<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: recursivedoubts</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=recursivedoubts</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:44:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=recursivedoubts" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Physical media is the answer to content overload: it has a thingness that the ephemera of online digital content does not.  Its physical nature allows for artistic expression on and in the thing.  The act of insertion and removal provides a psychological gate between "starting", "doing" and "finishing".<p>It is the opposite of The Eternal Scroll.  It is the hero we need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824959</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Does your DSL little language need operator precedence?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hyperscript has some operator precedence, but within a given general precedence level you  have to explicitly parenthesize if you use different operators:<p><a href="https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078aea3e0c53de763028644f1f93dfb7fed2/src/parsetree/expressions/expressions.js#L1118" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078a...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078aea3e0c53de763028644f1f93dfb7fed2/src/parsetree/expressions/expressions.js#L822" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bigskysoftware/_hyperscript/blob/06f9078a...</a><p>this eliminates most practical precendence questions<p>NB: one thing that may strike people as strange is that the parse methods are on the parse elements themselves, I like to localize everything about a parse element in one place</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:43:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821135</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My quizzes are written responses, psuedocode and annotating code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:32:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820091</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to make my classes 60-80% project work, 40-80% quizzes all online.<p>I now do 50% project work, 50% in person quizzes, pencil on paper on page of notes.<p>I'm increasingly going to paper-driven workflows as well, becoming an expert with the department printer, printing computer science papers for students to read and annotate in class, etc.<p>Ironically, the traditional bureaucratic lag in university might actually help: we still have a lot of infrastructure for this sort of thing, and university degrees may actually signal competence-beyond-ai-prompting in the future.<p>We'll see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819258</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "An Oligarchy of Old People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>old vs young (as with so many other social cleavages) is real, to an extent, but nothing compared to the wealth oligarchy vs. the rest of us.  These cleavages are pushed intentionally to divide and conquer.<p>poor (and even moderately wealthy) old people aren't the enemy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:37:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768666</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trump ran on ending the war in ukraine in "a week" and never said anything about war with iran during his campaign.<p>The voters didn't and don't do shit: elites pick the two candidates, pay them both a bunch of money, buy congress and push through what they want.  If Kamala were elected we'd be at war with iran just the same.<p>Stop blaming normies who have no power for what PNAC, etc have been pushing for for decades with real money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756137</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Released today:<p><a href="https://hyperscript.org" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756096</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: _hyperscript 0.9.90]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hey HN, I've just released the latest version of my scripting language for the web, hyperscript.  It is a love letter to hypercard/hypertalk that I've been working on on and off for the last five years.<p>This release has some major new features, mainly by other people: reactivity by Christian Tanul, a reworked templating system by my student Ben Logan, the morphing algorithm from htmx by Michael West.  I added a component mechanism that basically just glues those three things together as well.<p>This language is a labor of love and I don't expect many people to like it or use it, but I hope you find it interesting and that some of the ideas in it (e.g. async transparency[1]) show what scripting the web could be like.<p>If you want a quick taste of what the new reactive/templating/morphing combo can look like there is a TODO app here:<p><a href="https://hyperscript.org/patterns/lists-forms/reactive-todo-list/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org/patterns/lists-forms/reactive-todo-l...</a><p>[1]-<a href="https://hyperscript.org/docs/async/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org/docs/async/</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752687">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752687</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://hyperscript.org/posts/2026-03-29-hyperscript-0.9.90-is-released/</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Older voters didn't vote for war with Iran.  Some will go along with the president for tribal reasons and what's left of american patriotism.<p>Defining things generationally is unnecessarily divisive: the people who have been relentlessly pushing for war with iran have names and addresses and have been doing so for 30 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717293</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am working towards a big new release of my web scripting language, hyperscript:<p><a href="https://hyperscript.org" rel="nofollow">https://hyperscript.org</a><p>Hoping to release next Monday</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700855</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i don't think this has much to do with the elderly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692162</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>> Gambling is something people do themselves consensually.</i><p>Yes, as evidenced by the full court press advertising.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646838</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Humans have tried to ban murder for as long as murder existed, and murder has existed for about as long as homo sapiens. Murdering still exists.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:57:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644403</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>remember when gambling was illegal?<p>and the idea of advertising gambling on television wasn't even something conceivable?<p>and, even more so, the idea that sports entertainment channels would be directly involved in the operation of gambling of was just completely beyond comprehension?<p>ahhh, the remote, halcyon, bygone days of 2018...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:11:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641033</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The recent protest isn’t what I’m talking about</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633511</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633511</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why are we still using Markdown?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I came here to say this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630266</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tucker Carlson is perhaps the most popular commentator on the right and has a significant following and he is adamantly anti-war.<p>There is a legitimate cross-ideology opportunity here that the war party (which spans both american political parties) is desperate to keep from materializing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594763</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>man</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:06:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591252</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It muddies the waters by focusing on divisive issues like immigration enforcement and de-emphasizing the war, preventing what could be a unified left-and-right antiwar movement.<p>Plain anti-war protests could draw significant support across the political spectrum, so divisive issues are inserted as wedges.  Same thing that happened in the 60's, when the anti-war movement went from a coat-and-tie affair to a laurel canyon one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586715</link><dc:creator>recursivedoubts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by recursivedoubts in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a strong majority of the united states citizens are against the war, despite a full court propaganda press against the right and a no-kings distraction op against the left<p><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/03/25/americans-broadly-disapprove-of-u-s-military-action-in-iran/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/03/25/americans-br...</a><p>don't confuse american citizens with the bought-and-paid talking & tweeting heads we are forced to live with</p>
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