<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: parpfish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=parpfish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 06:18:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=parpfish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Ferrari Luce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>an eletric lotus would be a blast, but having a big heavy battery seems antithetical to their entire car building philosophy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 03:52:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274765</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>but sometimes I need a little burst of the phone/music to serve as a distraction and force me to unplug from the hard problem that i'm fixated on. once i've successfully started thinking about something else, phone/music off and let the productive mind wandering begin</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 02:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274439</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i remember downloading an mp3 of a songs that claimed to be collab between hendrix and jim morrison.<p>just found it on youtube now (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRLf30lj0M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRLf30lj0M</a>), and i'm excited to see another commenter was there for the same reason!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 01:38:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273978</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>but once you improve the product, you need to tell people that you've improved it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180493</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i could see this being the thing that pushes the US toward licensing softeware developers like other engineering disciplines.<p>gotta get a PE to stamp your LLM-generated code in sensitive environments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:44:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139455</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke.<p>Then regulators will take things seriously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:13:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134950</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i think the enforcing the type system is good with AI for a couple reasons:
- (speculating) typed language have faster/better LSPs that can be used to more efficiently modify code with tool use.
- when a human DOES need to step in and start investigating/modifying the code, the strong typing makes it much easier to get oriented within their spaghetticode</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:51:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102817</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i blew up my tv and threw away my paper.
i was working up to eating peaches.
i'm sorry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:39:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031488</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>so why don't you share who it is with the rest of the class?
why help perpetuate his (her?) secret identity mystique</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 22:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002182</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Is my blue your blue?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've got a color question that I need some opinions on:<p>When I look at the green/blue boundary region on an HSV color wheel like the ones in this S/O thread [0], it appears as a white un-saturated region.<p>If I look at similar layouts in other colorspaces (e.g., something perceptually uniform like Lab) I don't generally see this white patch.<p>My question is:
- I'm colorblind. Do other people also see a white patch there?
- If this is a genuine problem with HSV, is there an explanation for why there's a  hue angle that is unsaruated regardless of S value?<p>[0] <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62531754/how-to-draw-a-hsv-color-wheel-using-matplotlib" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62531754/how-to-draw-a-h...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:29:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928665</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "When the cheap one is the cool one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Were they worse off in the 90s than they were in the late 70s? Because I’ve heard that the entry model 924 saved them from the brink in that decade.<p>Funny that each end of the transaxle lineage were saviors</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:08:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916975</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, i think they're just going to start a podcast.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:50:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898185</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah, these big layoffs don't add up to me right now.<p>if you're making money and you feel that these are good employees, why not take them off the core products and ship them to some other ambituous R&D proejct?<p>making core products leaner is probably a good, but surely there's some other big moonshot you'd like to take?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:00:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884961</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My local town Facebook group gleefully mocks local solar each time it snows/is cloudy, as if. There’s never been anything (eg, a war in the Mideast) that could disrupting fossil fuels pricing and availability…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:33:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865086</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don’t underestimate how politicized renewables have become. You’d think essentially free energy would sell itself, but any time solar comes up in a rural community there’s a whole host of bad faith “but what about x?” comments</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:09:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863920</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Columnar Storage Is Normalization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always thought that the biggest benefit of normalization was deduplicating mutable values so you only need to update values in one place and everything stays nicely in sync.<p>Classic example being something like a “users” table that tracks account id, display name (mutable), and profile picture (mutable). And then a “posts” table that has post id, account id, and message text. This allows you to change the display name/picture in one place and it can be used across all posts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863436</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Product reviews from real people are useful because they are allowed to say negative things.<p>Once you bypass the real reviews for a summary, all those useful negative signals get glossed over because the host platform doesn’t want to piss off the restaurants by propagating those negative comments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:54:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829507</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have Taco Bell here in the USofA and it is also delicious. Delicious slop that has sadly become overpriced, but I love it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:09:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815276</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate how scrolling through a list of years to enter my birthday forces me to confront my mortality</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:36:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740974</link><dc:creator>parpfish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parpfish in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Id like to say that I made a ton of typos to prove I’m not ai, but it’s usually just because autocorrect on my phone is going crazy</p>
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