<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: thunderfork</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thunderfork</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:51:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thunderfork" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't have the link to the US census bureau in front of me, but I think as of 2018 more than 50% of employees worked for firms with >500 employees.<p>And, of course, there's nothing preventing a small/medium business from incorporating, either. "Corporation means big, small business is a different thing" is common shorthand but not actually how it goes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062625</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48062625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Couldn't disagree more. I know plenty of folks who hate Smith, but none who'd say they hate "Alberta" or Albertans.</p>
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<p>I would be more concerned with the legislation passed last year by the UCP which weakened Elections Alberta's ability to respond to this sort of thing vs. "being friendly", yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:48:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013998</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The data sharing between the CRA and Elections Canada is optional, but if you want to vote, you've got to be registered - whether via the CRA or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:42:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013914</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The people who've opted out of the phone book for reasons like "stalkers", etc., would probably be pretty upset with this, even if they're "few people"</p>
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<p>In practice, I think these things correlate more than you think they correlate.<p>I don't think it's "poor character", though, so much as "willing to develop the deep mental model required for effective contribution".</p>
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<p>As someone who worked for a contractor which had Meta as a client, I disagree.<p>All advertiser support agents were given super-read on all profiles & pages, and I never once observed a CSR being questioned on their use of this access in any way.</p>
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<p>No amount of rewriting will help you if you, fundamentally, wrote the wrong thing, as is the case here.</p>
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<p>They didn't take into account the long-run impacts of the changes on future development, etc.<p>I recommend reading the explanation given by one of the Zig devs, as it's a very clear and solid one.</p>
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<p>>Are you suggesting that LLM's can't test for people who use screen readers? Keyboard only users? Slow network requests?<p>I don't think it's feasible to fully simulate the full depth of actual usage, given that (especially in the case of screen readers and the like) there's a great deal of combinatorial depth and context to the problem. Which screen readers, on which operating systems, and which users thereof?</p>
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<p>A shield's purpose is to defend, or a bulletproof vest, or...<p>Try using a gun for that and it ain't gonna work. You might say that a gun's purpose is to <i>deter</i>? But the only way it can <i>defend</i> is by producing lethal force, so the defense can only be a potential secondary effect.</p>
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<p>Ah, but now your pause menu feels like total garbage to use!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843571</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The file format being ambiguous and underspecified enough to mangle is, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:43:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841298</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends on what it's doing.<p>Worth noting that you've slipped from "checking whether something works is easy" to "well, it's probably not as harmful as a very notable failure if it fucks up."<p>The bar lowers so quickly.</p>
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<p>As we know from THERAC-25, etc., comprehensively verifying that code works the way it's expected to is not actually very easy - it's perhaps one of the hardest parts of building any system more complex than a toaster.</p>
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<p>HTML does provide the ability to use some client-side form validation without JavaScript.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Forms/Form_validation#different_types_of_client-side_validation" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...</a><p>Not saying your broader point is incorrect, but useful to know.</p>
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<p>I do feel like this sinks a post of otherwise reasonable complaints. What "virtue signaling" is discourse even being accused of?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:14:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806837</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pretty sure the only one that stayed up at all was Red Dwarf, the rest all rely on at least some part of the "main" instance and weren't up</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806686</link><dc:creator>thunderfork</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thunderfork in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"We've finally invented a technology whose most critical strength is that it obviates the need for rigorously structured data!"<p>"Now, make sure your websites are rigorously structured in such a way that allows the technology to work..."</p>
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<p>Memory measurements reported in browsers come with substantial caveats, as measuring "how much memory is this tab using" is fairly nontrivial.<p>Not saying there isn't a difference, but you'd need to measure (e.g.) a fresh install viewing only one tab with no extensions, etc.</p>
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