<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: vulcan01</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vulcan01</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:16:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vulcan01" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Tabletop Whale is an original science illustration blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>second-chance pool: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:53:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269743</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's almost a meta-slippery-slope fallacy, in that the specific slope is not specified; only the existence of the slope and its slipperiness is asserted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:57:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060229</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is repeatedly used in <i>Yes, Minister</i> to demonstrate the large class gap between Sir Humphrey (and Bernard) and Jim Hacker.</p>
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<p>The cost of litigation is what matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:05:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903091</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49903091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parent is not claiming that protesters generally gain support for their own cause. Parent claims that protests shift the Overton Window such that more reasonable stances can fall within and gain support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862403</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "English: A vs. An"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Words are often pronounced differently in English depending on whether they are being used in a noun or verb context.<p>e.g. attribute, increase, conduct</p>
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<p>His thesis is only slightly longer than typical PhD theses, I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700145</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kumail Nanjiani learning what Automattic is: <a href="https://youtu.be/5Y64UeNeiOM?t=74" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/5Y64UeNeiOM?t=74</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690639</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note the wording on dollar bills:<p>> This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.<p>See also USC §5103:<p>> United States coins and currency [...] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues.<p>Thus a private person is only obligated to accept cash as repayment for a debt, not for purchases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633100</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Counterpoint: cars. It takes sustained effort to <i>prevent</i> civilization from being modified to accommodate new technology, e.g. <i>Stop Kindermoord</i>.</p>
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<p>The LinkedIn Lunatics subreddit is highly relevant: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:11:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272680</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This poem is in the short story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169962</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49169962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "How to Write an Email"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And I would ensure that Y was a poor solution.<p>How do you ensure people don't think you're not good at your job, if you continually propose poor solutions? Since you're emailing other teams here, they probably(?) don't get to work with you day-to-day to realize you're doing this on purpose.<p>Also, what's the point of Y being a poor solution? Even if the other team isn't very responsive, can't you always propose your<p>> best attempt at solving it<p>such that even if they don't respond, you can implement a decent solution?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850541</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's just to hype Anthropic. Check it out, we have products so dangerous the government banned them, we must be <i>so advanced</i>. (Their competitors cannot make such a claim.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519412</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>wrt. the end of the story, it will be interesting to see if people start noticing their Dunning-Kruger bias as a result of LLMs.<p>Specifically: LLMs make it really easy to misunderestimate the complexity of fields other than your own. (You can see this with a lot of vibecoded projects, for example – once they hit the wall of complexity, they stall out or start finding ugly patches for fundamental design issues, etc.)<p>I don't think this sort of cultural change will happen short-term, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:28:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507678</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "World Capitals Voronoi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh, Canada seems roughly intact (except for BC).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484084</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>your parent:<p>> the code in question had <i>already</i> been reviewed by human counsel</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435037</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an ARM device, so presumably compatibility with third-party software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360335</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Might be interesting to try emailing dang to see if they keep track of this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 19:19:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327994</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Euro-Office: General availability set for June 9"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last comment in that issue links to <a href="https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means/" rel="nofollow">https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-an...</a></p>
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