<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: sigwinch28</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sigwinch28</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 05:14:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sigwinch28" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Measurement trains filled with cameras and LIDAR<p>For example, in the U.K.:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Measurement_Train</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757714</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46757714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "C++ says “We have try... finally at home”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A writable file closing itself when it goes out of scope is usually not great, since errors can occur when closing the file, especially when using networked file systems.<p><a href="https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/2203" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/issues/2203</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410534</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "SQL Anti-Patterns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or it’s simply an indicator of a schema that has not been excessively normalised (why create an addresses_cities table just to ensure no duplicate cities are ever written to the addresses table?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628287</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Via Wikipedia:<p>> The developer offered full refunds to the game for macOS and Linux owners regardless of how long they had the game.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_League#Free-to-play_transition" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_League#Free-to-play_tra...</a><p><a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rocket-league-ending-mac-and-linux-support-because-they-represent-less-than-0-3-of-active-players" rel="nofollow">https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rocket-league-ending-mac-an...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:47:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536182</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44536182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m from the U.K. and I consider the government’s actions around digital privacy to be somewhere between incompetent and malicious.</p>
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<p>>waiting for 2 different lights just to get to the opposite corner.<p>A solution sometimes seen in London is a “Pedestrian Scramble”, where pedestrians are explicitly given full (and even diagonal) access to a junction with all other traffic stopped.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:52:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998820</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41998820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With SSO, the party running the SSO decides what the authentication policy is.<p>For example, where the authentication request is coming from (on-site, managed device), what methods are being used (hardware second factor, Authenticator app).<p>These are all things that the SSO can check at time of authentication, before a token or session key gets issued to the user. Also, all of these things can be checked again when doing any auth flows for the various linked services.<p>So with stolen SSO credentials, they might be worth diddly squat to you if you didn’t think to also be on-site or on a managed company device (physically or virtually).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:26:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423323</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reuse of identifiers seems to be a theme in aviation <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401864</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:41:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164067</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we replace “YAML” with “JSON” and then talk about naive text-based templating, it seems wild.<p>That’s because it is. Then we go back to YAML and add whitespace sensitivity and suddenly it’s the state-of-the-art for declaring infrastructure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:47:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133450</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot government funding stipulates open access publication of some form.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_mandate" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-access_mandate</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632116</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40632116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Google releases smart watch for kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A smartwatch for kids could be so good if it was designed in a way to be educational, but most importantly, which respects a child’s privacy utmost, even from their parents in terms of tracking.<p>For example, a maps app, to always get the kid home if they’re lost. Medication reminders. Fitness tracking. Emergency SOS. A calendar to remind them about family birthdays and upcoming holidays. School timetables. Medical ID. Payment cards or passes for travel (in Western Europe a lot of schoolchildren commute by themselves, especially on public transport) and spending their allowance. Let the kid choose to notify their family of their location as and when they want to. Empower them to use tech to their advantage but put their privacy first.<p>Children are going to end up as adults in this world regardless of whether we teach them, so we should be teaching them the benefits and warning them of the many bad actors. We should be teaching our children the skills they need to navigate the modern world. This includes technology and abusive/controlling relationships.<p>I believe a good responsible smartwatch for kids can exist. Alas, this is Google and helicopter parents exist, so this product is not it.</p>
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<p>At 2.6 megabytes per dollar, it is at least cheaper than the price of a (very legal) kdb license, which can hover around 3 bytes per dollar.<p>Comparing apples and oranges here but I like thinking about the monetary value assigned to a byte.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 17:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514349</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Withdraw most of my ownership in favor of Mark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be about GitHub’s annoying CODEOWNERS feature where every matching user in the CODEOWNERS file is forcefully added as a reviewer of opened PRs.<p>To my knowledge this “feature” can’t be toggled independently and in my experience often drastically reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of GitHub notifications for people in a CODEOWNERS file.<p>I wish GitHub allowed this to be configured. You either get this functionality <i>and</i> enforced code owner approval, or neither.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 19:17:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493704</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "The OpenAI board was right"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are clauses in many Hollywood contracts which prevent the use of an actor’s likeness.<p>See what happened in Back to the Future Part 2: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#Replacement_of_Crispin_Glover_and_lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II#R...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 10:42:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426619</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Meteor seen in Portugal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/MgNItWdfEIU?si=QGZbjRIh50InkiHV" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/MgNItWdfEIU?si=QGZbjRIh50InkiHV</a><p>Context: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Name</a></p>
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<p>> What's the risk here?<p>A monopolistic stock exchange could, off the top of my head: increase fees, engage in rentseeking behaviour, impose unfair rules, discriminate (against companies and traders) or reduce the quality of service.<p>Listing on different (or multiple) exchanges ensures that they engage in proper competition.<p>> compared to the actual extractions you are subjected to in the UK<p>An apt example of why it's healthy to have competition. A working professional or business could relocate to a country where less of their wealth is taken from them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 14:19:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40367302</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40367302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40367302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least for AirTags before today, this functionality allegedly only triggers when the device is not near one of the owner’s iPhones/iPad/Macbooks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348008</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40348008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Mount Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They leave oxygen tanks littered up there.<p>They leave human bodies up there, too, but those are usually moved out of view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305434</link><dc:creator>sigwinch28</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39305434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigwinch28 in "Should error messages apologize? (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I try to do this when writing error messages I expect to be seen by other engineers. I also try to state <i>why</i> this is an error condition.<p>“ERROR: Database query returned 0 rows”<p>versus<p>“ERROR: Database query returned 0 rows but need 2 or more rows for this operation. Ensure $other_etl has successfully ingested the data.”</p>
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<p>It is the rule in Europe, which is mentioned in (II)(C) in the link. I failed to link it properly.</p>
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