<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: skobes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skobes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:48:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=skobes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218100</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Facebook is cooked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you can still go directly to /messages/ and not see the feed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:32:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101173</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Font Rendering from First Principles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is the whole implementation in header files?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:53:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009507</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Do not apologize for replying late to my email"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, it's also an attentional commitment for me to remember your idiosyncratic apology-preferences. So I might continue apologizing for replying late to your email, unless you convince me that _everyone_ doesn't like this...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:14:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978600</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My main home PC is a Puget Serenity workstation from 2017. It has been rock solid and outperforms much newer laptops. And it has almost zero fan noise which is a priority for me. Unfortunately it looks like they may have discontinued the Serenity model, at least I don't see it on the website anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:20:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877455</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tomorrow: modify man pages from kernel space!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:26:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743006</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Omitting <body> can lead to weird surprises. I once had some JavaScript mysteriously breaking because document.body was null during inline execution.<p>Since then I always write <body> explicitly even though it is optional.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578982</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shoutout to fava, the beancount GUI frontend:<p><a href="https://beancount.github.io/fava/" rel="nofollow">https://beancount.github.io/fava/</a><p>I really like its big picture view of the accounts, the search / query interface, and live editing of transactions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:14:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464042</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This illustrates the difficulty of maintaining a separation between bugs and discussions:<p>> To be clear, I 100% believe that there is some kind of leak affecting some specific configuration of users<p>In this case it seems you believe a bug exists, but it isn't sufficiently well-understood and actionable to graduate to the bug tracker.<p>But the threshold of well-understood and actionable is fuzzy and subjective. Most bugs, in my experience, start with some amount of investigative work, and are actionable in the sense that some concrete steps would further the investigation, but full understanding is not achieved until very late in the game, around the time I am prototyping a fix.<p>Similarly the line between bug and feature request is often unclear. If the product breaks in specific configuration X, is it a bug, or a request to add support for configuration X?<p>I find it easier to have a single place for issue discussion at all stages of understanding or actionability, so that we don't have to worry about distinctions like this that feel a bit arbitrary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:01:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463943</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46463943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "A brief history of Times New Roman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not a standalone article but a section from Butterick's book, "Typography for Lawyers", which is hosted in full on the website. The book is an opinionated style manual, and many alternatives are described in nearby sections.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:34:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289820</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "A brief history of Times New Roman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fond of STIX Two, which is very close to Times New Roman but just a little bit nicer, especially the italic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289639</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46289639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once I realized that some people expect and are happy for you to jump in with unprompted thoughts or stories, it became easier for me to be intentional about doing so.<p>I think I'm a lot better now than when I was younger at adapting to a wide range of conversational styles, mostly just from paying more attention to that dynamic.<p>Do you feel like your conversational toolbox has evolved over time? :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:46:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249971</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46249971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate these too, but I'm worried that a ban just incentivizes being more sneaky about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:17:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206702</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Developers have been anthropomorphizing computers for as long as they've been around though.<p>"The compiler thinks my variable isn't declared"
"That function wants a null-terminated string"
"Teach this code to use a cache"<p>Even the word computer once referred to a human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182851</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If LLMs produce fake citations, why would we trust LLMs to check them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182721</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wouldn't this fall under Auer deference (agency's interpretation of its own regulation)?<p>There is some uncertainty about whether Auer deference survives after Loper Bright.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:38:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172860</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your link is just the abstract, I had to hunt for the full talk:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1kc7fcF5Ao</a><p>But it is quite interesting and especially learning about the security problems of the document() function (described @ 19:40-25:38) made me feel more convinced that removing XSLT is a good decision.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955985</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Prefer Boring Technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried to read this but the pronouns are so grating</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923223</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "Rock Tumbler Instructions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only thing I know about rock tumblers is that Steve Jobs thinks they're like teams of people building software...<p>Apple must have been a noisy, violent place :P</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 01:18:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708305</link><dc:creator>skobes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skobes in "SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting that the canvas looks to be in a 5:3 aspect ratio. Did SGI displays have that shape, or would they have used non-square pixels like many DOS games in CGA/EGA resolution?</p>
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