<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: reidrac</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reidrac</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:27:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reidrac" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate this. Like the ticket is not expensive already, they also feel like feeding you ads.<p>And then wonder why people don't go to the cinema and wonder if they can increase the amount of ads to compensate...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390467</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be Human]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/be-human/">https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/be-human/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374466">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374466</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:19:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/be-human/</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very useful because the information is almost distribution agnostic as Arch will stick to upstream as much as possible; or at least that's my impression as Debian user reading their wiki.<p>Also: isn't the Arch wiki the new Gentoo wiki? Because that was <i>the wiki</i> early 2000s and, again, I've never used Gentoo!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:30:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022650</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "OpenClaw is changing my life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> A manager shouldn’t get bogged down in the specifics—they should focus on the higher-level, abstract work. That’s what management really is.<p>I don't know about this; or at least, in my experience, is not a what happens with <i>good managers</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:40:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935229</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Automatic Programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I continued reading, but you're right. Why did the author feel that it was necessary to include that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:25:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835624</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Automatic Programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certain way.<p>Is not a gift if it was stolen.<p>Anyway, in my opinion the code that was generated by the LLM is yours as long as you're responsible for it. When I look at a PR I'm reading the output of a person, independently of the tools that person used.<p>There's conflict perhaps when the submitter doesn't take full ownership of the code. So I agree with Antirez on that part</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:23:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835615</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46835615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume is this one <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/</a><p>I used it back in Uni, in 98, and it really helped me to understand debuggers. After it, even using gdb made sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762787</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mine: <a href="https://www.usebox.net/jjm/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usebox.net/jjm/</a><p>Established in 2002.<p>Went full circle: static, PHP+mysql, python+tornado+redis (I had a nosql phase), python+Django+sqlite, and now static again (but this time with a generator, so it is all md).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:41:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636242</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> unburdened by how things were before.<p>What burden are you talking about? Using LLMs isn't that hard, we have done harder things before.<p>Sure, there will be people that refuses to "let go" and want to keep doing things the way the like them, but hey! I've been productive with vim (now neovim) for 25 years and I work with engineers that haven't mastered their IDEs at the same level. Not even close!<p>Sure, they have have never been "burdened" by knowing other editors before those IDEs existed, but claiming that I would have it harder to use any of those because I've mastered other tools before is ridiculous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:45:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430985</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It has been years now that I only care about my subscriptions. I also installed an extension to remove anything else (especially shorts!), and that works great for me.<p>The downside is perhaps that I rarely discover new content, but YT can't be trusted to give me that organically.<p>Every time I access YT without being logged to my account and this extension, I'm surprised by the amount of garbage that YT feeds me based on my IP and/or location they infer from it. I worry what effect that is having in the population that consume it without safeguarding.<p>Sure, there's always been garbage TV, but this is the next level, and on demand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409787</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Give Miles Cameron a go. Artifact Space is a good starting point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400722</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46400722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find very difficult deciding about my all time favourites on <i>anything</i>, but the Hyperion books are pretty close to it.<p>Not sure about the Endymion ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:06:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397773</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I couldn't get past the awful sex scenes of "Altered Carbon". OK, after having watched the TV series I should have known, but <i>reading it</i> is completely different. Also, the main character is so dislikeable.<p>It has been a while since my last Heinlein, you reminded me I should read more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397754</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read 14 books this year and my favourite was Eversion by Alastair Reynolds, followed closely by Pushing Ice by the same author. I "discovered" Cory Doctorow this year, reading 4 books (and I have another in my queue), being "Attack Surface" the one I liked most.<p>The only technical book I read was Programming in Lua (4th edition), and still didn't work for me. I guess I don't like Lua, and that's OK.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397735</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Dungeon-Specific Language (DSL)</i><p>Cheff kiss!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:57:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379708</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The chatbot can provide sponsored responses. Not sure how evident those will be, but I think it will happen. Surely is in Google's mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:57:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316930</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Vivaldi is not open source. Not quite an option.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316888</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>so that the tiny but vocal anti-AI minority will be happy</i><p>[citation needed]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316838</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46316838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As an end user, it doesn't concern me too much ...<p>It doesn't concern me neither, but there's some attitude here that makes me uneasy.<p>This could have been managed better. I see a similar change in the future that could affect me, and there will be precedent. Canonical paying Devs and all, it isn't a great way of influencing a community.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046372</link><dc:creator>reidrac</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reidrac in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are some points on this post that confuse me.<p>> In early 2023 during a routine skin check at my dermatologist [...]<p>Are routine skin checks a thing?<p>> [...] I’ve spoken with several of the world’s leading cardiologists and lipidologists [...]<p>How come?</p>
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