<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: lrpe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lrpe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:36:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lrpe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Where is all the new, good software?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of fewer bugs and better performance.<p>> We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of more and better features in existing products.<p>After reading these two points, I had to scroll down to see if it was the opening of some elaborate joke, because I'm seeing more bugs, worse performance, and less and worse features.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:14:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068841</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You say tables, graphics, graphs, and colors, but I mean things that move when they don't need to move and interfere with expected UI behaviour, like arbitrarily staying in one position when I am using my mouse wheel to scroll downwards.<p>I should have been more precise than saying "just give me text", but it was what came in to mind when I wrote it, as I was thinking about what an article is meant to contain as its base element.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998542</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I take the opposite viewpoint. I think pages like these are horrible, and a demonstration that web designers have too many tools at their disposal.<p>But this is just a marketing page for some tech company, right? If only it stopped there. I have to deal with this nonsense in news "articles" as well on occasion, when some web designer intern is allowed to larp as a journalist for a day.<p><i>sigh</i> Just give me text to read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997475</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49997475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh my god yes, kill it, please.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904582</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Can I run AI locally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This site desperately needs a light mode.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379789</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:27:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822719</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a shame. The "pref" is whatever the user has set on their device, and I wish more sites would respect that, rather than defaulting to their own "pref".</p>
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<p>Can I turn off dark mode?</p>
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<p>Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220073</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Google Releases CodeWiki"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.</p>
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<p>No. It's not just you.<p>I have nothing against dark mode in principle, but please don't make it the default. Respect the user's preference.<p>Or, at the very least, don't use white on black. Soften the contrast so that, if you force me to read it, it's not burned into my vision.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916433</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Man says ChatGPT sparked a 'spiritual awakening'. Wife says threatens marriage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just a matter of time before one of these vulnerable individuals kills a whole bunch of people because the machine told them to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453039</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."<p>I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.</p>
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<p>I'm more annoyed by them. They're so small on my work monitor that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. They just look like smudges.<p>I don't get the need to use novel symbols like this when standard numerals would suffice.</p>
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<p>The whole internet, really.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:58:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939437</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is that really something people do? Really seems insincere and inappropriate to me. Is it a cultural thing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:02:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844535</link><dc:creator>lrpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37844535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lrpe in "How far back in time can I take my website's design?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No your writing is fine, and sorry if I'm being a negative nancy. It's just that light text on black backgrounds cause me eye strain so they're not really my cup of tea. The light grey font color does help a litte though. I often experience lines of text being burned into my vision with these themes, and that effect was not as noticeable here.<p>I am admittedly not a fan of dark themes in general, but I feel they are done right when the dark background is toned down a bit so you're not staring at a pitch black screen. And not just by a few shades.<p>As an aside, I didn't even know GitHub had a dark theme. I just tried it and it was horrible. Then I switched from dark default to dark dimmed and it was much more tolerable, although I still prefer light.</p>
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<p>If readability is truly your pursuit, then it is my humble opinion that you should avoid high contrast white/lightgrey on pitch black colors when designing a dark theme for your app or website, or consider adding a toggle to switch to a light theme. I gave up at the end of the first section of this article because it was just too much.</p>
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<p>This seems like a good way to shift the blame for climate change to individual people who are powerless to do anything to stop it.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I hate it.</p>
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