<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: Redster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Redster</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:42:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Redster" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Ask HN: Has single-task focus become outdated in the AI era?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877838</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "The Beauty of Tautologies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tautologies are beautiful and helpful because they help people and are full of beauty.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:50:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734461</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "AI writing is better than no writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except for the cases where no writing is better than LLM writing.  The author's take seems ok to me, but what I struggle with most in AI writing is that it removes or abstracts away the intent of the original author. Not in every sentence and in every thought. But when a human says something, I can reason about why they said it the way they did.  There are threads worth tugging on. 2 easy-to-understand examples: 1. when an ESL writer communicates something in awkward English, it's a fascinating glimpse into how they normally communicate about concepts.  The meaning is usually not too difficult to infer and I can see how their language or culture affects how they see mine.  It's very fun.  2. if an expert explains something and I get lost, that's usually a hint that my mental model could change to see the problem/solution more like they do.<p>But when a person expert or no uses an llm, information is being lost.  If I misunderstand an llm's sentence, it is possible that "it knows what it's talking about", but with how frequently they don't know what they're talking about, I usually don't try and move on.  It's not worth it.<p>In America, at least, though perhaps this applies more broadly, so many trends over the past decades all converge towards the lowering of the baseline levels of trust you should give towards a stranger (whether valid or not!).  And llms have been a net-negative so far.  We have exchanged some amount of trust for intelligence.  And it didn't have to be an exchange.<p>I care less about llm disclosure and more about this: If you use an LLM for writing, please think sincerely about whether the output accurately represents what you would say and how you would say it to another person.  Please avoid serving others nothingburgers and wordsalads. This has always been possible and it's easy to do it without realizing it with LLMs.  The output can survive a scan, but dissolves upon further inspection.<p>tldr; make sure that what you publish is trustworthy.</p>
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<p>Similarly, May gives me "8" when I think she gave pokeballs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:50:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430695</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48430695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "The Earth Is Flat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slop disguised as satire. No, it was not fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 14:10:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309200</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "My Therapist Gave Me an Assignment. It Changed My Life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's funny how the life transformation in this article is: quitting a job and breaking up with a kind boyfriend against the advice of a parent.  These aren't wrong, but... I'm not sold this is an improvement. Maybe this article is targeted at people who already know the author and trust her?<p>Looking at her bio, the only family connection I can find is, "Proud Mommy".  For a "happiness and mortality expert", I would've expected her to say more in her bios across her sites about her loving husband and children.  I'm not saying she's bad, I'm just saying that it would be more helpful if she, in general and in this article, talked more about what she's done outside of being a happiness expert.  Why should we trust you?  How do we know breaking up with this boyfriend was good?  Even a comment about how that freed her up to find someone else who was truly better and worth committing to would be better than just selling us on this breakup on basis of her feeling they weren't right.<p>(And to be clear, I think feelings here are important. You don't have to enter into a relationship if you're not feeling it.  A subconscious feeling can be onto something long before your mind is.  But I feel that once you're in a relationship that's that intimate, feelings alone shouldn't end it.)</p>
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<p>Always has been.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 20:08:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000869</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "New US phone network for Christians to block porn and gender-related content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am glad someone is doing something like this. Very cool to see a free market solution.  I do wonder, how will they handle Instagram, Youtube, and X.com, the everything (incl. porn!) app?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 16:02:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987562</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will definitely discontinue my Pro subscription if it's true. Claude Code is the only reason I signed up in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:10:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857925</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "A collection of the best SVG images of pelicans riding bicycles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Helpful poison?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851295</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> a quote from the article<p>> An opinionated comment or personal anecdote.<p>Counter opinion or added nuance. [1]<p>[1] A link for support or to demonstrate a counterexample.</p>
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<p>I'm not getting enough sleep. I  read this as ViltrumiteOS.  I haven't even watched Invincibles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521645</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Yazi – fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love yazi!  My favorite file manager GUI or TUI. Very fast and scriptable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:38:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965614</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed.<p>It is also often a very bold claim to say "There is *no* evidence for X."  The cases where you can truly say that are rare compared to how easily people (esp. non-experts) will say it.  More often, it's more accurate to say, "I don't believe the arguments for X or evidence of X."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891232</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Prediction: Claude 5 will be a major regression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Respectfully,<p>Claude 3 Opus: $15.00 (Input) / $75.00 (Output) per 1M tokens<p>Claude 4 Opus: $15.00 (Input) / $75.00 (Output) per 1M tokens<p>Claude 4.1 Opus: $15.00 (Input) / $75.00 (Output) per 1M tokens<p>Claude 4.5 Opus: $5.00 (Input) / $25.00 (Output) per 1M tokens</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859025</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Selfhosted Bible PWA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is thoughtfully done! 
I use canonreader.com on the web and The Literal Word bible app as an actual app that has one of the best UIs for reading. AndBible is really good for breadth and quality of resources.<p>I will add this to my rotation.<p>Also, I love to see a variety of fonts and the WEB version here.<p>Thanks for making this!</p>
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<p>I can see the image just fine on Thorium!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709850</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46709850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude Code has been around for just under a year.<p>10k/365 = 27.4hrs per day.  Respectfully, I don't think the author has had almost 10k hours with Claude Code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675396</link><dc:creator>Redster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Redster in "Claude voice mode is still a joke in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Typing is better. But sometimes my hands are full.  I've tried to use Claude Voice Mode while doing outdoor tasks away from my computer in my podcast listening time.<p>ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode works fine, but Claude Voice is unusable, sadly.  I'd rather talk to Claude!  I would also like to try Gemini Live.</p>
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<p>Lol, yes. I came here to say, "This technology has been around for years in birds. /s"</p>
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