<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: rachelshu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rachelshu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:47:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rachelshu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rachelshu in "Ask vs. Guess Culture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mixed feelings on this. Tell culture allows people to express their feelings directly without prompting, but can also be used manipulatively when insisted on as a behavioral standard by someone who's overbearing relative to the people they're around.<p>For further reading, here's the blog post that named the concept:
<a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEBXN3x6kXgD4pLxs/tell-culture" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rEBXN3x6kXgD4pLxs/tell-cultu...</a><p>And further discussion within the same community:
<a href="https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-culture/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/against-tell-...</a><p>There were a bunch of tumblr posts on this as well which are more work than it's worth to go recover.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 03:07:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37185081</link><dc:creator>rachelshu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37185081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37185081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rachelshu in "Things Unexpectedly Named After People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There seem to be two meanings of “unexpected” not being differentiated here:<p>1) name-derived terms like Debian, or the French ‘poubelle’ in the comments, which have become genericized to the point where most of its users don’t know the derivation<p>2) a more interesting subset of (1), like PageRank, or Lake Mountain in the comments, where part or all of the name itself looks like a normal word appropriate for the situation. (a related concept is nominative determinism <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2020 16:29:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890418</link><dc:creator>rachelshu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23890418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rachelshu in "Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For all the other reasons that people on this site might hate this article, nevertheless it succeeds in doing the one thing that Scott asked of journalists: that they respect his pseudonym.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2020 17:31:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782689</link><dc:creator>rachelshu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23782689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rachelshu in "I Am Deleting the Blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think, given Scott's recent defense of Steve Hsu, that he'd really want people fired for doing ill-advised things, even if they could be reasonably construed as dangerous, unless harm was demonstrated. It's still disappointing that the journalist is making this choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 07:39:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610933</link><dc:creator>rachelshu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23610933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rachelshu in "Ghoti"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"th" is occasionally /th/, for example in the compound word "hothouse".</p>
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