<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: xur17</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xur17</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:24:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xur17" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Android does this fairly well for me - it will list out the options as they are spoken, and you can click on them directly to type the number. I believe (but haven't seen this recently) it will pre-render the options before they are read if it has knowledge of that phone tree.</p>
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<p>Speed and scriptability</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560282</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like the general consensus on most of the recent layoffs were that they severance was pretty generous. If it seems to be working okay, why do we need to introduce additional inefficiencies to get something we already have?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223975</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe, but I have heard the exact same experience from my Dad and others that have worked with unions. It unfortunately seems to attract people trying to take advantage of the system. Personally if I were offered similar jobs, one with a union, one without, I'd take the one without.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 14:57:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223834</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48223834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Grok 4.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gemini thinks my name is my brother in law's name, and despite explicitly telling it that's not my name + digging through the settings, it still amusingly calls me the wrong name.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:17:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976521</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even in those cases I'd prefer to just be able to natively search the content that has been lazy loaded. I've run into more than one website where the search functionality they bound to control-f is horrible.</p>
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<p>Any idea way "5x or 20x more usage" means?</p>
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<p>Don't you still have to worry about big bills since bunny bills based on usage?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679247</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you! Just realized someone else recommended this a hour ago as well, oops.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667315</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for building this!<p>Feature request: I'd love to be able to share a search results page with a friend. If you update the url to include the location or zip code I am searching for (ex: <a href="https://www.govauctions.app/feed/12345" rel="nofollow">https://www.govauctions.app/feed/12345</a>) this would be possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:05:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667098</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am hunting for houses - I've used it as an assistant that catalogs them (but it has this stored in multiple places and will give me the wrong list a lot). I also had it read through my emails and create a doc with my upcoming trips.<p>I'd say it's right on the edge of being useful, but given the number of bugs, it's not really that practically useful. It's moreso a glimpse into the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:01:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839622</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have it installed in a VM, and overall it's fairly useful, but very buggy. Right now I can send it a message asking it something, and it won't answer. I typically have to follow up 2 or 3 times before I get an actual response. This weirdly used to work fine.</p>
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<p>More broadly, I'd say if you don't have something to retire to (kids or otherwise), don't.</p>
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<p>I've found this to be the case as well. My typical workflow is:<p>1. Have the ai come up with an implementation plan based on my requirements<p>2. Iterate on the implementation plan / tweak as needed, and write it to a markdown file<p>3. Have it implement the above plan based on the markdown file.<p>On projects where we split up the task into well defined, smaller tickets, this works pretty well. For larger stuff that is less well defined, I do feel like it's less efficient, but to be fair, I am also less efficient when building this stuff myself. For both humans and robots, smaller, well defined tickets are better for both development and code review.</p>
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<p>> It even has a sprinkle of the silly "wow very technology!" aesthetic pandering that's typical of EVs.<p>I've never heard it referred to that way, but you nailed the description.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284887</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back in 2019 I created a Google Spreadsheet titled "family debts" that allows my family (4 siblings and my parents) to record when we owe each other money, and periodically settle up. I later learned that I recreated Splitwise, but having something like this with trusted folks has been hugely useful. We have over thousand entries, and use it constantly for splitting gifts, buying something at the store for someone, etc.<p>Om Friday after Thanksgiving I spent half a day building a telegram bot that accepts an address and a list of Amazon links, and in turn orders the item (at a discount since it uses my Amazon credit card), and adds it to the above "family debts" spreadsheet.<p>I really like the idea of programmable, trusted lending like this, and feel like it could be extended to other groups that you implicitly trust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270986</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, if the telegram and whatsapp spam I get is any reading, limiting by phone number is not sufficient.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454770</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's an all out race between the different AI providers, then it's logical for OpenAI to hire employees that are pre-trained rather than training up more internally.</p>
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<p>A lot of airlines have started doing this by "gate checking" bags.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360732</link><dc:creator>xur17</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xur17 in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Switzerland's wealth tax is a lot more reasonable though. UK is 2%, Norway is 1.1%, the Swiss ones are all below 1% (depends on your canton), ex the Zug canton is 0.21%.</p>
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