<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: KennyBlanken</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KennyBlanken</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:58:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=KennyBlanken" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's wild that they are doing direct refrigerant cooling instead of liquid and liquid-refrigerant heat exchangers, unless I misread what "direct refrigerant" means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550299</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody is doing "gait analysis" over this.<p>The FBI investigating a bombing? Yeah.<p>State cops investigating a murder? 50/50 odds?<p>Local cops investigating someone swapping out a fucking lightbulb? No.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:31:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550226</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The NY Times coverage of him is abhorrently biased. Every time I see an article about him, the headline, summary, and article itself feel like the editors were desperate to paint him in as negative a light as possible.<p>The man has almost overnight gotten the city to start doing things that benefit the general public, nto just the wealthy. Actions on bike lane projects that were stalled and actually taking action against slumlords.<p>All that barely gets a mention, but they seem obsessed with trying to find fault with everything he does.<p>During the NBA finals, he paid for his own ticket but they still took him to task for its expense ($1000) and the ticket coming from the "VIP ticket pool" like this was some abuse of his position or unethical of him.<p>Of course <i>the mayor</i> gets access to the VIP pool of tickets? And he didn't abuse the privilege to get tickets for anyone else - not staff, not family, not friends. Just him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:23:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523267</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> an open-source company has to find product market fit twice: first for the OSS project and again for a commercial product.<p>The only way this could be a 'lesson learned' is if you homehow managed to not pay any attention to what has been going on in the last 25 years with open source software companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:51:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519659</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48519659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It’s also from focused efforts to close coal plants,<p>For many years coal has been more expensive than solar and wind. That's why utilities are decommissioning the plants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:22:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495910</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's especially notable because there isn't just the thumb against offshore wind, solar panel tariffs, and even EVs. Chinese EVs can't be imported because of tariffs and many conservative states a pretending that EV drivers "don't pay their fair share because they don't buy gas" - except most gas taxes haven't been adjusted in multiple decades and don't even begin to pay for the cost of maintaining roads. Fuel taxes are a tiny portion of any state revenue.<p>There has always been a <i>massive</i> thumb on the scale in the form of tax breaks, direct subsidies (billions a year alone on this), land leasing, etc for fossil fuels and their use. Favorable public policy. And what the IMF calls implicit subsidies - the cost of impact on the climate/environment and people's health.<p>When a refinery is pumping out pollution and everyone in the area is getting sicker than people in similar areas - that costs us as insurance ratepayers and taxpayers.<p><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-government-rigs-the-market-in-favor-of-fossil-fuels/" rel="nofollow">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-g...</a><p><a href="https://www.imf.org/en/topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies" rel="nofollow">https://www.imf.org/en/topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...</a><p>...to name a few. A simple google search will turn up dozens more.<p>And yet what is the first critique of solar and wind by right wingers? "It's only cheaper because of all my tax dollars going to subsidizing them."<p>Federal, state, and local subsidies for green energy and EVs are a drop in the bucket.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495882</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another "knob" is reducing the thinking time...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:57:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470823</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a benchmark is affected the model owner will almost certainly tune it, so there will be a game of cat and mouse...<p>Honestly, wouldn't surprise me if the AI companies try to detect benchmarking. Most hardware companies do...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470804</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything I've heard from people who have subscriptions is that they blow through their daily token quota sometimes in a matter of minutes, there's rate limiting, etc. They spend a lot of time just waiting to be able to use it. And they're paying through the nose for the privilege.<p>It's all a scam.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:29:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464331</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "AI is slowing down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is apparently news to all the hardware retailers who are continuing to maintain the insanely overinflated prices on NVME storage, DDR5, and even DDR4 memory.<p>Some are still steadily increasing prices.<p>A 1TB NVME drive - a good one - cost about $70. Now it costs anywhere from $150 for shit-tier drives to $300+ for the higher end stuff that used to cost $100-120.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:19:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456338</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The project in question that is asserting Hermes is copying their ideas:<p><a href="https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/EvoMap/evolver</a><p>The timeline here is pretty telling and it looks like Hermes basically points their coding agent at evolver and says "reimplement this yourself." A few days later Hermes magically sports a nearly identical feature.