<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: BLanen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BLanen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:53:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BLanen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if gamma ray memory corruption will induce a sort of mutation and selection effect on non-ecc-memory hosts which will make the worms effectively evolve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384777</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The SpaceX S-1 contradicts your claim by including an optimistic "TAA" (total addressable market) figure for "the space industry". Which falls heavily short of your claim. While the SpaceX claimed total TTA is mostly (like 80%) AI-powered "enterprise applications" which don't exist and are not related to space data centers or whatever.<p>How is this even debatable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 10:36:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334748</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, look at ycombinator's latest "call for startups". Its honestly mind-boggling. Couple years ago I used to look at like every 6 months to see where venture interests lie. But now, on every "industry", its just "use ai to make more money in [industry]". The most egregious of them is the call for the "1 person unicorn" company that they believe can exist and somehow that's a call for a startup. Like, "We want to invest in companies that make a bunch of money for us". Yea, very insightful.</p>
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<p>Big fan.<p>Looking forward to (hopefully) Monday.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:09:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716295</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Bugs Apple loves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't work for me like it used to since update 26.1. Its now extremely hard to get that to work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:05:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731077</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46731077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Django 6.0 beta 1 released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is django performance these days? I remember the average latencies(100ms+) for even simple things being a non-starter for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680975</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished.<p>This sentence reeks AI-writing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:05:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419960</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Larry Ellison on AI-powered surveillance [video] (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>America doing American things:<p>"Are we freakin' Asians?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:20:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45410297</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45410297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45410297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What this is saying is again, that MCP is not a protocol. Which is the point of MCP, making it essentially worthless because it doesn't define actual behavioral rules, it can only describe existing rules informally.<p>This is because defining a formal system, that can do everything MCP promises to enable, is a logical impossibility.</p>
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<p>As I've been saying.<p>MCP is not a protocol. It doesn't protocolize anything of use. It's just "here's some symbols, do with them whatever you want.", leaving it there but then advertising that as a feature of its universality. It provides almost just as much of a protocol as TCP, but rebuild on 5 OSI layers, again.<p>It's not a security issue, it's a ontological issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:54:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849085</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44849085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "MCP is eating the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's literally just a mediocre api spec.<p>With creating 0 added value you can wrap your normal http+json "rest" api so it's mcp.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379618</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Gaussian integration is cool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should not be using antivirus browser plugins anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225840</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the fix/solution would be easily describable and automate-able, it wouldn't/shouldn't be a problem anyway. I don't see how this solves anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:03:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767098</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Why is the world losing color?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But when everything is colorful, nothing stands out. Everything being colorful is as monotonous as everything being, well, monotone.<p>This is meaningless.<p>"When many things are different, everything is the same".<p>Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not. It's just abstraction without generalizing.<p>"000000000000000000000000000" is a sequence just as <i>something</i> as "H90F3iJsjo$(4Opla1zSKX@)!2k" because in the second sequence they're different and in the first they're all the same? Great, you just discovered sets and the axiom of choice.<p>We are literally discussing the difference within the sets! Obviously the second sequence is more diverse.<p>First, I thought your argument was going somewhere but then it took this turn.<p>I would agree with the first part and then argue that before the synthetics-revolution things were mostly just shades of browns(which is a type of dark unsaturated orange). Except for the upper classes who could afford the expensive colors. Now that color is cheap and normalized, it lost (some) of its allure. Not being able to signal your wealth anymore.<p>Now adding just a conjecture of mine; Now that 'clean' is still somewhat more expensive(upper classes still being able to afford more cleanliness by using other peoples labor), minimal textures(not literal textures but design-wise) are more attractive because it displays your wealth. Plain-white being the easiest to see blemishes on. With black being easier look unblemished. Also, 'tasteful' color arrangements will still signal your class somewhat due to requiring cultural knowledge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:48:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559287</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "The Tesla Files Unveil More Accounting Fraud Than Imagined"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe if you read the report you would've have seen the >10% fraudulent sales?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:48:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413229</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "Sales happen when buyers fear missing out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a bad article only meant to market the book. Almost 0 information in this, actually impressive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:37:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698726</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40698726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Wow, what happened to the "screw the government" position?<p>It was always just a meme.<p>John Perry Barlow was deeply, deeply, wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 15:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379308</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "AI Has Made Google Search So Bad People Are Moving to TikTok and Reddit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's AI on GOOGLE'S END ITSELF that's making their product worse.<p>Search results are endlessly optimized for a mean, but everyone has some tail-end subject they want to search more specifically which google's search-AI just seems to get worse and worse with. (Here on HN it's coding/engineering/tech)</p>
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<p>Complete anti-scientific hogwash only rich people would repeat, again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 01:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40036129</link><dc:creator>BLanen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40036129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40036129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BLanen in "A day in the life of a Walmart manager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't care about your singular experience.<p>I could send you paper and paper that wealth/income and stability increases happiness aggregated.<p>I could send you papers that would show that sending people scientific proof doesn't convince people and that wouldn't convince you.</p>
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