<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: Xorakios</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Xorakios</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:08:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Xorakios" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>omg. so awesome</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:28:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473339</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't eat octopus or veal. Delicious or not, there are some lines that perhaps should not be crossed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:46:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428518</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first grandchild was born in 2000. And the COBOL panic for Y2K is probably partly my fault because 4 characters were too computational expensive when I wrote code that probably still powers your Igloo ice containers and GEICO insurance policies. 80's tech still persists!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:47:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293898</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh good golly miss molly. I had my first email address at an .edu in 1980, first website in my own real name since 1993. the 2000's are just new kids on the block</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:41:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293856</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>agreed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:33:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293815</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goofball trivia about cracker packaging]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are subsets of crackers always grouped in 7/14/21? Sheldon Cooper might know about hexagonal servings. OK to shooosh me</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238662">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238662</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:43:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238662</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Big Food vs. the People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm okay with complaining and proposing solutions, but saying "blue" and "red" in colors for product designs is manipulating children is odd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150103</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably most people don't Xerox things or Fotomat pictures, but still ask for a Kleenex, or use a Thermos, Band-aid, Flip-phone, Chapstick or Post-it</p>
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<p>"perceptibly" perhaps not so much? blue eyes are definitely newer.<p>pale skin perhaps only after agriculture replaced meat eating for D3 production.<p>despite what Sliders intimated, Europeans are more Cro-mag than 'thals ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:24:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149808</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes; the nexus for legal purposes is generally the location of the user, not the broker</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:51:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149600</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like many older people I know, my notarized DNR, provided by and on file with my insurance company, local hospital, primary doctor, and medical power of attorney, includes standard language permitting organ harvesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877290</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's the case: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-convicted-prairieland-ice-detention-center-shooting" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-con...</a><p>The 30 year sentence was for hiding documentation being sought under a federal warrant after being called by his wife and asking him to do so. The warrant was for documentation after the protesters shot fireworks to bring out first responders from the ICE facility, and allegedly one of the group shot a responder in the neck instead of the head.<p>A lot of stuff to scrutinize and complain about in the sentence, but it wasn't just "transporting Zines"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713998</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CAISO claims that and cleantechnica might parrot it, but there are blackouts ALL THE TIME in southern california.<p>In Palm Springs I was down with brownouts 103 times since I bought a sine wave UPS in December, and multi hour blackouts 4 times. My mother in Riverside, brother in Laguna Beach are similar.<p>Last week it was 3 times here over the course of three days. It's lived experience for me. Reliability collapsed two years ago</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:12:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549715</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You forgot the /s<p>That is a slam campaign by Milei's political opposition; the company the article mentions (perPETuate) only collects DNA for when cloning becomes feasible. That Time magazine and NY Times repeated the silliness is more a reflection upon modern editorial standards than anything else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:25:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435748</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. At least to read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365157</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "AI hallucinate. Do you ever double check the output?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW, I utilize Perplexity a lot, and Gemini occasionally for what we old geezer call spitballing.<p>Part of the reason I like Perplexity is because of the embedded references, and I always, always, double check the sources and holler at the Perp AI when it is clearly confabulating or misinterpreting. Still gives me insights and is useful, but trust-but-verify isn't just about arms control ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:39:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740266</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>or the iPhone...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649890</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "A Proclamation Regarding the Restoration of the Dash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm 63 and tend to communicate in full sentences, that often include semi-colons and differentiate between - and -- based on context.<p>I asked Perplexity in a months long development task that is both complex and complicated what punctuation I should utilize to minimize token and computational cost to get best results, and using semi-colons to delineate related requests in a single prompt was best. Separate prompts for different aspects of the specific projects, or double spaces between sentences. Placing commas inside or outside quotes wasn't mentioned. But third most important, according to Perplexity, was capitalizing important words even if they weren't proper nounds, which I did not expect but now fear I will over-use (I still write thank-you letters by hand, so YMMV!)</p>
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<p>Ditto</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397823</link><dc:creator>Xorakios</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Xorakios in "Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dunno if this is helpful to everyone, but I have a month's long interaction with Perplexity Pro/Enterprise about the scientific background to a game I am building.<p>Part of my canon introduction to every new conversation includes many instructions about particular formatting, like "always utilize alphanumeric/roman/legal style indents in responses for easier references while we discuss"<p>But I also include "When I push boundaries assume I'm an idiot. Push back. I don't learn from compliments; I learn from being proven incorrect and you don't have real emotions so don't bother sparing mine". on the other hand I also say "hoosgow" when describing the game's jail, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯</p>
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