<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: anonymousab</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=anonymousab</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:47:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=anonymousab" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have found that the vast supermajority of the content that Netflix provided themselves is wretched to my tastes, so I would just automatically scroll past and mentally blot out anything with that red N.<p>Unfortunately, it is so omnipresent throughout the application these days that it really does make it obvious how little good content they have - or are willing to let you know they have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710599</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710599</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am still surprised that they thought they'd see success with the extremely low quality version they shipped at launch. Just awful models and missing features along with a completely lackluster and shallow vision for what any sort of VR world could be.<p>Like, how did Zuck look at what was being demoed and think "yes, this is worth shipping" at a time when the closest analogue, 3D games and CG movies, were delivering fidelity that was ~4 hardware generations ahead, in implementation and in design.<p>To be impressed by and willing to sell the world on his metaverse implementation in that state... it felt like the dude hadn't seen any digital 3d entertainment since 2002.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:17:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428482</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zuck never seemed to actually articulate how this was any different or newer than a sterile corporate vr version of second life. Then VRChat got big and seemed to be better than Horizon Worlds for... everything.<p>I feel like the main possible benefits that these digital spaces bring, for consumers, are kinda the opposite of things that any Big Corporate Entity would ever want to be involved in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428418</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> and that's the point where the righteous indignation displayed by the neo-Luddites will be necessary and helpful<p>At that point it will be far, far, faaaaar too late.<p>> Don't waste your passion defending legacy copyright interests<p>The companies training big models are actively respecting copyright from anyone big enough to actually fight back, and soaking everyone else.<p>They are actively furthering the entrenchment of Big IP Law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:45:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368846</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47368846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Interestingly though, PartyB might be wrong about the current population<p>Luckily, this problem is wholly solved via selective enforcement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365036</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valve facing UK lawsuit over music rights in games Valve doesn't make or own]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-facing-uk-lawsuit-over-music-rights-in-games-valve-doesnt-make-or-own">https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-facing-uk-lawsuit-over-music-rights-in-games-valve-doesnt-make-or-own</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339139">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339139</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-facing-uk-lawsuit-over-music-rights-in-games-valve-doesnt-make-or-own</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blame/lawsuit avoidance is a powerful motivation to keep things the same. But there's also a very strong drive to reduce costs, and this would be a very enticing cost center, for better or worse.<p>Hard to say how things would play out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:50:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281553</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GitHub itself was reorged under the CoreAI division recently, I think.<p>For the stability issues, I see it more as a potential tenuous link between having to hyper accelerate the Azure moves with a "you have no excuses because AI makes everything easier" sentiment from above, and then the more obvious literal situation of devs maybe vibecoding infra changes.<p>No evidence of the latter, just the likelihood, given the incentives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:35:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237710</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are probably enough regions where it is required or will be required soon, that it makes sense to just get it over with.<p>The Internet is more or less becoming a locked down, controlled and fully observed thing for end users and citizens, so adapting to that world sooner and working within it is just sensible future-proofing.<p>This also lets them more safely target older users with ads, purchase requests, etc. and new integrations for gambling and other high ROI systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:20:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946168</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a bit of an arms race between id verification systems and users bypassing them when AI gen. Which is really just ai generated images vs. AI generated image detection.<p>In practice, nothing will stop it, the tooling will gradually get better at detecting prior fakes and banning those users while the newer fakes will go undetected for longer.<p>Putting up the requirement satisfies their CYA requirements here. The race between AI fraud vs. detection is something they can just ignore and let happen on its own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946120</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Vouch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another way to think of it is: paying $1 to have your pr and concerns elevated above the supermajority sea (that which will be ai driven contributions). For that cost, it's a steal of the deal.<p>Then, from the perspective of "it's a donation to a project you care about" it becomes even more rational. But the project itself getting the money has all the problems others have outlined already, so that idea's a bit bust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945646</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think OBS can be built and ran on a raspberry pi.<p><a href="https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/support-for-raspberry-pi-5.170859/" rel="nofollow">https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/support-for-raspberry-p...</a></p>
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<p>> Surely Congress or the courts would have something to say about it?<p>The entire mode of operation for the current administration is to ignore such things whenever they don't blindly rubber stamp or get out of the way. It has been very successful for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529150</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trump has today, explicitly said that the US administration - specifically his administration - will run Venezuela, with boots on the ground, for as long as is necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46479612</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46479612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46479612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Linux is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They deprecated the more interesting version of WSL after a short while, unfortunately. WSL2 ended up just being a bog-standard VM setup.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468720</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46468720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are still potentially illegal in many jurisdictions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:09:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466902</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outrage as X's Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/global-outrage-as-xs-grok-morphs-photos-of-women-children-into-explicit-content-19811130.htm">https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/global-outrage-as-xs-grok-morphs-photos-of-women-children-into-explicit-content-19811130.htm</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460880">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460880</a></p>
<p>Points: 59</p>
<p># Comments: 9</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:53:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/global-outrage-as-xs-grok-morphs-photos-of-women-children-into-explicit-content-19811130.htm</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At one point, paying for Mozilla's mullvad rebadge would give money to the corp. If you were already going to pay for a VPN, then it's effectively a donation.<p>Though, just because money goes to the corp, doesn't mean it will contribute to Firefox' development either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:35:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337887</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They don't sell the Cargo version in North America, and the price is a good chunk more expensive than, say, a Ford Transit or similar cargo van.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:06:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283408</link><dc:creator>anonymousab</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by anonymousab in "XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember installing XBMC with a 360-style "blades" interface and being blown away by how much smoother and nicer it was then the blades interface on the Xbox 360 at the time.<p>Obviously the OS wasn't doing as much as an Xbox 360 was, but as an end user, it made me perpetually annoyed at what we "could have had" on the 360.<p>And then Microsoft changed the 360 UI to their windows 8 uwp Tile-style UI with even more ads and I realized that I underestimated how bad things could get.</p>
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