<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: barbacoa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barbacoa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:50:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=barbacoa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "DeepSeek v4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple briefly was selling Mac studio with 512 GB of unified ram, meaning all that was available as vram.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903813</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are likely including xAI and the massive training costs that entails in order to make it sound like all their ventures are losing money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:22:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773180</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since Twitter is now part of SpaceX, does that mean Twitter is classified as a common carrier too? Can Twitter no longer refuse to allow certain individuals use their platform?<p>Honest question here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:35:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984936</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple wants to vertically integrate. Their AI strategy until recently was to develop their own LLM models that were small enough to run on device. But massive scaling is what makes LLMs so powerful, so all their internal models were terrible and unusable.<p>Basically they bet that compute efficient LLMs were the future. That bet was wrong and the opposite came true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:06:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983045</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I believe in science.<p>I pray to science every day to deliver us from this heretical reign of RFK jr.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970755</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the new pattern you see from this kind of reporting. Innocuous beginning, omit the middle context, then mentioning the end reaction.<p>"Young mathmatics professor buys cabin in Montana, then gets arrested by FBI!"<p>"Austrian born artist wants to make Germany better, then the UK firebombs Dresden!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895657</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>concrete and cement production are quite bad.<p>Modern concrete construction uses iron rebar liberally. That means every concrete structure built today will crack and crumble in a few hundred years at most, as the iron absorbs oxygen, it swells from the rust. Which is a shame, roman concrete buildings without rebar will still be standing 1000s of years from now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:49:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785448</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pendulum is in full swing. Soon it will be ban worthy offense to suggest there are more than two genders.<p>Though I am morbidly enjoying the irony of seeing those on the left suddenly discover an interest in free speech, and those on the right discover their love for campaigning to get people deplatformed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:10:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784767</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Washington State Bill Seeks to Add Firearms Detection to 3D Printers [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To actually implement firearm detection your 3d printer would need to have the ability to reverse engineer the 3d solid model from g-code, then compare that solid model to a list of banned objects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:55:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682225</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority for Internet Surveillance]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-bnd-surveillance-law-expansion-de-cix-data-retention-hacking">https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-bnd-surveillance-law-expansion-de-cix-data-retention-hacking</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589275">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589275</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:50:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://reclaimthenet.org/germany-bnd-surveillance-law-expansion-de-cix-data-retention-hacking</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some argue that THC in cannabis actually works similarly because when herbivores regularly ingest it, they become lethargic and lazy, causing them struggle to survive in the world. Kinda like my roommate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:27:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398810</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Stanford Medicine study shows mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines can cause myocarditis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Those gigantic clinical trials (some of the largest RCTs ever conducted) didn't detect this issue because of its extreme rarity.<p>You assume good faith on their part. These studies are run by the same companies that stand to make billions based off the study outcomes. For example we know now when a toddler died in the Moderna covid RTC of cardiac arrest after vaccination they reportedly covered it up and didn't report it.<p>This all is starting to sound a lot like what happened with vioxx. Where an increase in heart problems was detected in RTC but covered up. Vioxx would go on to cause an estimated 50000 deaths from heart attack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247422</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>2040 HN:<p>"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in my brain implant?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:02:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208228</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Europe Is Under Siege"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Russia, China, Brazil, India -- all have similar censorship systems but Americans don't find it as troubling because those countries aren't part of the same shared cultural identity known as "The West".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207706</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Europe Is Under Siege"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many Americans see Europe's DSA as a framework to allow the implemention of China style state censorship system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:47:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205463</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Car depend infrastructure is amazing to families. A mom can take her children to the grocery store in a car in relative safety without worrying about mentally ill homeless people on the subway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:06:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117422</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46117422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "'Stone-cold killers': New Zealand to eradicate feral cats by 2050"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Back when CRISPER was the new hot thing in science people talked about engineering invasive species to have gene drives such that they could only produce male offspring. Eventually there would be no females and the population would disappear.<p>Doesn't look like it ever got of the ground though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:57:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034826</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46034826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apparently Grokipedia give you the option to highlight that section of the text and click "this is wrong" and it will update the text or tell you why not. I don't have a account but someone should try and report back what it does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:38:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741210</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some interesting comparisons I found between Wikipedia and grok. These are the intro paragraphs.<p>Grokipedia:<p>The Biden–Ukraine controversy pertains to allegations that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden conditioned $1 billion in loan guarantees on the Ukrainian government's dismissal of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in March 2016, purportedly to obstruct an ongoing investigation into Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy firm where Biden's son, Robert Hunter Biden, served as a board member receiving substantial compensation since May 2014.[1][2] Shokin, whose office had pursued corruption charges against Burisma's founder Mykola Zlochevsky—including probes into illicit asset acquisition and bribery—publicly stated that his removal derailed these efforts, coinciding with Hunter Biden's role amid the company's efforts to mitigate regulatory pressures.[2][3]<p>Wikipedia:<p>The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee and took a bribe to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son Hunter Biden, who was on the Burisma board.[1] As part of efforts by Donald Trump[2] and his campaign in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which led to Trump's first impeachment, these falsehoods were spread in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's reputation and chances during the 2020 presidential campaign, and later in an effort to impeach him.[3]<p>Grokipedia:<p>Gamergate was a grassroots online movement that emerged in August 2014, primarily focused on exposing conflicts of interest and lack of transparency in video game journalism, initiated by a blog post detailing the romantic involvement of indie developer Zoë Quinn with journalists who covered her work without disclosure.[1] The controversy began when Eron Gjoni, Quinn's ex-boyfriend, published "The Zoe Post," accusing her of infidelity with multiple individuals, including Kotaku journalist Nathan Grayson, whose article on Quinn's game Depression Quest omitted any mention of their prior personal contact.[2] This revelation highlighted broader patterns of undisclosed relationships and coordinated industry practices, such as private mailing lists among journalists, fueling demands for ethical reforms like mandatory disclosure policies.<p>Wikipedia:<p>Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[1] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign motivated by a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture.[2][3][4] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[a] Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu.[b]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738707</link><dc:creator>barbacoa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45738707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barbacoa in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic" rel="nofollow">https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-...</a></p>
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