<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>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:32:19 +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 "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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<p>This talk – "Programming without pointers" – by Andrew Kelley may be interesting to you.<p><a href="https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e8308f2917-programming-without-pointers" rel="nofollow">https://www.hytradboi.com/2025/05c72e39-c07e-41bc-ac40-85e83...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 22:41:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286994</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First transaction would be outside the channel. e.g., scalper may require high-value Venmo or Zelle transaction, then enter buyer ID / name on ticket website at listed limit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 01:11:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230762</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are falling victim to frequency bias. Popular books are popular – and especially before mass printing technologies, <i>really</i> popular. A lot of people may have tried to write books doesn't mean they're writing books good enough to dedicate an actual person's time towards copying them down.<p>Also, Juvenal was a poet. He most likely knew other poets, or aspiring poets, or at least people who liked writing. Your average, generally functionally illiterate, individual at the time is not trying their hand at writing books.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897722</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Intended usage is to use Edge Copilot to search the page for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490345</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since LLMs are trained on "random people online", why are they not of equal rank?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:17:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487434</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By your criterion, Google, Apple, and Amazon are terrible names as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457851</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Show HN: Calyx – Ghostty-Based macOS Terminal with Liquid Glass UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not what Liquid Glass actually looks like on first-party macOS applications. This needs way more blur and opacity to match even the control center widgets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:37:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351175</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257271</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Monosketch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any way to make images accessible other than the alt tag? I'm sure SVGs are more machine-readable, but how would that help vision-impaired folks?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:48:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004055</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Libraries get rid of books in poor condition and loan books to other libraries, and patrons regularly fail to return books.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:32:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924199</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see this as roughly equivalent to amortized big O complexity. If I push to a vector repeatedly, <i>sometimes</i> I will incur a significant cost O(n) of reallocation, but most of the time it's still O(1).<p>Similarly, if Meta violates the law, and is infrequently fined a small fraction of their revenue by a small number of governments, <i>in general</i> it will not be a big deal for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:17:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924093</link><dc:creator>vulcan01</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vulcan01 in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta made $60B in Q4 2025. A one-time $1.4B fine, 20 years after enactment, is not "getting hammered".</p>
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