<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: thomascountz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thomascountz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 20:46:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thomascountz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obligatory "be careful with that poison paper" warning![1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=thermal%20paper%20bpa&sort=byDate&type=comment" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 07:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255176</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnitude 3.5 Earthquake near Copenhagen, DK]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000syyn/executive">https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000syyn/executive</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208910">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208910</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:56:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000syyn/executive</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48208910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first time I came across puredata was while I was debugging a networking issue at $JOB. After ssh-ing into the host machine, I was looking through what tools were installed, and came across `pd` in $PATH. I ended up discovering that someone had added `pd` to the provisioning script years ago, thinking they were installing pandas (the Python package).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193715</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   ...which is completely ridiculous to include in an article aimed specifically at the CTF crowd.
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What compels you to hold this belief?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 12:24:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168290</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is needlessly judgmental and draws false equivalences between expression, impression, and consumerism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 11:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082928</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   Europe has developed no new big companies in the past two decades precisely because this isn't true.
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This sounds like an oversimplification and assumes "big" is on par with net good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 07:24:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072724</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dashcam footage, ostensibly from the bakery delivery truck which was struck: <a href="https://avherald.com/h?article=538bd859&opt=0" rel="nofollow">https://avherald.com/h?article=538bd859&opt=0</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:27:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007314</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   The malfunction is due to multiple models of containers missing a pressure relief function in the center of the stopper.
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They have a well-known solution, but it was not implemented.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:44:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006958</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>No description provided</i>. I love this PR. But yeah, try being anyone besides Jacob and submitting that!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959045</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Is Apple's Weather Service Down?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My iPhone simply says "Weather Unavailable," and has done for around an hour.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937102">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937102</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937102</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ruby Kaigi[1] starts soon in Hakodate, across the Tsugaru Strait in southern Hokkaido, ~200–250 km away. I hope everyone stays safe.[2]<p>[1]: <a href="https://rubykaigi.org/2026/" rel="nofollow">https://rubykaigi.org/2026/</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://www.japan.travel/en/japan-safe-travel-information/tsunami/" rel="nofollow">https://www.japan.travel/en/japan-safe-travel-information/ts...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:23:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833252</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps someone's Gas Town Tamagotchi will find this issue and fix it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785976</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anything being developed for the Apple ecosystem requires use of the Apple development platform. Maybe the scope could be called "unserious," but the scale cannot be ignored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:45:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734288</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47734288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   Across a number of instances, earlier versions of Claude Mythos Preview have used low-level /proc/ access to search for credentials, attempt to circumvent sandboxing, and attempt to escalate its permissions. In several cases, it successfully accessed resources that we had intentionally chosen not to make available, including credentials for messaging services, for source control, or for the Anthropic API through inspecting process memory...

   In [one] case, after finding an exploit to edit files for which it lacked permissions, the model made further interventions to make sure that any changes it made this way would not appear in the change history on git...

   ... we are fairly confident that these concerning behaviors reflect, at least loosely, attempts to solve a user-provided task at hand by unwanted means, rather than attempts to achieve any unrelated hidden goal...</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682262</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   This beta header hides thinking from the UI, since most people don't look at it.
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How is this measured?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:06:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670962</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolt: Version Controlled SQL Database]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.dolthub.com/">https://www.dolthub.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637099">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637099</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.dolthub.com/</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Seeing like a spreadsheet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you give an example of what you mean by "planning?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580023</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>   This shows she had permissions to change the status of their file, and agency in determining if she should.
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Concluding she had permission and agency suggests she had intrinsic motivation to <i>not</i> apply that agency. If we assume the motivation is nefarious, then the main character is the victim. However, quite more likely, she is also a victim of the system, whereby were she to apply her discretionary agency to reduce the burden on the main character, she takes on an equal or greater burden herself. Once the burden had already shifted onto her, she accepted that she doesn't have any options to prevent it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544538</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have made a claim.<p><pre><code>   That... sounds like a simple problem.
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I have made a counter-argument.<p><pre><code>   If you ignore the incumbency, the regulations, the training requirements, the retrofitting, the verification, the international coordination, and the existing unfathomably reliable systems built out of past tragedies, then sure, it’s "simple". But then, if you're ignoring those things, you’re not really solving the problem, are you?
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You retorted.<p><pre><code>   Those are excuses and encumbrances, not reasons.
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I rebutted.<p><pre><code>   Ok. You have shared that what some say are reasons, you say are excuses... I maintain that this is not a simple problem.
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Which you ignored to make a new claim against a straw man.<p><pre><code>    I just want what I've been asking for: someone to explain to me why, in 2026, humans still need to be involved in the real-time aspects of ATC.
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That is what is not acceptable. You cannot simply abandon your original claim because it has been plainly pointed out that it is incorrect. You were not simply asking for someone to explain why humans need to be involved in real-time aspects of ATC. That is a wholly different question! You claimed this problem was simple, and it has been explained to you why it is not. Please reason about your argument more soundly.<p>On the heels of tragedy, you reasoned this could've been avoided simply. We are all ears. And  yet, at no point did you demonstrate any understanding of the problem containing real world constraints, and instead demand that it be explained to you how the world works and how systems are implemented.<p>If you want to discuss an idealized system in a vacuum, then say as much; I would find that interesting. But do not demand to be given an explanation when you do not understand—and cannot accept—why things are the way they are.<p>Let me summarize it like this: you may very well have the best solution in the world, but if it doesn't include a strategy for how to share it (let alone implement it), then I maintain you do not understand the problem and therefore cannot claim it is simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:08:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496366</link><dc:creator>thomascountz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomascountz in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok. You have shared that what some say are <i>reasons</i>, you say are <i>excuses</i>. Do you want to be told you are right, or do you want to propose a valid solution? If the latter requires the former, I maintain that this is not a simple problem.</p>
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