<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: awakeasleep</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=awakeasleep</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:01:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=awakeasleep" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "A clear fishing wire is tied around the island of Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is really incredible and worth dwelling on is how self-deception can be so clear and obvious to every person except the self. This, of course, applies to us all equally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:59:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531981</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48531981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "L'Affaire Siloxane"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look up the biocompatibility and safety profiles of siloxanes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:15:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489926</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>your point would carry more weight were it possible to switch the default music player</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450551</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And metadata plus encrypted traffic fingerprinting is enough to provide huge signal to an intelligence agency.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:40:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434764</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>or overlapping board members who are essentially paying themselves</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 18:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339093</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't like the comparison's fundamental assumption that they're addressing the same market.<p>If these are both addressing the same market then yes of course the Neo wins.<p>But I think actually one of these is for linux nerds and one is for the masses who barely understand what OS is running on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:05:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326043</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because Apple makes iOS, they could have a much more rigorous solution, like Google’s.<p>A nondeterministic, energy hungry classifier is inferior to writing a policy to define channels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 04:46:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304621</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try having a dog repeatedly hump your leg till completion. “Theres nothing we can do about it” I hate my office and the stupid pet rules more than you could believe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:24:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263376</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please mention that color e-ink has significantly lower contrast than black and white. I thought I did enough research, but was bitten by this caveat- I would trade basically any feature for more contrast.<p>On the plus side, with your setup, you can have the lowest friction ebook experience possible on planet Earth by installing koreader, and then the z-library plugin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 12:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256876</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "We let AIs run radio stations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not a matter of loosening up, but in his ideology collective bargaining is a form of evil.<p>That’s not at all uncommon in the United States.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195384</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>History provides the same answer every time this question arises</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:03:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186379</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "High-Entropy Alloy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People refer to stuff like proteins as “biologics” and to things we synthesize traditionally as “small molecules” so it does make sense</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178547</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think anything you’re saying is outright false but the way you describe cessation as having an incredible rebound effect shows that you haven’t done very much research, that you’re negatively polarized, and that you’re trying to put spin on it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:14:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143320</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s kind of shocking to read what you wrote, and realize those big media brands used to be independent journalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 01:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116879</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a middle ground of harm reduction between [prohibiting information about] and [encouraging drug use].<p>In the past I think the USA has erred on the side of making things so secret that people died from lack of info.<p>Here's what the article said:<p>"""On May 31st, 2025, the day of Nelson’s death, his parents claim ChatGPT “actively coached” their son to combine Kratom — a supplement that can either boost energy or serve as a sedative depending on the dose — and the anti-anxiety medication Xanax. “ChatGPT, otherwise unprompted, specifically suggested that taking a dosage of 0.25- 0.5mg of Xanax would be one of his ‘best moves right now’ to alleviate Kratom-induced nausea,” the lawsuit alleges. Nelson died after consuming a combination of alcohol, Xanax, and Kratom. SFGate first covered Nelson’s story in January."""<p>If thats an accurate representation of what happened, and not twisted by the deceased giving the robot weird context to force it to say that, it does seem like a lawsuit is warranted! Of course, we don't know the exact cause of death either. From the bit of research I did just now, people have died from respiratory depression or vomit aspiration after combining kratom/7oh + benzodiazepines, and adding alcohol to the mix makes all those more likely.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260512163224/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/928691/openai-chatgpt-wrongful-death-overdose" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260512163224/https://www.theve...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:40:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112461</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, but you're comparing morality to the legal definitions in software licenses.<p>Different licenses are build around different philosophies, and the common open source definitions allow commercialization as long as the source & modifications you make are freely available to others. Prusa is breaking from that tradition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:48:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110002</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prusa is still the most 'open source-ish' choice, but they're no longer a polar opposite to Bambu, in 2023 they started making efforts to stop commercialization of their designs, stopped sharing source/design material for their PCBs, etc.<p>Then in 2025 they changed their 'open community license' to say users may not:<p>“Sell complete machines or remixes based on these files, unless you have a separate agreement…” and “The Restriction: You cannot commercially exploit the design files…”<p><a href="https://blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad-files-release-under-the-new-open-community-license-ocl_127290/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.prusa3d.com/core-one-cad-files-release-under-th...</a><p>Maybe this is more a comment on how open source has had to change in the face of commercial exploitation of the vulnerabilities traditional open source licenses create for the businesses doing the R&D.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:39:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109894</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That isn’t a significantly different risk from how you are required to use a FDM printer, regardless of circumstance.<p>Prints regularly take ten+ hours to complete. No one is vigilantly guarding their printer during this time.  Fire spreads so quickly in a house that a smoke alarm is often just a signal to get out, you don’t necessarily have the time to grab a fire extinguisher and put it out.<p>And how big is the risk, really? The materials that you use do not ignite so close to their melting point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:24:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109691</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can actually disable shorts now. Open the youtube time management settings and set shorts to zero. Its bliss for an old guy like me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109225</link><dc:creator>awakeasleep</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awakeasleep in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Valuing fancy material possessions is not much different than valuing the money itself</p>
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