<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: ta8903</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ta8903</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:45:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ta8903" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you don't want an LLM to write the words, surely you also want to decide on the data and graphs to show by yourself? Isn't that 90% of a presentation? The "looking nice" part doesn't matter as much, it could be black text on a white background and it would be fine.<p>The important part is the presentation matching your presenting cadence, which is something LLM generated presentations never get right. I don't have a problem with people generating presentations, but most of the time they just end up reading whatever is on the screen when presenting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:04:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190192</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or just order some pizza to his address.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190107</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agreed with these posts a couple years ago but for the past year there have been a lot of meaningful improvements in Firefox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:53:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795199</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>the country is long and narrow<p>This is a little counterintuitive but it does make a difference.<p>I recently moved from a coastal city (that is very linear) to a landlocked city spread evenly in all directions. I had naively assumed the new city would be easier to get around in, since on average places would be closer to you. But the first city has decent commuter rail, which meant I could get to the other end of the city in an hour, and use cabs for last mile connectivity.<p>I'm sure you can have good public transit in "round" cities too, but it is certainly more difficult to plan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:33:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762891</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a big fan of the canonical cow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729275</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the other hand, placing your laptop on your belly when lying down on a couch is peak computing ergonomics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727757</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sadly year of the linux phone feels like it's getting farther away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702372</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47702372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>beta feature that displays a colored line to the left of new comments (since you last viewed the page)<p>Can't wait until this is released!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:46:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673183</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand why NASA might be a little antsy but 100B over 25 years doesn't seem like a lot for America for a long horizon project.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:43:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583181</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PRs aren't part of the repository (if you define repository to mean part of `git`'s internal working. It's part of GitHub, which is owned by Microsoft.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:36:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573487</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It happened! 98.99% now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:20:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541815</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>99.04% now</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:14:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541271</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>claude.ai uptime about to fall below 99%
<a href="https://status.claude.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.claude.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:34:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540973</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something that should be mentioned is starting a command with a space doesn't add it to your history in most shells, really useful for one-off commands that you don't want cluttering your history.<p>Also, increase your `$HISTSIZE` to more than you think you would need, there have been cases where it helped me find some obscure command I ran like 3 years before.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528322</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47528322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Speaking of readline, I recently found out PowerShell has a readline mode (<a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadline/about/about_psreadline" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadli...</a>) and it works great.<p>As someone who works mostly in WSL and has to use PS occasionally, it really reduces the overhead of the context switch.</p>
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<p>mpv has plugins for this like <a href="https://github.com/serenae-fansubs/mpv-webm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/serenae-fansubs/mpv-webm</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408912</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "How people woke up before alarm clocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Indian" is the commonly used term for the people from India as far as I know. You don't very often see that cohort referred to by some other term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361236</link><dc:creator>ta8903</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ta8903 in "US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey. Out of curiosity, why did Iranian diaspora stop celebrating the conflict in the streets over the past week? It would be difficult for the US and Israel to justify starting the war this way, I hope you continue the celebrations.</p>
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<p>I used to not use one either, and used Aurora Store for certain apps. But at some point, my bank's app stopped working if I installed it from Aurora Store, and would only work from the play store. Since then I've seen a lot more apps that work this way.</p>
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<p>Aren't classrooms usually well lit?</p>
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