<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: timeinput</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=timeinput</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:40:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=timeinput" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665856</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IBM Plex Mono -- I guess no one ever got fired for choosing IBM?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:32:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576440</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47576440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm really glad Hacker News disallows AI generated comments. The response I got from asking that question really is quite enlightening. Short answer: "no", long answer: "no -- fuck off", longer answer: "no -- fuck off -- if you want I can dig into whether or not you should fuck off harder"</p>
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<p>I've been building my own tooling doing similar sorts of things -- poorly with scripts and podman / buildkit as well as LD_PRELOAD related tools, and definitely clicked over to HN comments with out reading much of the content because I thought "AI slop tool", and the site raised all my hackles as I thought I'll never touch this thing. It'll be easier to write my own than review yet another AI slop tool written by someone who loves AI.<p>I'm glad I read the HN comments, now I'm excited to review the source.<p>Thanks for your hard work.<p>ETA: I like your option parser</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:47:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556802</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could run the comments everyone else posts through an AI tool and ask it to rephrase it so that it is clean, and easy-to-read.<p>You could even write a plugin for your favorite web browser to do that to every site you visit.<p>It seems hard to achieve the inverse that is (would you rather I use i.e.?) rewrite this paragraph as the original author did before they had an AI re--write it to make it clean, (--do you like oxford commas, and em/en dashes! Just prompt your AI) and easier to read</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:20:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340931</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. Specifically: The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning, and not some knifey spoony confusion.</p>
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<p>Blanchard fed the spec to the tool, and Anthropic fed the code to the tool, so Blanchard didn't do anything wrong, and Anthropic didn't do anything wrong. Nothing to see here.</p>
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<p>But why would you do that? Especially if you know there are robots enforcing that you come to a complete stop?<p>There are many places that don't even allow rights (or lefts) on red.<p>I got a right on red ticket once, and then I made it a point to obey the law -- especially at the intersections with the robots.<p>For things like traffic laws especially (where there are very simple cut and dry rules), why is it okay to break the law, and why is it not okay for robots to enforce the law?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:05:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314700</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "Lena by qntm (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many countries have minimum wages for many jobs [1].<p>There is a tacit agreement in polite society that people should be paid that minimum wage, and by tacit agreement I mean laws passed by the government that democratic countries voted for / approved of.<p>The gig economy found a way to ~~undermine that law~~ pay people (not employees, "gig workers") less than the minimum wage.<p>If you found a McDonalds paying people $1 per hour we would call it exploitative (even if those people are glad to earn $1 per hour at McDonalds, and would keep doing it, the theoretical company is violating the law). If you found someone delivering food for that McDonalds for $1 per hour we call them gig workers, and let them keep at it.<p>I mean yeah, it's not as bad as being tortured forever? I guess? What's your point?<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_wage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_w...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006195</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find that if I want to use JSON storage I'm somewhat stuck choosing my DB stack. If I want to use JSON, and change my database from SQLite to Postgres I have to substantially change my interface to the DB. If I use only SQLite, or only Postgres it's not so bad, but the transition cost to "efficient" JSON use in Postgres from a small demo in SQLite is kind of high compared to just starting with an extra docker run (for a Postgres server) / docker compose / k8s yaml / ... that has my code + a Postgres database.<p>I really like having some JSON storage because I don't know my schema up front all the time, and just shoving every possible piece of potentially useful metadata in there has (generally) not bit me, but not having that critical piece of metadata has been annoying (that field that should be NOT NULL is NULL because I can't populated it after the fact).</p>
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<p>I'm sure it depends where one lives, but if your drinking water is safe there's no real reason to boil the water except for proper steeping.<p>I definitely use boiling water with my bagged breakfast tea, but boiling is too hot for white and green tea (especially fancier teas), and boiling water "scorches" the "delicate flavors" (using quotes since I'm sure there are better / nicer words than those), so you want to steep at 80C or lower depending on the tea, the quantity the vessel, and the process.</p>
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<p>It's definitely better than nothing, and greatly improves things, but UBO is better. Try watching a youtube video in a browser with UBO, and the android app on a network with pi-hole, etc.</p>
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<p>I mean you made an OCXO in a way. Why bother buying one? If you cold more tightly couple the temperature of the CPU and the crystal you'd be set.</p>
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<p>That is an excellent description of wavelets from one of the first points: "The vast majority of wavelet documents and internet tutorials appear to be written by mathematicians for mathematicians." all through the article.<p>Great stuff. Thank you for linking this.</p>
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<p>more like a zero day on day zero.</p>
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<p>and it has been that way for a long time. Hosting a service on the internet means some one is *constantly* knocking at your door. It would be unimaginable if every few 10-1000s of milliseconds someone was trying a key in my front door, but that's just what it is with an open port on the internet.</p>
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<p>If you have ublock enabled 3 does not imply 2. I strongly suspect that 3 does not imply 2 generally, but I don't know enough to put any weight behind that statement.<p>It's a regular occurrence that I visit a page with firefox either on android, or desktop linux, and a basically default ublock origin that fails to render. I generally then try the page in an incognito tab, and then try the page in chrome and it loads, and displays properly.<p>I'm also maybe moving the goal posts from "have feature parity with Chrome, and render HTML correctly" to "I never have to use vanilla chrome, because vanilla firefox just works". There are cases where sites claim DRM issues with firefox which I can kind of understand, but there are other sites that just refuse to work with vanilla firefox that work with chrome. I of course can't really point to any examples, because they're not sites I regularly visit, but they definitely exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:33:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929222</link><dc:creator>timeinput</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timeinput in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean it's not on the state, county, municipality, or weird governing body to put the prices on the shelf at the store. Nation wide advertising might be different (is that still a thing? There were always asterisks that made a dollar menu not always a dollar anyway), but the literal price on the shelf / menu / ... at any given physical building could price things appropriately for the physical location that they are on.<p>I live in a place with a fixed VAT (that is included in the price on the shelf / menu / ...), but grew up in the US in several different weirdly taxed localities. It's just such a silly argument to say "we can't write the correct price on the shelf because the laws vary." The register knows the correct price, the labels on the shelf are computer generated, and updated regularly. The labels at many nation wide fast food type places are displays anyway.<p>If Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau can make it work I feel like it's at least imaginable that stores that already automate this weird complex tax code could print accurate labels instead of inaccurate labels, with an accurate calculation at sales time.</p>
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<p>I think of GitHub more with the octo cat logo (couldn't find a good link for it, and didn't want to hug anyone too hard, so no link), or their current logo: <a href="https://github.githubassets.com/assets/GitHub-Mark-ea2971cee799.png" rel="nofollow">https://github.githubassets.com/assets/GitHub-Mark-ea2971cee...</a> and not so much the stylized words GitHub.</p>
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<p>Imagine a world where they just posted the price you would pay at the register on the shelf instead of some number that is ~93.082% of the price you would pay.<p>I know it's hard to imagine the price on the shelf being the price that you pay, but I believe it is possible even in complex tax situations.</p>
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