<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: stephbook</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephbook</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:12:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stephbook" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only The Zuck saw the value though. Why didn't MS, Amazon or Google buy insta? Or some Softbank vehicle?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:54:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885315</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please share it with us.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:44:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826102</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best replay feature was in "Heroes of Newerth." (DotA 1.5 in 2009)<p>Warcraft 3 replays couldn't jump in time, just forward very fast. HoN could do that. It was amazing.<p>For a few months they even made ALL replays searchable on a website. Every game of HoN played globally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823066</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never bought a laptop or tablet for this very reason. No big phone (iPhone 13).<p>I'm still writting this now, from the couch. I fear how much screen time others waste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807547</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The site "reclaimthenet" calls it age "verification", but it's not a "verification" at all. There's your mystery.<p>All the bill wants is that you can set up an iPhone for kids, an children account on Ubuntu (YOU decide whether it's a children's account) and then, presumably, the browser vendors implement an AgeAPI that allows website operators to query the user age.<p>Your device tells us you're 10 years old. Access to Instagram denied.
Your device tells us you're 16. You're not allowed to visit gambling-porn-and-industrial-accidents.org<p>It's, of course, exactly the opposite of the "identity-tied age verification government-control, ID-document-leak" dystopia that the scare crowds here are peddling. But you'll never hear a word of acknowledgement from them.<p>These people act as if those "I'm 13 or older, i can create an Instagram account and waste my life" or "I'm 18 or older, let me watch porn and strangle my girlfriend" buttons are the peak of civilization.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:30:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805214</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice. How does pornhub.com "verify" your age when accessing it from your family computer's Ububtu account "my kids account"?<p>Oh, there is no config to retrieve, no We API to speak to.<p>"I'm 18 or older"-button it is. Is that a workable solution?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:39:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804455</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was it ever a trap? I don't think so.<p>Sure, these people could have "worked" for their money, self-employed or as a "wagey in a cagey", but the whole point was that they didn't want to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:27:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803007</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "A better R programming experience thanks to Tree-sitter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if you want to share something outside of your precious IDE?<p>- Merge request on GitHub
- Presentation with reveal.js (kind of like PowerPoint)<p>You'd be stuck with either bland, uncoloured, text-only characters, OR with a fuzzy PNG screenshot where you can't zoom or copy. Or maybe you "parse R" with Regex.<p>tree-sitter integrates into any web-based technology, allowing you to _share_ code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:50:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802530</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I, for one, expected progress. Uneven, sometimes delayed, but ever increasing progress.<p>But that Opus pelican?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799704</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're certainly aware of the test, but a turtle doing a kickflip on a skateboard? I seriously doubt they train their models for that.<p><a href="https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2024525132266688757" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2024525132266688757</a><p>If anything, the disastrous Opus4.7 pelican shows us they don't pelicanmaxx</p>
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<p>"Es ist aus" can also be translated as "It is over" (a game)<p>The meaning in dog schools is "Spit it out", but given aus's versatility within human language, it's often used as a general "stop" command. As in "aus", stop playing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799504</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Hey private prison please delete all data you have about me. And by the way, I'm locked up here by accident. Please release me."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770598</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Claude Code Routines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ambiguity is intentional. Like Microsoft not banning volume licenses. They want to scare you, so you don't max out your subscription – which they sell at a loss.<p>Another comparison would be "unlimited storage", where "unlimited" means some people will abuse it and the company will soon limit the "unlimited."</p>
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<p>Commits are immutable and you never know which feedback goes stale when you add another commit.<p>I'm not a huge fan, since stacked PRs mean the underlying issues don't get addressed (reviews clearly taking too long, too much content in there), but it seems they want something that works for their customers, right now, as they work in real life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:18:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757954</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, "presumably." That's exactly the problem..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:25:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742741</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't even know my locale.<p>Is is the device display language, the keyboard input language, my geo location, my browser language, my legal location, my browser-preferred website language, the language I set last time, the language of the domain (looking at amazon.co.uk), the language that was auto-selected last time for me on mobile or... something else entirely?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741876</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It actually starts with a completely unrelated anecdote:<p>"What do you even need funding for?"<p>I agree. The author claims to have multiple $10K MRR websites running on $20 costs. I also don't understand what he needs money for — shouldn't the $x0,000 be able to fund the $20 for the next project? It doesn't make any sense at all.<p>Then the author trails off and tells us how he runs on $20/month.<p>Well, why did you apply for funding? Hello?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737780</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47737780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you still have to install third-party software to keep it running when you close the lid?<p>Does it still not support "Windows Hello" style face unlock when closed? I remember I couldn't touch the fingerprint sensor when closed and the MacBook was unable to use my Windows Hello camera.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:02:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736281</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Explicitly mentioning it implies the more extreme version: Work issued.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736268</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't want a 40-men strong team that needs to be managed, you want 2 guys that already did it and are hungry for the next 10 problems all on their own.<p>"Hey guys, make our agents verify tool use before responding to the user. See you in 2 months. Here's 2$b"</p>
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