<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: Legend2440</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Legend2440</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:20:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Legend2440" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not surveillance if it's on-device.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:24:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116348</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed you could!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:24:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115404</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "OpenAI Hit with Overdose Suit Targeting ChatGPT Drug Advice (1)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel that the death is not really ChatGPT's fault, this was a drug addict putting a lot of effort into pushing past guardrails and safety blocks to get the answer he wanted.<p>If you prompt an LLM long enough you can get it to say whatever you want, and that's what happened here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:03:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114534</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, the hard part about robots is the controller.<p>We have been able to build robot bodies for decades, but we still don't really know how to build a robot mind. You need better AI than we currently have for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108748</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of these analogies are entirely wrong, they're just incomplete.<p>Humans are similar to machines for example in that our bodies convert energy to do work through a series of pumps and pipes and sensors and actuators. Life is not animated by some magic force but instead operates under the same physical laws that machines use to function.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 14:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084096</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hilarious irony of AI-generating an article about overusing AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 01:18:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080013</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Academics Need to Wake Up on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not literally an LLM because the L stands for language, and it's not trained on language.<p>But it is the same transformer architecture, and it is able to generate novel proteins in the same way that an LLM is able to generate novel sentences. AlphaFold 3 is a diffusion model, so it's most similar to the AI art generators.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:31:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038186</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Academics Need to Wake Up on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>7. Much of the opposition to AI is status protection dressed up as principle.<p>Absolutely true haha, even outside of academia.<p>Software developers wax poetic about the value of 'handcrafted human-made software', but really they just don't want to lose their cushy $300k WFH job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:27:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038124</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, Chrome has been around for 15 years? Damn I'm old.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 05:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032600</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one in the US is starving outside of illness or drug abuse.<p>75% of the population is overweight, and the rate is even higher among poor people. We've had to invent new words like "food insecure" because actual starvation is a solved problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028730</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not what's happening here. They are not destroying the trees to limit supply and jack up prices, but rather because no one wants them.<p>Nor are we destroying food while people go hungry; we produce more food than we eat by a considerable margin. What hunger remains in the world is a distribution problem, not a supply problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:54:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028388</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Del monte filed for bankruptcy last year. That's why the cannery was closing down in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028335</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "AI Product Graveyard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weights and Biases is a tool for monitoring AI training runs.<p>I don't see how you can say it has "pre-AI use" unless you are narrowly defining AI to be LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 16:55:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025157</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They also just closed another 470 stores this year. Sales are half of what they were in 2019.<p>Basically they got a <i>huge</i> cash infusion from memestock hodlers trying to get to the moon. Greater than half of their profits are now from the interest on that money, which is wild.<p>However, the retail business itself is still failing because no one buys video games at the mall anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015908</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It might be a HIPAA violation, depending on the details of the data being shared. Several other healthcare websites have gotten in trouble over the same thing: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/pixel-tracking-hipaa-startups/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/17/pixel-tracking-hipaa-start...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:39:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013879</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>...why?<p>The same reason that I put Google Analytics on my blog in 2014. They want to know how many people are using their site and how.<p>And like me, they didn't think about the fact that these analytics services are run by advertising companies that may use the data for other purposes. <i>Unlike</i> me, they have privacy laws to follow because they work with health data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:37:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013866</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Keep in mind, this is not because they turned the business around and made tons of money. Sales are lower now than in 2020.<p>Investors gave them this money; they sold additional stock to raise $3.47B in 2024, and another $4.2B of convertible debt in 2025.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:47:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010205</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't agree with this take. Determinism is a nice property for abstractions to have, but it isn't necessary to be an abstraction.<p>And LLMs can handle very abstract concepts that could not possibly be encoded in C++, like the user's goal in using software.</p>
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<p>Tabs on notepad and file explorer are extremely nice.<p>I can't believe it took them 20 years to add them, but at least they're finally here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 13:58:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997010</link><dc:creator>Legend2440</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Legend2440 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you notify the kernel and they ship a fix, it seems reasonable to expect that they will communicate the fix to the distros.<p>I see this as an organizational failure of the Linux ecosystem. There should be better communication between distro and kernel development.</p>
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