<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: 7952</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=7952</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:37:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=7952" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started to find that the AI bit was the most useful part of Google Search.  But the actual search results were terrible and now I use Kagi.  I like being able to add a question mark and control what becomes AI and what doesn't.  I use normal search like a Ctrl F for the internet and don't want it to be too clever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:56:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359442</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sounds like a technicality.  You can absolute agree to not do something that would otherwise be lawful.  You still have the same rights, but you have other restrictions on you.  The two can exist concurrently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355443</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess aviation always has an element of risk and the real debate has to be around safety standards and training.  A loss of aircraft, crew or worse people on the ground is never acceptable and seems to happen more than it should.</p>
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<p>£100k per year means their boss gets the blame if things go wrong.  £120k means you get to blame the contractor.  It's an accountability sink.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 10:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158821</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For corporates it could be a good balance between security and being able to spoon feed people AI. It is an alternative to Microsoft and the mess of different products and licences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:01:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120790</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whilst I am sceptical about Google in this space I do think it is a move in the right direction to do more locally and actually use the space modern machines have on device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021019</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A problem with your "voice of reason" is the assumption that it will prevent nukes in Iran or the region.  The US people have just offered an object lesson in why deterrent weapons are useful.  How capricious they are in diplomacy.  And how willing Americans are to withdraw boots on the ground in allied countries.  Of course most of that won't be surprising to Iranians.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951433</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if they have to assign costs to a project code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950249</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is that in terms of data centres or chips on the battlefield?  Surely the latter is most important.  Or will war alwys have perfect connectivity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815147</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a case for having more encapsulation? So a class and tests are defined and the LLM only works on that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750795</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Artemis II safely splashes down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Artemis certainly seems safer at least in launch.  It has an escape system that could be triggered throughout launch.  In comparison shuttle could not abort at all until srb separation and after that could have needed risk aerodynamic manoeuvres.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:38:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Israel are unwilling or unable to hold to agreements and that makes them an unreliable partner.  The same has been true of America with Iran.<p>Both Iran and America also have a maximalist approach in terms of use of remote weapons and reluctance to accept casualties. That limits the effectiveness of "might makes right".  Massively more so in the larger Iran.<p>And whilst Gaza might seem like a collosal defeat it could be seen in a more positive light in a culture that views sacrifice as noble.  Again same could be true of Iran.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:32:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Iranian military is very decentralised and designed specifically with American capabilities in mind.  So am not sure they would collapse.  And a defending force is far less dependent on logistics in the short term.  Also, Iran has a culture of sacrifice.<p>Iran and the US exist in a state of equilibrium of opposite strategies.  The US is unwilling to risk its troops and sees sacrifice as weakness but otherwise applies maximal pressure.  And Iran is willing to sacrifice its citizens and sees that as noble.  And outside of a black swan event there is little hope of change.<p>Each side sees its enemies greatest military strength as a moral weakness and will keep fighting.  Whilst conversely believing that sacrifice/maximal remote force may someday work.  Iranians are not going to pivot because their culture has been forged as a response to exactly this kind of pressure.  Nor will America suddenly see the sacrifices of thousands of it's men as virtuous.  So things probably just revert back to the same equilibrium.<p>The point is that America blowing up power plants and Iran absorbing casualties is just an extension of the status quo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:17:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Plug in solar could be like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have policies that are good in principal but when they interact with other policy become unworkable for a reasonable cost.  But then you focus on one individual area of policy rather than the system as a whole.<p>Also, in my experience the green initiatives generally have terrible publicity and these kind of articles are just pointing out some positives in a sea of negatives.  What we endlessly miss is that the British public generally wants Co2 reduced and have got that.</p>
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<p>Surely gas prices would spike if the UK needed to import enough to generate an extra 125TWh.  And whilst we are waiting for nuclear to come online you still need to generate energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678078</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surely they would have terrestrial connections to the North.  And this could encourage Iran to cut all the other fibre links that run through the region.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Non CfD offshore wind farms probably can be economical without CfD if they had access to very cheap capital. But without CfD the risk is higher and so is the profit margin on the debt which ultimately makes it more expensive to generate the electricity which in turns increases risk of low wholesale prices.<p>Also, for years CfD rates were actually lower than wholesale price and are currently generating at lower strike prices than average wholesale prices.  The problem now is more inflation, capital costs, and commodity prices for materials.  But then a lot of other things are more expensive also.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:30:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557120</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "The bee that everyone wants to save"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is spectacular.  Can you keep the camera still and let the bee fly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</link><dc:creator>7952</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 7952 in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>New cars have questionable affordability for most people.  Particularly when you factor in dubious design choices and expensive marketing.  Cars and driving are expensive.  If that was a barrier there wouldn't be many people on the road.<p>Also, the Electric polo is supposed to be released at around 25k Euros.  Given the lower running costs that seems like a good deal relative to legacy designs.  For all those people will to spend 40k on a car you could put the money into solar panels instead.</p>
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