<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: scelerat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scelerat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:04:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scelerat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not picking up any subjective, simplistic labeling like "good" or "bad." Are we reading the same paper?<p>Haven't fully read the paper, just the introduction and skimmed through the rest, but it seems they're merely observing that a rent control law went into effect, and given some control variables, it seems like it depressed property values.<p>Their findings also suggest that while the wealth transfer of rent control factor is real -- that is, landlords are impacted more and existing renters see relative benefit -- that effect is greater among higher-income renters and less among lower income renters.<p>Second paragraph in the Conclusion:<p>"While the negative wealth eﬀects for owners are large, our results show the positive eﬀects of the law are poorly targeted. Though the intention is to benefit lower income renters, we find that the largest benefits are received in the neighborhoods of the city in which renters have higher incomes, are less likely to be minorities, and have more education. To the extent that price drops for rental properties reflect future rent savings, and thus housing wealth gains for tenants, our results suggest that the largest cost savings are going to be realized in the neighborhoods with the richest, most educated, and least diverse owners."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524037</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with the sentiments -- knowing the scope of a change  <i>is</i> more essential, in most cases, than knowing whether the change was a "fix" or a "feature" -- but much of the scope in a project can be gleaned from the files which were touched. So the use case of, "i need to quickly at a glance determine what commits touched what parts of the project" can be answered with some variation on<p><pre><code>    git log --pretty=format:"%n%h %s" --name-only</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418482</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Half of the purpose of me documenting things is to make certain that <i>I</i> fully understand the problem and its solution.<p>As I write out the explanation, if something doesn't make sense, that is a prompt for me to dig in and understand more fully either what I am supposed to accomplish and/or how I intend to do it.<p>That applies to everything from single-line comments on up to project READMEs and polished, customer-facing documentation.<p>One consistent frustration I have had over the years is that so much code is not documented or (worse) poorly documented. If there is a silver-lining to AI-assisted programming, it is that clear writing of goals and proposed solutions are rewarded with more accurate outcomes. It should have always been thus. but I'll take it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416078</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As I'm sure many people on HN with kids do, I think very highly of my toddler's capabilities. I'm looking forward to the day I can stick him on a cross-town bus and have him fly solo (or at least with a peer/buddy). I'm hoping he can do it by age eight or nine. That was the same age my parents let me ride my bike several miles across town to a friend's house.<p>My biggest fear for my kid out in the world is not abduction, but injury or death by automobile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 16:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282449</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>as someone who laments the loss of spaces and pastimes that once brought people together -- bowling alleys, dance halls, pubs, movie houses, etc. -- to work from home, home entertainment and especially anything and everything online, I keep hoping for some kind of reversal.<p>Maybe the day is getting closer when anything and everything internet-related is so drenched in uncanny artifice and extractionary intention that people will yearn for imperfect, multidimensional reality, and feel like the best thing they can do with their time is walk through the park with a friend.</p>
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<p>It's not that credit card companies have some kind of moral bone to pick, it is that the legal, logistical and political morass of dealing with the variety of state and national laws, definitions of porn, protections of children and non-consenting performers, etc. are such that it is not worth it for them to pursue.<p>Similar issues exist for, e.g., companies and sites selling legal THC and THC products.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:40:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897847</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a psychological hype effect which affects both audience and performers in a capacity room of any size. Whether it's 50 or 5000, if the room is full, you feel it, and it adds to the excitement, tension and maybe magic of the event. There's nothing worse than playing an empty room, and some of the best times I've ever had have been with a band and thirty people crammed into a living room.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:51:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864491</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>only slightly serious. children are a joy! right? right??</p>
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<p>It's not even "in the street" I'm worried about -- it's the lunatics who drive like they are the main character in a single-player RPG. Not looking for bikes or pedestrians, crashing into parked cars and houses.</p>
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<p>Riight! I was wondering why some people had more than one. Like, I wonder that every single ever-loving day</p>
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<p>My biggest fear of letting my young kid play alone outside is getting hit by a car.</p>
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<p>The alphabetical streets in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco do a similar thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623491</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown<p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/</a></p>
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<p>It’s interesting comparing the enthusiasm I see in this thread compared to the more jaded responses I’ve seen in r/synthesizers<p>I think it looks cool and fun. Wish my workflow and time could accommodate it right now but they can’t. I’m really curious to hear what people who spend time with it are able to do.</p>
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<p>Oh yeah makes sense</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:34:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714083</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46714083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Digital Audio Workstation<p>in the context of computer-based recording it's pretty common jargon</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:05:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700332</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> Yes, Canada, you are indeed in danger as well as Mexico.<p>> No evidence. Unless you're arguing while NAFTA was around this was a way to create a "United America".<p>Trump recently posted an image on Truth Social of a White House meeting in which a map is displayed, of north america with the US flag superimposed on Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela. [1] He has repeatedly suggested that Canada is the 51st American state. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-trade-eu/card/trump-posts-image-of-map-with-u-s-flag-imposed-over-greenland-other-nations-uF8rilAJ3tCEIpiDfgdT" rel="nofollow">https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/greenland-trump-tariffs-tra...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-canada-becoming-the-51st-state-raise-a-lot-of-questions" rel="nofollow">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-remarks-on-cana...</a></p>
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<p>When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?</p>
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<p>When did Biden say the US needs 300M more immigrants?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:18:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697216</link><dc:creator>scelerat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scelerat in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hehe</p>
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