<p><a href="https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analysis" rel="nofollow">https://evomap.ai/blog/hermes-agent-evolver-similarity-analy...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:49:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455659</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do these AI agents keep using Telegram as their channel for user communication?<p>Telegram is literally a spying platform run by the FSB?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:37:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455561</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "90210 – running the show without property tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For attention, clicks, clout, resume stuffing, etc. The author gets to claim they have "AI development experience" when really all they did was have claude or chatgpt put together a crappy electron app that is little more than a program that wraps the user's input in a system prompt and slightly processes the output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441142</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meanwhile, even worse is the effort to fight wind turbines - an extremely-well-organized network set up by the fossil fuel industry that uses local residents to astroturf for them. They provide talking points, lawn signs, graphics, guidance on social media posts, the works.<p><a href="https://climateadvocacylab.org/resource/against-wind-map-anti-offshore-wind-network-eastern-united-states" rel="nofollow">https://climateadvocacylab.org/resource/against-wind-map-ant...</a><p>One of their victims was Cape Wind. The project would have made the cape and islands almost 75% carbon-free power for decades.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Wind</a><p>They've been desperately trying to kill off Vineyard Wind, too. And they have killed off many individual turbine projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:15:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351202</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Better documentation (well, actually, more like documentation at all), 100+ contributors, 10 years of contributions.<p>There's a lot of general hand-waving about its featureset and whatnot - and an odd jab about non-English support - but no explanation of how non-English language support is lacking in other projects and why hers is better. And am I really supposed to believe that her project has better non-English support than than something that has 100+ contributors over ten years?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342817</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it would explain itself better if it explained precisely what makes it better or different from what already exists; Manuskript (open source) and Scrivner (closed source.)</p>
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<p>The thing actually ordered around people how to clean a restroom <i>step by step</i>.  Yikes.<p>I've never seen so much disdain for minimum wage workers.<p>------
"For example, when Jane entered the restroom, Manna used a simple position tracking system built into her headset to know that she had arrived. Manna then told her the first step.<p>Manna: “Place the ‘wet floor’ warning cone outside the door please.”<p>When Jane completed the task, she would speak the word “OK” into her headset and Manna moved to the next step in the restroom cleaning procedure.<p>Manna: “Please block the door open with the door stop.”<p>Jane: “OK.”<p>Manna: “Please retrieve the bucket and mop from the supply closet.”<p>Jane: “OK.”<p>And so on."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 10:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334848</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just because it's a camera based system doesn't mean it will be surveillance.<p>Except in mid to high end luxury cars, automakers will probably design the sensor to be completely self-contained and merely provide a "driver present, attentive" or "driver distracted" or "no driver." In high end cars they'll use it to switch driver profiles, like what Lucid already does.<p>Both you and that author need to go look at the massive amount of data that has been getting collected in cars, including location data, for close to two decades in any vehicle that even had the <i>option</i> for telematics and GPS navigation.<p>Also the issue is not so much the camera system, but the "OS" the car is running. A ton of vehicles now have Google's Android OS running on them and that is also a privacy dumpster fire in and of itsel.<p>Also, a nationwide network of license plate reading cameras is far more of a privacy threat, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 10:19:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321298</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can stick to 802.11r only by lowering the transmission power and have all the APs on the same channel<p>Fast roaming has not, does not, <i>and never will</i> require APs be on the same channel. Only the SSID and password needs to match.<p>Setting them to the same channel will cause the APs to interfere (when they can't "hear" each other) or block each other from transmitting, or both. You set APs near each other so they are on non-overlapping bands. Always.<p>This is basic WiFi networking 101<p>> Samsung is known to push protocol support early: 802.11r in 2013<p>802.11r was released in 2008 and rolled into 802.11-2012.<p>Also, the iPhone 5S (2013) has 802.11r support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:56:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315337</link><dc:creator>KennyBlanken</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by KennyBlanken in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  The immediate danger seems to abated, fortunately,<p>The "it will explode leveling a couple city blocks" danger seems to be abated, but instead it's spraying an insanely toxic chemical out into the open, which will likely have health repercussions for residents for decades?<p>Thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals don't just disappear.</p>
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