<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: skc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:26:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=skc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My son (8 years old) is a bit of a unicorn in that he lives his devices and his books pretty much equally.<p>On any given day we're either telling him to put away his switch or his book because that's how engrossed he gets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:09:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501281</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I've always thought what if each of our individual consciousnesses is like a radio frequency that is unique to each individual? This would explain why we regain consciousness when we wake up, because our physiology is locked to whatever that frequency happens to be.<p>Under this model, 'you' don't actually reside inside your skull. Instead, your brain is just biological hardware translating a non-local broadcast, meaning our core identity exists independently of the body.<p>That unique frequency "fingerprint" is close enough in pattern to every other human being that we're able to "understand" each other a process that might manifests in interesting but complex ways eg love and empathy<p>Bats might be a whole frequency band up!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:39:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487840</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many years later and I'm still bitter that the tech press laughed Windows Phone out of the room straight to its demise. Yes it had very little developer support but at some point things were looking up. It was just the butt of too many jokes from influential people.<p>A third ecosystem right now would have been amazing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159283</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was way too young when I read this book. Absolutely devoured it and had nightmares for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:40:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061240</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He could write the same exact post but swap the word "Mac" for "Windows" and the comment section here would be markedly different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:50:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060447</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Battery and solar panel advancements have been the most interesting story in tech for going on a decade in my opinion.<p>Wish I could fast forward 50 years and see what the world will look like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:51:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864485</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Cloudflare Email Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, and I'm both a Cloudflare and Resend customer.<p>I like Resend, a lot, but this is probably something I can't pass up, especially if it does what it says on the tin</p>
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<p>It's humbling to see this image. I can't even begin to imagine what it must feel like to see this from the perspective of those astronauts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:21:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644128</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because Windows works just fine for me.<p>I'm a dev, I don't game. No issues.<p>Why people find this hard to believe is kind of puzzling to be honest. As if everyone's experience simply HAS to match your own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500948</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's actually pretty cool. What made you think of doing this in the first place?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500213</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As long as they keep using Macs, iPhones and Apple watches.<p>That'll show those pesky Americans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:39:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396441</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really disappointing. A lot of us have always considered Ars Technica to be the last of a dying breed of ultra serious, no-nonsense professionalism.<p>Obviously, we were rocked by the DrPizza scandal years ago...and now this.<p>Sobering.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:36:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229791</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hasn't wild volatility always proved to be the very nature of Bitcoin?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:18:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934978</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The irony of building 'sovereign' software on top of Windows and MacOS.<p>Without a hardware or OS pivot, this feels less like independence and more like empty posturing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:09:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778437</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46778437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple have enough customer behaviour data at hand to fully understand that there is very little they can't get away with.<p>So why not maximize profit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689267</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still think AI shines here. I find ffmpeg commands pretty arcane. Nowadays I just ask an LLM to generate the commands I need, test, and I'm done.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:25:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412184</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bluesky still chugging along.<p>Just saying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45965279</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45965279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45965279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that these drones are only appearing in NATO aligned countries makes it seem pretty obvious to me that it's one of two possibilities.<p>1) Russian sabre-rattling<p>2) NATO countries running "secret" drills in public in anticipation of 1)<p>The UFO community is of course running with a third option that doesn't warrant any seriousness.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954104</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45954104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a wonderful scifi novel based on these themes, called "The Sparrow"<p>Pretty harrowing reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672027</link><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skc in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If SETI is successful it would be a fascinating to sit back and observe the deeply religious.</p>
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