<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: HomeDeLaPot</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HomeDeLaPot</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:57:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=HomeDeLaPot" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every YouTube ad I see now is an AI-generated scam ad hawking everything from free electricity to anti-aging products to birdhouses hand-carved by an AI-generated senior citizen. I've seen some multiple times, days or weeks apart. Their advertising standards are a complete joke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687969</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49687969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Lambs grazing under an Oregon solar farm put on the same weight to the gram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Across the two years, pasture beneath the panels produced 38 percent less herbage than the open field, with the fully shaded strips directly beneath the panels growing thinnest.<p>>That figure describes pasture production, not the amount each lamb ate.<p>Thank you, Captain Obvious? Trying to clear up a misconception that nobody actually has just ends up creating more confusion. I find myself rereading the previous sentences to make sure I didn't miss something. This seems to be a fairly common AI writing pattern that would best be removed by a human editor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:25:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517628</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "I was wrong about MCPs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh cool, as soon as I saw the title I was wondering what the useful shift was!<p>What country uses that type of electrical plug?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:54:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517465</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When will we see the world's first fully autonomous company?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:31:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459306</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:02:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163614</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "U.S. Weighs $100k Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After Graduation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds so simple: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118446</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Casio Moflin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect commenters so far have missed the fact that this isn't a fuzzy LLM-powered surveillance device. It actually doesn't require an Internet connection, it doesn't record or upload what you say to it, and it doesn't talk. It just senses your emotions and responds with cute noises. "AI" appears to just mean that it learns to recognize your voice and respond to you in unique ways. (To be fair, it's not obvious from the linked page.)<p>This page has a better description: <a href="https://www.casio.com/uk/casio-blog/blog-post/moflin-vs-other-ai-pets-what-makes-them-unique/" rel="nofollow">https://www.casio.com/uk/casio-blog/blog-post/moflin-vs-othe...</a><p>> They have no cameras, no Wi-Fi or cellular connection, and no direct internet access. While Moflin can connect to the app via Bluetooth, they cannot independently send or receive data without user interaction.<p>> Moflin does not listen to, or record conversations. Instead, they use speaker recognition to detect and distinguish voices based on non-identifiable audio patterns, without processing the actual content of what is said. All data is stored locally on the device and is only uploaded securely via the MofLife App if you choose to create a journal or support features like servicing or recovery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105698</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems key: "So, I now limit written papers to two pages and base students’ grades more heavily on oral discussions of their work, which allows me to probe their thought process and challenge their decisions."<p>Oral discussions. That's probably the way education should work, but it requires the professor to spend time talking to each student individually, so it might not scale to large classes with hundreds of students.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789000</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are many types of houses in between suburbs and skyscrapers. This is "missing middle" housing. Duplexes, townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc. Look at Old Town Alexandria, VA on Google Street View, for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 17:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282944</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48282944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess for me, blatant LLM style reminds me of LinkedIn-speak. Both are distracting and come across as fake. Somehow it's more interesting to read something in another human's unique style than to read something that's obviously been passed through a filter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188886</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You start reading. Then it hits you. The short, choppy sentences. The stock phrases. This wasn't written by a human — this was generated by AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188816</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long" rel="nofollow">https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:06:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044169</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a more general focus on getting students to practice critical thinking and fact-checking would be better. AI could be addressed as a small part of that, since chatbots are everywhere and students need to know how to filter out their BS.<p>But are NSF grants really necessary for this? To what degree is this funneling taxpayer money to buy ChatGPT subscriptions and advertise to students by getting them to use AI in the classroom?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:16:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011688</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop!<p>Let me do that now: hmm, this article seems to be a complaint about applications that waste energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:05:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955865</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:01:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955835</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so older men can marry more wives (2005)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951562</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47951562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:40:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937795</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591944</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly?<p>The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all dependent on or provided through their employer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591790</link><dc:creator>HomeDeLaPot</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HomeDeLaPot in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone.<p>The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resumes and prepare for the worst. The best people start looking for other opportunities and find them. If specific employees are told they're going to be laid off, some seek revenge.<p>Much better to immediately notify those impacted, revoke their access, give them generous severance instead of expecting them to work, and let everyone else know they're safe.</p>
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