<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: WaxProlix</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WaxProlix</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:52:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=WaxProlix" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird, from the outside it seems like bombing civilians and infrastructure is more inflammatory and antagonizing than some words/propaganda.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685553</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking something 2- or 4-player, but that's cool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:24:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623177</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Magic the Gathering Deck Shuffler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I was hoping for a multiplayer goldfish-style experience, maybe something like tabletop simulator. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but this doesn't seem to be any better than the built in archidekt/moxfield tools</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:54:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620674</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47620674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The above claim was that Iran had attacked with thousands of rockets. These are from Hamas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:41:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615975</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't find sources for "tens of thousands of rockets just since oct 7", can you help me? I see a few thousand as parts of exchanges after the Israel-initiated "12 Days War", and then a few thousand more after the (also Israel-initiated) current conflagration. Notably, the rocket attacks stopped during peace talks that US and Israel entered after starting the wars, only to resume after those peace talks were betrayed with bombing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:54:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609123</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two things to note there. One, many did make a peep; I have friends, coworkers who both ardently discussed and even pointlessly protested in small groups with signs.<p>The other - I don't pay taxes to the Azeris, every moment of my productive life doesn't support the genocide there, and my soul is in some way not as blackened by the atrocities there. I think people care about Palestine because they rightly feel complicity. Maybe Russian citizens - whose labor indirectly goes to supporting Azeri atrocities - are up in arms?</p>
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<p>Ads? It's not great for users but it's decent monetization. If you really have something good, like actually liked, you can do a donation vs ad-supported model.</p>
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<p>As long as you're not achieving Plasma you're probably fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:38:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390408</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably some fraction of the civilians blown up by Israeli terrorist phone strikes and bombing raids; there's a reason Hezbollah maintains some level of support in the region.</p>
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<p>Post-appstore cut it's 42%, which is high but doesn't seem crazy. The unsuccessful attempts and idle piddling all need to be subsidized to allow the successes to exist in the first place, and I suspect we all know better than to undercount cloud, hosting, SRE, and staffing costs. They're all ongoing and pretty painful, and getting a shot at creating something with effectively zero downside risk (vs making a game in Godot and building/buying all of the other parts yourself or with staff) will always come with a lower upside.</p>
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<p>Sure but they don't burn oil because they don't have oil. So focus on fossil fuels in general, or emissions rather than just coal specifically - again it's not good to add new coal plants but they're growth negative. And EU has done an admirable job of reducing their emissions, with help of course from Chinese manufacturing of pv cells etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281369</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chinese demand is increasing just like everyone else's, and they're both retiring older less efficient plants and using fossil fuels as both peaker and baseline generation. But coal utilization overall, despite massive growth in energy demand, is basically flat in China. There's plenty of reason to build out coal capacity to keep grids stabilized while you transition to solar and wind (China finished their 2030 1200GW solar capacity target 6 years early in 2024 and continue to grow that number at an incredible rate).<p>I agree that new coal sucks but it's a very easy talking point for westerners like us to latch onto when our own contributions to emissions remain way over 50% higher per capita - despite much of the manufacturing and such not happening in our countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279773</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Insightful comment!<p>But -- It's not a <i>me</i> problem, it's an <i>us</i> problem.<p>Let's be honest here, the erosion of trust spans across this and other sides. And your strong beliefs that you have 100% predicitve precision <i>and</i> recall smacks of self serving reasoning. Inspect your own priors and move forward, fellow human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:56:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999727</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this another one of those weird bot posts I've been hearing about? 3 paragraphs, low-content but apparently interesting, ~50 points new account?<p>@dang what's HN's position here, I feel like my paranoia is going to ruin the shreds of authenticity that underpinned real engagement on this site. It's a giga-eternal September, and idk how one can moderate this in a way that earns trust and buyin from the humans among us (I swear I'm a human, look no third paragraph).</p>
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<p>Sure thing, and my Facebook account was hard deleted when I asked them to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:08:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865939</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Holy shit that's genius, but I do worry about the minor degradation of respect for actual disabled folks if it becomes 'weaponized' in a widespread way</p>
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<p>I don't quite know what you mean by that phrase. The conversation was about what constitutes a massacre, and I was trying to get a calibrating sense. Surely we both agree that 70-100k dead civilians disproportionately targeting children and medical workers/facilities would be at least one massacre, maybe several dozen.</p>
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<p>Was operation cast lead a massacre?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:21:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762424</link><dc:creator>WaxProlix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WaxProlix in "2025 was the third hottest year on record"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He was asking you to try to 'steelman', or take seriously the strongest version of, the arguments of your counterparts, rather than being dismissive.<p>"Plants like CO2" is not a counterargument to "Increased atmoospheric CO2 will have a number of outcomes that are net negative for humanity", so I presume they're asking you to actually think about the argument being made and respond to it, not some other, made up one.</p>
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<p>Plants and humans both love water, but you can still drown.</p>
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