<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: pavon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pavon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:08:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pavon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm glad he posted the video. One thing he didn't mention that is striking to me is how high his hand is on the page, essentially resting above the line he is writing, with his thumb parallel to the line. Whereas as a right-hander, my hand is essentially centered on the line, with my thumb at a 45 degree angle to the line.<p>Do most left-handers learn to hold their pen/pencil like that? If not I imagine it would be quite a transition to adapt to as all the motions are rotated - the portion of the stroke previously done by moving fingers in and out would instead be done by moving side to side, and vice-versa.<p>Edit: Or from trying it, I guess you could just write as normal and end up with everything italic/slanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:30:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026858</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sort of. For most letters, my print strokes are the same motion as cursive (except r and s) but lifting up the pen between letters/strokes. Even when I was practiced in cursive, I never felt like it added any time to lift and lower the pen, any more than the time it already took to move the pen to the right, but doing so improved legibility. Its not like I'm consciously thinking about each letter, unlike caligraphy or drafting block print.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:11:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024961</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is not a rare threat model. Many people use iPhones and Windows computers. Fortunately, Apple has released iCloud Passwords which lets you access passwords and passkeys from a Windows computer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:24:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008306</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is what they actually deployed. They were planning on performing client-side scanning of all images uploaded to iCloud for CSAM and reporting it to the authorities, but backpedaled after public push-back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:06:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994185</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A spouse that marries a homeowner, for example. It would be "better" if they broke up and owned their own separate homes.<p>No, if you look at the first example explaining how the two metrics are calculated, it is clear that both spouses are considered homeowners for HPOP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:45:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993013</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Both Firefox containers and multi-account container extention described in that link have been around for years. Nothing in that page describes what is new/changed in Firefox 153.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:32:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981133</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Decoy Font"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think the font can actually do that - I think it is a hand-crafted example of the idea. The later examples all have random letters for the decoy text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937454</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It wasn't option for the first 20 years of SQLite's existence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876861</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, BSD licenses are compatible with AGPL meaning BSD licensed code can be combined with AGPL licensed code while complying with both licenses. However, it does not give you permission to <i>relicense</i> the BSD code (or derivative works) as AGPL. The author is free to license any new code they write as AGPL, however the license for the machine translated code is another question. If it is considered a derivative work (which I think it should be) then it must remain under the Postgres license.<p>If it is not a derivative work, then for copyright to apply at all then it must be an "original work" which has "at least a modicum" of creativity applied by malisper in the translation. If this is satisfied then malisper could choose any license for the translated code they want, compatible with Postgres or not. If it isn't satisfied then no license applies, because it isn't eligible for copyright - essentially it is public domain.<p>The safe and polite thing to do is to keep the same license when performing machine translation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854266</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you are saying the same thing as benced - just because Zig source code is verbose is no reason to assume the binary should be larger.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838902</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "LineageOS Statistics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About 250k devices were getting GrapheneOS security updates two years ago[1], so it is approaching the number of official (and opt-in reported) installs of LineageOS.<p>[1]<a href="https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12281-how-many-grapheneos-users-are-there" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12281-how-many-grapheneos-u...</a></p>
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<p>Wow LineageOS really is a bazaar, and not a cathedral.<p>* 74% of installs are unofficial builds, not ones released by LineageOS.<p>* 2/3 of US installs are on non-phones (waydroid, nintendo switch, rpi, etc)<p>* Most of the installs on actual phones are in China, Brazil and Vietnam<p>* Less than 21% of installs are on versions that receive security updates, and less than 9% of installs are on the latest version (mostly because device's binary blobs don't support newer android versions?)</p>
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<p>The relationship was different. When Id licensed an engine, they threw the code over the fence, and games that used it often heavily modified the engine for their purpose. In contrast Epic put a ton of effort into making the UT engine a polished development tool for creating games.</p>
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<p>That is neglecting network effects. Less than 10% of the US population is vegetarian, but if a restaurant doesn't have any vegetarian options they lose business not just from that 10% but from any party that has a single vegetarian. Likewise, if a website has any social network effect, disregarding a portion of the population will decrease use from a much larger percentage than those directly affected.<p>Furthermore, even if your site functionality has no social networking component itself, all business are subject to the network effects of word of mouth. People are much more likely to share negative experiences that positive ones, so if 1/50 of people find your site to be broken, then a considerable amount of feedback online will be negative and will harm your reputation for the entire market, not just that 2%.<p>Finally, in business you have to work hard to win over even a small portion of your total addressable market. Artificially decreasing your TAM can be fine if it is an intentional strategic decision to focus on a specific market, but pointless to exclude people without good reason. Not having vegetarian options at BBQ restaurant in Texas is harmless - no one goes there for that, but if you are running a more general restaurant it would be foolish not to have a few vegetarian options. Excluding people because your web developers are too lazy to use approaches that have worked fine for the last 20 years and need to use the new shiny is even more foolish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:22:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819984</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is frustrating is that even when you buy physical games, often what you get is a buggy beta release of the software that isn't playable without GBs of day-one patches. I have little confidence that 20 years from now I will be able to play console games I bought today, without resorting to "pirating" and console mods or emulators. I'm pretty sure that the Switch will be my last console because of this.<p>At least with PC I have the actual files for the game I am playing, and can backup and mod them as I wish.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that seems grossly unrealistic. They are growing. Neutron is almost complete, and I'd expect significant growth in their launch revenue from that, and their space services are also doing well. So I could easily see their revenue increasing 5x over the next 5 years, maybe 10x. But that market cap can only be justified by the space market as a whole growing 100x, and RL maintaining a significant portion of it with strong competition from SpaceX, Blue Origin, and others.</p>
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<p>I think they mean that rather than have the RGBI splitter hardware, have a full-signal splitter that displays the same full color image on each monitor, then put a color filter sheet on each monitor to only pass a specific color.<p>It would have the benefit of working with NTSC, PAL, composite, and other output signals that don't breakout RGBI components on separate pins. But it would have the downside of only supporting 3 monitors instead of 4 (can't color filter on intensity). And of course each monitor would look red, green, or blue according to their filter.</p>
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<p>On my Roku the ads aren't just off to the side. When I go to the home screen there are now "recommended" shows above and below my channels, and they are initially selected, so I have to scroll down past them to get to my actual channels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:56:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543162</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Waymo Premier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The existence of loyalty clubs are fine. If you use the service a lot, then it is a better deal, and the company gets the benefit that you are more likely to consolidate your spending with them rather than shop around. Win-win.<p>It is the fact that you can't do anything without them being pushed down your throat that is infuriating. Every interaction with a company these days is an attempt to up-sell. When a small number of retail stores started that, I stopped doing business with them. Now they all do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493261</link><dc:creator>pavon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pavon in "Waymo Premier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you travel a lot for work and would prefer to use Waymo over Uber or renting.</p>
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