<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: webprofusion</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=webprofusion</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:35:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=webprofusion" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "The real cost of owning a home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Owning a home is like paying into a bank account made from bricks, but it increases in value. Yes it requires upkeep and maintenance, because entropy wants it to be a decaying pile of rubble. The land will always have a value, so maintenance is kind of optional-ish.<p>The people trying to convince you to keep renting are, sometimes, rental investors stealing from your children's inheritance. Renting is paying a property investors mortgage in return for a home you don't have to/cannot directly maintain but you are still paying for the maintenance on a weekly/monthly basis at an agreed rate with annual increases.<p>On the other hand if you're not going to have kids it's bit like Brewsters Millions where you try to spend everything you make without acquiring assets and without running out of money while you still need it.<p>You can always sell and go back to renting, but if you rent for 30 yrs you will put at least a couple of homes worth of your earnings into renting over that period.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 05:18:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289980</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "The Eternal Sloptember"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think you can go completely hands-off for quality products but you can relax and let the agent do as much as possible. It does enable things that probably wouldn't have happened otherwise.<p>If you are already comfortable with letting other devs work on features then it's easier, because it's similar (arguably you have more control with AI, because what you say goes regardless of hierarchy).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 05:19:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263634</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Show HN: OpenGravity – A zero-install, BYOK vanilla JS clone of Antigravity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool, seems a bit niche? Antigravity is ok but not so ok as to want to clone it, might just be me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 07:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105136</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Linux, Windows or macOS: Which Operating System to Use in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Years you say. Snark mode activated.<p>If you are "choosing" between operating systems, son get some rest it's past your bedtime.<p>If on the other hand there are 3 or more different operating systems running on your current desk, with multiple VMs, well ok lets talk.<p>Linux fan, great? Have you ever patched the kernel, that seems like the minimum before I can take you seriously as a voice of experience. Running other people distro scripts doesn't count but I'll accept applying a diff. Basic points if you have configured swap manually and know the lifetime of your /tmp<p>macOS user, awesome, do you know what a kext is. No? Oh. Never built a hackintosh? Uh, ok.<p>Windows, great, you know how to open a command prompt as system, right? Wait you've never heard of sysinternals huh, cool yeah.<p>If you're going to lecture others or roll your eyes at an OS, start from at least ankle deep levels of experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 04:41:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018106</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Paraloid B-72"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What we really need is a wipe on self leveling version. Finishing guitars is hard!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900869</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm ignoring the attempted trademark trickery because TLDR; blah AI is evil blah blah other stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:20:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885093</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The key takeaway from this is that drama loving dinosaurs live among us. Moving on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:13:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885049</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Can Claude Fly a Plane?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Can <i>I</i> Get Claude to Fly A Plane" isn't the same thing. Interesting though, would be a good test for different models but it relies on the test harness being good enough that a human could also use the same info to achieve the required outcome. e.g. if latency of input/output is too slow then nobody could do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762136</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You want me to pay for your UI coding subscription?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:31:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748368</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought was does VS Code Insiders use it (or anything it relies on, or do any extensions etc). Made me think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:54:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584496</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha, well proof that AI let's you build anything you can imagine. Wait till I show you Remote Desktop, one day macOS and Linux will catch up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:23:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364124</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "How much of HN is AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a HN front page article this is light on content. Should have used AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345552</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've used similar with SQL Server Management Studio (GH copilot) and it's pretty useful for database work and gnarly queries.<p>This is great, but I'd prefer to see a refit of their UI first, it's currently a bit slow and looks prehistoric.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:13:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331081</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The most surprising thing is that everyone here is an expert on true temperament. Who would have guessed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305218</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm guessing the music will be much like this one (more about fun than having the best actual songs) but didn't know there was a track with both Chris Poland and Marty Friedman:
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7yDb6NVzvuUVuvLyTSfDhz?si=0c501237c4a344f2" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/track/7yDb6NVzvuUVuvLyTSfDhz?si=0c5...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:44:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131799</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:40:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131776</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47131776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My 2c : automatically disliking something because a computer did part of it is at best lazy, at worst wrong, but it should be up to individuals what they do and don't like. I get that they just want to have a ban-hammer to punish bots with, that's understandable.</p>
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<p>So where's the line?
- if I use computer generated drums is that banned? Lots of tunes use computers for drums
- if I use computer generated vocals is that different? Lots of vocals are heavily processed an have been for decades. Some have been computer generated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613501</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice but 2008 called and want their git web UI back. I can't take anything "modern" seriously if it seems firmly archaic, my problem I get it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:35:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383553</link><dc:creator>webprofusion</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webprofusion in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No my job is sitting eating this here donuts.</p>
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