<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: ByThyGrace</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ByThyGrace</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:11:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ByThyGrace" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blood donation helps the donor, but what happens to the recipient? Would it not be possible to accumulate PFAS in your blood stream by receiving PFAS-concentrate blood? Is it that simple?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:24:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722516</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think this is much of a spoiler: in Ra (same author) you get just what you're looking for and, ironically, that's with another revised ending. Even with the christianic subtext, which is at times manifest. I've read both and the writing is overall superior. As it should be, antimemetics is his first work I think? Writers have historically become good from mere practise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665948</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of course! You don't expect them all to live up to Gibson. Doesn't mean you can't look out for authors pushing themselves. Andy Weir's prose may be formulaic but effectively so. Having figured out the thriller side of it is enough of a leap. Like Stross did. More recently qntm has been dropping gems, relevant to our time. Someone like John Ringo managed to write enjoyably written hard scifi (Live Free or Die) that holds up to this day.<p>But this submission? It feels like the writer is trying to enter a spiral which turns out a circle. Ridden with exposition and matter of facts. The dialogue is barren, soulless. I tried to pick it up again, but the more I read the more I want to get out. Its topic being brand new doesn't justify all of the monotony. I'm sorry to the author (orchestrator?); I'm just being earnest.</p>
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<p>So, what is an efficient dishwasher, in agentic-speak? Furthermore, what is actual data? How is any data you pull remotely a source of trust to answer my question? Surely not just what is on the manufacturer's website?<p>Not trying to be snarky here, your problem space must be awfully complex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:53:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433376</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The prose is like every other work of science fiction I've read.<p>Well, then, you gotta move on to reading better science fiction. Because this is pretty damn bland. I gave up after 2 minutes because of it. Kinda feel vindicated after coming to the comments.<p>I can see it working for casual readers, which is why it's already an editorial problem. Imagine having to sift through a growing number of faux writers sending publishers AI generated prose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433095</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if appending something like this to the user agent string could work in court as a justification.<p>"Your Honour, the plaintiff's webserver engine thoroughly accepted my client's cookie which expressly stated the waiver of terms brought forward, and continued to serve requested content instead of stopping or refusing further interactions."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:37:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314313</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47314313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Organized crime is rising in Europe as it is increasingly easy to move money around in uncontrolled ways thru big platforms.<p>Even though it's a sensible claim, and since you're implying causal relationship, can you provide a source for this? I'm not European so I wouldn't know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274536</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> By making these fake images ubiquitous we are forcing people to quickly learn<p>That's quite the high opinion on the self-improvement ability of your Average Joe. This kind of behavior only comes with an awareness, previously learned, and an alertness of mind. You need the population at large to be able to do this. How if not, say, teaching this at schools and waiting for the next generation to reach adulthood, would you expect this to happen?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174438</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is any of this intrinsically a strength of Nano Banana, while not of other models/generative tools? Have you tried doing the same with say Klein, ZIT, etc.?</p>
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<p>Really? Well I stopped reading this piece when the AI generated charts showed up. Come on, that's just in poor taste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:51:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116149</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "AI makes you boring"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've read opinions in the same vein of what you said, except painting this as a good outcome. The gist of the argument is why spend time looking for the right tool and effort learning its uses when you can tell an agent to work out the "problem" for you and spit out a tailored solution.<p>It's about being oblivious, I suppose. Not too different to claiming there will be no need to write new fiction when an LLM will write the work you want to read by request.</p>
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<p>How feasible is it for this to target earlier AMD archs down to even GFX1010, the original RDNA series aka the poorest of GPU poor?</p>
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<p>> Pretty easy to script the entirety of the OS install and lockdown so that it was documented and repeatable.<p>What distro? It's niche enough of a use case. Have you considered releasing the code?</p>
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<p>Do you ever play online multiplayer HOMM3? Is it a thing nowadays?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:14:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423489</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Maybe the default settings are too high"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> When I read a book of that much importance<p>Imagine if Tolkien was writing Fellowship last decade, and the book landed on your hands today. No decades of cult growing, no adaptations or explosive marketing, some word of mouth. Would you think it "much important" before reading it? What makes the importance?<p>In my opinion it's the prose. It's always the prose. Always gotta be on the lookout for good writers, new and old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:45:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393713</link><dc:creator>ByThyGrace</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ByThyGrace in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> despite everyone saying for 10+ years that they are going to die.<p>What many people have been saying in my experience is pretty much the opposite: that Mozilla isn't going anywhere because Google wants them (needs them) to be around. That it's their antitrust Trojan horse.</p>
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<p>Does it maybe come down to changing licenses, as in a license expires and another is negotiated with different terms (to charge per household instead in the example above)?</p>
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<p>Hmm is there a haveibeenpwned for IP addresses found in botnets? Perhaps correlated at the time of known incidents.<p>I would like to know if I'm serving a rogue machine and not been paying attention.</p>
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<p>If the market is spread so thin that, say, fairly original games released today would have been sure hits 15 years ago, where is the failure? Lack of six figure investment in marketing campaigns? Is creating success simply already having the capital to make a successful game? Is it being in the influencer "meta" (see right now e.g. PEAK)?<p>I don't think success/failure should be framed in any other way than "did the game break even for the dev/publisher" and that's beyond what any player perceives. Because crossing that line will send devs into despair, as you mentioned, it's just not sane.</p>
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<p>> Remember, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas already have similar laws in place in the US<p>Interesting, since when? I'm curious about how it's turned out in practise. For web services I mean. An for anyone hosting a message board or comment section.</p>
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