<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: small_scombrus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=small_scombrus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:20:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=small_scombrus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They don't need to actually filter/blackhole to have have the same virtual effect.<p>Show someone a list of resumes with an "applicant score*" and they'll naturally ignore the ones with a low ranking<p>*<i>scores are generated with AI, mistakes may be made, use only as a guide and verify results</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:17:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715099</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "There are no instances in ATProto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same reason that they don't do that for Email.  It's a lot more complicated for little obvious gain</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607508</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "There are no instances in ATProto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're treating Mastodon as the protocol here, and sure it's a combined frontend/backend, and it <i>is</i> the most used one, but its just one implementation of the AP protocol.  You can plug your favourite AP app/frontend into any Mastodon instance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602419</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Stop Ruining It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> some people are shockingly incurious and approach academia and life through a depressingly hollow transactional lens from the beginning<p>I feel like that's a result of prior bad experience.  Noone goes into university, or even primary school a blank slate.<p>It's very easy to fall into a trap where education is transactional if that's what was modelled to you or that's how previous teachers treated you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:23:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383689</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascism is when seatbelts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 08:55:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306419</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48306419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why are you writing papers and not having actually read the source you took the material from?<p>They're explicitly <i>not</i> writing papers.  The fake citations are created and inserted by the LLM</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144668</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they're saying that frontier LLMs may be usable to spot citations that are correct by shape (a real citation) but incorrect by usage (unrelated to the text)<p>I kind of hate the idea, but you probably <i>could</i> do a lazy LLM check of every paper and every citation and have it flag possible wrong (second sense) citations for human review<p>But you'd need a LOT of tokens and a LOT of human-hours</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 04:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144633</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> those people don't have the kind of security hygiene instincts that make CC a sane choice for coders.<p>Coders don't all have those kind of security hygiene instincts either</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 08:48:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132721</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are few hard and fast rules, but "never use something that could change as a primary key" and "never roll your own Auth" will always be true</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043654</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It'll depend immensely on what you're actually doing, but if it's simple enough you may be able to make a macro that subs out the types & awaits</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:54:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019782</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It isn't web based?  It's a set of Lua scripts that run locally</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:00:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653273</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1Password has really been bugging me recently, all the emails they send have giant link buttons they want you to click without verifying where you're actually going</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614681</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:59:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608274</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So the stable state here is all humans eventually being locked out?<p>Yep.  The most easy to implement stable state for any system where you're aiming to prevent misuse is to just prevent use</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568854</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IIRC Thunderbird is a fork of Firefox, so it can do all of the web things your heart desires</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:02:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375064</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My local build of helix is 20MB, did you use the suggested flags on the install guide page?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285247</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Is there some established AI-agnostic protocol/interface?<p>AFAIK no</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285233</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I desperately wish Helix would support virtual text (code folder, markdown links just showing the text when not selected), but the default keybinds and the way that selecting and editing text work just works too well in my brain to go anywhere else</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:08:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285222</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know it's not a proper fix, but helix does have `:reload` and `:reload-all` commands<p>I have reload-all bound to Ctrl-r</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285065</link><dc:creator>small_scombrus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by small_scombrus in "Good software knows when to stop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nano not powerful, but it is friendly, it shows you its keybinds.<p>Vim is very powerful, but also very unfriendly.<p>The difference in effort required to pick up Nano vs Vim is HUGE</p>
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