<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: _bent</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_bent</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:08:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=_bent" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The judging for the "newest" seems a bit odd - for viral toy I answered 'Labubu' which the AI dates to 2015, which might be when they were first introduced to the market, but not when they had their viral hype.
For newest palace I answered Berliner Stadtschloss which was opened in 2020, but the AI dates it back to 1443</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127237</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50127237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Passkeys are not a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue is that operators can just curate a whitelist of authenticators they like. They could opt to not allow Yubikeys if they wanted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090621</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Passkeys are not a trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author is really missing the forest for the trees here<p>> When it is present, WebAuthn attestation tells the site the make and model of the authenticator, identified by its AAGUID, with a certificate chain from the vendor to back it up. It says nothing about your OS, your browser, your extensions, whether your phone is rooted or jailbroken, your firmware version, or even what colour it is.<p>So if I was Netflix or a bank or w/ever I'd only allow new registrations from "trusted" authenticators, which would incidentally only run on iOS and play-protected Android.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089403</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50089403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People in Iran or China don't rely on Facebook and Instagram.
Before Facebook penetrated Europe in ~2010, each local market was dominated by copycat services like StudiVZ or Hyves, which then vanished within 2 years.
When the US floated the idea of banning TikTok, some people felt compelled to download Chinese social media apps.<p>If a country was to ban Facebook from operating in their country, people would be on an alternative 2 weeks after.
There are reasons why a Facebook ban would be hard to enact, but dependence on the product is not one of them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:01:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865925</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>digitally autonomous workspace (for the) overheid</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842939</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49842939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nuclear is a great option for ice breakers & submarines.<p>in a connected grid nuclear cannot economically compete against solar (which pushes the cost of daytime energy to effectively 0€) so it has to be heavily subsided, which raises the cost for everyone. a euro spent on nuclear is a euro not spent on batteries or hydrogen production</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:31:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828658</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>degrowth is compatible with increasing standards of living for 99.5% of people all the while being able to then actually preserve these standards up in the future.<p>our current model produces growth without proportionally increasing standards of living, and accepts that livelihoods will collapse all over Europe and Africa as it becomes increasingly hostile to agriculture due to climate change.<p>think of the viability of degrowth as a policy within the prisoners dilemma of global capitalism as you want, but please come up with a more serious critique that doesn't equally indigte the staus quo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:15:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828554</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A big part in both stories is that the boards were unwilling to actually state what exactly the CEO did wrong or why they have lost confidence - be that professionalism or not wanting to deliver ammunition for lawfare - which perfectly sets up the CEO to position himself as a victim to the greed and power games of the shadowy board</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695441</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> admitting that they may not actually understand why something works or doesn’t work<p>something that data can't tell you either!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689825</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Rune is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> we will give participating contributors a contractual right to share in the revenue generated by Rune, directly or indirectly.<p>this sounds like a terrible idea.
the only incentive to contribute to your project should be to fix a bug or contribute a feature upstream you yourself need.<p>consider the fallout of Hacktoberfest, 'Tide' or the ai produced PR spam for social clout on GitHub as of today and then imagine what happens if someone provides a direct financial incentive to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663848</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49663848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not only does it have to load fast, it has to _stream_ the content from the server to the client</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:08:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576175</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are in conflict, because you can spend the same Euro only once. You could build a lot of batteries, solar panels and wind turbines for the cost of one nuclear plant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:01:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563424</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>article from just today that clearly states that killing men is bad
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/well/live/obesity-american-men.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/well/live/obesity-america...</a><p>sorry, but some of you are really deranged if you seriously expect the NYT to run "men should die"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:11:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552399</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it was a joke stemming from the understanding monideas has that the NYT is not an agent of the status quo but actually somehow misandrist turbowoke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:58:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552176</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sounds anti free speech to me!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:47:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The encoder currently isn't using a lot of format features like curves or layers (which would partially also require deeper integration in for example Photoshop to pass such information to the encoder).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443083</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>after years of German political culture just being US culture wars 10 years delayed, it's great to see the Exportweltmeister contributing back by bringing "Technologieoffenheit" to the states</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other day the system prompts for Claude (chat not code) hit the frontpage and they included a bit that something along the lines of "Claude should avoid saying honestly, because Claude is always honest".
So how come that these Claudisms still are so frequent in LLM output?
Do the system prompts just not work?
Don't the postprocess the output to deal with such policy violations?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360532</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "LinkedIn Feed Blocker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had to mark LinkedIns marketing and notification emails as spam and block their sender since all their opt out toggles are broken</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:07:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</link><dc:creator>_bent</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by _bent in "SQLite in Production: Optimizing WAL Mode, Concurrency, and VFS Layers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There should probably be a forum rule to forbid AI written articles or atleast editoralize the title to add an [AI] tag.
Would've saved me the click</p>
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