<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: Zobat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Zobat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:12:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Zobat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obligatory link to the clip where a TV interview about a dangerous roundabout catches an accident on film. There's English captions.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBtrEZpa6OQ&pp=ygUQcm9uZGVsbCBpbnRlcnZqdQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBtrEZpa6OQ&pp=ygUQcm9uZGVsb...</a><p>Yes, roundabouts are good, but there's things to consider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724985</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's people here devaluing this because "AI probably built this page". To me this is a perfectly valid use of AI; "Hey I got this set of data points, give me a page with these 'extractions'". The page layout is the least interesting part of the page, it's the data points that should be of interest, then again this is where I think the page is lacking.<p>"1k real browser viewports" (page says 751 data points) tells me it's a quite small sample size to draw the amount of conclusions they draw. Now this is me guessing but I think it might be people actually visiting their site. Probably in the quest for viewport size, this might be why a whopping 6 percent of visitors appear to be visiting with their browser in full screen mode, and almost as many from a device with an 800x600 resolution (I can hear the device owners friend asking "man, what resolution are you running that thing at? Go to this site and check!").<p>AI report on actual data, not a problem. Low quality data to actually run that report on, now there's your problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694508</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49694508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I managed to watch 14 minutes of the Gamer Nexus video (on my computer) before going into the living room and disconnecting the network cable, OMFG. If there's no legal consequences for LG for this I'll be surprised. I'm in Europe, not counting on the US for this, trust me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:22:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599438</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an interesting problem (for mathematicians and a few more of us) and I'm sure Matt Parker will cover this in a video soon and I'll love his explanation.<p>But for a mechanism to ship in a physical game? Big dice are difficult and expensive. Printing a deck of card that has the number 1 (or 0) to N on it will always be cheaper and has solved the problem for at least N up to 52.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561215</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Barry Marshall's story is so iconic...<p>More so for him and his collaborator having dinner each year when the Nobel prizes were announced in anticipation of the call from the Nobel Prize Committee. Legends.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:39:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283192</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "The Causes of Long Covid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is a specific type of fasting. Saying only "fasting" can mean a lot of things, saying "water fast" means you only drink water.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:22:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409160</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Why are large language models so terrible at video games?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As others have hinted at LLMs aren't really made in a way that makes them likely to play video games (CS/Halo and such) well. I wonder how they'd fare "against" text based adventures like Zork (which they'll no doubt have ample knowledge about) and newer text based adventure games (which they'll know less about).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:52:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355130</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "LittleSnitch for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sometimes called "high instructional value".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:43:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700479</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Oscar Reutersvärd (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had some print or poster on my wall in my childhood bedroom in Stockholm. For sure no original but reproductions were, as I remember it, readily available when I grew up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:27:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586335</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My previous work provided laptop had a touchscreen and I miss it (for the record, the screen didn't fold 180). It was useful about once a week and I completely forgot about it the rest of the time.<p>Two primary use cases. Sitting on the train with the laptop in my actual lap it was often more convenient to reach for the screen instead of the trackpad, especially when I had someone sitting next to me on the right and I didn't want to stab them in their ribcage with my elbow so I could reach the trackpad. Second use case was often scrolling while reading, for some reason (phone-scrolling-indoctrination I guess) it felt natural to scroll using finger on screen.<p>The screen was never my primary pointing device but it was always an option. I think it was annoying a handful of times during the two years I had it, you point at something on the screen and end up clicking something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:20:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586260</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Engineering a Photograph [video]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATU2ShKqtdg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATU2ShKqtdg</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536554">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536554</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:20:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATU2ShKqtdg</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, old men yelling at "the cloud"!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:39:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177701</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Artist who “paints” portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The Mona Lisa is a waste of canvas and oil - a hill I will die on<p>Seems like Mona Lisa elicits an emotional response in you as a viewer ;)<p>I get what you're saying though. I always "correct" people that claims some piece of music is "bad", there's no bad music, only music you don't like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:16:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163764</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder about the the service used for the test, never heard of Rapidata but if it's like Amazons mechanical turk och other such services there might be a problem where the respondents simply didn't care about reading the question. If the objective for the respondents were simply "answer this question and get your benefit" vs "answer this question correctly to get your benefit" I have no problem accepting the 71.5% success rate. If getting it right had benefits and getting it wrong had none then I'm (slightly) worried.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136056</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Can random experimental choice lead to better theories?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I fully admit that I only skimmed the abstract, but was reminded of an article in Wired about Sergey Brin and his "search for a parkinsson cure".<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2010/06/ff-sergeys-search/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/2010/06/ff-sergeys-search/</a><p>He went backwards and started with just collecting an absurd amount of data. Later while talking to a researcher he could confirm years of research with a "simple" search in his database.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:49:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075827</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "I'd tell you a UDP joke…"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's two hard problems in programming. Naming things, cache invalidation and off by one errors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:50:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46585351</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46585351</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46585351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "Survey of developers experiences and opinions of AI tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what the selection bias for this report is, perhaps that we care about code and believe in the value of static code analysis. Some interesting results in there either way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:06:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541875</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Survey of developers experiences and opinions of AI tools]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/developer-survey-report/">https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/developer-survey-report/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541874">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541874</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.sonarsource.com/resources/developer-survey-report/</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They tried to find contraband, they found a marching band!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:22:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311805</link><dc:creator>Zobat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zobat in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We do not need more ways for people to be convinced of suicide.<p>I am convinced (no evidence though) that current LLMs has prevented, possibly lots of, suicides. I don't know if anyone has even tried to investigate or estimate those numbers. We should still strive to make them "safer" but with most tech there's positives and negatives. How many, for example, has calmed their nerves by getting in a car and driven for an hour alone and thus not committed suicide or murder.<p>That said there's the reverse for some pharmaceutical drugs. Take statins for cholesterol, lots of studies for how many deaths they prevent, few if any on comorbidity.</p>
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