<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: socks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=socks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:03:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=socks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Where the goblins came from"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My colleagues were joking about smoking guns yesterday after noticing that Claude was obsessed with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958884</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey ericlewis - this is cool! Can I ask how you figured it out?!
Doing this for my PO-33 was on my bucket list.
I thought I might have to resort to voltage glitching to get a firmware dump, which is currently beyond my skills.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593771</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "this css proves me human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The non-LLM version of this happened to me in a high school English class, back in the 2010's. I was accused of turning in a downloaded story from the internet, but in reality, I had pushed past the incredible barrier I usually felt at the start of a task, got into the flow, and started enjoying it.<p>I'm not sure if it had any lasting effects. Maybe a burning hatred of Grammarly ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285384</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Anyone Can Clone Your Voice Now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At my workplace, a colleague in another team used an AI tool to voice/video clone my companies CEO, CRO and CTO (I assume with their permission) and created a mandatory 30 minute training video that they expected us to watch with these monotone fake company leaders doing the presentation. It wasn't even a joke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771614</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46771614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>haha wow - it also just straight up copied the .gif files byte for byte - same SHA sum</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:51:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191216</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>eh? what launch?
been using it for years now, it's brilliant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077411</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it screams it to me - wording such as "your concerns are valid", "yes, you're absolutely right..." and "I realize now how important...", and then usage of em-dash</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:34:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582182</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Show HN: DataRamen, a Fast SQL Explorer with Automatic Joins and Data Navigation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is this chatgpt? your comments read like chatgpt output</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582039</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44582039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of this old HN thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353389">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353389</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:56:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44267135</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44267135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44267135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "What a developer needs to know about SCIM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pure chance - what should get assigned to me mere hours after reading this article but a ticket regarding SCIM users not being disabled with Entra...<p>> It turns out that Microsoft’s default behavior sends a boolean value as a string<p>> You can force Microsoft to send you the proper JSON if you use a certain feature flag (aadOptscim062020), but that’s really not an obvious solution!<p>Boom. That was exactly my issue.<p>> This sort of stuff is very time-consuming and demoralizing to resolve.<p>I would have sunk hours into this - thanks Ned O'Leary - you made my day!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201723</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44201723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scavenger's Reign was really excellent - but as I was watching it, I had an inkling that I would likely be in a small cohort of people who love it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398272</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gravity Falls is another 'kids' show that is absolutely brilliant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:38:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398224</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>unfortunately, I have a feeling that in the age of LLMs, this junior on the team will have no impetus to actually put in effort and _think_ about such a problem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:27:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390197</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Farewell potholes? UK team invents self-healing road surface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least in the towns and cities, I believe it is because the utility companies can cut up the roads, but the cuts are never repaired to the same quality, allowing water ingress and creating weaknesses that seem to 'seed' potholes.<p>I used to live in Edinburgh and the roads were like an uneven tar patchwork.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Feb 2025 08:22:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981410</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>their pricing page states<p>> We plan to make money by helping clients secure additional financial products like secured lines of credit, margin, and insurance, all in a fiduciary manner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:40:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377219</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not really. banking systems have firewalls and access controls. quantum computations would be useless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371737</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "Caffeine suppresses cerebral grey matter responses to chronic sleep restriction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really disliked beer until I was about 25 years old. I kept occasionally trying it, maybe because my girlfriend liked beer, and one day, to my surprise, found a particular beer I really liked.
Trying new craft beers is now a bit of a passion, and have had over 250 different beers (I avoid buying repeats [unless extremely good] or a multipack)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036802</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "China's quiet energy revolution: the switch from nuclear to renewable energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-dominates-renewable-energy-coal-power-forecasts-russell-2024-01-11/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-dominates-rene...</a><p>"There is also a caveat to China's rapid build-out of renewable capacity because at the same time it is still adding substantial coal-fired generation."<p>"China already accounts for 53% of the world's 2,095 GW of operating coal-fired generating capacity, a share likely to increase in coming years as more coal plants are retired in the developed world."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253211</link><dc:creator>socks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40253211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by socks in "I accidentally deleted a bad game revision from MAME"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to do this CD swap as a kid - you wouldn't touch the CD - you would put your finger on the mount that you clip the CD onto, and then when it had stopped, pop the CD off.</p>
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<p>this sounds like chatgpt drivel</p>
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