<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: robertjpayne</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robertjpayne</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:53:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=robertjpayne" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cursor no longer indexes your codebase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:46:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487825</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His word is worthless. Especially given that Gruber gave him a draft of the publication and he didn't feel the need to correct any details.<p>Perhaps Claude did just find the repo and reproduce it without any prompt, but also the name? Yea hmm, like 99% sure Claude would've mentioned where the majority of the project came from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230623</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you read the article the app contains no such thing anywhere it’s an astronomy app not astrology and is deeply rooted in real science</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:51:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215435</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Apple is getting this wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can carelessly leave employee access on the confidential and private company data and in nearly all cases depending on employment agreement it will be against the law to share that data after your employment<p>It doesn't sound to me like Apple is pursuing individuals that merely had company data on their computers but rather these individuals then went on to share said data with other individuals.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:20:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165325</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We do it on Postgres with schemas but we have a very fixed amount of tenants so it works.<p>I don't think it scales when you have unbounded amounts of tenants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095504</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Java 27: What's New?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rust releases are just compiler toolchain, maybe some new syntax features. Java includes the JVM which is subject to way more security issues and needs much more frequent updating.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859258</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article doesn't make really controlled findings. There's an argument to be made that the increase to diseases isn't purely lack of vitamin D but lack of exercise.<p>Our ancestors got lots of Vit D but they also got lots of exercise while absorbing the sun.<p>I still don't think it's going to be wise to go out and just bake in the high UV of early afternoons but rather it's important to go outside early to mid morning or late afternoon and absorb some sun without copious amounts of sunblock.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:14:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726027</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm quite happy Apple stays focused on their products. They enter a market when they can own it end-to-end -- it makes no sense for them to all of a sudden become an AI chip house or AI server house.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:52:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390664</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd still say getting 7 years of <i>free</i> OS supports for hardware is pretty incredible. All-in-ones like iMacs are always going to be wasteful on the environmental side of things faster because displays will outlive the usefulness of the rest of it by a large large margin.<p>At least Apple does try a bit to be a responsible recycler and you can always take your old hardware to them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390586</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Starship V3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Problem wont be energy input it'll be heat dumping. You can't transfer heat in a vacuum effectively -- just go google how large the International Space Station's radiators are just to ensure its electrical systems are cooled adequately.<p>Unless someone figures out how to break the laws of thermodynamics there's never going to be a cost effective DC in space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 05:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118123</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really buy this. NPM is targeted because it's the largest attack surface with the biggest payoff for a successful attack.<p>Other ecosystems package managers are really no different in a lot of ways.<p>NPM's biggest fault is just it allows post/pre install scripts by default without user intervention.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 22:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101482</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "I am worried about Bun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All these complaints about Claude code are mostly resolved if you pay for your usage with direct API pay as you go. It’s not cheap but nearly all the complaints I see about Claude code are due to the fact the subscription plans seem unsustainable from a cost perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:49:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014773</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This exactly. No other laptop comes close on price for the hardware you get. Yeah you may get more ram in a PC but promise you it won’t feel as fast when you’re using it day to day or have as good of a display or battery life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 07:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972299</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cursor has no AI services, they do not develop their own frontier models. I see no reason to understand why $10bn for Cursor's services is an advantage xAI versus say a $10bn deal with Anthropic, OpenAI or Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:48:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857181</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're going to force a S&P500 index listing on IPO day so we're all going to be forced to baghold this regardless of if we want to or not unless you've got $0 in any major retirement fund.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:46:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857162</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EV batteries do not become "trash" after a few years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847692</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shipping hundreds of millions of new phones every year isn't pushing hard while earning billions? Near every single company in the world would die to have Apple's balance sheet.<p>Apple Silicon in the past 5 years has trounced every single market player. Apple has to make decisions on things like sensors based on the supplier being able to deliver hundreds of millions annually -- by the time we see the hardware it was baked and locked in over 12 months ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:12:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847682</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What other company has ever sold wireless earbuds with a replaceable battery?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792810</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The shipped nearly 250 million phones last year plus millions of other products. Having 30% recycled materials across a production line of that scale is massively impressive if you ask me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:39:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792796</link><dc:creator>robertjpayne</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertjpayne in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By week 20 there is practically no chance you're not going to know if you're carrying a baby with downs or not unless you refuse all the modern screening/tests available.<p>NIPT tests can be done at week 8 and give a very high indicator that can be followed up with close monitoring/invasive tests at week 14-15 that give a 99% accuracy. That's hardly "are really not that exact".</p>
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