<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: Torkel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Torkel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:19:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Torkel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "GPT-5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>*yet</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:37:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882418</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Safe Drinking Water Is a Basic Human Right That Texas Prisons Fail to Respect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See, this is why I put "inmates should have decent drinking water" first in my comment, and "inmates should have clean water" as the very last words.<p>It seems to me you are making the exact error in argument I react against. Stop making everything a "human right". You see, in the end, when you've made everything "human rights", the whole "human rights" concept will cease to have any meaning whatsoever and you will have lost.</p>
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<p>Of course inmates should have decent drinking water.<p>But I strongly disagree with "human rights" that are defined this way - something someone has to go out and bring to you.<p>A human right is something that someone cannot <i>take away</i> from me. Free speech is a human right. The right to life.<p>A "human right to water" combined with a "human right to housing" implies that if I walk aimlessly into a desert and decide to stay there, it is my human right to have people bring we water and a place to stay. Other people not doing so is against my human rights.<p>That's just... dumb.<p>And, again - inmates should have clean water.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:29:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947155</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a study from 2023 where they apply external electricity to improve healing rate of wounds:<p><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/LC/D2LC01045C" rel="nofollow">https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/LC/D2LC0...</a><p>It enabled healing of diabetic wounds that are otherwise hard to heal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844045</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I.e.<p>No pain, no gain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:18:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449800</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Reasoning models reason well, until they don't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I asked gpt5, and it worked really well with a correct result. Did you expect it to fail?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:21:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771707</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the messor male line is without sexual reproduction. Essentially a clone army, all with identical genes?<p>I find it interesting that this has not led to all the clones knocked out by diseases, as happens to eg our banana plantations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:32:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312083</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45312083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does it depend though?<p>The water (heat) leaking out is what you need to add back. As water level drops (hotend cools) the leaking will slow. So any replenishing means more leakage then you are eventually paying for by adding more water (heat) in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 03:15:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828402</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I saw this post from a professor this morning:<p><a href="https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1899979401460371758" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/lxeagle17/status/1899979401460371758</a><p>Students are not asking questions anymore.<p>Small assignments work well!<p>But then the big test comes and scores are at an all time low.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351505</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it's a fisheye lens?<p>If you plot pixels per degree over the field of view of a fisheye lens you will see that vastly more pixels are dedicated to the center "eye". And also the field of view is large. Which is what this novel lens claims to also do.</p>
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<p>And the talk itself is in English.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:15:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539010</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42539010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Powering the Mars Base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1 on the podcast, it is excellent. I only wished he would have dug deeper on details on what they are building at Terraform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:50:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42063147</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42063147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42063147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Understanding Gaussians"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree. This text relies heavily on traditional mathematics to define and work through things. It's quite good at that! But it does become weird when it starts out by declaring that it won't do what it then does.<p>It also felt like this could be a good topic for a 3b1b video... and... here's the 3b1b video on gaussians: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qvLDhkg00" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_qvLDhkg00</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914962</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41914962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/eXsT2HT171o?si=gUmdFvU4l-9ZiWrv&t=4237" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/eXsT2HT171o?si=gUmdFvU4l-9ZiWrv&t=4237</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837870</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41837870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the same, screamed out "ouch that doesn't look good!" right before the catch.<p>The last part of the live stream they showed footage from a different angle and there it didn't look too bad though! For sure controlled.<p>Scott Manley put out a tweet that they went down towards a non-tower position until they were at three engine controlled burn, and only then did the side shift.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828675</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "What excessive screen time does to the adult brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1<p>My BS-meter also went off on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 09:22:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728866</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41728866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just turn off the screen with youtube video playing and there's no difference from a podcast?<p>I listen to Perun at the gym every week, audio only.</p>
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<p>Yes. Exactly this.<p>Monument Valley was awesome!<p>And I had the exact same experience with Journey - good the first... 10 minutes? Then nope.<p>The Witness was also wonderful, that one worked. A Monster's Expidition was ok.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594551</link><dc:creator>Torkel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Torkel in "Entire staff of game publisher Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have feelings about Stray... What an awesome game it could have been!<p>I played it with one of my daughers. Lovely father/daughter playing session. Guiding the cat through the maze/puzzles. Cat can't fall, it's just calm and nice.<p>And then, out of nowhere - blinking screaming wildly stressful and awful rats come chase us.<p>My daughter dropped the controller, I played it through. But after that the game lost its charm. The second time the rats came, she left. We never played it again.<p>I checked if there was some "please don't ever give me rats" setting, but nope. I checked with a friend and they said the rats appear throughout the game.<p>So I'm really sorry, but stray is a 1/10 game for me. Remove the rats and its 9/10.<p>What is the purpose of the rats? It's an arcade moment in a game that was nice, calm, cute and relaxing. Totally breaks the contract that I felt was established with us as players.</p>
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<p>Multimodal models are not limited by semantic understanding though, right?<p>They are given photos, video, audio.</p>
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