<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: speedster217</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=speedster217</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:59:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=speedster217" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a direct quote in the article from Jaredd talking about poor work/life balance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:53:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845864</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are saying that someone who will summarize an article with AI is already implicitly biased. It's not about the AI, it's about the user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:13:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845305</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I thought it was very obvious that the author was more careless and complicit than she was admitting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:37:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704409</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've really been enjoying modern Python both at work and on personal projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 22:34:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229644</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah it doesn't even remotely qualify as a warning about it using your tokens to improve itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:13:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787514</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Americans are so used to school shootings they complain about the Onion's reaction to it rather than the failure of politics that led them here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674501</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a touchscreen laptop and I love it.<p>Mainly for stuff like quickly moving windows or highlighting.<p>But also I'm shocked Slay the Spire 2 on KDE is just working perfectly with the touch screen. Card games feel pretty natural with touch screens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:38:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595339</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've made that decision before without the help of LLMs so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It feels vaguely insulting to our intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:43:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678891</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46678891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Games Workshop bans staff from using AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> not specific characters.<p>That's funny because they have been releasing a ton of named hero characters lately.<p>A (I'm unsure how large) portion of the community hates this style of game design and call it "Herohammer"<p>I play the space bugs because I like huge swarms of things, so thematically I agree with them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:12:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611853</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you share an example of Fennel with AwesomeWM?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 01:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486731</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40486731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Godot 4.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone have any tutorials on Godot that they recommend?<p>I've got a small RPG prototype that runs in the console but would love to give it an actual GUI/sprite graphics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:19:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615300</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36615300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Google Cloud Storage FUSE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse">https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse</a> is one option</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790114</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35790114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "It feels lonelier at the top with everyone working from home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep that happened to me when I moved to be closer to family</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2021 19:31:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27803923</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27803923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27803923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Malcolm Gladwell has a great set of Revisionist History podcasts on this subject.<p>Here's the first one:<p><a href="http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-remember" rel="nofollow">http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:42:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098228</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19098228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "New York Beats Out San Francisco to Be World’s Best Tech City"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you lived in Silicon Valley? The amount that people from other companies talk to each other is incredible. You're using a technology? Oh just hop in the car and talk to the developers about your use case and help guide the development.<p>You _can_ do that remotely, but having it happen in person is way more reliable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 01:17:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082336</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "DigitalOcean launches its container service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands.<p>Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 23:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18659830</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18659830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18659830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Haruki Murakami Introduces the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My coworker who likes Murakami recommended Kawabata and Ishiguro, but I haven't had a chance to read either yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010466</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18010466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just tested it in Python3:<p><pre><code>    def foo():
        exec("a=1")
        return a

    print(foo())
</code></pre>
Fails with a NameError:<p><pre><code>    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
        print(foo())
      File "test.py", line 3, in foo
        return a
    NameError: name 'a' is not defined</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 00:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17097399</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17097399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17097399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cast that lets you scratch those itches]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/13/science-creates-a-cast-that-lets-you-scratch-those-itches/">https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/13/science-creates-a-cast-that-lets-you-scratch-those-itches/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705739">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705739</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2016 02:17:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/13/science-creates-a-cast-that-lets-you-scratch-those-itches/</link><dc:creator>speedster217</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12705739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by speedster217 in "It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At a place I worked, our CEO said that most businesses only paid about 60% of list price. The list price was inflated so that the people who were buying would get rewarded by their companies for knocking the price down so much</p>
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