<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: xentronium</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xentronium</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:58:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xentronium" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The shift to Claude Code? That took just hours of use for me to become productive.<p>> This isn't failure; it's the process!<p>> The biggest challenge? AI can't retain learning between sessions<p>ai slop</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:28:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117672</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45117672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Everything Is Booming Except for Wages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. CPI is a wrong deflator to use when comparing to GDP growth<p>2. Wages != Compensation</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:59:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847884</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17847884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our front end engineers were extremely happy. Me personally, as a backend engineer, not as much, but it isn't too bad.<p>There are some quirks (error handling), performance issues (e.g. fixing n+1 queries) and DOS concerns, but again, it isn't all that bad.<p>(we're using rails/graphql-ruby on backend | react/relay on frontend)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:49:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17566203</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17566203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17566203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Regarding the Em Dash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends on typography traditions. In Russian, em-dash in the middle of a sentence is always typeset with short spaces. We also rarely use en-dashes (I think there are maybe two cases when it is allowed: in date ranges like 1940–1945 and as a bullet point in lists).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16090493</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16090493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16090493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  In what bizarro world would anyone actually want ISPs competing for the last mile<p>You can easily have up to 1 gbit symmetric internet connection in Russia for $10 because of that competition.<p>It's not rocket science, guys, US ISPs suck because your regulation killed all the competitors, and your solution is what, more regulation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931294</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Concerns about Bitcoin's energy use are overblown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you confusing tw with twhr/y?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:20:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874367</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15874367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, not exactly an app, but some forums dedicated to reviews for  <i>courtesans</i> are quite old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 10:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105539</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14105539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a setting for menu being always on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:38:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052147</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "What CSS minifiers also leave behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man, just post a link to CV like you're advised and let good things happen to you. If they don't, you lose nothing, but if they do, you got something out of your effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040803</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14040803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chekhov had this very weird and dry sense of humor. Some jokes would certainly look like insults to a random observer.<p>In this case, though, I believe he was actually frank, if blunt, but well meaning (his brother had issues with alcohol).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:37:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13872134</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13872134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13872134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Russia Blocks Porn Site Brazzers for 'Damaging Human Psyche'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Russian laws effectively prohibit all kinds of internet pornography. More precisely, they restrict "unlawful distribution of pornography", but never define any "lawful" way to do so.<p>---<p>That said, if it weren't pornography, small rant about our judicial system:<p>Any judge in any city pop 50000 can issue a country-wide block for any site. Often these resolutions are too far reaching, sometimes they order to block root page (/) instead of specific page (/foo/bar), rendering whole sites unavailable. Sometimes they ban ip addresses of aws services, disrupting half the internet.<p>Another important thing about these hearings is that there is often no defendant. They might call in the site hoster, but hosters are never interested in defending their customers so they simply ignore the subpoena. Site owner would often discover their site was blocked after the fact.<p>Finally, in many cases judges don't even bother writing their own verdict. Instead they copy-paste whatever public attorney cooked up, including all the factual and orthographic errors, and sign it.<p><a href="https://medium.com/@aalien/law-limits-8d733178e158" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@aalien/law-limits-8d733178e158</a> this is a very insightful post (alas, only available in Russian) from @aalien, founder of lurkmore.ru, which is arguably the most often banned site in Russia, about how this horrible system functions (or rather, malfunctions). I found this excerpt especially hilarious:<p>«Full list of Roskomnadzor-banned pages is available on our site. Unfortunately, that page is also banned by Roskomnadzor, because it contains "textual information about committing suicide". It's in the quoted Roskomnadzor letter, of course»</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:59:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13592195</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13592195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13592195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Ruby terminal apps toolkit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slop / stdlib</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:49:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512883</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13512883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Getting Started with Webpack 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now, the JS community seems to be thinking more about stability and backwards compatibility. That's very welcome, at least from the perspective of this grumpy server-side developer.<p>That's exactly why the blog post suggests using yarn instead of npm, isn't it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:16:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12853618</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12853618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12853618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  I don't think any sport-themed games are played professionally though.<p>FIFA is somewhat popular.</p>
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<p>coub.com? I thought it was quite popular, but apparently that's only in Russia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 17:41:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807306</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12807306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "One Doom fan, 300 hours, and one gargantuan level"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blood, anyone? I think Blood is the single scariest game I played as a teenager.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12782875</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12782875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12782875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Verifying Wikileaks DKIM-Signatures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember having issues verifying emails with attachments last time I've used dkimverify.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:56:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761463</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Civ VI 'AI Battle Royale' on Twitch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, civ 5 ai sucks, and don't even get me started about combat (builds all the wrong units and can't properly control the armies it has). I blame 1-unit-per-tile change.<p>It's a shame, especially since in multiplayer this game is amazing (except for, cough, networking code, cough).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:22:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713353</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "The GitHub GraphQL API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In rails/graphql combo it's resolved the same way you usually resolve n+1 queries: you make 1 request per type of edge (i.e. one request for posts, one request for authors, on request for comments)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:06:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504257</link><dc:creator>xentronium</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12504257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xentronium in "Yandex.Mail's successful migration from Oracle to Postgres [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://yandex.com/support/domain/records.xml" rel="nofollow">https://yandex.com/support/domain/records.xml</a></p>
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