<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: soneil</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=soneil</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 10:59:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=soneil" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem I've been running into, is the platforms have no interest in letting us filter by it.<p>I use Audible a lot, and so far they've been good-to-okay about labelling ChatGPT as a co-author, Virtual Voice as a narrator, etc.  It's not the labelling I have a problem with.  It's that I can't use that to then just exclude them from my searches.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50430560</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50430560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50430560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Giving too much detail could be an issue in itself, because it starts to misrepresent what permission you're actually giving it.<p>If an app says "I'd like local network access to find other copies of myself", and you say yes - you're not giving it permission to find other copies of itself.  You're giving it all local network access.<p>If you give it 'full disk access' because it wanted to access one file, and 'local network access' because it wanted to scan for copies of itself - you've given it full permission to export all of your data to your LGTV.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318177</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50318177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Patrick Stewart has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not Shatner, but I need to drop that Patrick did a backing track on Brent Spiner's album.  It has to be in here somewhere, and this seems as good a place as any.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFwiLa3TYwg&list=PL1T3N4t2kUgR_QdYwh8LurqZa9kNtfucp" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFwiLa3TYwg&list=PL1T3N4t2kU...</a><p>> Sunspots: LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart.<p>uNF!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:51:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298518</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen this mentioned a few times over the last day or two, but it's not true.<p>The xkcd was 2007 [0], the Debian issue was 2008 [1].<p>It <i>was</i> used in pretty much every blogpost describing the Debian issue, but it wasn't created because of the Debian issue (unless they gave Randall an 8-month head-start before disclosing it).<p>(I don't mean this as a "well akshully" - but for me it's more impressive that it's a truism that keeps coming true, than if it was just a swipe at them in the first place)<p>[0] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930232116/https://xkcd.com/221/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20070930232116/https://xkcd.com/...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00152.html" rel="nofollow">https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:31:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192344</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50192344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually really like having § at that position.  I have it mapped to a Quake-style terminal, and § means it's not only the correct key, but I don't have to give up a useful key for it.<p>(This may not translate well for USians; Quake disregarded keymaps, so the console wasn't actually on ~, but on "the key that would be labelled ~ in the US".  On UK-PC, that's backtick, on Uk-Mac, that's §.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:44:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032387</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50032387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eight Megabytes would be a feature, these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:38:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697661</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ahh - I see where my dots weren't connecting, then.<p>I pictured having a current driver on each plane, so the data bits coming in would be enable bits for the current drivers.  Which obviously means 18xQty current drivers.<p>I think you're describing having one big current driver for the whole job, and then data bits drive the inhibits to counter them.<p>I guess I'm looking through too modern a lens - pumping 18*600mA into the write cycle, plus (up to 18)*600mA into the inhibit, sounds insane to me (hitting 20A for a write) - but I can see that multiplying the current drivers may have sounded nuts in the 50s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:01:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509241</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can I confess I've never quite wrapped my head around the application of the 'inhibit' line in this?<p>If a write cycle is just a read cycle with a) a reversed polarity and b) you don't care about the contents of the sense line - I don't get why current coincidence is sufficient during the read cycle, but not during the write cycle?<p>Every description of this I've ever read, sound like inhibit and current coincidence solve the same problem - but have never left me clear on why we need to solve it twice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:48:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507743</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s probably worth noting it’s (2002) too. The internet was a different audience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408009</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was C really later?  I thought UNIX had been ported before it made it to Berkeley.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:18:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402900</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah, software travelled exactly the same way as rumours that such and such had a rib removed - remarkably effectively.<p>Also the same way we got viruses, long before anyone I knew had the Internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340119</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sligo's not _that_ bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:12:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314379</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah it's pretty much a John Smith, which I assume was half the point, and is now most the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314351</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried similar.  Each command looped 5 times, ignore the best and worst times, and average the mean three.<p><pre><code>    journalctl >/tmp/all.log  0m59.763s
    journalctl | grep -c sshd 0m57.767s  (otherwise >all is the only example encumbered by write speeds)
    wc -l /tmp/all.log        0m0.336s
    grep -c sshd /tmp/all.log 0m1.776s</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305617</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a couple of devices that are 12V over usb-c.  The devices themselves are fine, but the wallwarts the mffr provided are just that - 12v over usb-c.  No PD.  If a device is expecting 5V, there's a healthy chance it'll .. stop expecting 5V.<p>We blame usb-c for all this, but it does feel like some mffrs are going out of their way to screw it up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912102</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Just Let Me Write Digits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto?<p>It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.</p>
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<p>This feels like a good place to reel out my favourite anecdote; community college IT (or for the natives; BTEC), 1998; our programming tutor told us to "ignore the internet" because it's a fad.<p>Almost 30 years, and every so often I still wonder about where that got him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:58:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740793</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SNDMSG-over-ftp pre-dates UUCP by 5 years, so I think that one's pretty clear-cut.<p>(Not that I'm claiming anything's original here, ftp & smtp are both in the nwg/ietf family tree, which makes it easy to draw parallels.  There's probably 100 other influences.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604168</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It used to be even more literally so - network mail started off as using FTP to SNDMSG onto a remote system instead of your own.  In RFC475, FTP has MAIL and MLFL (mailfile) commands to support this.<p>I think it's neat that you can still find echoes of this.  MAIL worked by just appending to MLFL, separating records with CRLF.CRLF - which is still how Data segments are terminated in SMTP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:36:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567929</link><dc:creator>soneil</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soneil in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think what really stands out about this, is that having it installed as a pre-made brick is very cost-effective.<p>But this cost-effective route isn't readily available to most people, as most people don't build homes.  Developers build lots, and then sell finished homes.  So you need to entice developers.  And historically, "the stick" is the only enticement developers remotely pay attention to.<p>"If you want a swift brick, install one yourself" is much easier said than done - you're talking about removing an existing brick, replacing it, hoping you don't damage the course or the cavity, probably voiding any warranty on a new home, etc.  It's certainly not a £35 retrofit.</p>
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