<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: VulgarExigency</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VulgarExigency</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:55:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=VulgarExigency" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A fanfiction where the author gives the main character good boy points for writing more words is kind of the extreme end of this, though. Web serials and fanfiction tend to be overly verbose and meandering, and the Methods of Rationality is very much on the less verbose side of them, but by the standards of traditionally published fantasy and sci-fi it is wordslop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:05:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101997</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Claude partial outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excuse me but you've distilled this comment from me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:50:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895409</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Reminding you what food is going to be bad soon. Letting you know a list of recipes you can do with what food you have.<p>How? Are there cameras inside the fridge that check best before dates, and what food is in there? Having a fridge that is actively spying on what I eat seems even worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830735</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've used feature flags extensively throughout my career as a SaaS developer, but I've never considered their usage in desktop software. Not sure how I feel about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:04:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818147</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49818147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "MiMo v2.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When was the last time China bombed another country?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:58:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802439</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My solution for this is to just subscribe to an entirely legitimate IPTV service which costs about as much for a year as one month of Sport TV costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:54:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799803</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you honestly believe that most of the thousands of PS2, PS3 and PS4 games will get vibe-coded backend clones?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726798</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, that's actually not true at all. Stockfish is not a very good odds player and at queen odds is easily beatable even by bad players like me. It will just trade down into more trivial and easier to win positions that it perceives as "less bad", since everything is super-losing anyway when you start down a queen.<p>Leela odds networks, on the other hand, are an entirely different beast. I cannot beat Leela queen odds, much less rook or minor piece odds, and even GMs struggle against Leela knight odds.<p>Without odds though, yeah, Stockfish is just incomprehensibly strong by human standards. All top chess engines are, but Stockfish moreso.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666065</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49666065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think they're comparable. RTK just modifies the output of CLI tools to reduce the number of tokens, a Roslyn MCP gives the agent a fundamentally superior way of interacting with a C# codebase.</p>
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<p>How does this compare to Beads, if you don't mind me asking?<p><a href="https://github.com/gastownhall/beads" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gastownhall/beads</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656759</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alas, the Chinese scientists have not read Harry Potter fanfiction, and thus their minds are inundated with cognitive biases</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:15:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642490</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Stockfish 19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Leela proved that the ideas worked, regardless of the conditions that the AlphaZero vs Stockfish matches were run in.<p>What's funny is that if computer chess had paid more attention to computer shogi, Stockfish could have already been using NNUE by that time, and not lost to AlphaZero. But perhaps that would have stifled Leela's development, and would have led to worse training data for Stockfish in that parallel universe's present day, making it weaker overall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:52:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642208</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "Stockfish 19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Leela Chess Zero did surpass Stockfish for a while, until Stockfish switched its eval to NNUE. Modern Stockfish would annihilate AlphaZero.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642110</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deepseek already has 2x peak pricing. This is just going to be cheaper across the board.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626784</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49626784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps the general pattern <i>you</i> see is not a "fundamental difference"? Could it be that you are also falling prey to the "all you see is all there is" cognitive bias?</p>
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<p>I had to pause multiple times when watching The Curse because I was writhing in spiritual pain from excessive cringing. It was amazing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:01:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604889</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 2026, everything we say, see or do on the internet is just another data point for some unscrupulous bastard to seek profit from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:15:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548997</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely no consideration for the people who, when posting things to Tiktok, would prefer for them not to get scraped.</p>
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<p>Nominative determinism strikes again <a href="https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/147363515X14134529299420" rel="nofollow">https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/10.1308/147363515X141345...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548899</link><dc:creator>VulgarExigency</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VulgarExigency in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, yes, it does not know it is lying (it does not know anything, in fact). But for some reason, with Sol specifically, it has persistently written false information when it had the correct information within its context to a degree I've not experienced with other models.</p>
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