<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: slau</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=slau</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:09:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=slau" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate Oracle as much as the next guy, but this seems like a nothingburger.<p>Oracle didn’t file “thousands of H1Bs”. Oracle filed 2690 applications in FY2025 (Oct-Sep), and so far filed 436 in FY2026, according to the article.<p>If anything, this would indicate that Oracle slowed down on hiring foreign workforce. Oct-Mar is half of Oracle’s fiscal year, but they only filed 16% of the H1B applications as in 2025? That seems in line with a hiring freeze and subsequent layoff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "VR Is Not Dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apologies if this wasn’t clear, I thought it was obvious: you have something sitting on your face, isolating you physically, visually, physically, and emotionally.<p>When I’m playing on my couch with my wife, when something happens on screen we still look at each other and laugh—regardless of whether it’s a single player game or not. There’s eye contact.<p>If I’m engrossed in a game of RL in my office, I can still look down at my dog when she comes and boops me. There’s eye contact.<p>Virtual reality, for all its qualities and ability to let you be digitally present with people online or also in VR, is physically isolating users from the people who are physically nearby.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:35:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Office EU: European-owned cloud based office suite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> EUfforic Europe B.V<p>> built on Nextcloud Hub</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:26:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "VR Is Not Dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The biggest impediment for VR is the fundamentally asocial nature of it.<p>If there are fewer headsets in a room than there are people, it’s going to be awkward for at least one person. Trying to help someone debug something in their headset without me being able to see what they see is a problem (granted, this could be solved by software).<p>Having to share headsets sucks. You have to faff with head straps, adjust IPD, focus. I’ve had exactly one evening where everyone had a headset and things worked well for everyone involved. I’ve had dozens if not hundreds of events filled with awkward moments, setup issues, problems, where everyone is continuously taking the headset off and need to figure something out. And this was while working for a VR company where everyone was quite computer and VR literate.<p>Reflecting on it, it felt kind of like 90s and 2000s LAN parties, before the days of DHCP. Randomly copying values around, IP conflicts and not understanding subnet values. Good times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:26:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m actually glad to see this. We have been asking Firefox to build features, instead of AI garbage, and this may be something I didn’t know I wanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:34:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think I’ve ever met someone claiming to be able to easily maintain 70 km/h. Maintaining 50 km/h for an hour puts you well into top professional territory, especially if riding solo.<p>There’s basically no chance you got to that level without serious training, coaching, and a lot of experience.<p>That is a very different situation from just using a credit card and being able to zip down the road at 50-60 km/h. People have been killed by these fat bikes (as in, a pedestrian being struck), because fat bikes are significantly heavier than road bikes, and kids with no experience drive them in places where pedestrians do occur.<p>I doubt you were pulling 50+ km/h in the city centre, or on the beach promenade. Yet this is what we see with fat bikes.<p>The laws aren’t designed to protect the rider. They’re designed to protect the uninvolved bystanders who just want to enjoy a stroll.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:27:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s how I use them. Passkeys on two Yubikeys. And I tag in my password manager which credentials have what form of auth. UP, TOTP (also stored on the two Yubikeys), Webauthn or passkeys (the former indicating 2FA).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:13:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Warrant Canary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately it is quite clear today that canaries never really worked, or more charitably, don’t work anymore.<p>While you might have been able to “gotcha” the court, it would also have been a sure fire way to end up in contempt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Why does aluminum foil have one shiny side and one with a matte finish?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! That’s one rule I keep forgetting, but I’ll try to make an effort. Unfortunately I can’t edit the post anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still works for me. I still get the media overlay that tells me what is playing and elapsed/remaining time, but the actual controls do nothing (play/pause, rewind/forward).<p>Sometimes I get double audio; usually a refresh of the page fixes it.</p>
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<p>Whomever wrote that clearly has never made or eaten a sandwich. Without something in between the two layers, it’s hardly a sandwich.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031502</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OT: I applaud your correct use of the grave accent, however minor nitpick: crème in French is feminine, therefore it would be “la”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867203</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Tell HN: Cursor agent force-pushed despite explicit "ask for permission" rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A few months ago, I switched to exclusively using an SSH key stored on my Yubikey token. I also recently switched to my default git config signing all commits with my SSH key. The way it’s setup means I have to touch my token every time I try to commit or push.<p>I typically commit everything myself—I’m still quite early in my adoption of coding agents. One of my first experience with OpenCode (which made me stop using it instantly) was when it tried to commit and force push a change after I simply asked it to look into a potential bug.<p>Claude Code seems to have better safeguards against this. However, I wonder how come we don’t generally run these things inside docker containers with only the current dir volume mounted or something to prevent spurious FS modifications.<p>I’m entirely with you that we need better ways to filter what commands these things are allowed to run. Specifically, a CLAUDE.md or “do not do this under any circumstance” as part of the prompt is a futile undertaking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729157</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Claude Cowork first impression: Cowork Deleted 11GB of files [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The thing is that you can’t actually trust it did run the rm command.<p>As soon as you ask “give me a list of all the commands that led to the deletion”, isn’t it extremely likely to just invent an rm in there?<p>Furthermore—and granted, I didn’t watch the video in detail—what data was actually deleted? Maybe the hallucination was that some data was there when it wasn’t, and then Claude convinced itself it deleted something in the move process. Notice that it never says “I accidentally ran rm instead of mv”. That only happens when the user asks to backfill the commands.<p>Does coworker give Claude access to historical commands, or does Claude just generate based on its “memories”?<p>I’ve been using Claude quite a bit over the past few weeks, and this is a pattern I’ve noticed a few times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:38:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598248</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I know neither Firefox nor Chrome allow you to modify the JS prior to execution without a plugin. You can run random JS, sure, but you can’t monkeypatch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342906</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd love to be able to modify JS at runtime on random websites. Too often there's a bug, or a "feature" that prevents me from using a service, that I could fix by removing an event or something in the JS code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295464</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In this case the comment that was promoted to the top-level has been consistently higher on the page (it’s the first comment still) than the comment it originally responded to.</p>
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<p>Then why doesn’t it infer it when it’s two male names?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902985</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "Find Bitcoin-Friendly Coffee Shops – We Need Submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If one bitcoin is worth $10 million then 1 millionth of a bitcoin is still $10.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809204</link><dc:creator>slau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by slau in "A new pay-per-mile tax system is reportedly being considered by the Government"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that was exactly my point. A local government handing me a bill that is not proportional to which roads I was driving on.<p>There are many systems, many of them imperfect. The vignette system, per week/month seems maybe the most responsible, as it guarantees I’m paying my due in the place of and proportional to the amount of time I will be using the roads.</p>
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