<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: stpe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stpe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:49:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stpe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love playing solitaire card games. But got sick of all privacy intrusive, subscription, ad-riddled crap out there. So I combined learning macOS/iOS development with doing my own games the way I want them (currently Klondike and Spider); <a href="https://menubar.games" rel="nofollow">https://menubar.games</a> (originally I intended them to only be accessible through the menubar, but got carried away when I realized how easy it was to make iOS versions).<p>Will continue to refine and possibly do more - love iterating and polishing as a way to learn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 06:04:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531630</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Latam Airlines SYD to AKL flight: 50 people treated after mid-air incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should it not be ”Live free and die” then?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:54:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666971</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39666971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Kagi Sidekick (alpha)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funny. Kagi was the payment solution I used to sell shareware in the late 90'ies. I believe the company later disappeared due a fraud case that made it bankrupt.<p>Seems like both domain and company name is recycled into this now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:05:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450933</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "How to Be More Agentic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is a numbers game. And by increasing the number of chances to "play", you increase the probability of scoring (i.e. "increase your luck surface area").<p>> How do you know if by increasing your good luck in one area you’re not increasing your bad luck in another?<p>I think you do know. Eat healthy and move => most likely will increase the probability of be able to be more active at an older age. Build and launch projects => increase the probability of building a profitable business (but if doing that makes you burnout - sure, you could say you increased your "bad luck" from a health perspective)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980913</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38980913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "GM says it's dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto because they're unsafe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why, oh why, is in-car infotainment so bad? And I don't mean bad as in subjective opinions about user interface. I mean the fact that my 2 year old high-end Audi A6 still show Yelp ratings in the navigation system in Europe - Yelp pretty much shutdown in Europe 2016!<p>It feels like there is somewhere an hierarchical organization somewhere completely lacking product management and a connection to what is expected in the digital world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:28:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623788</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is the consequences of a power outage in Flexential PDX02 data center.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 16:45:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131337</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38131337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Why do old books smell so good?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed so. Once in my youth I brought my Amiga 500 to a friend's place, and he had a cat that peed on the edge of it.<p>The computer was ok, but it was basically a flood of cat pee seeping in into the memory expansion slot underneath.<p>Tried everything to get rid of the smell. Including perfume. Didn't make it better. Especially when it got hot.<p>Still today, when I smell cat urine I instantly think of Motorola 68000 assembly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 13:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188819</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really like reading books, non-fiction, fiction, business, everything. But I always tended to have good reading momentum and then life/work happened that derailed the reading habit - and I forgot about it. Took months to pick up again...<p>To keep reading top of mind I built a Chrome "newtab" extension to show my "Currently Reading" list, and excites me about books I've put as "to-read". It has worked wonders on my reading! And it is pretty small and polished - no tracking, no credentials, just bare-bones.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently-reading/fgbnpcnlpefbnbgbdfemhbbcnamdmepk" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently-reading/...</a></p>
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<p>Except you had to register in an app every place you went to, during covid. Nice social profiling that data could provide… say, if another type of party ended up as the ruling one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:27:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473927</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35473927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "We need better support for SSH host certificates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how many thousands (millions?) of man-hours of lost productivity over the world the Github SSH debacle resulted in. Not only for teams to fix the issue in a build pipeline no one touched for several years, but also the lost productivity for teams build/deploy pipelines to break, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 09:10:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35324513</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35324513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35324513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 years after release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We used Gremlins instead. <a href="https://lspo.feri.um.si/teachware/internal/programming/palmos_programming/ch10.htm#P370_19896" rel="nofollow">https://lspo.feri.um.si/teachware/internal/programming/palmo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:34:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752031</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31752031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is not crypto. The problem is (the lack of) diversification of his investments. Putting your life-savings in a single stock is equally bad. Putting your life-savings in tech stocks is almost as bad. Diversifying it over multiple industries, exposure to different markets, and other assets than just stock - now we are talking.<p>It is not the same kind potential lottery win as stock picking the winner, but you also will not bit hit as hard.<p>This is the lesson that must be learned, not only with investing in crypto, but investing in anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2022 12:57:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738689</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31738689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Lessons Learned after $5B of M&A"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pick any of the big four; PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG.<p>Typically they'll do a valuation and put a bonus threshold. x% under, x+n% if over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30391261</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30391261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30391261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Are you in a Religious Cult? Take the test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Is your leader the ultimate authority of your group?<p>Yes. Selected by, and sole connection to the mythical group "board".<p>> Does your leader have impressive, made-up names or titles?<p>Yes. "Chief Executive Officer".<p>> As far as your group is concerned, would they say that there is no legitimate reason to leave them?<p>Yes... if ever trying to leave, you are technically bribed with something that you cannot use in stores or pay rent. They call it "equity".<p>> Is your group suspicious about the outside world?<p>Yes. Always this talk about how the outside world is "the competition". Sometimes "the users.<p>> Does your group believe that they are the ‘right’ religion/church/group/ones, or only ones, who have ‘right’ teaching/doctrine?<p>Yes. "The competition" is wrong.<p>> Are there any of the above such rules/laws in your group?<p>Yes. Rules are in "the handbook".<p>...<p>/S</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2022 10:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311736</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Around February there's a whole week where schools are closed with the incentive to do sports - especially winter sports (given the time of the year). A lot of people go to ski resorts - the alps (or up north in Sweden - which got mountains but is far from the Alps).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2021 08:50:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273598</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "AROS is a lightweight, efficient, and flexible desktop operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same with Swedish city Västerås with original name West Aros. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ster%C3%A5s" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4ster%C3%A5s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:56:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251265</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "How to use an API without programming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here’s the non-Medium-paywall’ed “friends link” of the article: <a href="https://medium.com/@stpe/how-to-use-an-api-without-programming-821bf71c8d9f?source=friends_link&sk=861ede468ae1895dce8ba15b53938b43" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@stpe/how-to-use-an-api-without-programmi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462306</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20462306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was very much like that. Then by coincidence, I got into RC-car racing. Not only is it fun, a community, and a way to see yourself improve - it is my first non-programming-hobby-activity since being a teenager, and most importantly a money sinkhole - I love it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:40:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727574</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19727574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Uber Scam in Brazil – Drivers Have ‘Challenges’ Ending Trips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When reaching my destination, the Uber-driver said: "Give me 5 stars and I'll give you 5 stars". I questioned that practice and said I will give my rating in due time. The driver got upset and started to rant about how I never would be able to request an Uber again because he would give me a 1-star rating if I didn't rated him 5 at once...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:51:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100298</link><dc:creator>stpe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stpe in "Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RC racing.<p>Early this year I joined the local RC racing club and bought I used 1/10th scale 2WD buggy kit. I found it amazingly entertaining, almost zen-like, to do racing. It is like a video game, but in real life. And to learn skills, see how you improve, learn more about the setup and technical parts. All in a great, helpful community with a mix of people from all backgrounds. You've got that awesomely fast 12 year old kicking the ass of a 35 year old CEO at the track...</p>
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