<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>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:47:43 +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 "US President says he will ban the term 'artificial intelligence'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean this is partly deranged megalomania but it's also partly a shibboleth right? You can signal that you're a true believer loyalist by not using the verboten term</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264876</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50264876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Starcraft: Ashfall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a fun game, but it's cool anyway</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158580</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Starcraft: Ashfall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> creators should be allowed to exert control over how their assets and brand are used<p>I hate to be glib, but no they shouldn't.<p>Creators should be allowed to create things and sell them. No one, whether the creator, or the company the creator worked for when they first created the thing, should be able to stop someone else from creating something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158570</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50158570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Triple-A Minesweeper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Oof! A mine!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030009</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50030009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What you are describing is certainly "bad" and "worrying" but it's not slavery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:42:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029949</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Making the case for Ed Zitron as the last of the great bloggers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a long time, even when I disagreed with Ed I appreciated his earnestness and clarity of intent, but after reading that Wired profile that came out and learning that his day job involves doing PR for AI companies, I can't even take what he's saying at face value</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833700</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they were honest about it and said something like "we believe our actions were fair and legal and disagree with this decision" it would at least be ideologically consistent.<p>> In a public statement about the settlement, DoorDash said, “Simply put, we screwed up. Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late. While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay.” (DoorDash did not respond to a request for comment on its campaign contributions.)<p>This is villain shit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822169</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Claude Opus 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “Verbose, hard-to-follow output has been my biggest frustration with frontier models, and Claude Opus 5.5 fixes it<p>God I hope so</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:39:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804075</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Brood War Bench"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@CholeraSC/videos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/@CholeraSC/videos</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 04:57:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772607</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Countless other mathematical curiosities were developed in the 1700s -- and forgotten.<p>Really? Like what?<p>edit: this is either an unfalsifiable claim, because by "forgotten" you meant here is no extant knowledge or remaining record of it, or it's almost certainly nonsense and anything you could cite would be foundational to some area of modern mathematics, even if as a disproven counter theory.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:54:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744984</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Terpstra Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really expected this to be something from Brett Terpstra<p><a href="https://brettterpstra.com/topic/keyboard/" rel="nofollow">https://brettterpstra.com/topic/keyboard/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:58:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580601</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And how do either of them relate to statistical literacy in the United States?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:35:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444871</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Starbase, LA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Classic scifi was optimistic and utopian<p>Yeah for sure, science fiction used to be optimistic and utopian, like Planet of the Apes, Brave New World, Frankenstein, 1984, Earth Abides, The Martian Chronicles, A Canticle for Leibowitz, The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, and Island of Dr Moreau, We, Farenheit 451 ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441085</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's funny to me, a Canadian,
that this even warrants a did-you-know article because everything about the beaver fur/hat making industry is something I learned extensively about in elementary and high school because it was like, a major driver of the European exploration and colonization and therefore significant to the history of my country.<p>But outside of here it's just a footnote to a fashion trend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213399</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have been really excited about this circa 1999. I mean don't get me wrong, I was grateful for Unreal Tournament and Q3A, and I knew I'd be getting Halo soon, but this is the one game I was really jealous of my friends for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091113</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I often cut + undo because seeing the cut is feedback which tells me the operation successfully put the content into clipboard. This is not always a guarantee especially in web apps, and sometimes I just have focus on the wrong window.</p>
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<p>> # Etymology<p>> Neither part of the monument's name is correct. ...  was not a "castle" in the traditional sense, but instead may have functioned more like a "prehistoric high rise apartment complex".[8]<p>My understanding was always that aside from vanity castles like Craigdarroch (<a href="https://thecastle.ca" rel="nofollow">https://thecastle.ca</a>) there aren't castles in North America because they're only practical in a pre-cannon world</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995038</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's also a social component to blogging, right? When you post something it tells me about who you are. It helps establish my (probably parasocial) relationship with you.<p>And when you post something, I might be interested in it, even if I wasn't interested when someone else posted about it, because I'm interested in you and interested in what you have to say.<p>I think that human communication is about pure relationship socialization as much or more than it is about actually communicating information or ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:07:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669590</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Developed from design to production in nine months, accelerated by OpenAI’s models<p>> the use of OpenAI models to accelerate parts of the design and optimization process.<p>I wish there was more about this. As is I kind of have to assume that this is just meaningless marketing, like saying development was accelerated by Microsoft Office or their 5k LG Ultrafine 40-inch monitors.<p>Like, if this was as big a deal as it kind of vaguely implies, they would be making a bigger deal of it, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663501</link><dc:creator>sharkjacobs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sharkjacobs in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Currently both Gitoxide and libgit2's networking functionality is either partial, slow or non-existant. Both GitButler and Jujutsu rely on forking out to Git in order to push or pull data. A big reason for this is the incredibly complicated credential logic involved, but all of this is (theoretically) currently covered in Grit.</p>
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