<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: ssorallen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ssorallen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:58:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ssorallen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>79.6% of SpaceX’s Total Addressable Market is listed under “Enterprise Applications” of AI. This is in the S-1 itself. SpaceX is not planning to make its money in space or in broadband - SpaceX claims it’s an AI company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375199</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>* Tab Wrangler GitHub Project: <a href="https://github.com/tabwrangler/tabwrangler" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tabwrangler/tabwrangler</a><p>* Tab Wrangler for Chrome: <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh?pli=1" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhc...</a><p>Continuing to work on Tab Wrangler, an extension for both Chrome and Firefox that has been available and open source for 10+ years. It auto-closes tabs when they have not been active for a configurable amount of time, similar to the feature built into Mobile Safari but more configurable.<p>I have been maintaining it and in the past few months added features that had been requested for a long time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 22:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088921</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "A senior Apple exec could be jailed in Epic case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why must I pay monthly for gigabytes of storage to backup my iphone when a single $30 hard drive could do it?<p>This is “I could build that in a weekend” mentality. Your data on iCloud is replicated, available via the internet, available 99.99% of the time, etc. If your $30 hard drive fails you lose everything.<p>The price and being able to use other services is worth debating, but comparing it to “a single $30 hard drive” is disingenuous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:03:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861206</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup good call, Angular.js seems more likely than Backbone now that you mention it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2022 01:21:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972539</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31972539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Reimagining front-end web development with htmx and hyperscript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alex Russell introduced Web Components in 2011. React was released in 2013.<p>Web Components originally used a view-model architecture, which I would guess was heavily inspired by the most popular JS framework leading up to 2011: Backbone.<p>React was a massive departure from Backbone, and sadly the Web Components spec was developed before React had matured and changed the landscape.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956668</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Ten years after the Higgs, physicists face the nightmare of finding nothing else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is clickbait to someone in particle physics?<p>It describes the standard model, what the LHC was able to find, what it hasn’t been able to find, and why there is skepticism about further discoveries. This is some high quality clickbait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:36:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752060</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "The death of the sit-up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The plank is mentioned toward the end:<p>“In the past decade, every branch of the U.S. military has begun to phase out sit-ups and crunches from their required testing and training regimens, or else they have made them optional, alongside more orthopedically sound maneuvers such as the plank.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553780</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31553780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chrome’s Profiles are the #1 reason I use it over Firefox. If Firefox had as complete of an implementation as Chrome then I would consider switching, but until then Firefox is a non-starter for me.<p>I use all 3 of these profiles all day every day for work:<p>* one personal profile logged into personal Google<p>* one work profile managed by the company, logged into company Google<p>* one development profile with all the debugging extensions installed, like React and Redux tools (they require access to all pages all the time)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:44:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336260</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Locking your laptop to a table in a cafe doesn't seem like something most folks would do. Working in a cafe was the use case I imagined when I saw this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:26:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29565562</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29565562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29565562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "What’s the matter with airports? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LaGuardia in NYC requires transferring to a bus for the final connection from the subway to the airport. It’s infuriatingly difficult to get right even after doing the route many times. I’d often call a Lyft/Uber at 10x the price of the subway+bus because the public transit route is that annoying to deal with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27943358</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27943358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27943358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Analysis: Robinhood protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The collateral required by Robinhood’s clearing house to trade these stocks was raised to 100%, and it takes 2 days for trades to clear. Required collateral for other equities was not raised so there was no reason any other equities needed to be limited.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2021 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971760</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25971760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The title in the screenshot says “Continue search for Office Chairs,” which sounds like it shows recent Google searches that have significant presence in the “Shopping” tab of google.com. Sure these aren’t “ads,” like the article says, but if they are links to Google Shopping then they indirectly generate revenue for Google by sending you back to google.com.<p>Agreed... who asked for this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906653</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24906653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "DuckDuckGo Founding Member in Global Privacy Control Standards Effort"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their entire business model is [selling advertisements][0], same as Google.<p>[0]: <a href="https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliates/" rel="nofollow">https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/advertising-and-affiliat...</a></p>
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<p>Thanks for the reply! Shoelace does look great, and I recognize doing the form submission this way is a requirement currently. Hopefully the links above about allowing custom WebComponents to act as native form elements will further enable Shoelace.</p>
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<p>That’s great, thanks for the links.</p>
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<p>Thanks for the link. This library unfortunately highlights further challenges with Web Components like mixing custom WCs with native form elements. To use Shoelace form elements at all, you'll end up writing a bunch of JavaScript.<p>> Shoelace forms don't make use of action and method attributes and they don't submit the same was as native forms. To handle submission, you need to listen for the slSubmit event as shown in the example below and make an XHR request with the resulting form data.<p>> <a href="https://shoelace.style/components/form" rel="nofollow">https://shoelace.style/components/form</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:46:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641427</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24641427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1<p>I have tried multiple times to use DuckDuckGo over the years but used !g so often for programming queries that I questioned why I was forcing myself to use a plainly underperforming (for my use case) product. In other David vs. Goliath stories like Firefox vs. Chrome the competing product had verifiable advantages for me. For DDG the only edge is an unverifiable claim that the company doesn’t track me? Other than that I am resolving myself to a product that performs less well for my use case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 04:33:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624169</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "foo@bar.com"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you, I was unaware of this. I found the relevant section in the doc that was linked from your original link:<p>2. TLDs for Testing, & Documentation Examples<p>To safely satisfy these needs, four domain names are reserved as
   listed and described below.<p><pre><code>                   .test
                .example
                .invalid
              .localhost
</code></pre>
* ".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code.<p>* ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.<p>* ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.<p>* The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2" rel="nofollow">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-2</a><p>3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names<p>* example.com<p>* example.net<p>* example.org<p><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-3" rel="nofollow">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606#section-3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2020 14:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606810</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24606810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The team at Amazon improved people's lives, not Jeff Bezos all by himself. Why couldn't there be thousands more millionaires that helped build Amazon rather than one mega billionaire?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24484536</link><dc:creator>ssorallen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24484536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24484536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ssorallen in "Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> - How much to employees at Duty Free Shoppers (DFS) make?<p>I have similar thoughts when I hear about the philanthropy of the mega wealthy. Instead of a single person like Chuck Feeney or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates amassing ungodly amounts of wealth and then later choosing how to distribute it, why couldn't the companies they built have made 1,000 or 10,000 or X other people relatively rich instead of one man mega rich?</p>
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