<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: strifey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strifey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:53:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=strifey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has been their MO with their search for a decade+ now. "Native" results hiding actual search results below the fold killed many 2010s era websites that relied on search traffic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:10:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298159</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're not describing working for yourself? At least in terms of financial compensation. A job and some form of communal/familial uncompensated labor are extremely different in this context. Calling them both "work" in this context is muddying the waters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:15:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014363</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Totally true, but we host other people's code (PaaS, etc). We don't get to dictate their working hours.<p>It also doesn't mean nothing breaks when people aren't making changes. Certificate expiration is the classic example of something breaking _because_ someone hasn't made a change. Or a slow memory leak. There's a whole classification of issues that get worse when nothing is redeployed for long enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:11:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281479</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Staring down the barrel of being primary on-call over Christmas for a dozen k8s clusters running thousands of nodes. How I wish it were true that we could trust computer programs to just keep running.<p>PagerDuty wouldn't exist if this were true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:56:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247383</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Most technical problems are people problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A bit more heavyweight, but we implemented a rotation program when I was managing an internal tools team at a previous company. We'd trade an engineer from our team with an engineer from a feature team for a quarter.<p>The amount of improvements to our collective understandings was super valuable. Feature devs got to help fix problems with their tools more directly (while also learning that it's not always as straightforward as it may seem), and we brought back much stronger insights into the experience of actually using our tools day-to-day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165276</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should read Ubik</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:59:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292087</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Notion releases offline mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe it's just me, but nothing sounds simple about offline mode. The changeset resolution necessary to resync after going back online sounds TOUGH to build in a way that doesn't result in user data loss ever without being more cumbersome than it's worth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956770</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sad to hear about how much the Space & Rocket center has been let to deteriorate. That place really sparked my interest in science & engineering as a child. Even went to Space Camp there way back in the day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 18:04:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008247</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44008247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdotally, they've gotten much more proactive at taking unprotected lefts in my experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:48:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871653</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their wait times tend to be worse, but that's getting better too. The trip speed has also noticeably improved. I've taken about 50 over the past 2 years.<p>Even if they're sometimes slower in pickup or trip time, on average, I greatly value the consistency of the experience over everything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871638</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "In Defense of Y'All"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's so fascinating to me! "Howdy" definitely ranks higher on my hokey-ness scale than "y'all".<p>Love a good "over yonder" though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:58:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446362</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42446362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "In Defense of Y'All"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Y'all forever. One of the few southern mannerisms I intentionally don't drop as a lapsed southerner in California.<p>As an aside, I find it strange how many aspects of "the south" are labeled as "Texan" outside the south. I lived and visited all over the Deep South and y'all was standard vernacular pretty much everywhere. I'm not saying Texans don't say y'all, but they definitely don't have any unique claim to using it as second-person plural.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:04:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445299</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Confusing Git Terminology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love this explanation. One unfortunately confusing extra piece that some people might occasionally run into is that there are two types of tag. Most tags are what you describe: pointers (git ref) to a commit (git object) and nothing more. These are usually referred to as lightweight tags.<p>There are also annotated tags that can contain a message, have a timestamp, and sha, etc. These are proper git objects that behave a lot like commit objects, except they're still typically only referring to another git object (commit).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117843</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oof, remind me not to move there. I wouldn't survive an allergy season. Though to be fair, I imagine most GPs would write a prescription pretty quick.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:06:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006921</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, today I learned it had a more specific term. Still, saying something "isn't OTC" implies you need a prescription to most people. At least in my experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006882</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38006882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "CVS ditches common cold meds after FDA advisers say they're useless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purchasing it. I'm assuming this is so they can track how much a person is buying to track people who are using it for illicit purposes.</p>
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<p>Botulism spores do not "train immune systems". Babies don't have strong enough digestive systems until they're at least six months old to kill the spores.<p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/infant-botulism.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/infant-botulism.html</a>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Mar 2023 19:03:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201429</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35201429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A car grille is a much more prominent and expected visual feature of a car, though. This small, tucked away yet realistic-looking camera doesn't seem to fit the same reasoning for me. That said, it wouldn't be entirely surprising if some designer "couldn't stop noticing it missing" or something along those lines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:51:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088564</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Tesla puts a ‘dummy’ camera in its new vehicles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those are typically just simple pieces of plastic to fill a hole. There is clearly no function to them.<p>What seems weird is they went through the effort of installing a nonfunctional yet functional-looking piece.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 2023 23:32:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088395</link><dc:creator>strifey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35088395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strifey in "Show HN: Create a paid link to anything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might have noticed already, but your reply is quoting the same person you're replying to.</p>
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