<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: rowyourboat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rowyourboat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:25:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rowyourboat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Saying goodbye to Agile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> always the poor specs<p>But that is fundamentally what agile is about. It's not about coding faster, it's the recognition that the specs are incomplete or wrong because fundamentally, a lot of customers cannot tell you what the want until they see it. That's why "build something simple and iterate on it" works. Regardless of how good your spec is, once the coding is done the customer is going to realise that that's not what they actually wanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775636</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This shows, once more, that humans are bad with modes. You have two copies of the repo, one in a transaction and one not in a transaction.<p>The problem is that the thing you use to build the transaction can also be used to directly manipulate the DB. A better API design would be to separate those two things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761790</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47761790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The people using GenAI reap a major time and cognitive effort savings, but the task of verification is shifted to the maintainer.<p>The people using GenAI should be the ones doing the verification. The maintainer's job should not meaningfully change (other than the maintainer using AI to review on incoming code, of course).<p>Why does everyone who hears "AI code" automatically think "vibe-coded"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:27:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733292</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1 and 2 are really only an issue if you vibe code. There's no reason to expect properly reviewed AI assisted code to be any worse than human written code. In fact, in my experience, using LLMs to do a code review is a great asset - of used in addition to human review</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733269</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, that would make this GNU/Windows</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:24:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514330</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Claude is a space to think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember when OpenAI was about not-for-profit AI development for the betterment of humanity?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:34:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896813</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "When children become caregivers, who cares for them?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disabled does not mean you need a caregiver</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 13:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342854</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40342854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you are confusing rings with discs. Larry Niven is the one doing the spinning</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667896</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "How Automated Content Moderation Works (Even When It Doesn't)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There is also a parallel legal reality - that people have the right to free speech.<p>The right to free speech only means you can't be prosecuted for what you say. It does not compel any private entity to distribute everything that you want to say.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:33:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606619</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those are your basic rights: You entered into a contract with the airline, and the airline failed to deliver. Of course you get your money back if the alternative solution is not satisfactory - whether or not the ticket was refundable doesn't even enter into it, as it was the airline that failed to deliver in the first place. That's not stellar service, that's just fulfilling their legal obligations.</p>
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<p>I'm always so confused by the advice to go to bookstores to meet people. What kind of bookstores do you guys go to where the customers talk with each other?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362434</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "The Apple Vision Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Count me among those who don't see the problem. I believe that there are people who are upset by it, but that alone does not justify prohibiting it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293979</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "The Apple Vision Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slippery slope to where, exactly? I genuinely don't see it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:37:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280223</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Card counting isn't cheating, it's how you play card games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260291</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39260291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Western firms are quaking as China's electric-car industry speeds up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All Chinese cars I've seen for sale here so far had infotainment systems and pointless use of touch screens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:19:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088682</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a bit larger, more in the range of the 777 than the 787.<p>Roughly, it used to be A330 vs 767 and A340 vs 777, the A330 and the 777 were the winners in these segments. The 787 was built to beat the A330, and it did, and the A350 was built to beat the 777, and it might.<p>Airbus reacted to the 787 with a re-engined A330, the A330neo, which was not a great success, but not a total flop. Boeing re-engined and enlarged the 777 to create the 777X, whose smaller variant positioned against the A350 is a slow seller, but whose larger variant, which has no direct competitor, has seen some sales - if Boeing manages to get it out of the door, the program is again hugely delayed and over budget.</p>
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<p>My top spot for ugliest airplane remains occupied by the PZL M-15 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL_M-15_Belphegor</a><p>A turbine-engined biplane for crop dusting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:33:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38929965</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38929965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38929965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "What are farm animals thinking?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am surprised again and again that people are surprised that animals, and social ones at that, have thoughts and emotions and relationships. Have you never been around animals? Do you truly have believe humans are that special?</p>
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<p>You would be surprised how many companies don't allow you to work part time, period.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707943</link><dc:creator>rowyourboat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38707943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rowyourboat in "Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Maybe, if this will be used in the future, those can help balance the power grid while not in use<p>NIO are already doing at least part of that by charging the batteries during time of excess energy only</p>
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