<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: poink</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=poink</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:34:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=poink" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Ti-84 Evo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who built a custom serial cable (not my idea, greetz to the original designer) to load assembly programs on TI-85s for all my friends, the “approved for exams” shit is so funny</p>
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<p>The article is clearly not "about" ICE. One paragraph talks about the ICE deployment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495203</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47495203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Why developers using AI are working longer hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personally, I make a lot more "out of hour" commits than I used to because I'll batch up low priority tasks throughout the day and let the computer chug on them at night when I'm elsewhere. Commits are coming in at all hours, but I'm not actually looking at them until the next morning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:24:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293358</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As insane as American politics is "I can blast robots on my property" has exactly the right amount of crank appeal to be possibly the final 90/10 issue</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805715</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46805715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "SSL Configuration Generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a security conscious dev that has worked in various highly regulated spaces I want to say we really appreciate people like you, because they’re super rare</p>
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<p>Are we pretending that optimizing for taste is a bad thing?<p>It’s obviously bad to eat super salty “ultraprocessed” food all the time, but it’s not like the salt is the primary problem<p>To take OP’s example, I’d much rather kids eat generously salted broccoli that is “optimized for taste” rather than unsalted mac & cheese, regardless of whether they just throw it away (which I probably would, too)</p>
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<p>It feels like you’re using “industrial food” as a pejorative, but the best chefs in the world also do not skimp on salt</p>
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<p>> People spend hundreds of dollars and many hours sharpening kitchen knives<p>With a mass market electric sharpener and a reasonable knife I spend maybe 15 minutes/yr on sharpening and the knife + sharpener costs less than half this product<p>The marketing video seems to try to head people like me off, but it also seems to wildly overstate the level of commitment required to have sharp knives<p>(I do think the tech is cool tho. I just wouldn’t pay $400 for an 8 inch chef’s knife no matter how good it is)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:36:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320321</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45320321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I generally agree you should buy fast machines, but the difference between my 5950x (bought in mid 2021. I checked) and the latest 9950x is not particularly large on synthetic benchmarks, and the real world difference for a software developer who is often IO bound in their workflow is going to be negligible<p>If you have a bad machine get a good machine, but you’re not going to get a significant uplift going from a good machine that’s a few years old to the latest shiny</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:20:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002395</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45002395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(That said, I liked the Pixel 4a better than the iPhone 15 Pro I’m typing this on)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:49:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994450</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My experience in the mobile space from having a personal lab with all the flagship phones paid for by my employer was that the hardware on the Android phones was at least as good as Apple but everyone other than Google made the software side feel janky<p>It wasn’t bad, and I’m sure I’d just get used to it if I picked one and lived with it, the same way I’ve gotten used to Apple’s dumb photo app<p>Using them side by side made it really obvious tho</p>
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<p>BlackSky seems to be run by a competent dev with a high enough profile that I see his posts regularly without following him directly<p>Based on his progress posts it seems that ATproto is intentionally moving in the right direction and BlackSky has progressed to the point he’s asking for volunteers to move off Bluesky and try out his implementations</p>
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<p>> It will undoubtedly lead to great advances<p>"Undoubtedly" seems like a level of confidence that is unjustified. Like Travis Kalanick thinking AI is <i>just about</i> to help him discover new physics, this seems to suggest that AI will go from being able to do (at best) what we can already do if we were simply more diligent at our tasks to being something genuinely more than "just" us</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 03:18:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919817</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Comparing baseball greats across eras, who comes out on top?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wade Boggs is one of my favorite players, but better than Mike Trout?!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 02:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884023</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44884023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Weathering Software Winter (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with your first paragraph, but there are lots of basically-broke people who live on boats<p>Old sailboats can be had for practically (and in many cases actually) nothing. If you’re reasonably handy and willing to learn you can do all the maintenance they require yourself<p>Boats can be some of the cheapest housing there is, even more so if you want to live somewhere picturesque<p>(There are, of course, significant downsides)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:20:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872686</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be sick if they could leverage this increased efficiency to reduce how frequently they bother already paying customers with annoying upsells</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 08:11:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861821</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is what I hoped for but based on the Ultra implementation in the Astons is not at all what we’re getting<p>It seems to require pretty deep integration with the automaker (Aston provides a lot of custom visuals), and based on the available third party reviews it doesn’t work as well as you’d suspect for a flagship integration</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:12:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861506</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Welcome to url.town, population 465"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW I'm a happy paying customer of Kagi search for quite a while. I am very much not opposed to paying for things _if paying = value_</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:23:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793678</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Welcome to url.town, population 465"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think pointing out "this is a web directory full of links submitted by people willing to spend $20/yr" is being cheap, per se, the same way I don't think paying to be "verified" on Twitter means your content is worth paying attention to<p>There was a time where "willing to pay for access" was a decent spam control mechanism, but that was long ago</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:55:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781726</link><dc:creator>poink</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44781726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by poink in "Welcome to url.town, population 465"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you suggesting the market for omg.lol URLs intersects with the people who like to buy burnt coffee?</p>
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