<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: vintagedave</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vintagedave</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:22:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vintagedave" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "The Two Factions of C++ (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even C++ has. <a href="https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/trailing-return-type-in-cpp-11/" rel="nofollow">https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/trailing-return-type-in-cp...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360310</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360310</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "The Two Factions of C++ (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was deeply saddened by the vote the article refers to that effectively excluded Sean Baxter's Safe C++. It felt like a push that prevented tabling the solution at all. If Safe C++ had been debated on its merits, that would be one thing, but this seemed (to me) to prevent ever getting to that point. Who knows if that was the intent: the result is what disappointed me.<p>In my view, one of the major compiler vendors needs to take on Safe C++ and start supporting it... <i>with refactoring tooling to get a codebase there</i>. Because as this article says, tooling is key.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:53:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360296</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Is Healing]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/12/nature-is-healing">https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/12/nature-is-healing</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346335">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346335</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/08/12/nature-is-healing</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Builder looks pretty nice. Earth follows the same <i>general</i> UI design as Fire and Water. Check out what Water (for example) looks like here: <a href="https://www.remobjects.com/elements/water/" rel="nofollow">https://www.remobjects.com/elements/water/</a><p>I would personally choose the phrase 'aiming for consistency' over 'vibe coded' ;) That said, version 1. I'm sure there are areas to improve! We have supported building Linux apps for years, but this is our first major app for Linux ourselves.<p>Definite common ideas. Much of our UI design has roots in macOS. Lots to learn as we work Linux. I hope we'll be able to improve the app to your liking :)<p>(Disclaimer: I work at RemObjects, and have worked on Fire and Water but not on Earth.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:40:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336499</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>This is the argument that the world is beholden to my interests. It says that worrying about negative externalities is immoral.</i><p>I agree with you, in that the benefit of the commons (preventing damage AI is doing to the world etc) is better than one individual's 'right' to a perfect product.<p>But I don't think Gruber is saying quite this. He's worried about genuine semantic and intelligence loss, using the example of swapping two words:<p>> <i>The semantic difference between banana and pineapple is just as noticeable to the human eye as the taste of the two are to the human tongue</i><p>Further, is this really a useful way to reduce the damage of AI? It only appears to work if someone already believes and then proactively checks if text is produced by AI. It doesn't really address the core issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335252</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Gakutensoku"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can find references to:<p>* Appearance in Korea at an expo (1928, 1929?): <a href="https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART002585353" rel="nofollow">https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=...</a><p>* The creator writing about it in 1931 (reference 10 on the same page)<p>Shanghai but uncertain date.<p>Was it dismantled in either Korea or China, or shipped back and dismantled, or destroyed?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:09:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328191</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Gakutensoku"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Wikipedia page doesn't say: what happened to this robot?<p>> <i>the details of its disappearance are unknown</i><p>A mystery! Someone will know...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:52:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328048</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Show HN: Ask questions about the Swiss train timetable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice. I tested a very simple example and got exactly what I hoped. Is there a LLM behind it or some more traditional kind of AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:35:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318765</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean by a light strip on the side? I see large vertical areas of subdued colour.<p>Ah - I see a border on some. You're right, that does distinguish it (and thanks) but my reaction there to the design is: wow, by so little. It's hardly intuitive or clear: the same representation for two completely different things where the only difference is a few left-side pixels :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317896</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please avoid the snark.<p>I read the readme in <i>full,</i> I think that's an appropriate level of effort. Your link also still doesn't answer it, though it hints: 'A migrated .env is a live mount (a named pipe), not a plain file'. So is that a file system driver, or...?<p>Even <a href="https://github.com/jitpass/jit/blob/main/docs/getting-started/how-it-works.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jitpass/jit/blob/main/docs/getting-starte...</a> says it's a local encrypted store - and that's repeated many times across the docs Claude-style - but it doesn't explain the mechanism whereby reading a file gets the results from that store.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:57:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317871</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting idea! How do you achieve it? Some kind of file system driver that recognises the calling process?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:12:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317625</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still no calendar where “today” is visually distinct. It has the same faded background as a multi-hour event.<p>Look,at the header image and glance in the middle of the Wednesday column vs the middle of Sunday’s or Monday’s column. Very little visual distinction: you have to ask, am I looking at a long event or the ‘today’ highlight?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314225</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worry <i>deeply</i> because Meta connects a vast amount of humanity. The damage they've done already is immense; the damage they could do to civilisation (democracy, our trajectory towards freedom and peace, the post-WW2 vision of the West) is even worse. I've read [0] Zuckerberg wants to think of himself like one of the early Caesars (thus explaining the haircut) with a focus on absolute domination; what would such a man with such a fixation be willing to do?<p>[0] <a href="https://romanempiretimes.com/is-mark-zuckerberg-just-a-roman-empire-nerd-or-augustus-octavian-descendant-ancestor/" rel="nofollow">https://romanempiretimes.com/is-mark-zuckerberg-just-a-roman...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313877</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Deadly forgotten tornado was worst in state history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm mildly fascinated by the formatting here: like a very, very long newspaper page.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313832</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Ukraine's Strikes Wipe Out Wildberries' Major Warehouses as Losses Near $12B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had not heard of Wildberries: it looks like the Russian version of Amazon, or perhaps Temu?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:23:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299106</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(I work at RemObjects) - we've been working hard on reducing convergence recently, that is, still supporting our own Oxygene Pascal syntax but also accepting other variants of Pascal. We want it to be possible for someone to have a common source file as you suggest, much the same as you can with Delphi and FPC. It is possible today; we are working on the really esoteric syntax.<p>Our 'Delphi Island' support also allows linking to BPLs.<p>And we have our own IDE (for multiple platforms), as well as living inside VS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:09:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272658</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For skeptics, just months ago in the midst of the AI hype it was common to ask if AIs were simply copying the input apps they were trained on, and would regurgitate them.<p>I find this plausible. I'd like to see the prompt and chat transcript.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:54:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235768</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are some amazing graphics here. These are images users would see very rarely: usually only on the initial installation. (A Sparkle app update would usually run for the rest of the app's lifetime.) The amount of care and polish put into something the user would see only once <i>really</i> shows the change in attitude around apps and UI on the Mac today.<p>macOS is on the surface the same. But seeing this causes a feeling of a deep gulf. How can we or Apple regain it? That special sense of value and care in the OS and its app developers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:02:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219790</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That Squirrel screenshot is fascinating: what happened to the traffic light controls?<p><a href="https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/32.2096w.avif" rel="nofollow">https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/as-a-windows-user-its-a-v...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:59:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219780</link><dc:creator>vintagedave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vintagedave in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love this: the sound effects oddly are what really make it. It was quite something clicking a flight, turning round to see behind it, and recognising my location.<p>What surprised me is how satellites far away (in the night zone, it's daylight for hours yet) could still 'see' me, or rather, I could see them not even that close to the horizon. I would love to see how far away one of the objects is when clicking or hovering over it.</p>
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