<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: tetromino_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tetromino_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:36:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tetromino_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Out of curiosity, I ran the 5 command on my project's public git tree. The only informative one was #4 ("Is This Project Accelerating or Dying") - it showed cliffs when significant pieces of logic were decoupled and moved to other repos.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691116</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same happened for me when I clicked on the link, I had to delete the cookies for wesnoth.org and then load the site again. I think their Anubis setup might be broken a bit</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:17:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665548</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Sam Altman's sister amends lawsuit accusing OpenAI CEO of sexual abuse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using eyewitnesses to corroborate as much of her story as possible, plus any artifacts generated during the years of abuse (medical records, therapist notes, texts/letters to friends, diary entries, etc.).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642628</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Key quote:<p>> Even though it did not have any business relationship with OkCupid, the third-party data recipient asked the company to share large datasets of OkCupid user photos and related data with it because OkCupid’s founders were financial investors in the third party. OkCupid provided the third party with access to nearly three million OkCupid user photos as well as location and other information without placing any formal or contractual restrictions on how the information could be used, the FTC alleged.<p>I wonder what is this third party that the complaint does not list by name?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:59:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575963</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Attempting to access treedix.com (the advertised product) gives me<p>> Access Denied<p>> Sorry, you do not currently have the necessary permissions to access this site, or this site may not be available in your region.<p>Are they geoblocking the USA from even viewing their site for some reason?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566435</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> try to reproduce on a current build<p>Good luck doing that when the bug report (like virtually all bug reports in nature) doesn't provide sufficient reproduction steps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:25:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524093</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The reason we force people to use Jira is because it only works if everyone uses it.<p>In my experience, AI out of the box is at first a useless gimmick - until someone starts seriously playing with it and defines a skill file for integrating it with some internal tool. And another person starts playing with it and figures out that AI is pretty good at using another internal tool but only if the tool runs in --silent=1 mode by default, so as not to confuse AI with too much logging output. And a third person figures out that it's actively dangerous to let AI some some other internal tool - but hey, there's a safer alternative, and which happens to perform better too. And pretty soon you end up with an ecosystem of business-specific scripts and .md files and skills and MCPs that's actually helpful 85%+ of the time. But the only way to get there is to get devs and power users tinkering with it.</p>
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<p>Paywalled</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:36:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352320</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But cloth diapers are obviously much better for the environment<p>It's obvious only if you save and reuse the same set of cloth diapers for 2 or more babies. (Which places some constrains on brand, durability etc.) If you have only one kid, I am not sure which side is environmentally more friendly; growing and processing all that cotton (not to mention the plastic for all the waterproof covers) uses a lot of water and energy...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:52:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298303</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Little Free Library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my experience (I have 3 within walking distance of home), they tend to have good children's books, but the adult selection is almost useless, leaning towards religious propaganda and bad cookbooks.</p>
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<p>It doesn't appear that any of the replies contain anything of substance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:56:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145312</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quoting an article about sidewalk replacement in NYC (a city generally not associated with low construction costs):<p>> ADA or Corner Adjustments: If you’re on a corner, curb ramp or flag work might add $500 to $2,000.<p><a href="https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/nyc-concrete-sidewalk-repair-rules-cost-breakdown" rel="nofollow">https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/nyc-concrete-sidewal...</a></p>
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<p>> Netherlands<p>Medieval Netherlands had a single easy-to-harvest resource: sea fish; a very valuable commodity for protein-starved medieval peasantry. They were very lucky to be able pivot from that to trade (the pivot required a war between merchants and nobles, which the merchants won) before the herring and cod started to run out.</p>
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<p>Before buying something like this for my home, I'd need to know:<p>* Is it safe for babies and small children (whose thin skin and developing eyes might well be much more vulnerable to UVC)<p>* Is it actually safe for all adults regardless of skin type, colors, dermatologic conditions, or was it only tested on a few healthy college students of one particular ethnicity;<p>* Does it accelerate degradation of household items, plastics, fabrics, books, and paint; and if so, by how much</p>
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<p>> It doesn't make any sense.<p>It makes perfect sense to me. I rely on that feature. My monitor is big and it's much easier to use the big screen to sort vacation photos and delete the 90% which are garbage and not worth preserving. When I delete the garbage ones, of course I want to delete them everywhere. (And if I accidentally deleted the wrong photo, I can undelete within 30 days.)</p>
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<p>> This seems incredibly inefficient.<p>Very inefficient but good for safety: if an engine is failing, you hopefully might discover that while taxiing rather than when you are in the death zone 25 meters up in the air.</p>
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<p>In the original Russian, Dostoyevsky requires the slow treatment. He loves the sort of 1/3 page long sentences that perplex the fast-path parser and force the reader's brain to swap; as if he wants to drive you mad so that you can better understand the madmen whom he writes about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:27:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388030</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting point of view. But it's common for a man to get a work tool as present (e.g. a drill or a set of wrenches), with the obvious implication that the man will usually be the one who will have to use that tool to fix things around the house - and I have never seen anyone find that offensive. So what makes the vacuum cleaner different?</p>
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<p>Without context, the reaction is bizarre. There must be some back story that you omitted; maybe something about the mother previously asking other people in the family to vacuum, and being ignored?<p>My wife and I, by the way, are giving each other a joint New Year gift of a fancy robot vacuum cleaner: it's the best sort of gift, useful, elegant, and something that one would be reluctant to spend the money on otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385009</link><dc:creator>tetromino_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tetromino_ in "Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I’d appreciate hearing what others would do differently<p>Very naive answer: before doing anything I would start by playing around in the GCP pricing calculator [1] to figure out how much it was going to cost during development and in production. Did you use the calculator tool? If so, were its estimates accurate?<p>[1] <a href="https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator</a></p>
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