<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: sharkjacobs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sharkjacobs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:29:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sharkjacobs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "BBEdit 16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's supported for Tahoe. It's still good functional software and this is the ideal right? They're selling finished software for a flat price without needing a subscription model to support continued development.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:11:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227577</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> RSS readers are generally automated. I know I've had them around for years pulling in articles that I never read<p>They try to address that<p>> I added RSS and Newsletter tracking. These data are very lossy. If someone is subscribed to my RSS feed and opens a post and their client downloads a lazy-loaded image at the end of the post, I get a hit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 06:00:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045945</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Will you heed my warnings now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you saying this because it's an evergreen joke or because you really think there hasn't been meaningful progress in the field since 1996?<p>Duke Nukem Forever was release fifteen years ago. Some things never happen until they suddenly do.<p>The wolf really does eat the boy at the end of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:34:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959395</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Why I Write (1946)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For minutes at a time this kind of thing would be running through my head: ‘He pushed the door open and entered the room. A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half-open, lay beside the inkpot. With his right hand in his pocket he moved across to the window. Down in the street a tortoiseshell cat was chasing a dead leaf,’ etc., etc. This habit continued until I was about twenty-five, right through my non-literary years. Although I had to search, and did search, for the right words, I seemed to be making this descriptive effort almost against my will, under a kind of compulsion from outside.<p>This is fascinating and totally alien to my experience. I don't often think in words at all unless I am preparing to either write or speak them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:48:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886519</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47886519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Our newsroom AI policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a good post from Aurich in the comments of the article detailing the practical reality of how they (don't) use AI tools in their image work, but as a policy statement this sentence is 100% vibes, 0% actual guidance or restriction</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873156</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Our newsroom AI policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Our creative team may use AI tools in the production of certain visual material, but the creative direction and editorial judgment are human-driven.<p>As opposed to what? This is a little facetious, but what could it possibly mean to have creative direction and editorial judgement without human involvement?<p>Presumably we're talking about image generated by a diffusion model or something, but further, an image which is generated without being edited by any human. The prompt used to generate the image isn't written by a human, and it can't really be based on the contents of the (human authored and edited) article either. No human may select the service or model used, and once generated the image is published sight unseen without being reviewed by any human.<p>If some kind of agentic AI does any of these things it is one which appears ex nihilo, spontaneously appearing without being created or directed by any human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:29:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873062</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels like the results stopped being interesting a little while ago but the practice has become part of simonw's brand, and it gives him something to post even when there is nothing interesting to say about another incremental improvement to a model, and so I don't imagine he'll stop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799246</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "It's cool to care (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with the sentiment, it is good to care, it is admirable and perhaps virtuous to care.<p>But it is not cool to care. Cool does mean detached, offhand, poised, aloof, unperturbed. That's why it's called "cool".<p>We don't need to hijack the term and pretend that it's cool to be enthusiastic and dorky and to talk too loudly when we get excited about something. The point is that those things are good even if they're not cool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:07:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786505</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't want to do the whole front edge but this has definitely inspired me to take a file to these notch corners</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724858</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Apple at 50"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh came to be regarded as such a mistake and quintessential example of how misguided Apple was during the wilderness era that I'm not surprised they went in the opposite direction. Institutional memory etc etc</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606497</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is fantastically cool. I can't believe this is possible with such a small and narrow dataset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580037</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The New Mexico attorney general’s office created multiple fake Facebook and Instagram profiles posing as children as part of its investigation into Meta. Those test accounts encountered sexually suggestive content and requests to share pornographic content, the suit alleges.<p>> The fake child accounts were allegedly contacted and solicited for sex by the three New Mexico adult men who were arrested in May of 2024. Two of the three men were arrested at a motel, where they allegedly believed they would be meeting up with a 12-year-old girl, based on their conversations with the decoy accounts.<p>and<p>> “The product is very good at connecting people with interests, and if your interest is little girls, it will be really good at connecting you with little girls,” Bejar said.<p>This is what it's about right? The article doesn't make it seem like encryption is meaningfully part of this case at all.<p>> Midway through trial, Meta said it would stop supporting end-to-end-encrypted messaging on Instagram later this year.<p>There's no indication that that decision, or the announcement, are directly related to the trial, just they just happened at the same time? It's a link drawn by CNN, without presenting any clear connection</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:25:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511029</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the funniest possible answer to "Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment."<p>"Oh, you think I've never changed a tire? Well here is my abstract high level understanding of the steps to changing a tire! And have you considered the quintessential controlled environment for putting tires onto cars?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456555</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Astral to Join OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes I agree. And I think that joining OpenAI will probably change their priorities, and that sucks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:26:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443714</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Astral to Join OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats to the Astral team, they've done great work and deserve everything.<p>As a user of uv who was hoping it would be a long term stable predictable uninteresting part of my toolchain this sucks, right?</p>
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<p>I'm not from Texas or California but it doesn't intuitively feel true to me that Texans are better at investing and saving for retirement.<p>According to the first relevant search result I can find <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-retirement-savings-by-state/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/select/average-retirement-savings-by-st...</a> the retirement savings per dollar of median annual income in California is $1.44 and in Texas is $1.17<p>Do you think that's wrong? Or do you think it's a misleading statistic and doesn't contradict your belief?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:02:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435509</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sometimes a bug is indistinguishable from AB testing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430018</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how this can scale beyond trivial programs like simplified FizzBuzz.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:01:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416059</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're subtly shifting the framing to defend doing something different than the post describes.<p>It makes it kind of unclear if you don't understand the difference between using CC to "investigate the codebase" so you can make a change which you (implicitly) do understand versus using an LLM to make a plausible looking PR although in actuality "you do not understand the ticket ... you do not understand the solution ... you do not understand the feedback on your PR"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414727</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My phone is littered with apps like these, which seem well designed to address a very specific problem which I don't have very often. The problem is remembering the app's there 3 or 6 or 9 or 18 months later when it would actually be useful to me.</p>
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