<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: torstenvl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=torstenvl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:34:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=torstenvl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torstenvl in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nonsense.<p>Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, 557 U.S. 364 (2009) (citing Thomas v. Roberts, 323 F.3d 950 (11th Cir. 2003)("This case involves a[n] ... action brought by thirteen elementary school students ... against Tracey Morgan, their teacher [and others].... [W]e affirm[] the district court's grant of qualified immunity to the individual defendants on the children's claims.")).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095863</link><dc:creator>torstenvl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torstenvl in "GTK2-NG: A community effort to revive and modernize GTK2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GTK3 is a mixed set of tradeoffs. GTK4 is a strict downgrade.<p>If proper fractional scaling could be backported to GTK2 it would be strictly better than GTK3. Having GTKRC theming again would be amazing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:17:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934984</link><dc:creator>torstenvl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torstenvl in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like almost everyone using AI for support systems is utterly failing at the same incredibly obvious place.<p>The first job of any support system—both in terms of importance and chronologically—is triage. This is not a research issue and it's not an interaction issue. It's at root a classification problem and should be trained and implemented as such.<p>There are three broad categories of interaction: cranks, grandmas, and wtfs.<p>Cranks are the people opening a support chat to tell you they have vital missing information about the Kennedy Assassintion or they want your help suing the government for their exposure to Agent Orange when they were stationed at Minot. "Unfortunately I can't help with that. We are a website that sells wholesale frozen lemonade. Good luck!"<p>Grandma questions are the people who can't navigate your website. (This isn't meant to be derogatory, just vivid; I have grandma questions often enough myself.) They need to be pointed toward some resource: a help page, a kb article, a settings page, whatever. These are good tasks for a human or LLM agent with a script or guideline and excellent knowledge/training on the support knowledge base.<p>WTFs are everything else. Every weird undocumented behavior, every emergent circumstance, every invalid state, etc. These are <i>your best customers</i> and they should be escalated to a real human, preferably a smart one, <i>as soon as realistically possible.</i> They're your best customers because (a) they are investing time into fixing something that actually went wrong; (b) they will walk you through it in greater detail than a bug report, live, and help you figure it out; and (c) they are invested, which means you have an opportunity for real loyalty and word-of-mouth gains.<p>What most AI systems (whether LLMs or scripts) do wrong is that they treat WTFs like they're grandmas. They're spending significant money on building these systems just to destroy the value they get from the most intelligent and passionate people in their customer base doing in-depth production QC/QA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893712</link><dc:creator>torstenvl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torstenvl in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quotation marks don't indicate a paraphrase. Are you confused or just pathologically disingenuous?</p>
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<p>No. It absolutely does <i>not</i> use that language, and it baffles me as to what would cause you to say that it does.<p>Please endeavor to say only true things. The truth matters.</p>
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<p>The word "interstate" does not exist in the text of the Constitution.<p>There's arguably some merit to your <i>position</i>, but the <i>argument</i> that some case law is invalid because it doesn't meet the definition of a term defined in other case law is circular and incoherent.</p>
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<p>I was being sarcastic. Although hot linking is not particularly common, it's common enough; and unpinned dependencies are just as much if not more of a supply chain attack risk.<p>I'd bet something like 70+% of all JS apps are inadequately protected against the risk of a malicious actor gaining access to a dependency's repo.<p>Pearlclutching over this while ignoring the lessons of `left-pad` and `colors` is biased motivated reasoning at <i>best</i>.</p>
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<p>Completely agree. This is really unique. Can you imagine if it were standard practice to be open to supply chain attacks like that, by blindly relying on hotlinked or unpinned dependencies?</p>
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<p>> <i>Lack of fair trials: <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251120IPR31492/parliament-sounds-the-alarm-over-hungary-s-deepening-rule-of-law-crisis" rel="nofollow">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20251120IP...</a></i><p>That link literally does not have anything to do with fair trials.</p>
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<p>Germany and Poland are. Does the existence of a non-EU country in a data set about European countries detract from the fact that Hungary doesn't prosecute people for online speech to the same extent as other European (incl. EU) countries?</p>
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<p>> <i>This is particularly problematic given the ways that it could be abused by some of the more authoritarian governments in the EU.</i><p>> <i>Yes, I'm thinking of Viktor Orbán of Hungary.</i><p>Lol what?<p>The UK leads [edit: in Europe overall, obviously not the EU] with approximately 18 per 100k prosecuted for online speech. Germany is at about 4 per 100k. Poland at about 0.8 per 100k. Hungary about 0.1 per 100K.<p>For any definition of authoritarian that relates to chat control, the UK is two base-10 orders of magnitude more authoritarian than Hungary (7 base-2 orders of magnitude).</p>
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<p>No person acting in good faith can argue that having similarities to 4.3BSD-Lite1 or 4.3BSD-Reno (the basis for OSF/1) make something less of a BSD.<p>These are not ways it "differs from BSD." These are ways it is identical to BSD.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:12:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137395</link><dc:creator>torstenvl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by torstenvl in "Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's objectively false. You're just trolling at this point.</p>
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<p>It is a BSD. It has always been a BSD.<p>Saying "It's not like a *BSD" is a category error.<p>Is a wolf not a dog just because it's different from dog breeds with "Dog" in the name?</p>
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<p>>> <i>performance and battery life</i><p>> <i>any high end Ryzen will blow an ARM64 chip out of the water</i><p>I'm very skeptical about this. I've read that many benchmarks show ~40% better performance per watt on ARM than the best x64 machines. Do you have any sources that say differently?</p>
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<p>> <i>macOS is not BSD</i><p>No. This is a common contrarian take, but it's nonsense. macOS is built on Darwin which, along with XNU, traces its lineage through NeXTSTEP to 4.3BSD.<p>macOS is every bit as much of a BSD derivative as FreeBSD is.</p>
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<p>> <i>Jails solve the isolation problem beautifully, but they don't have a native answer to shipping. That gap is real, and it's one of the main reasons the ecosystem around jails feels underdeveloped compared to Docker's world.</i><p>The link literally uses the term ecosystem. Several times actually.</p>
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<p>The lunatic obsession with making scroll bars invisible is not just an aesthetic choice, it's a moral one; and as a moral choice it is emphatically condemnable.</p>
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<p>The requirements for this seem strange. What is it about iOS 26.2 that makes it a minimum requirement?</p>
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<p>Tangential, but what's up lately with <i>anti</i>-responsive design like this?<p>Modern mobile browsers can render traditional sites just fine. It was <i>the</i> killer feature of the original iPhone.<p>So I really fail to understand why you'd make a mobile version of your site that completely breaks on mobile.</p>
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