<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: PatronBernard</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PatronBernard</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:13:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=PatronBernard" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd say it's just moved from books to influencers on social media. Still plenty of money in misleading vulnerable people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:53:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567630</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>C'mon, it's the oldest trick in MBA book: make a much-used service paid, make the free version of it terrible and you force people to get the paid service.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355145</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, sustainable progress, like we're doing now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 09:01:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019854</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Environmental analysis for operations? Not a fan of thinking in such terms.<p>Why not? It's about 60 000 London - New York City flights by the way (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...</a>). And what's the benefit again?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019521</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why does a robot vacuum have a microphone? Voice control?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121278</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a hierarchical graph layout algorithm based on the Sugiyama framework, using Brandes-Köpf for node positioning.<p>I am sorry for being direct but you could have just kept it to the first part of that sentence. Everything after that just sounds like pretentious name dropping and adds nothing to your point.<p>But I fully agree, for complex problems that require insight, LLMs can waste your time with their sycophancy.</p>
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<p>Sources dude...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:17:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079367</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Claude for Excel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How will people without Python knowledge know that the script is 100% correct? You can say "Well they shouldn't use it for mission critical stuff" or "Yeah that's not a use case, it could be useful for qualitative analysis" etc., but you bet they will use it for everything. People use ChatGPT as a search engine and a therapist, which tells us enough</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:53:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730528</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's humbling how well-rounded Brian (and other Youtubers such as Applied Science and StuffMadeHere, HuygensOptics) is on top of clearly being a skillful physicist: electronics, coding, manufacturing, ... and the guy is _young_ compared to the seasoned professionals I mentioned in the parentheses.</p>
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<p>Also prison!!!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:40:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616069</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45616069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When did Zuck start caring about society?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561551</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "At Chile’s Vera Rubin Observatory, Earth’s Largest Camera Surveys the Sky"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fucking Starlink.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 06:47:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384825</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44384825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate a lot of things about LaTeX (also wrote several theses in it, as well as research articles), but the math syntax definitely wasn't one of them. Why on earth would they change it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:19:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354526</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>write code<p>Doesn't that come down to allowing it to directly regurgitate training data? Surely it's seen dozens of such solutions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229932</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Densely populated areas shouldn't have surface-area-inefficient cars as a main mode of transportation at all! Good public transport and the other 2-wheel modes should do just fine, but of course those aren't as profitable.</p>
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<p>The thing needs a teacher, terrible technique! /s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193955</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one's ruining the planet though. Most advertisements serve to make people buy stuff they don't need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:03:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999731</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42999731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Moloco ads is a DSP network<p>A digital signal processing network? A bit annoying to introduce an acronym without defining it. Great article otherwise.</p>
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<p>> Windows in public areas (subway cars, elevators) that display advertisements or animations.<p>I would say this is even more distressing, they are literally trying to invade every damn steradian of your field of view. Soon you won't be able to look out of a train window without ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:15:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107373</link><dc:creator>PatronBernard</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by PatronBernard in "BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice that the author provides some context...</p>
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