<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: sixhobbits</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sixhobbits</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:33:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sixhobbits" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Difficult on mobile I wish hn would allow ``` blocks and not insist on blank lines to show new lines as I always forget to double space my bullet points too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:32:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328817</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started getting this occasionally months ago. I added these ublock rules and haven't been bothered since but I suspect they will change to a hard wall in future<p>! 28 Apr 2026 <a href="https://www.reddit.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com</a>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:42:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326928</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being 'good at business' can be bad for business – how enshittification happens]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://dwyer.co.za/static/being-good-at-business-can-be-bad-for-business-how-enshittification-happens.html">https://dwyer.co.za/static/being-good-at-business-can-be-bad-for-business-how-enshittification-happens.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318866">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318866</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://dwyer.co.za/static/being-good-at-business-can-be-bad-for-business-how-enshittification-happens.html</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Management is following a defined repetitive process to coordinate a team across some or all of projects (who should do what and how long should they spend on it), skills (is their work up to scratch and how can they improve) and HR (do they need to be paid more to not quit and do they need to be told to take sick leave to recover).<p>"Leadership" is more LinkedIn thought leadership BS but I think it's a useful distinction to make from management and is more about inspiring people to work towards a common goal, making difficult decisions with imperfect information and finding creative solutions to business problems.<p>To me working with AI does feel more like the latter, there isn't yet a clear path and set of processes for everyone to follow and getting the agents to do what you want does take similar skills in terms of inspiration (finding the right prompt) and creativity (figuring out how to join all the shiney new toys into reliable systems)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312306</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This happened to me too. Not 'Claude code' as such but I was doing some I guess slightly grey area scraping (of an undocumented public API) and got my IP address blacklisted. I signed up for some rotating residential proxies to get around that, and then noticed that the scraping system Claude had built for me 'helpfully' added my email address as a user-agent.<p>It mentioned that it decided to do this so that they could reach out to me and ask questions instead of blocking me again, but still probably one of the strongest cases of misalignment I've seen from an AI</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:41:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259198</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure why people are so negative about this, macbooks only really last a few years under heavy use anyway and most small businesses would love to pay $100/employee/month to make sure they all have hardware they need rather than trying to manage depreciation accounting and cash flow.<p>Eg often hardware over $1000 gets depreciated over 5 years but employee laptops get replaced every 3 years so subscribing can have a huge positive effect on cashflow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220579</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Taste Is All That's Left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yes this is 100% AI, the article and the 'post mortem'. People are so gullible. Anyone who has read a lot of AI can spot it instantly, but Pangram also says 99% of this is AI. So many signs, and no there were no human authors who wrote like this<p>"What it actually is"<p>"Here is the uncomfortable mechanism"<p>"Let me be plain about it"<p>"The floor"<p>"Everything downstream of the verdict"<p>I'll eat my hat if this isn't AI.<p>Very similar style to my AI 'utopia' <a href="https://aiking.dwyer.co.za/utopia" rel="nofollow">https://aiking.dwyer.co.za/utopia</a><p>I don't even think all AI writing is bad, but lying about it definitely is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:55:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208078</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "The AI Demand Bubble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[off topic] I'm a writer too and I know people have to make their money but<p>- Huge subscribe CTA at top<p>- In-text subscribe CTA<p>- scroll through that get pop up in your face full page subscribe CTA<p>- close that and continue scrolling to yet another subscribe CTA<p>was enough to make me close the page and ask my agent for a summary rather.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:13:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172630</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Show HN: Elevators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they change the elevators configuration depending on peak hours, or if one of the others is out of order then the express becomes a normal one again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:55:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142122</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49142122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Elevators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure how common it is but Bern train station has 3 elevators, usually 2 are set to normal and one to "express" which means all middle floors (mainly parking) are locked and you can only go ground to top (outside so a lot of people going to/from the station on foot)<p>It's super efficient for people who understand the system at the detriment of people who don't, as they get in and mash the middle buttons and get confused that they don't activate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131586</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes the prompt "only output ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English" does the same thing as the skill.