<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: barnabee</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barnabee</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:24:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=barnabee" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't provide a way to do so.<p>Just not using GitHub would probably solve most of the problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257104</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the problem is that we’ve anthropomorphised the LLMs in their training and through system prompts to the point that that seems reasonable.<p>We don’t thank our other tools like grep, or the compiler.<p>If you train your LLM to produce words that seem like human responses or conversations, they will. If you train them to seem like god-like superintelligences to people who think that’s what they’re creating, they will.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:18:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251658</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best solution to this is if orders of magnitude more people start using GrapheneOS. Once it becomes fairly normal it's no longer a viable reason to target someone.<p>With this publicity and the coming Motorola phones, there's reason to be at least a little optimistic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086711</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Our position on open-weights models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Without international agreement and cooperation, which is not happening, we can’t</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080260</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Our position on open-weights models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Surveillance is required for closed weights models to have meaningfully different outcomes to open ones</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:42:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080225</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Is there a problem with someone owning it<p>Yes<p>> what?<p>They can decide you can't use it anymore<p>They can decide to charge more for it<p>They can arbitrarily take features out from under you or change how it works<p>They can read and/or sell/give away/accidentally get exploited and lose your data<p>They can prevent your extracting your data to move away from them<p>They can prevent you building or integrating other tools<p>They control how you can modify or configure the software<p>...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:18:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999138</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like that using keypairs and signed messages inverts the centralised server and SaaS model and makes things more local/client first. I wish more products would move that way.<p>Nostr seems like a reasonably convenient way to achieve that without building everything from scratch, but maybe there a better ways?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999084</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve always seen the frontier shown as a curve on a plot. Frontier ≠ SOTA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:46:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990096</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Datacentres drive up big tech's carbon emissions to a third of those of France"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is true, but I'm pretty firmly of the opinion that these data centres shouldn't be built, or at least allowed to operate until/unless they can be powered <i>cleanly</i> and without cornering the market and driving out existing consumers of power.<p>If they're so keen to build that they're willing to fund power generation (e.g. on site gas generators) then it should be clean/renewable (solar, wind, small modular reactors, full scale nuclear plants, whatever).<p>Degrowth is bad but so is ignoring the planet, the environment, and people's health to get ahead faster in business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:09:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880918</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favourite attempt to improve markdown is djot[0] but I think markdown just has too much inertia and most of its issues aren’t really a problem in practice.<p>[0] <a href="https://djot.net/" rel="nofollow">https://djot.net/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:36:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800687</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone’s eventually going to run a binary they downloaded from the same place, if you’ve already decided to do that, why is a curled install script worse?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:43:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795626</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only answer isn't to sink to the lowest common denominator.<p>Ban or tax things from the "globalised" world that are just worker/societal/environmental protection arbitrage so they're competing for the EU market on a level playing field, then we'll see who can compete.<p>The EU is plenty big enough to be self-sufficient if it has to and shouldn't be afraid of risking this if abusive and exploitative companies from other places don't way to pay their way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730020</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers"<p>The defining motto of the corporate world</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:41:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705540</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the Steam Machine is pretty tough to justify against something like the Minisforum AtomMan G1 Pro, or indeed a smaller much cheaper mini PC that’s closer
to Steam Deck performance.<p>I think it’ll sell well though because of the form factor, Steam OS simplicity (and the size of many people’s Steam libraries), and the fact there are not actually many options with the living room friendly form factor and someway reasonable modern gaming performance.<p>The Frame on the other hand has no competition. I know I’m buying one. I hope it’s more reasonable but it could be a worse deal than a Steam Machine and… yeah.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678293</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Laws define fraud, terms of service define what a company would like you to do, usually in the narrowest and most abusive and extractive way possible.<p>The idea that anyone would side with a company doing more to support the ToS con than (at most) terminating an account they find it violation is sickening.<p>Really if we had competent, uncompromised government, most of these terms should illegal and result in Anthropic (and basically every other tech company) being hauled up in front of a regulator and fined heavily until they rewrite them to be less sociopathic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:35:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670638</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Snapdragon gaming handhelds are much cheaper than a Steam Deck, so I’m hopeful that as an Arm device it won’t be completely crazy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642144</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree.<p>I only keep a Chromium based browser around because of Mozilla's asinine decision not to support Web Bluetooth and Web USB that are needed to interact with devices, microcontrollers, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557796</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "AI coding at home without going broke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What use is knitting as a hobby after you have already decided it’s reasonable to buy clothes from a shop?<p>…and countless other examples<p>Not to mention the fact that AIs do the programming <i>in a programming language</i> and it’s quite possible to have ideas about what would be a better language for that.<p>And that I’m not certain how much of the programming it’s actually reasonable to fully delegate to AIs, and this is both an experiment in seeing how far I can push it (further than expected!) and in building a language I’d rather use than anything that exists today for the stuff the AIs shouldn’t be doing (also going better than expected!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554365</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48554365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "AI coding at home without going broke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Me, to scratch an itch and because LLMs make it possible.<p>I'll probably throw it out on the internet someday if it gets far enough, but there are no attention/adoption related goals attached to the project.<p>It's currently useful for trivial scripting and iterating as and when I have time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:59:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540026</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barnabee in "How to earn a billion dollars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they’re not in it for the money, they’ll be happy to pay more tax</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:53:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533212</link><dc:creator>barnabee</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533212</guid></item></channel></rss>