<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: Loughla</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Loughla</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:37:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Loughla" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hated cutting wood, stacking wood, splitting wood, all of it. We ran a potbelly stove in the living room when I was a kid for heat. I hated the stove too.<p>The only thing I don't miss is rolling a piece of piss elm over to my city living "tough" cousins after two or three pieces of oak and watching the maul just bounce off. Always funny.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528880</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "How to earn a billion dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm genuinely struggling to think of a sector of billion dollar business that doesn't rely heavily on externalized costs. I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't come up with any.</p>
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<p>That's a very strong statement. I'm absolutely no fan of ICE or indefinite detention of people based on where they were born, but I'm not sure we have camps where we're committing genocide in the states. Nor do I see that in our future.</p>
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<p>Having worked behind the scenes at a state convention (granted, not in Texas), there is no such thing as grassroots announcements/efforts at those things.</p>
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<p>Honestly, bring on Leto II. Fuck it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:03:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498971</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Travel locally, where you are"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love driving around the Midwest and in the plains in the States. If you get away from the large 4 lane highways, there's all kinds of stuff.<p>I found a strawberry festival and ate enough strawberry things to make myself sick. I found an artists commune and stayed with those weird old hippies for two days..I found a diner with a waitress who was in her 90's and had worked the same job for like 70 years.<p>We happily spend our vacations just driving around in the middle of the country with no plan.<p>Drive side roads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:56:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497546</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't want a massive industrial looking building across the road from my house, nor do I want the noise or traffic or anything else that comes along with it. I'm not sure it's information warfare as much as garden variety NIMBY people doing what they do best. . . . Making noise constantly.</p>
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<p>Pretty sure it's registration data. Anything public is now used for junk. We transferred a piece of property this year and have been getting constant spam for realtors to sell it for us. We bought a used car from an individual and started getting spam for warranties once we registered it and got plates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:07:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452965</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite quote from any novel comes from that book as well;<p>"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."</p>
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<p>We live in a very rural, incredibly safe area. You can always tell when someone else gets hooked on meth. Their place goes to shit, step 1. Their kids get dirty, step 2. You start to see things like car batteries or tools disappear from nearby farms, step 3. They die or go to jail after trying to steal something big, like electric lines or even train rails in one instance, step 4.<p>At least with heroine, they tend to just keep to themselves. Meth makes sure they have the energy and drive to really fuck with other people.</p>
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<p>I'm assuming that standing charges are like meter fees here. I've paid as low as $0.25/day and as high as $1.25/day depending on where I lived. There's not much uniformity.</p>
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<p>Like all things, there's a balance between spending everything now and planning for the future.<p>I always tell my kids that they won't inherit much cash, but they're having a great time with all of the vacations and fun equipment we have.<p>We will have enough money to retire and live for 30-35 years at most, frugally, and 15-20 if we really go nuts. I'll be dead waaaaayyyy before that, so it'll be up to my spouse to piss away the cash.</p>
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<p>That is actually what I'm firmly convinced is the most dangerous thing about llm's. No matter what you put, it will always agree with you, and what's worse, it will try to make you think that you're unbelievably smart for saying x.<p>I used one to help me plan a sales route, and it kept fucking it up. Every time I corrected it, it tried that hand wringing vizier sort of ass kissing. It's very off-putting, but I can see how someone struggling with social interaction could be sucked into that nonsense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:30:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351317</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FERPA, COPPA, and whatever your particular state has. Just Google it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351030</link><dc:creator>Loughla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Loughla in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tell your school board to use a dedicated messaging platform built for schools. Cite privacy laws. That's what I did, and it worked.<p>Unless you're talking about parent groups. Because then you're fucked. Every parent group everywhere uses Facebook or Whatsapp and don't care that not everybody uses it. You will be excluded.</p>
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<p>It's not just security theater. It shifts the attack vector entirely. Instead of airplanes as weapons that could be used to kill thousands, terrorists can blow up a few hundred people.<p>Those checkpoints are only there to provide a soft target instead of letting it be a plane.</p>
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<p>That's not really an answer to my question though.</p>
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<p>Okay then. What does the infrastructure around launching a nuclear weapon look like?</p>
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<p>I mean, cooking with beef tallow is better though. It makes everything taste awesome.</p>
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<p>Pandora still exists and is quite good.</p>
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