<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: paulddraper</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paulddraper</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:21:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=paulddraper" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately, accidents are quasi commonplace among my commute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:45:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343065</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "The Benchmarkpocalypse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s a bit of a garbage in, garbage out moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:49:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342705</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Direnv's first stable release was in 2013, .env was 2012 (adopted by Heroku).<p>So no, if anything direnv makes you hip and edgy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337171</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they just want 1 of every book.<p>That's the point I come to.<p>Books are not original manuscripts. Even in low volume cases, they are usually printed hundreds of times. (And usually low volume works aren't all that great...hence the low demand.)<p>That is a fraction of a percent for books that at some level weren't all that wanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:27:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337140</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, yes. There is always some form of it on TCP.<p>But your HTTP/2 reverse proxy won't block fast responses on slow responses.<p>As long as your WebSocket reverse proxy does the same, you're fine.<p>(And same stipulation for your client.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279591</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WebSockets have head-of-line blocking.<p>HTTP/2 does not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279332</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume you got the email about them increasing prices "significantly" soon (but no hint on what significantly means).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:19:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222044</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait until you have to exit the video call because you haven't yet granted screenshare permissions to the current app, and it needs a restart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186427</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Waymo in Dallas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ... in the US<p>Dallas in the United States.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:13:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176579</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genealogy apps, e.g. Ancestry.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173607</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But you understand that if it were required, everyplace that doesn’t specify today, would slap allergens on the whole menu.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159196</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Don't be a meat proxy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “I asked Claude what happened, and it spit out this 300 line response. Can you read it for me and see if it’s right?”<p>It’s the equivalent of choosing words from a conversation and sending you the dictionary entries.<p>I could do that myself. I really didn’t lack the ability to click a button.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:21:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156182</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While it’s true Unicode pushes the boundaries of “plain text” having a consistent font face, font size, font weight, letter spacing, font color, text wrapping, etc is good.<p>I don’t want one title 16pt and another 28pt.<p>Or one Helvetica and the other Arial.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156129</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Karpathy’s Pelican"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pelicans don't ride bicycles.<p>It's physically impossible.<p>The problem is to draw it in the least disturbing way possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:57:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149274</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because the title appears next to a bunch of other titles.<p>It should be consistent, or else compromise browsing.<p>The content has no such situation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:27:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147499</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I was reading along but the date 2010 surprised me.<p>In reality, you could probably put any date in there and it would work.</p>
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<p>This had nothing to do with Collatz and everything to do with a Lean bug.<p>The proof was not actually a proof at all, because it was unsound (despite Lean admitting the proof).</p>
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<p>Me too.<p>What does a reasoning program look like and why is matrix multiplication not that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135382</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, more common is<p><pre><code>  Manager     // interface

  ManagerImpl // class</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:53:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127844</link><dc:creator>paulddraper</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by paulddraper in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, Ruby code bases are generally harder to maintain than Java ones.</p>
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