<p>But it's very useful and skills is a good way to share promots, so whatever.<p>Try the skill or the prompt. It will likely improve your experience interacting with agents</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117965</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been running k3 on a single bigger hetzner dedicated machine to power <a href="https://demo.opensuite.online" rel="nofollow">https://demo.opensuite.online</a>, a work-in-progress open source replacement for Google Workspace, a distribution of what the Dutch government is trying to switch to but they seemingly don't care about UX at all so I wanted to try build on their foundations (which in turn are basically just nextcloud, element, and some others).<p>Anyway can definitely recommend, it feels like a real cluster but it's all on a single piece of hardware which makes snapshots etc super simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996844</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems kinda backwards, as far as I know charities and donation schemes are overwhelmed by clothing donations. Our problem isn't that we are destroying clothes that could be used somewhere else, the problems are manufacturing low quality clothing that lasts 2-3 wears, and fast fashion where people buy clothing for a specific event.<p>If they want to achieve their goals they should be aiming for demand destruction on _new_ clothes, once the clothes are unwanted it's too late.<p>But seems better to somehow incentivize fabric recycling and higher quality clothes. Even expensive clothes fall apart these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:06:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962400</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48962400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Loved my oneplus2, the rest were mediocre at best.<p>Went from great value hardware with open, minimalist software to overpriced hardware and shitty bloated software.<p>Great example of how chasing short term wins can bleed you dry over a few years</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:27:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933068</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We already have tags for PDF and Video so I could definitely see one for [LLM] working!<p>Generally I'd appreciate a top level comment from the submitter saying this is LLM generated but I read it and found it interesting because x,y,z because I'd rather read slop someone vouches for than slop someone hasn't</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:48:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890175</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>because if you don’t put this disclaimer the top comment is always "Acthually this isn't real science because you didn't publish your P value" so you can't win.<p>also the article itself is clearly LLM generated though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865697</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a scene in Catch22 IIRC where they decide to stop training the soldiers who need to parachute behind enemy lines because the fatality rate of training was so high that mathematically it made more sense to send in untrained soldiers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:18:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865415</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meta debuts Muse Spark 1.1]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-debuts-muse-spark-11-with-preview-open-developers-2026-07-09/">https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-debuts-muse-spark-11-with-preview-open-developers-2026-07-09/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846569">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846569</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-debuts-muse-spark-11-with-preview-open-developers-2026-07-09/</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "EU's five regulations that will change how we live, drive, and use the internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>non-english, twitter, and probably LLM-generated, and still on the front page. So either people really care about this issue or it's artificial as usually any one of those is enough to get ignored or flagged<p>Anyway here's an English translation for ease (google translate)<p>Wild West
@dziki_zachod
 The EU is simultaneously working on five regulations that will change how we live, drive, and use the internet.<p>Here's what's currently in the legislative process—and what's already in effect.<p>Advanced Driving Cameras (ADDW)—in force since July 7, 2026. Every new car must have a camera tracking the driver's face and eyes. Officially for safety. The data is supposed to stay in the car. For now.<p>Active Speed   Limiting (ISA)—in force since July 2024. New cars automatically limit their speed to the limit. It can be disabled, but the system resets itself.<p>Chat Control—still under negotiation. The project involves mass scanning of private messages for illegal content. Criticized by cybersecurity experts as the end of end-to-end encryption. Blocked several times, it's back in new versions.<p>Online KYC/age verification – just announced. Von der Leyen presented an app requiring ID to access certain platforms. The Vice-President of the European Commission announced that VPNs will also be regulated to ensure this cannot be bypassed.<p>Hate speech as an EU crime – The Commission wants to expand the list of EU crimes to include hate speech. Critics warn that the definition is so broad that it could criminalize simple political criticism.<p>Each of these regulations officially has a noble purpose. Together, they paint a picture of a Europe where you can say anything you say in front of a camera – and someone records it.
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:49:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843369</link><dc:creator>sixhobbits</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sixhobbits in "A bug which affected only left handed users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>something similar actually really annoys me on linkedin mobile, I'm left handed  and often accidentally like posts if I scroll my feed as the like button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen to scroll.</p>
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