<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: RugnirViking</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RugnirViking</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:38:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RugnirViking" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "SynthID Detector"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this + image translate with copy+paste is the only reason I ever use yandex of all places...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:43:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993557</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49993557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In an era of slop, quality is king. I honestly think the author should just ignore the cheap clones and continue selling quality software. The idea that the clones are perfect, bug free, or will continue to be maintained and hosted is a fantasy. There will always be people with low incomes in the third world trying very hard to get something for nothing/cheap, and they are the worst customers. No loyalty, highly intelligent, and will drop you immediately if a competing offer is 1% cheaper or offers what they need for free.<p>Adverts are likely a poor business model here - if you want to sell to professionals and creatives, the visual look of the software matters. It should really be subscription or one time licence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:18:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991729</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>one hopes at least that the taboo on the bearing of loads is restricted to metaphorical loads only, lest lorry drivers and porters become the next victim of the algospeak spectre</p>
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<p>how can someone find ads becoming persuasive. I don't want or seek them out, but those that I do see are some of the least relevant crap in my life. so many car ads (dont have a license), ads in languages I don't speak (including languages that aren't widely spoken in the country I live in), ads targeted at demographics I clearly am not (pensioners, people with specific diseases, parents), adverts for schools (I have a masters degree, I'm unlikely to be going to a college)<p>"targeting" is a myth imo. If they even tried a little bit, they wouldn't have these problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976843</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well. That or a nice spiral! :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:11:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976436</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you missed the part where they included more than just the metadata he requested (they sent the first 256 characters of each email)<p>his original requests didnt even ask for the subject line. he just wanted to see who emails who to make a graph of how the city communicates. instead they sent him the <i>contents</i> of the emails, including highly sensitive ones</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:21:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976119</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i think you are misunderstanding what a semiconductor is</p>
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<p>I think theres a discovery problem. I've not found very many MOOCs that are good - a lot of platforms are terrible. The intersection of money/status/attention economy with this stuff seems to drive directly against quality.<p>Im literally at the point that my main discovery method for this sort of thing is word of mouth in real life. Everything on the internet is poisoned</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965231</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>do they make transparent n95? transparent enough for facial expressions?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963791</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>feels like a lot of money.<p>I suggest you get a jetson nano instead if youre doing robotics or anything serious with an RPI.<p>If you just want a cheap computer, you're probably better off with a second hand laptop, probably cheaper too</p>
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<p>getting <i>on</i> with, surely</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919706</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>would you expect that statistics would back you up on this? that people with graduate degrees are more likely to say, die in an accident?</p>
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<p>you think engineers are responsible? why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:45:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919313</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> People don't realize there's an aspect to creativity that dwells within the human brain and the morass of personal visceral human experience that can't be reconstructed<p>Your point here seems to be based more on faith than anything concrete. It is a sibling with the idea humans have "immortal souls" and the like - something we would like to be true more than anything that actually is.<p>This being said, I do think AI systems are very bad at creativity. But I don't think that it's impossible that they could be, nor do I have any idea why, specifically, they are bad at creativity. At this point in interpretability research, anyone telling you they do know is lying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:45:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908895</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49908895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "Dots: Always-on agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>something selling a lot doesn't mean it's good. Is McDonald's good food? by some metrics of course it is. But if someone says McDonald's makes bad food, I know what they mean</p>
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<p>> Imagine picking up a new product that will take you weeks of practice to use at basic level<p>This does not work on developers. Their empathy fails them here - because they absolutely would try a new product that takes weeks of practise. They like (or at least tolerate) learning complex+cool new things, thats why they are developers...</p>
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<p>that sounds good for literally everyone that isn't an anthropic/openai shareholder</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:13:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907259</link><dc:creator>RugnirViking</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RugnirViking in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>we have it in our enterprise. The admins have to individually approve new model releases. Ours don't enable astra :(</p>
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<p>yeah. Even though high got the leg correct, the pedal the rear leg is on is in front , giving the impression it's somehow reaching under the chain and frame with it's leg. Not great</p>
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<p>you just know they considered "novel" and "epic" internally and decided against both for being too normal</p>
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