<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: chewbacha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chewbacha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:05:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chewbacha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been on a SSRI for 5 years and not once have I thought about getting off of it. It literally saved my life.<p>I remember a while life of depression and constant churn of recursive emotions destroying me.<p>I’m worried that too many people are downplaying the benefits that this drug for those of us that it has helped immensely. And it’s extra risky to be downplaying it while RFK jr is actively working to remove the drugs from the market.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:24:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477048</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually, I’m a little worried by what this post demonstrates but not the logo or the use of the api.<p>I’m worried that switching apps and screenshots _doesn’t_ put the logo in. If the point of the switch is privacy, isn’t that a bug? Shouldn’t it apply the privacy screen during any screenshot? What if there was sensitive information on there when you were switching and taking the screenshot?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:41:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343732</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "Introducing Toast 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Smelling toast is a sign of a stroke, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:27:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309690</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wild to have worked in the industry long enough that 16 years doesn’t feel that long ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281186</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parts of the world are literally on fire but the US is redirecting money to halt renewables and towards gas.<p>The demand for energy is higher than ever due to AI data centers, but I guess the next model is more important than a habitable environment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208540</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Must…<p>Build…<p>More…<p>Datacenters…<p>But seriously, hacker news routinely denies the obvious when it comes to climate crisis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:49:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063928</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m sure if we build a few more AI data centers the world will cool down and we’ll stop having all these fires.<p>Just a few more GPUs ought to fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063575</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, atmospheric rivers all winter.<p>Next year a super bloom then the following year massive wild fires.<p>rain -> fuel -> fire</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061375</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe it’s mostly due to closeness to the work and actually turning the problem over in my mind. When I use an LLM to code much of the context is lost and my understanding of the solution is diminished. The longer I use it in a code base the less and less aware of the code base I become.<p>This is also born out in the research which has demonstrated reduced retention of content when authoring was facilitated by an LLM. Over the long term, I believe this is widen a chasm between experienced and inexperienced engineers.<p>While not all CEOs will feel this way, it will not surprise me that knowledge workers will be treated as disposable, even if their work is invaluable. If they can hire a junior escort for the AI they will. That junior will also be scale goated when things go wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:59:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060606</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue would be that LLMs seem to not improve senior devs productivity. In which case what you are saying is “we shouldn’t use LLMs”<p>Which I happen to agree with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:36:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058093</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49058093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big caveat to the productivity claim is that it’s concentrated in lesser experienced engineers and vanishes or goes negative with highly experienced engineers.<p>This intuitively makes sense and generally agrees with my experience. LLMs move your baseline towards the mean. If you are below average it improves and if you are above it hinders.<p>But also in my experience, my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it myself self. This leads me to believe that the lesser experienced engineers are not gaining experience!<p>My tinfoil hat says that this is what tech CEOs want. They want workers that are low skilled and can be paid less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057922</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty that’s just not true.<p>Sodium ion batteries are less energy dense than lithium ion and are not prone to dendrite formation. They are also more thermally stable and less likely to do thermal run away reactions.<p>Also, since they are less energy dense they don’t store the same potential energy.<p>You are probably thinking of metallic sodium batteries which are completely different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:10:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052727</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This sounds like Claude apologizing for making a CRM.<p>What actually happened???</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:32:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830573</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did this for two weeks on a side project and still ended up in a situation where I did not have a mental model of the codebase.<p>There’s no way build that model without building it yourself. I’m more convinced then ever of this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770560</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "One KW wind turbine without civil engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like AI slop marketing, feels like a scam.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753302</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would not surprise me if Anthropic wanted this to avoid the inference costs of running the latest frontier models.<p>It also is a good PR for them because it continues to doomer hype loop that’s boosting them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513263</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Crypto investors are migrated to the newest unregulated speculative asset: the stock market.<p>I don’t know for certain but the amount of retail investing on vibes around AI companies and metals feels just like the crypto peaks. Just the other day Marvell jumped on the words of Jensen Huang and metal ETFs randomly lost tons of investment earlier this year.<p>Without a lot of the guardrails of the US regulatory apparatus that has been gutted by the current administration, the market is riff with manipulation. Truly another gilded age.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:31:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399235</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My best guess is that Gemini was trained on the textbooks that the questions are meant to test against, thus they are probably better at explicit recall of those questions or related questions.<p>This is a pretty limited introductory course based on what it says in the methods of the paper itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378427</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "KLM flight attendant hospitalized after contact with hantavirus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They all are but generally difficult.<p>Andes strain is more transmissible but has only been shown to have one super spreader event previously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:17:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048466</link><dc:creator>chewbacha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chewbacha in "IPv8 Proposal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My immediate first thought is if the XKCD standards comic<p><a href="https://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/927/</a></p>
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