<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: scoot</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scoot</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:04:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scoot" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strange article to make the front page - only two paragraphs long, and no images of the tapestry that it barely talks about.<p>Not to mention the title - the tapestry was embroidered, not woven (if you exclude the ground fabric, which by itself is just a piece of cloth).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843302</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49843302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law<p>Or more likely do, but hope that you don't...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:22:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756628</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hyster (not Hister as far as I can tell) is a registered trademark in the US. Regardless:<p>"The HYSTER trademark is filed in the category of Education and Entertainment Services" [0], so you can safely ignore any demands to rename, as it doesn't conflict.  Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law.<p>Edit to clarify as some folks here are as confused as sHyster's lawyers: Trademarks are not exclusive, they're restricted to a category or categories. You can be Apple in the category of computers, but not in music if there's already an Apple in that category (unless you have $500M to spare [2]).<p><pre><code>  [0] https://www.trademarkia.com/hyster-77843354
  [1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/ for a more authoritative source than [0], but it doesn't allow deep linking
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:32:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754168</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Saving Jet Fuel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find it harsh but fair. The second paragraph reads:<p>"Firms like Jeppesen have offerings in this space, but Scikit-decide, together with a narrow- and wide-body fuel consumption model built by a professor at the Delft University of Technology and wind data from NOAA, offer an open source solution."<p>So this is being positioned as an open source alternative to commercial offerings, which clearly it is not. If instead he made the limitations clear from the outset, that this is just a demonstration of what he/the tools are capable of and that this is not in any way intended for real-world use, it would put the rest of the article into better context.<p>I also don't see how Scikit-decide being developed by Airbus gives OP any domain authority. I use open source tools from all sorts of commercial ventures, and know nothing about how they themselves use them, or what for.</p>
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<p>> you have to use the Latch app to open your apartment door<p>So what happens if you arrive home with a dead phone?<p>And possibly worse, they have a log of when you come and go?</p>
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<p>So not literally ripping themselves apart then</p>
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<p>> like you said, its on the verge of ripping itself apart<p>They didn't say that - they said "the (exclusive speciality alloy) parts are literally ripping themselves apart". That sounds like a seriously flawed design to me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:05:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539238</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There are some countries where the truth is not a defense against libel<p>Germany, for example. Utterly bizarre and baffling that a democracy protects its politicians this way. /s</p>
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<p>> they don't have "memory", they have no capacity to learn outside of the training stage<p>The underlying LLMs don't, but the agent frameworks around them do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:40:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372400</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've recently done the same for a Bluetooth LED matrix display, then took it a step further assembling my own hardware (ESP32 controller and RGBIC matrix) to have control over the firmware for features that weren't possible with the off-the-shelf device.<p>None of this would have been possible (or at least practical from a time-value perspective) for me to do without Claude driving the whole exercise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:44:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355077</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using a sound card (read the comments)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296166</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is one hilariously overpriced product! Display: $15, Controller: $2, API: Free</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:04:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271093</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a quote from Dante's Inferno</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156184</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "How the words we teach English language learners changed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I was surrounded by students who were religious but didn’t have much curiosity<p>That seems like a given. If you're curious, you'll soon see through any ideology you were spoon-fed as a child, religious or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:40:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149172</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets<p>Season and weekly are different things (obviously). If you narrow your claim down enough, of course you can be the first (patents or Guinness book of world records being prome examples.)<p>But the article isn't about that, it's about the design of the tickets. And they are a thing of beauty.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149101</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ifound Palmiers interface dense, cluttered, and confusing - just take the panel top left (to the right of chat) for example. So much going on in one small space.<p>Donkey Cut offers more functionality in less space, and everything is easy to find and understand. It isn't without bugs, but the structure is there for it to be great</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:07:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062931</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That isn't how this works. It doesn't transport your car to a more distant car park - it simply "parks" your car in an available space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:59:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061856</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Donkey is slick. Love the minimal UI.<p>Edit: Having played with both a bit, and with no disrespect to OP, yours is a significantly better product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046767</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Donkey Vision — a screen-understanding API that turns any screenshot into structured, clickable UI, so you can build computer-use tools of your own.<p>Not faulting your (necessary given today's reality) work, but sad to think that the Amiga still remains ahead of it's time some 36 years later (since ARexx was bundle with the OS), or closer to 40 years if you count when v1 was released separately.<p>ARexx allowed any application that supported it (and most productivity apps worth their salt did) to communicate with each other, and to be scripted - essentially a standardised API for applications.<p>We're slowly getting there (at least for SaaS apps) with MCP, but screen scraping shouldn't ever have been necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 11:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046593</link><dc:creator>scoot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scoot in "Em dashes are amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The four dot ellipses is for use in quoted text, although how it's used (if at all) depends on the style guide. As you weren't quoting anyone but simply indicating an incomplete thought of your own, a three dot ellipses is the correct form.</p>
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