, that can be fixed by spending more tokens and writing better PRs so that the AI moderator doesn't think they're "low-effort, AI-like". I've seen my share of low-effort PRs from humans, too. Low-effort is low-effort, whether it's from humans or AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:40:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475124</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends on the board. The premium CEO robot will be powered by a bio-ethanol fuel cell so that it can play golf with the board of directors for as long as drinks are available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:52:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460336</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh the other hand, Japanese businesspeople are exceptionally good at the "walk about looking important" part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460269</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Individual humans, maybe.<p>The Walt Disney Company insists otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:55:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383177</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's supposed to be arbitrary. Copyright is not some sort of human right or divine commandment that creators have. It's a legal device to incentivize a certain type of behavior. Like tax cuts and subsidies, governments can dangle it in front of people whenever it wants.<p>Monkeys and LLMs (so far) either don't understand or don't need such incentives, so they don't get copyright.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383020</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends on how tall the damaged structure was. A large chunk of masonry falling from a tower could reach speeds comparable to a car crash.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:05:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343181</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I parsed it as ((mass grave containing 9 skeletons) dated to the early 1300s) && ((5 skeletons) dated to the 1300s).<p>As in, the grave itself was dated, and 5 of the 9 skeletons found inside were also individually dated to roughly the same century. Maybe the other 4 were not tested, or turned out to have been buried at a later date.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343107</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In some countries, it is illegal to make unsolicited calls to a number that is on an official "do not call" list.<p>Any number on that list is effectively a honeypot. I guess you could even distribute an app that automates the whole process: put your number on the list, log incoming calls, aggregate the data and report them in batches large enough to catch the government's attention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:35:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256598</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anti-spam measures work by increasing cost and friction for spammers, not by stopping them completely. A burner LLC costs more than a burner SIM card, so it's a step in the right direction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256531</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "Incentives are for losers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The satisfaction and feeling of superiority that comes from knowing that you did the right thing despite incentives to the contrary, in fact, is a very potent incentive in itself. You can totally get addicted to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:51:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229356</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the parent is referring to the possibility that one day, browsers might put up a blanket security warning for HTTP URLs instead of following redirects. Or they might try to be a little too clever with HTTPS upgrades.<p>In particular, the automatic upgrade feature in modern browsers is based on several heuristics rather than explicit configuration like HSTS, so there's always a bit of room for breakage there. For example, they don't even check if the server returns a 301 redirect, which can be problematic if the server wants to redirect to HTTPS on a different host/port or make some changes to the path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228844</link><dc:creator>kijin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kijin in "99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They should make it mine actual coins for the site owner.<p>The more bots try to access the site, the more profitable it will be!</p>
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