<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: spcebar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spcebar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:45:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=spcebar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you feel, as someone who likes VR, were Meta's big pitfalls, and what do you like about VRChat that you feel like Meta missed?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430676</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Disappointing Phones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wrote a blog post about exactly this in 2021 when the US was shutting down their 3G networks. <a href="https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-network/" rel="nofollow">https://benergize.com/2021/07/16/were-shutting-down-our-3g-n...</a><p>I had a OnePlus 3T and really didn't want to let it go (particularly because it DOES support VoLTE!) but ultimately got a Pixel 4 and have been using it since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130631</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest. #2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are super funny, I hope you continue doing them. Clearly a deep understanding and appreciation of the culture here goes into it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:46:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791171</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's getting very hard. At this point, lyrics are the biggest giveaway. AI generated lyrics are always awful and the delivery feels very stilted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:59:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605964</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A fun little functional language where everything is a parameter in a glorious cascade of functions from a parent function. It's called OAF (Oops All Functions).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589532</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tangentially, if you enjoy The Great Gatsby, you might also enjoy All The King's Men, which is a work of fiction that I think similarly richly described a swath of the American experience.<p>As for Gatsby, I think it's a great piece of fiction that invites a lot of readings, and everyone's invited to that ownership of the text. I think you can come away with the deeply shallow understanding of "the twenties were cool," and still be enriched by Fitzgerald's writing style.<p>I don't think anyone has made a good film adaptation of Gatsby and I don't know if anyone will, as long as it's adapted literally. The imagery and iconography of wealthy 1920s America eats so much of anything that tries to adapt it, that they tend to come out feeling shallow, and the writing is so dense that dialogue feels stilted and weird spoken out loud. You'd either need to, in my opinion, lean heavily into both, or abandon both, to make a good adaptation (leaning into both immediately feels like a Wes Anderson movie to me).<p>I think the best adaptation would be to do something like Jobs, where they just take a few scenes from the book and create a movie out of that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:54:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489746</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46489746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A hobby language called OAF (Oops All Functions). Everything is an argument of a parent function PROGRAM. It's very cursed but it's now fully competent as a general purpose language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277837</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46277837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Tech companies are firing everyone to "fund AI", spending money on each other"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The exciting AI ending. When all the companies selling boondoggles fire their employees, who is left with money to buy the boondoggles?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782698</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe they are saying that this update will remove the ability to decide if you want to install it and will require developers to register and pay for their applications to be installable at all. It's been several years since I developed for Mac, but they operated a similar way, secretly marking a file as quarantined and saying "XYZ Is Damaged and Can’t Be Opened. You Should Move It To The Trash" if you didn't pay to play. Maybe this has since changed, or maybe I'm just a dummy. Regardless, whether a platform has any business funneling a user into their walled garden is another philosophical argument altogether.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:59:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738282</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're interested in learning morse, there's a great app for Android, "Morse Mania: Learn Morse Code" from which I learned. It's surprisingly easy to pick up the basics but requires a good bit of practice to be able to parse it in real time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:41:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682373</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45682373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "AI Slop is taking over Spotify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would imagine not very much? The people buying vinyl are buying as a collectors item or because of its audio qualities. It's very easy to accidentally listen to something that's AI generated, you have to very actively purchase a vinyl. It also costs virtually nothing to get music on Spotify but is relatively expensive to get anything on vinyl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:33:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649656</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45649656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I should start by saying that I find ads incredibly irritating in any form. That said, Miele and DeLonghi are both more than a hundred year old companies. Maybe they don't need to advertise because they have such solidly establish brand identities, but they do advertise and they have advertised throughout their history as companies. Ads are a way of maintaining brand awareness, introducing new products, and creating demand. Even if you have an incredibly solid product with good word of mouth there is still benefit to advertising it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425932</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having worked in the world of e-commerce, there are genuinely good companies run by good people making genuinely good products that no one knows about, and one of the ways they try and get people to know about their products is advertising. In one case, this is a product that replaced something already in your home, it's materially better, and it's materially cheaper in the long term. How do you create an ad for that that doesn't sound like a lie?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:24:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425869</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "I’m Not a Robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I nearly gave up on Din Don Dan, but if you're on Android you can use media controls to skip to the end of the song and you'll only have to get a few notes right. I thoroughly enjoyed this, and it's ironic that for many CAPTCHAs, AI is now far more capable than humans at completing them .</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:04:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337221</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45337221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Escapee pregnancy test frogs colonised Wales for 50 years (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's very weirdly worded. Clearer would be: A type of frog which was once used as pregnancy test escaped and colonoised Wales for 50 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:50:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45318316</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45318316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45318316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "At Least One Underlying Condition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Direct link to the CDC page with a list of eligible underlying conditions, (as linked in the article): <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-factors/index.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223036</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They describe the ban in the article. Kids put their phone in pouches at the start of school and get them back at the end of the day. They say they're magnetic, I assume that describes some kind of lock or means to prevent use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211726</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nature is healing. Glad to see this. I was in high school when smart phones really became widespread, and was personally still on a flip phone most of the way through. I think there's something healthy to the boredom the kids describe, which ultimately leads to socialization and introspection. 24/7 social media seems like a very destructive portal to isolation, and having a reprieve from that, if only a few hours a day, seems like a great thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:53:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211711</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Making a font of my handwriting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least in the world of web, cursive is a typographic term referring to fonts that aren't sans or sans serif and are typically used for decorative purposes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:12:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143093</link><dc:creator>spcebar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spcebar in "Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The world gets hotter, political control of nations continues to flip back and forth between conservative and progressive ideologies, Koreas don't unify, water shortages intensify, year of the Linux desktop.</p>
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