<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: RobKohr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RobKohr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:35:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RobKohr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the issue is we all have read a bit into a AI article before realizing it is one and realize foolishly that you have been reading drivel.<p>The original prompts might have had something interesting to say, but it is so layered with filler and platitudes that it is just a waste.<p>After being burned enough times, we hunt around for signals that an article is about to waste our time.<p>Not all articles with AI images are LLM written, but almost all LLM written articles have AI images.<p>The author is telling you a hueristic is that people are using, and for this person here, I am totally doing it.<p>A picture of a napkin doodle at this point is superior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:21:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168591</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funding research to create a deadly virus and becoming the nations head of the taskforce in fighting that virus and associated with the companies that made fortunes using a recently created poorly tested vaccine technology on the world to fight the virus.<p>Seems like a set of people that suddenly made themselves really useful.<p>...<p>You can also look at lots of events that trigger wars where the side looking to get into the war seems to have a very convenient tragic even to validate their entry into a war.<p>Or situations where people make other dependent on them so they can constantly save them from not being able to be independent.<p>Or people who like to pick fights try to make it so someone will do something that will unwittingly offend them.<p>The world is full of setups, many subconsciously created, so that one person can be the hero or main character in their own narrative.<p>Heck we even do it to ourselves when we procrastinate so much that we have to save ourselves with Herculean effort to get something done on time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134636</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This site helps you track where they are
<a href="https://deflock.org/" rel="nofollow">https://deflock.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:09:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948334</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made it about 15% through the article, but that is a about normal for the Atlantic.<p>They generally get their point across and then rattle on for more time than I am interested in reading.<p>Guess I'm part of the post literate world. I also perfer short stories instead of novels.</p>
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<p>AI loves to sell the words they are saying like a QVC salesperson with a knife set.<p>It doesn't just cut cans, it cuts tomatos too. You would think you have to sharpen it, but you don't.<p>Not just this, but that.<p>Sounds nothing like a normal succenct engineer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:23:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787093</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the last 5 years so much of the legislative pressure is coming down to remove anonymous Internet access to save the children or protect us from some harm.<p>In the end it is all being used to track and control us.<p>"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin<p>Never truer words ever spoken. And yet we keep slipping down this slope again and again and again and it seems there is never a way to climb back out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:04:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732185</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So basically they get paid peanuts and are overworked and so no one wants to do it.<p>Also seems like something AI could really cut into. You could have a master animator doing much of important thoughtful work and AI filling in the obvious as well as doing tweening (sound similar to programming)<p>Really, who needs a studio if you have the creative talent and ability to leverage AI for the grunt work. Or have a couple grunt work humans paid these rates to manage the tedious work of leveraging the AI to make it look seamless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:36:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674090</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "Jerry's Map"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would make an interesting map generation algorithm that could feed the card data and specified map tiles into an image gen AI system that would have to take the map tiles and try to follow the rules.</p>
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<p>By the protection of the host society. It the Amish were an independent nation they would be conquered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 03:56:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332393</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everywhere (reddit, YouTube, Spotify) need to have a button to flag and then flag as ai. Reddit really has it buried in multiple levels of menus.<p>People are pretty darn good now at spotting ai.<p>An alternative is just use ai to look at the comments. Almost anything with AI has comments complaining about it.<p>All of these sites need to deal with it because it does drive away users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 01:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302988</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have water and ports on the roadmap. I'd love some boats :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:41:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302307</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are looking to do some 3d in lua, try:
<a href="https://lovr.org/" rel="nofollow">https://lovr.org/</a></p>
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<p>Or maybe no one with interesting thoughts on anything would invest anything in a nation where if post anything online that might be slightly controversial you might go to jail and not even have the protection of a jury to balance out the overreach of government.<p>That and other things that are transforming it into a nanny state make it a hell no.<p>But yeah, it's nice you are lowering taxes and regulations on those who fall in line.</p>
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<p>I have been learning lua to do a VR game in lovr, so I'll probably use that to get sharper with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:37:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101131</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Underneath all of that mud there might be treasures.<p>Adblocking is the brush you need</p>
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<p>I look forward to a year or two from now when there will be dozens of pebble clones just rolling out of factories for the price of a midrange Casio watch.<p>This along with valve's hardware announcement is quite a shot at all the entreched hardware manufacturers.</p>
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<p>Considering the upcoming release of Frame, a VR headset based on Linux, I feel this couldn't be a more untrue statement.<p>The real truth is they moved out of the game development space and embraced the game platform space letting their old products wither and die.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034754</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like grok for noncoding stuff. I find it hasn't been tuned for "Safety" (meaning it isn't tuned much for political correctness). It also seems good at making images and stories up well. I run some choose your own adventures stories with my kids through it. We tell it who each of their characters are and what the theme is for the night and grok gives them each a section of story and 4 choices. They also have the option of choosing something different then suggested. We have it so it cycles around the turns for everyone. Works pretty well, and if the kids wanna go dark (preteen boy) grok doesn't mind the violence.<p>Kinda reminds me of the video game from enders game.</p>
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<p>Awesome, thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:41:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841930</link><dc:creator>RobKohr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RobKohr in "Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Facebook is a single website. Other websites can host it just fine.<p>This is the same as blocking content on your own forum or comment section on your blog. Yes fb is huge, but still just a website, and one with fading popularity.<p>Blocking ips on a network level is different.</p>
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