<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: nemosaltat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nemosaltat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:23:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nemosaltat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And whatever’s worse than screw for copying presumable pngs as .webp or whatever that format is</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341054</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The apps definitely know. Horsemen example: If you screenshot on Amazon (and Business version) iOS apps, it “helpfully” pops its own share sheet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340579</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I expect to have an image of exactly whatever was displayed on the screen at the time<p>Do you/should you (we) really expect that though? I regularly use color filters on my apple devices— grayscale to avoid distractions during the day and red tint at night. More recently I’ve been using the motion dots. I don’t know that I can say with confidence that I <i>never</i> want any of those “personal-perceptional-modifiers” to appear in a screenshot, but for most folks, I would guess it’s approximately never.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:15:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340333</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>User said “Clean.” Starting Claude cleanup.<p>The following command contains an expansion would you lime to allow the following command to run on your computer:<p><pre><code>    `sudo rm -rf ~/ .claude`
</code></pre>
1. Always
2. Yes
3. Type something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103757</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "Apple Upgrade Launches in the United States"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The final “Upgrade” is to wholly and completely acknowledge that you don’t own your hardware, we do. Frankly, leasing a modern Apple product feels more honest having everything locked down on a device I ostensibly “own” and while the OS constantly promotes their cloud & services ecosystem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:03:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085944</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I found myself in a similar boat (converted a personal ChatGPT sub to a Business Account shared with my partner). I ended up using Claude it write a chrome extension to just walk every chat in the side navbar and dump it to a sqlite database (when I then used for my own RAG purposes). Thanks for publishing your work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026196</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that’s perhaps a bit harsh, and I’m late (intentionally) to all this as I’ve worried about personal atrophy, security, and feeding the shoggoth<p>but also with my instructions it will churn on prompts for hours. It makes use of my local rags by domain (which it also helped me build and maintain). Most recent
example: it’s been on my list to set up headscale for like 5 years now. I know how to do it, I’ve read the docs and kept putting it off, partially cuz Tailscale works and has a generous free tier, and partially because I didn’t want to strand assets that I’d somewhat shortsightedly hardened to only accept ssh from my Tailnet.<p>claude did it all in 3 hours, while I worked on other stuff, prompting for `op` access when it needed keys, and logging each usage, with minimal involvement from me. All with more documentation, roll back points, and “learnings” propagated to the appropriate rags than I could have created in a weekend session. It made mistakes (some that I likely would have made, like region settings) then reasoned about it, corrected and tested, all transparently, all git backed, all posted about on my Mattermost server as it went, so I can easily search it the way I would of an extremely detailed teammate did it.<p>I don’t know what to make of it all, but letting it churn through my backlog has been eye-opening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:30:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972669</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "Tell HN: In the old days, computers used to get constantly faster and cheaper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got my first MacBook in ‘06, the mid-range white one, when the black one was the max spec’. It was $899 with a .edu, and ~$960
with tax then, I might be off by a little, someone can check OWC.<p>In the last 2 months, I walked out of my local Target with a neo for just under $750 with Apple care (there was a special) so, cheaper, faster across most metrics a consumer cares about, plus longer battery life, lighter, aluminum over plastic, a USB-C shaped hole that will mostly somewhat work with something you have.<p>However, if you mean cheap in the sense that if it breaks I’m at the mercy of someone else. Yes. My ‘06 MBB had a data-doubler, and SSD upgrades, and maxed RAM, and I can and did replace and maintain many of its parts myself. Plus, firewire with target disk mode to just clone it onto another machine with SuperDuper that just don’t exist in the same way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:37:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367552</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the way. Mine’s called Io(shi)T.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:58:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989317</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "The human cost of 10x: How AI is physically breaking senior engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Removing 1/10<p>feels euphemistic for the original “colloquial” usage I have for it.