<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: brikym</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brikym</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:47:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brikym" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So that's where the Windows XP file copy dialog author now works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:33:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715610</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48715610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yip but come on Apple it's time to solve that problem and sell some more phones. Each new iPhone is just a different color.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682388</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You will have a massive phone and you will be happy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:24:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681652</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are the epitome of individualism. It's a <i>Fuck you I'm safe</i>. They're even designed to look like fists. Here is a quote from General Motors truck designer Karan Moorjani:<p>“I remember wanting it to make it feel very locomotive… my first week in Detroit I was driving through downtown and seeing the fist of Joe Louis, and remember thinking that’s what this truck should look like – a massive fist moving through the air.”<p>... we spent a lot of time making sure that when you stand in front of this thing it looks like it’s going to come get you. It’s got that pissed-off feel, but not in a boyish way, still looking mature. It just had to have that imposing look,” explained the GM designer."<p>The design of these things is deliberately antisocial. The huge hood is not even needed since it's possible to stand inside the mostly empty engine bays of these things as FortNine showed: <a href="https://youtu.be/YpuX-5E7xoU?t=431" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/YpuX-5E7xoU?t=431</a><p>But it's not just the hood heights wrong with modern vehicles. Multiple design trends are hostile to other road users and reduce safety equality if you will.<p>- Headlight hues are white and blinding<p>- Headlight positioning has increased with the hood height which tends to blind people.<p>- The pillars in vehicles are really thick and raked which is safer for the occupants but also means visibility is reduced. Great, so now people in bigger, newer, safer vehicles are more likely to hit pedestrians and people in older, smaller vehicles.<p>- Windows are more tinted and often smaller meaning vehicles are opaque walls now which hinders visibility and communication at intersections.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:14:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652909</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's obvious to me there will be a renaisance, but the question is which design will win.
There are so many companies building small modular reactors right and various different designs with different fuels and cooling mediums.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_small_modular_reactor_designs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_small_modular_reactor_...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:49:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639587</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And price comparison sites big companies don't like since they want to price discriminate. There are positives to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:59:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637627</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Polars typesafe? It doesn't show you any errors until runtime right?
Kusto query language is the best I've seen at type safety and I wish open source DBs would steal some ideas from it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:31:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595832</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are a lot of legit uses for keeping tabs on information. Price comparison websites for example allow the public to be better informed and fight hostile pricing strategies that are more common now corporate consolidation is at all time highs. 
Oligopolies don't want their prices scraped so they put up anti-bot measures. 
When the price history is layed out in a plain chart it becomes clear how efficient the economy is at segmenting markets and emptying wallets.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583503</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>$DRAM calls</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:40:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583435</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Kirkland Roundabouts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm used to roundabouts but I find the game difficult. Even if you made a basic roundabout I'd still crash a lot.
1) The car wants to go too fast on it's own.
2) The third person perspective is nothing like real driving where you simply yield to traffic on the left (or give way to the left for us down-under folks).<p>If it's meant to be an argument against roundabouts then it's a straw man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:28:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577854</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends which market you're in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:34:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577232</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Capitalism tips half the milk out and triples the price for the other half.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576641</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Nobody clicks share buttons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The user has to have an extra reason to use it. Share buttons or stateful URLs are great when user input is embedded.  You have to add that extra user generated sauce or it's not worth it.<p>Web games (like my redactle.net) will typically have a share button that allows players to share their score.
Calculator tools often include a way to share a URL with all the fields filled.
Youtube does it with timestamp links.</p>
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<p>I like it. What stack did you use for rendering, physics etc?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:03:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511795</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glowing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:29:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497838</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the bottleneck is testing. I want to build a replacement for Zwift, a virtual gym game for bike trainers and treadmills, but testing it could be difficult without a real person on real hardware. How does the LLM know about the hardware protocols and stuff like that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:51:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497481</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>#15 Don't tell anyone about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473311</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're worthless to the S&P 500 which requires four quarters of profitability. SpaceX is running at a $5B loss. Google 'buys' $10B of compute every year...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:26:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454979</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let me guess... wall street bets is going to pump $OPEN stock?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:53:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454144</link><dc:creator>brikym</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brikym in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100%. The public tend to get very angry when police kill innocent people. So the govt want to squash any uprising which is exactly what they've been doing by taking down any video that allows people against the status quo to coalesce and coordinate. They want people to very energetic about voting for one of a few awful options which amount to /dev/null.</p>
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