<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: topham</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=topham</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:02:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=topham" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should dig up my slashdot 5 digit uid to placate your concerns, or just decide your opinion in regards to me is irrelevant? (Because it is.)<p>My uid was < 32768.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982338</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "OpenAI's Artist Rules Are Easier to Evade Than to Explain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can an artist duplicate a style without violating rights?<p>Yes.<p>Then an AI duplicating style isn't inherently violating any rights either.<p>If you want to get them in the consumption of the content it gets murky quick. Have you every watched a pirated movie? Should you be convicted of that, or of sharing it?<p>Subsequently describing the movie to some else constitute sharing of it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982181</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've programmed for decades. Vibe coding is more fun than writing boilerplate just to kick off a small project these days.<p>The days of:<p>10 PRINT "Hello World!";
20 GOTO 10<p>Are long gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979525</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Is it normal for a take-home to require booking real sales demos?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. And this looks as scammy as you can get.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974010</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49974010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Borland Turbo Basic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know their Turbo C 2 tools did.<p>Miss those days. When I got a 386 and could use the turbo debugger to hack games. Pretty sweet. Just run the code; interrupt it near where it was asking for a word or number or clicking a symbol, then tweak a flag and let the game continue.<p>So often the final fix was to nop out an instruction that set a flag and just let it fall through.<p>Then there was the DSI team in Vancouver who encrypted their boot code...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:54:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967364</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "SWC stops accepting external PRs due to AI-generated content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI doesn't give a flying fuck about your political opinion while they tear into your lack of security.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:16:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941303</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "This Could legitimately end Stop Killing Games [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't follow down the rabbit hole, but the premise seems on point and the hype isn't too severe.<p>Imagine that, using "think of the kids" as the scape goat to "totalitarian rule" seems to be the in thing these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:04:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916450</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49916450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Old hearts age backwards: transplanted organs adjust to host's biological age"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"according to a study1. The findings, posted on the preprint server bioRxiv and not yet peer reviewed"<p>So, meaningless at this time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:21:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882205</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "UDP Broadcasting and the Brave New World of IPv6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the article missed the mark and decided to experiment with IPv6 and update a Raspberry Pico project to use IPv6 multicast and also mDNS/DNS-SD.<p>In an afternoon I was able to get it working and running reliably. I'm not saying there aren't potential issues, either in my code, lwip (supported framework).<p>What I am saying is that ipv6 with ipv6 multicast instead of Broadcasting is approachable today. It's approachable on the desktop as well as microcontrollers for IoT uses.<p>Seriously, this was so easy to get working I'm thinking of expanding the usage of some IoT projects I've been languishing on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:55:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880962</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UDP Broadcasting and the Brave New World of IPv6]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/udp-broadcasting-and-the-brave-new-world-of-ipv6/">https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/udp-broadcasting-and-the-brave-new-world-of-ipv6/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880860">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880860</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:47:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/udp-broadcasting-and-the-brave-new-world-of-ipv6/</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Jehovah's Witnesses allow blood-derived products but keep ban on whole-blood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So somebody high up in the organization needed plasma or the like and instead of being ex-communicated they just changed the rules to solve the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:14:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815597</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Chester Zoo Mistakenly Advertises 'Child Predator Tour'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The Jeffrey Epstein edition"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712389</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Please Apple, free us from dopamine hell with cross-app Siri automations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for listening.<p>I named my social media folder anti-social for a reason.<p>Social media apps will always build to dark patterns; they are driven on engagement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:39:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712374</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Please Apple, free us from dopamine hell with cross-app Siri automations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't take it seriously and read the article.<p>You have a statement to make and the your choice is making it's own statement about usability that is, frankly, off putting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:44:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705793</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Creating bias in models is easy. Amplifying existing biases are easy too.<p>They aren't necessarily a sign of bias in the underlying model however. Many samples would be required for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:59:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619347</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If learning is the point then obviously that was a missed opportunity.<p>If success was the intent, then it's a win.<p>While challenges are fun, sometimes the requirement is simply to achieve the end goal, with no other point than that.<p>If your job is to stop terrorists, and that includes hacking into a system and extracting their plans, the "fun" of it isn't the point, only the end goal it's important. Sometimes when we do things like this for fun we forget that someone else out there absolutely needs to achieve the result and doesn't care how it's achieved.<p>It's the part of penetration testing some people miss. (It's not generally a fun job, almost everyone I know that did it got out as soon as possible. They weren't solving problems, they just running audit scripts and generating reports.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570069</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Late-life semaglutide slows ageing and extends lifespan in female mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically it takes away the reason people want to live. Their joy, fun, the spark of life disappears for many people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:10:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545530</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, you had to pick the browser I despise worse than Netscape 4.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419167</link><dc:creator>topham</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by topham in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You didn't have what you needed; you asked an AI to help make what you needed.<p>Problem solved. New problem created.<p>New problem?<p>Justifying the use of AI to do something these people act like would magically get done if you were just slightly more patient. Or, if you put in 60+ hrs of time.</p>
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<p>They do not have the competence to do this.<p>Recognizing this is the first step.</p>
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