<p>> The killing of one in ten, chosen by lots, from a rebellious city or a mutinous army was a punishment sometimes used by the Romans. The word has been used (loosely and unetymologically, to the irritation of pedants) since 1660s for "destroy a large but indefinite number of." [0]<p>[0] <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/decimate" rel="nofollow">https://www.etymonline.com/word/decimate</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759847</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just add the universal install script to AGENTS.md and yolo <a href="https://xkcd.com/1654/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1654/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623381</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "I went down a rabbit hole on who owns every power tool brand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked for a privately held $company, looking to launch a new, commercially-focused lighting control product ecosystem. Along with other advisors, we hired a prior Milwaukee employee who had focused on JATCs (Joint Apprenticeship Training Centers, IBEW Locals).<p>At their recommendation, we internally staffed a Quality Training and Service Team to focus on hands-on training with on first-year electrical apprentices.<p>With the guidance of the erstwhile Milwaukee re, our QTS team developed and delivered hands-on trainings (with $company’s products) in the US & Canada, for first-year apprentices.<p>I covered the Western Region at that time and every training center I observed, from Hawaii to Colorado, had 
Milwaukee-provided tools and training for the apprentices to learn & grow with. When they turn out (become journeymen), it’s little wonder what they “Pack Out” with. Which is what we hoped to — and at least in some markets did— accomplish with our product.<p>I’ve personally been a DeWalt guy since the early oughts, and in addition to feeling a steady decline, I was particularly hurt when one of my (Milwaukee-loving) foremen informed me that “T-Stack” sounds like a male enhancement pill.<p>edit: clarity, grammar.
not-edited: my irregular use of the AI-shibboleth emdash</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:11:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584641</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "When Do We Become Adults, Really?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I probably could’ve/should’ve been clearer that I was quoting Laurent Binet’s _The Seventh Function of Language_ in a (likely poor) attempt at self-deprecating humor. For me, the point of the passage is that we’re all just recombining language, in the best cases cleverly to express our “own” ideas, in the worst, just attempting to pass off other’s ideas as our own.<p>Your earlier comment on adulthood reminded me of 7th function, and I didn’t want it to be too obvious I was quoting the book, because I thought it would ruin the joke. I’m not actually arguing that meaning can’t travel across language, and I certainly doubt that Binet would make that argument in earnest.<p>If your reply is a riff on Simon’s signifier/signified distinction, then I may have missed the joke and ended up reenacting the book.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465690</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "When Do We Become Adults, Really?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And besides, when I make phrases, is it really me who is speaking?<p>How can anyone ever say anything original, personal, unique to him, when by definition language obliges us to draw from a well of pre-existing words?<p>When we are influenced by so many external forces—our times, the books we read, our sociocultural determinisms, our linguistic tics so deeply ingrained that they form our identity?<p>The speeches we are constantly bombarded with, in every possible and imaginable form…<p>Who has never caught a friend, a colleague, a parent, a father-in-law, repeating an argument they have read in a newspaper or heard on television, almost word for word?<p>As if he were speaking for himself.
As if he had appropriated that speech.
As if he were the source of those thoughts—<p>rather than a sponge,
rehashing the same formulas,
the same rhetoric,
the same presuppositions,
the same indignant inflections,
the same knowing tone—<p>as if he were not simply the medium.<p>Binet, on Barthes and Foucault, and himself I suppose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462632</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "this css proves me human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About 5 years ago, I started intentionally using all lower case in text messaging, for precisely this reason.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:13:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281825</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "What our DNA reveals about the sex life of Neanderthals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In those days, there were γίγαντες and also after.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:58:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212968</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "The Big List of Naughty Strings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p># Human injection
#
# Strings which may cause human to reinterpret worldview<p>If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107596</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:43:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842481</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nemosaltat in "The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your theories on Muppet physiology are childish and naïve, and I viciously refute them in my upcoming article “Parasitic Infections of Muppet Gastrointestinal Hand Holes.”<p>[0] <a href="https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2019/" rel="nofollow">https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:04:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840839</link><dc:creator>nemosaltat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[James Mickens' Tenure Announcement]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2019/">https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement-april-2019/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840796">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46840796</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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