<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: billynomates</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=billynomates</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:13:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=billynomates" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "I'm scared about biological computing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK but If I'm dead I won't care</p>
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<p>Arent't the models trained on open source code though? In which case OpenAI et al should be following the licenses of the code on which they are trained.</p>
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<p>Capitalism is not the redistribution of resources. It is an economic system in which the means of production are owned by private owners, as opposed to collectively.<p>In theory, full communism prevents corruption by removing its structural causes rather than relying on laws or moral exhortation. And since corruption under capitalism (in Marxist analysis) stems from private ownership, class divisions, and the scramble for scarce resources, abolishing those conditions should eliminate the incentives that drive people to exploit positions of power for personal gain. Without private property to accumulate or a state apparatus to capture, the reasoning goes, there would simply be nothing left to be corrupt about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:29:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805201</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Map Gesture Controls - Control maps with your hands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure? Does it necessarily need to be internet-connected?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:14:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776998</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OK not <i>constantly</i> using multiple agents, but very frequently.</p>
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<p>Nice. Just a thought: It would be cool if you could control your TV with (robust) hand gestures like this!</p>
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<p>No, in fact I'm growing increasingly suspicious of messages I see like this all over the socials.<p>I am using Claude constantly, multiple agents, around 8-10hrs a day, 5 or 6 days a week, and I'm never anywhere need my limit.</p>
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<p>What in god's name is that cookie consent form</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:45:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624495</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't tell if this is satire. Some people really believe stuff like this.</p>
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<p>Maybe the joke was on Babbage. Possible that they were asking about trust and over-reliance, which turned out to be the real problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:39:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436878</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47436878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes that's what vegetarian means, 99% of the time.<p>Where did I say "full complicity"? But yes, animals who are farms for milk and eggs are treated just as badly, sometimes worse, than animals that are farmed for meat.</p>
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<p>>Beyond Meat CEO Says ‘It’s Just Not The Moment For Plant-Based Meat’ After Rebrand<p>It absolutely is the time for plant-based meat. It has never been more crucial. It's just that their business model was easily replicable.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately by still eating dairy and eggs, you are participating in that system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410164</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Health conscious ethical vegan here. I eat these fairly often. The protein content is fine. I get micronutrients from other sources. I track all my calories and macros, every single day. My diet is perfectly balanced, thanks very much.<p>Something is only unhealthy or healthy in light of everything else you eat. It's reductive to say otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410148</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Impressive engineering, genuinely. But I'd push back on the framing that scaling aquaculture is straightforwardly good.<p>Fish sentience is increasingly well-supported in the neuroscience literature. We already kill somewhere around 1-2 TRILLION fish annually... a number that dwarfs land animal slaughter yet attracts almost no ethical scrutiny. Optimising and scaling that system is worth examining carefully.<p>The part of your website that says "land can't feed 10B people, wild fisheries are maxed out, therefore aquaculture" also quietly ignores plant-based protein, which is more land-efficient and doesn't require instrumentalising sentient animals at industrial scale.<p>I'm not saying the engineering problems aren't interesting. They clearly are. But at 1-2 trillion deaths per year, this is the largest scale of animal killing in human history, and we're building better tools to do more of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232510</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47232510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reading is much faster than writing, that's a given. You can generate the rules in less than an hour, then never have to write a line of code again.<p>But maybe you have trouble writing prompts. Spend some time learning how to do that and it will be even easier. It's a skill ;)</p>
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<p>Thank you I will check those out!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974273</link><dc:creator>billynomates</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46974273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by billynomates in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI will write whatever kind of code you want it to write. If you know how to write clean code and you can describe that in a prompt, it will give you clean code that is indistinguishable from that of a talented dev.</p>
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<p>As someone who use Eclipse and transitioned to Android Studio over the course of my career, Android Studio is actually pretty great. These days I use Cursor almost exclusively for Flutter, but Android Studio is great for building native Android apps.</p>
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<p>You can do that easily with Anki as others have mentioned, however it is generally recommended to create your own cards since the process of researching, phrasing, and formatting the content serves as the crucial first stage of cognitive encoding. By actively deciding how to simplify a concept or which image best represents a term, you are building unique neural "hooks" that link new information to your existing knowledge. This personal investment transforms the card from a dry piece of data into a meaningful memory, making it far more resistant to forgetting than a generic card designed by a stranger.</p>
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