<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: blendergeek</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blendergeek</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:22:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blendergeek" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many autoparts store have a formal tool lending program that is structured as buy/return. I know it sounds like @bombcar is suggesting some “lifehack” that is closer to stealing. But, no, this is an actual service provided by actual auto parts stores.<p><a href="https://www.autozone.com/lp/loan-a-tool" rel="nofollow">https://www.autozone.com/lp/loan-a-tool</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617741</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48617741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nextcloud has the most confusing versioning of any software I have ever used.<p>Nextcloud Hub 26 is Nextcloud 34 and follows Nextcloud Hub 9 which is Nextcloud 33.<p>And I could be off on those exact numbers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491189</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It really is the case that older lifeforms don't die. All mammals do though.<p>Are naked molerats the one weird exception with mammals?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458975</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New physics papers lay firm foundation for CFS' ARC fusion power plant design]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.cfs.energy/new-physics-papers-lay-firm-foundation-for-cfs-arc-fusion-power-plant-design/">https://blog.cfs.energy/new-physics-papers-lay-firm-foundation-for-cfs-arc-fusion-power-plant-design/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397654">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397654</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.cfs.energy/new-physics-papers-lay-firm-foundation-for-cfs-arc-fusion-power-plant-design/</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48397654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue is you have to do that every single time. On X11, they remain on top by default</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372926</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But users do not want to have to toggle that for every PiP video they watch.
Its why I am still on X11</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372903</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it needs to be continuous speech-to-text as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:44:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364046</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/z7xCk" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/z7xCk</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:48:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213923</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your reference seems to be about CBD, not "electro acupuncture"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:22:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102587</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/united-airlines-newark-truck-streetlight">https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/united-airlines-newark-truck-streetlight</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006627">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006627</a></p>
<p>Points: 33</p>
<p># Comments: 11</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 10:05:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/united-airlines-newark-truck-streetlight</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "How ChatGPT serves ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He's not describing how things are, but how he wants you to think about them.<p>That is what a lie is. The fact that some people think he exists in a different plane of existence from normal humans does not change the meaning of “lie”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:41:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947513</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just a reminder that this MAUI has nothing to do with the pre-existing cross platform UI framework MauiKit from MAUI Project.<p><a href="https://mauikit.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mauikit.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:30:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480568</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple originally announced they would bring Mac Pro production to the US in 2013.<p>The two articles you share are one from CNN saying apple was moving production back to China after 6 years in the US and second from apple a few months later saying they were keeping it in the US.<p>You put the article from September before the article from June to create a narrative that only a few months passed between Apple's announcement of US production and CNN debunking it. The only issue is that the CNN article was 3 months _before_ Apple's rebuttal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:58:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151530</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Browsers are designed to be the end user's self-service toolkit to combat our bad websites. Users can override fonts, mute sounds, enlarge text, pinch-zoom in, open images in a separate tab, copy-and-paste, autofill rote form inputs, switch to "simplified reading mode", search for the same information elsewhere, reload the page to reset Javascript bugs, and even try a different browser to see if they happen to have the one on their computer that we bothered to test.<p>To be fair, part of this is that a "good website" for a web developer is often a "bad website" for a user. Giving users the ability to work around bad websites is good for users and if this makes "good experiences" hard to write, I think its a small price to pay. So much of web development is finding ways to combat the users (to track them, show them ads, prevent them from using the site how they want). I think web browsers should keep providing features for users to fight back rather than simply being tools of web developers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375970</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46375970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think you are correct here. From the FAQ [0] on the website linked by the post:<p>“Derivative works” exception – although a successful termination causes all of the rights to revert, this will not affect exploitation of derivative works created during the lifetime of the agreement, even after that agreement has been terminated. Once the agreement has been terminated, the grantee (see the glossary) may continue after termination to utilize “derivative works prepared under authority of the grant before its termination…[consistent with] the term of the grant” (to quote from the U.S. Copyright Act). This means that if, for example, an author granted a company a 50-year exclusive license to create a movie based on the author’s novel, that company can continue to use and exploit the movie even after the author successfully terminates the exclusive license. The company may not prepare a new movie based on the novel; it may only continue to use the existing movie that it created when the exclusive license was still current.<p>[0]: <a href="https://rightsback.org/faq/#So.2C_I_get_all_of_my_rights_back.3F" rel="nofollow">https://rightsback.org/faq/#So.2C_I_get_all_of_my_rights_bac...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:55:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032257</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bananas</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:51:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903279</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is quanta magazine. It is for lay people. The reason people are "nitpicking" the title is that "shape" is not a technical term. The technical term for what was found is "convex polyhedron". I read so much of the article before I was sure that it was talking about convex polyhedra specifically because the title is so ambiguous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 12:26:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703357</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03363-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03363-3</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584015">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584015</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:52:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03363-3</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dupe (October 4, 2025; 44 points; 9 comments): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462143">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462143</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:41:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474115</link><dc:creator>blendergeek</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blendergeek in "Rail travel is booming in America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Due to the history of Amtrak this is actually true. The railroads in America (while privately owned and operated) were built with much government subsidy. The railroad companies originally provided passenger service. Eventually, to ensure this service continued a law was passed that prohibited railroads from dropping passe nger service. After the rise of personal cars coinciding with the massive federal investment in car infrastructure in the 1950s with the interstate hughway system, passenger rail travel was in free fall in the late 60s and the railroad companies begged to be allowed to end passenger service. Congress stepped in and nationalized the passenger service exempting the railroad companies from their mandate to provide passenger service while requiring them to give passenger trains priority in scheduling. So, TL;DR passenger trains have legally mandated priority over the freight trains of the host railroad.</p>
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