<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: OrvalWintermute</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OrvalWintermute</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:33:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=OrvalWintermute" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The earth is both gaining mass and losing mass at the same time<p>We are losing gases and energy (hydrogen, helium, radioactive decay)<p>Concurrently, we are aggregating cosmic dust, micrometeorites, meteoroids, and the occasional larger body<p>Overall a tiny loss</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:13:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311771</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "GrapheneOS vs DeniableOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>$30 a month?<p>Lolz, get out of here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129873</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You left out the bodypart business they are now in too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027585</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huawei has a long history of “borrowing” IP & source code from US  companies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:17:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027444</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m happy to see our metrics being improved because much of the economic policy seems to have been based around what was good for boomers.<p>Not what was good for young people who, for the most part, can’t afford to live in houses and these days are getting ripped off with overly expensive apartments too, so they never have a chance to buy a house and build equity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992429</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is hyperbole as Palantir doesn’t pull the trigger<p>We could easily say:
Microsoft, Red Hat, NVIDIA, Apple, Google, openAI, Amazon & Meta are all defense contractors too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:19:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983602</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Local Private AI will kill off both Chinese Open Weights corporate AI as well as American proprietary corporate AI because they are not competitive on:<p>$ efficiency<p>Privacy<p>Security<p>IP<p>Customization</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:33:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982030</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no one is going to conflate a Palantir FDE with an actual pipehitter<p>Contractors doing IT support aren't "Operators" in the tactical sense, nor agents in the LE sense, nor Officers in the IC sense, nor a Boeing/Lockheed/Leidos/etc type developing weapons.<p>This is just a new method to scapegoat a company</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977493</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same could be said about Oracle though, that they received the benfits of early investment by the CIA.<p>However scary Oracle license auditors are though, no one conflates them with the CIA.<p>We're now in an era where people are actively trying to compare a contractor doing some type of IT support, to a company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977450</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this manifesto conflates Palantir with:<p>The CIA<p>The NSA<p>JSOC<p>The US Armed Forces<p>Weapons Contractors<p>Law Enforcement<p>Federal Counter-Intelligence<p>Various dictatorships<p>Criminal Enterprises<p>Hit squads</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973853</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reusable launch vehicles were in their infancy during the Shuttle program days.<p>Multiple launch vehicles and crew vehicles exist now, and more are on their way.<p>Taking tech from TRL1 to TRL9 with 2.5million moving parts in it is vastly different from coming up with another TRL9 design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951579</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They found Planet X, Nibiru! :0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951424</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "Sam Neill has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sam Neill had a great & prolific career; particularly appreciated his role as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on The Tudors<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000554/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:44:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892566</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not quite how this relates to tech, hackernews or startups</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:10:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880927</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Grid patterns in image uploads are leading to automatic bans; apparently grid encoding of CSAM material overreach by AI treating all grid graphics as CSAM</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835308</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/discord-admits-ai-moderation-bug-wrongfully-banned-users-over-harmless-images/">https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/discord-admits-ai-moderation-bug-wrongfully-banned-users-over-harmless-images/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835307">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48835307</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>“Rare”? :)<p>We don’t know the actual numbers as pericarditis and myocarditis can occur asymptomatically, and people truly need to be under very active medical surveillance to detect it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:31:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756594</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stripping of naturalization in the US is usually associated with immigration fraud.<p>Terrorist/Nazi Concentration Camp Guard lies on immigration forms, decades later is found out and gets the boot</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723768</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems to be intentionally defamatory<p>From the Wikipedia article on the Orebro party<p>“ Split from the left<p>The initiative to found the Örebro Party was taken in early 2014 by Markus Allard, who is also the first party leader. Allard had previously held positions as substitute member of the Örebro municipal council and district chairman of the Young Left in Örebro; in December 2013 he was expelled from the Left Party and its youth wing Young Left for "liking" the Revolutionary Front, a militant revolutionary socialist and anti-fascist organization, on Facebook and refusing to disavow it when questioned.[6] Allard has stated that the real reason for his expulsion was that he was perceived as a threat to the established party bureaucracy.[7][8]<p>While Allard has described himself as a Communist,[9] and a Marxist,[8][10] at its founding in March 2014 he defined the Örebro Party as "broad left".[9] At that time the party considered itself a "local party that wants to carry on the labour movement's ideals", and "not interested in administrating the current society".[11]”<p>Colours:<p>Red
Black<p>This sounds like a socialist, anarchist or Ancap group that believes in borders</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723635</link><dc:creator>OrvalWintermute</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by OrvalWintermute in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Word of Advice for OpenAI:<p>Never underestimate Broadcom’s ability to shaft their own customers<p>- VMware<p>- CA Technologies<p>- Symantec Enterprise Security<p>- Brocade<p>- LSI Corporation</p>
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