<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: systoll</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=systoll</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:43:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=systoll" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "1D Chess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The relevant rule from standard chess:<p>>  Leaving one’s own king under attack, exposing one’s own king to attack and also ’capturing’ the opponent’s king are not allowed.<p>N6 and K8 both expose the black king to attack, so black is not allowed to make those moves. And with no other options, black has no legal move.<p>And since black isn't in check where they are right now – that's a stalemate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:00:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724165</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author pretended they addressed the obvious criticism.<p>You can read the skill. They didn't do anything to mitigate the issue, so the criticism is valid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:56:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648445</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have subscription plans for their software, and a seperate billing process for the API. There's nothing to change. 'Accepting that it's a dumb pipe' would just mean removing the Pro & Max plans as options.<p>Clawdbot was clearly against the Consumer Terms of Use the whole time, they’ve just started actively detecting and blocking it.<p>> Except when you are accessing our Services via an Anthropic API Key or where we otherwise explicitly permit it, [it is forbidden] to access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:38:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637485</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Netflix Raising U.S. Prices for Second Time in Less Than Two Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>600 days is less than two years, while not being one year.<p>(“Fewer than two years” would mean one or zero years, but… don’t write that)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:23:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537148</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The second paragraph of the article somewhat misrepresents the study.<p>There wasn't a group that <i>chose</i> to opt out, and another group that chose not to. Everyone agreed to be in the study, and then a random half of the cohort was removed from the mailing lists.<p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70369" rel="nofollow">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.70369</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:40:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453711</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple highlights a different use case than Valve, but the underlying program is equivalent.<p>They’re both forks of wine ( <a href="https://www.winehq.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.winehq.org</a> ) - the game porting toolkit's main addition is that it'll also convert Vulkan shaders to Metal.<p>Setup is more of a hassle because it's not integrated into Steam, or into the OS as a handler for .exe files, etc. But you can install the Windows version of Steam using the game porting toolkit, and then download & launch windows games from there.<p>I suspect the main reason they don't want to pitch this as an end-user feature is that it’s dependent on their x86->ARM translation layer, which they probably want to ditch in a few years. But it’s there for now!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:16:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452235</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple’s ‘Game Porting Toolkit’ is basically Proton; they just haven’t made a GUI for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448580</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given that people have access to LLMs themselves, <i>publishing</i> their output in lieu of good documentation (no matter how sparse) seems like it’s mostly downside.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:09:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448403</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From 2005-2007 it was available everywhere. It was a purely US operation, but the internet is international unless you take active steps to stop it.<p>In 2007 the copyright lawyers caught up with them and they locked it to US IP addresses: <a href="https://mashable.com/archive/pandora-international" rel="nofollow">https://mashable.com/archive/pandora-international</a><p>Australia-specific operations were 2012-2017.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:38:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395508</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me, it's been 'gone' since 2017, when they shut down in Australia. They used to be available everywhere, but locked off international audiences when laws became inconvenient.<p>(Obviously you could VPN in, but it's a meaningful hassle.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:20:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387128</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And if you want <i>one</i> subscription for popular & classical music, Apple Music is miles ahead of Spotify.<p>Music.app is already better than Spotify at handling the relevant metadata. But the dedicated Apple Music Classical app is roughly the same as IDAGIO.<p>(They bought IDAGIO's former competitor Primephonic to do it)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:09:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387051</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "The window chrome of our discontent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the first version of iWork, the inspector panel had the same basic purpose and layout as the sidebar. (Screenshot: <a href="http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/120609-inspector-windows.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/120609-inspector-win...</a> ).<p>The formatting bar was an (IMO unnecessary) option added in iWork 08.<p>With iWork 2016, they took the existing inspector panel setup and docked it into each window.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:52:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314512</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm confused. This seems like a bad change.<p>It’s a good change in that it discourages unwarranted funding. Bad for the DoD’s budget, good for the country.<p>It’s analogous to why `React.__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED` is a pretty good name.<p>(But even if it's a decent name in isolation, it isn't actually the name of the department, and using it is a tacit submission to the power of the executive over congress. So… bad overall.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:13:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271524</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "A plastic made from milk that vanishes in 13 weeks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Language changes. In this case just the spelling though.<p>"Almaund mylke" is all over medieval cookery manuscripts, among other options.<p>We’ve been using milk for non-animal products for longer than we’ve spelt milk with an i, and for longer than we’ve had companies, let alone multi-billion-dollar ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221521</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The CSS Object Model.<p>HTML comments are basically just a HTML tag that isn't rendered. Tools that 'compile' the HTML code into a document tree, including browsers, preserve comments as nodes without any extra effort.<p>CSS comments can go anywhere:<p><pre><code>    /*wow*/ .selector /*x*/ {animation /*z*/: 2s /*z*/ linear /*z*/ bounce;}
</code></pre>
Tools that transform/parse CSS can either:
1. Strip comments before parsing, meaning anything based on the parsed version will lose the comments.
2. Dedicate a disproportionate amount of complexity to retaining the comments, and still not really have a good way to handle them through edits/transformations.</p>
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<p>His podcast with Louie Mantia in July was pretty clear with it, though it also suggests why he’s given significant criticism of the design direction, but mostly just has quips and shade thrown at Alan Dye on the blog:<p>> I get to ask Alan Dye about [the shadows on Apple Watch faces]. And he was like, oh, we render a shadow? And I was like, oh, you never even looked. I just instantly realised he’d never really even looked at it. Like, somebody at Apple has, but Alan Dye didn't. […]  It just suddenly came to me, oh, he doesn't do the job I thought he did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:46:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192804</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "When a “feature” is worse than a bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is silly.<p>Sketchfab clearly notes the original file format when you download a model, and lets you choose between it and various other converted formats. [Example: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/himJBfG" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/himJBfG</a> ]<p>Blender doesn't fully support the USDZ format, causing the issues the author sees. [Source: <a href="https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/import_export/usd.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/import_expor...</a> ] If the creator uploaded a USDZ file, downloaders would likely to run into similar issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:47:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863246</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45863246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Element: setHTML() method"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A script tag would be able to call setHTMLUnsafe, bypassing whatever sanitation you configured.<p>I’d’ve made it a runtime error to call setHTML with an unsafe config, but Javascript tends toward implicit reinterpretation rather than erroring-out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677986</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like most AIs generate the hiking boot emoji, and accept that as being a hiker emoji.<p>If you specifically tell it not to do that, you get hints of similar behaviour to OP, but I can't get it to go <i>totally</i> off the wall:
<a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/68e348dc-be68-8001-8ec8-41eba4bf22f8" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/68e348dc-be68-8001-8ec8-41eba4bf22...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:42:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487699</link><dc:creator>systoll</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by systoll in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The entire idea that numbers would be treated on a character by character basis rather than as numbers is somewhat intuitive for developers and not for non-technical people.<p>The answer to <i>all</i> of those questions is no for lexicographic ordering. Lexicographic ordering leads to surprise and confusion as a result.<p>> It's like a feature request that initially sounds reasonable and useful but once you explore the requirements in detail you realize there are too many edge cases to be able to meet the request in a non-brittle way.<p>It's been on windows and macOS for coming up on 25 years, and is in practically every modern UI. It’s reasonable.</p>
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