<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: tveyben</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tveyben</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 14:43:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tveyben" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zellic - wow there goes a day learning a new awesome tool. This is just what I need (I think, based on a quick glance).<p>Thank you for mentioning this - best tip of the day ;-)<p>Seems to be inspired from emacs/doom-emacs and friends … great!!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986380</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "A4 Paper Stories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha - I have made so many measurements using an A4 with great accuracy that this monitor-story might as well have been me :-)<p>I never understood the US paper size system while living there (or since...!), don't get me started with feet and inches and 16'ths etc - ISO, metric and base10 is just so much more logical and easy to use...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:09:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528062</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46528062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If one want’s an opinion from AI, one must ask AI - if on the other hand one want’s an opinion from a human being (those with a real brain thinking real thoughts etc.) then - hopefully - that’s what you get (and will keep getting) when visiting HN.<p>Please don’t pollute responses with made-up machine generated time-wasting bits here…!!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210868</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you want to remove the scrollbar on a website - you never know how long the ‘page’ is…
- I really hate those UX decisions</p>
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<p>Human behavior is interesting - me, me, me…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774679</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45774679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>DNA - wow, makes you feel really welcome…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:28:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699282</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just noticed a meaningless feature of iOS: 
The cursor moves (since iOS 15?) in steps of one pixel.<p>Probably just to make it slick looking (fluent)…<p>- BUT that’s completely non-effective as it allows for the cursor to be positioned on top of a single letter in >10 different positions.<p>So when you’re editing you are having a much more difficult time placing the cursor just between the two letters you want.<p>I noticed it when using some app the had disabled this stupid feature and it was just so much more effective to do mybediting as the cursor jumped to the position BETWEEN the letters in stead of FLOATING ALL OVER.<p>It’s nice on slides when presenting a new fancy feature, but completely useless for s ‘professional’ (focused) user.<p>PS yes I recall those old Apple adds - saw them when they were brand new and Apple was a better details oriented company (I miss those days….)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:00:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699020</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I demoed that exact feature (though on 10.5) not so long ago and people didn’t believe me…!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698884</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And this article is full of another failure of the internet - adds…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670715</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They had a great add then (I also had a lot of G4’s ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:22:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616498</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do kids have to fly…???</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:40:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361101</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excellent work - really nice to see the creativity you put in to that gift! Love it!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:54:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306444</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Robert Redford has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thus the “late 80’ies”…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263459</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "The value of bringing a telephoto lens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also called ‘perspective’ and the only way to change it is to move the position of the camera<p>It does not matter if you crop an image taken with a 50mm lens to get the same area of the motive as taken with a 300mm lens from the same ‘standpoint’ - there will be no difference between foreground and background (except for grain and noise - but that’s another story… ;-)<p>You have to move the camera to change that.<p>This is often seen in movies (those shot on real film) as opposed to on video as zoom lenses are often used without moving the camera, film based often use a dolly to move the camera. 
The effect of combining zoom and camera movement to keep the same crop of the foreground while having a dramatic effect of the background quickly getting larger/closer (or vice versa) is really effective - also in illustrating this concept.<p>In my early life (before taking the education as a photographer) I was really liking wide angles as it brought ‘life’ in to a lot of pictures. 
Wide as in 24 mm for my 35mm camera (Nikon F2, from 1973 should you wonder) was a favorite, replacing my 28 mm.<p>Too bad full frame digital is still so expensive.
Using a 14-24 f/4 on the DX format in (Nikon D7100) just is’nt the same.<p>So now the iPhone is the most used camera (you know - the camera you have with you…!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 12:07:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239216</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Microsoft PowerToys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ‘proxy’ part on MacOS (which I think was a thing way back to System 9, 8 and maybe even 7) is something I have always missed in the Windows world. 
Also being able toneart a path in to an open/save dialog to get the path there is a thing I miss!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:26:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208461</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>USB keyboard?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168499</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just came back from a vacation in Japan, and completely agree - even compared to the (much better than SF) danish public transport system the Japanese are orders of a magnitude better on so many levels!<p>Nu then - having 37 mio people just in one city, Tokyo, does require you to get the logistics in order (all of Denmark is just around 6 mio…)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142328</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45142328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "A visual introduction to big O notation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Beautiful - I sent a ping and hope it was delivered and have a small dopamine kick ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:43:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017406</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "What services or apps did you see abroad and wonder: why don't we have them?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ThirstyInRome I presume (the only iOS app returned when searching for ‘Fountains in Italy’ :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:11:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951114</link><dc:creator>tveyben</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tveyben in "Menstrual tracking app data is gold mine for advertisers that risks women safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanx - sounds like what I need ;-)</p>
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