<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: apothegm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apothegm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:52:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=apothegm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Anyone else feels many LLMs are heavily biased towards consumerism these days?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI is explicitly selling ads. Google’s whole business is ads, so I’d be unsurprised for that to show up in Gemini, too.<p>And then you have to consider how much of the training data is probably scraped content marketing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666933</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "You may be taking the wrong painkiller"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fwiw, my understanding is that naproxen works very similarly to ibuprofen and is simply stronger (and possibly longer-acting), with similar but proportionally greater side effects.  I take it rarely for that reason, but it feels an order of magnitude more effective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654582</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "How to find AI-conservative companies to work for?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try companies in highly regulated industries with intense compliance requirements or where lives are at stake. They’re not universally AI-conservative, but they have more reason to be than your average productivity app SaaS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654521</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Advice on Gifted Education"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surely there’s an option that’s the best of both worlds?<p>There must be dozens of kids if not more entering university early every year. The problem is that they’re scattered across all the universities and thus entirely isolated. This forces a choice between holding them back academically or throwing them into a context that’s isolating and not really age-appropriate.<p>I’m imagining a single university offering a boarding-school-like experience that consolidates all those kids into one place and gives them a more age-appropriate social context, extracurriculars, and other support while also putting them in a position to engage in university-level study in areas where they excel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643625</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The AI slop in that quote sure is real.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:25:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636423</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "1 in 3 Americans use chatbots for health advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because we can’t afford to talk to a real medical provider, presumably.<p>And we used to do the exact same thing with web search.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:19:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636356</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Rent collections are down in New York"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s most definitely not $10-20k, tho.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636336</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Slashdotted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:52:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631002</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Rent collections are down in New York"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to mention that to move they would need to have resources to do so. And in many cases would take them away from what little interpersonal safety net they have in the form of friends and family — which for people who are struggling typically makes things worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:15:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628652</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Rent collections are down in New York"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can plunk $10-$20K and get land and a homestead in dozens of states.<p>In a place where the only jobs to be had are at below-subsistence minimum wage at the dollar store and you have to drive 2 hours to see a doctor, sure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628620</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Therapy ferrets used to kill rats at UK's largest children's prison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The poor pest control resulting in rats being that visibly present seems to me like the real problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625326</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can’t speak to the correctness of the numbers, but while it’s not particularly groundbreaking  the analysis as a whole seems human and I enjoyed it. It’s got some tells that suggest LLM editing but is much more digestible than pure slop, at least.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622520</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Owning money should allow you more representation than not owning money.<p>Fine, I’ll bite: Why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:34:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620831</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Bernie Sanders unveils $7T plan to give Americans control of AI industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being in he majority party doesn’t mean he can force the rest of the party to line up behind him. And even  if he could, in 2021-24, the Republican filibuster stonewalled absolutely anything interesting that the Democrats wanted to do anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597648</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We’re here because molecules that make the most effectively self-reproducing near-copies of themselves are most likely to continue to exist. The purpose of a human life is to perpetuate some of those molecules.<p>There is no <i>meaning</i> to life — just laws of physics and “laws” of natural selection that together cause it. But I suppose you’re welcome to make up something if it’s important to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579733</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what risk level without them? How many people actually die of cervical cancer before age 30??<p>I mean, vaccinations and cancer prevention are both great, but this headline is ridiculous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:59:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579648</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Costco and Safeway are getting housing built where others fail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every sentence was a quagmire of stereotypical LLM diction. Not to mention the use of a ton of words to say very little.</p>
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<p>lol, the latter!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:14:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564541</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Never talk to the police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Irish goodbye”?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:08:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563532</link><dc:creator>apothegm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apothegm in "Identifier length and limited programmer memory (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Longer identifiers do take more tokens in the context window, tho.</p>
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