<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: strus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:11:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=strus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at the tables during weddings than commercial ones.<p>In many European countries you will be offered home-distilled drinks, you would be very unlucky to get anything else than hangover.<p>The problem is overblown.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738724</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I don't think an apple watch would help there?<p>You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth.<p>I don't remember if it works every time, or only when MacBook is closed and connected to external display/keyboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252369</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Helium Browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For which country?<p>At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowadays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372161</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:16:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299232</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> because you can go further with fewer people<p>Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would objectively justify hiring less or laying off people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:14:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299216</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Safe C++ proposal is not being continued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think anyone is surprised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:31:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234675</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45234675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Local-first software (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Arbitrarily choose an option, but expose the fact that you've auto-resolved a conflict and allow the user to manually re-resolve. This requires even more UI work than option 1.</i><p>This is what every "cloud file sharing" provider like Dropbox is doing. If there is a conflict, the version on the server is "the right one", and your locally conflicted file is copied on the side with some annotation in the file name.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 05:30:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487062</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Software in Japanese cars is terrible from European point of view, yet people are buying them because of the hardware (reliable engines).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126568</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42126568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great, thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478423</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38478423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "LARPing and Violent Extremism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37642603</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37642603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37642603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of these points would apply if you use phone in your car for navigation, and most of them are not a real issue (expect being a distraction maybe).<p>Screen is good enough to be used in a sunny day, phone will easily reach more than 35 degrees if you play a graphics-heavy game, so this is also not an issue, battery with a battery saver mode will easily last for a few hours even if you use Google Maps all the time, and with a good mount there is a zero chance you will drop your phone and break something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:40:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234922</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I've been using Copilot for about a year and I can't imagine coding without it again<p>I for example used Copilot for 2 months at work and wouldn't pay for it. Most suggestions where either useless or buggy. But I work in a huge C++ codebase, maybe that's hard for it as C++ is also hard for ChatGPT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:43:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597028</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Tips for programmers to stay ahead of generative AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you worry about "staying ahead of generative AI" in it's current state, then I think you are not a good coder and you should learn more instead of worrying about that.<p>LLMs are only good in writing new code without surrounding context. They are pretty useless in legacy codebases and in codebases with a lot of internal solutions. I've used Copilot for 2 months at work and maybe 10% of suggestions were useful, and from that 10% maybe 10% did not contain bugs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:39:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596981</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The phone distracts from the goa<p>So does life. I think we should lock the children in school from the beginning of the education period, without the access to the external, disctracting life. They can leave when they are 18.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596606</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> these are children in schoo<p>Policies apply to secondary education, i.e. high school. You are an adult in higher grades of high school.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596548</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36596548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Sourcegraph is no longer open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am pretty sure that for most developers open source = source code available, and nothing else.<p>Anegdotally I have been a professional dev for 10 years and this is the first time I hear your definition of open source.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:07:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591899</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36591899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all<p>That's not true if you want to be a professional C++ dev - you will encounter projects stuck in older standards, or legacy code written in the age of old standard. In practice you need to know everything from C++98 to the newest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:39:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389476</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36389476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 18:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330059</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> when they started enforcing that policy.<p>I don't have a real name on Facebook not have any of my friends. There are also a lot of fake/troll accounts on Facebook. I don't think they ever enforced that policy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264003</link><dc:creator>strus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strus in "Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve tried Dvorak and Colemak but went back to QWERTY. Whole software world is developed with QWERTY in mind, and it was too much PITA.<p>Split keyboard (especially with ortholinear, column staggered layout) will give you much more benefit than any alternative layout - and will be much easier to switch too.</p>
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