<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: ckosidows</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ckosidows</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:05:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ckosidows" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who are you people glazing this functionality? The term doom scrolling came about, in large part, because of infinite scrolling. I have never, in nearly two decades of smart phones being everywhere, met someone who liked infinite scrolling enough to say so. People _use_ these things, sure, but that's because they're addictive and ubiquitous and not because they materially improve someone's life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902409</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a false equivalence. I don't use a product _because_ it's got an endless scroll. I use a product and then they add that "feature" without giving me an option. I would, and have, turned it off when possible. But it's not currently possible to do so on apps like Reddit.<p>In no way is this like yogurt. If I don't like that one yogurt has trace amounts of heroin in it, I can buy a different yogurt. If I don't like that reddit has an infinite scroll, I have to miss out on conversations in communities I like. There simply aren't similar communities I've ever been able to find for certain topics. And anything similar also has an infinite scroll (Facebook, twitter, etc.).<p>If, in your example, all yogurts had trace amounts of heroin in them, I would agree with the comparison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902324</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad I'm not the only one who thought this story sounded completely fabricated. It reads like a Flock ad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897834</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This should go without saying, but the person you're replying to obviously wants you to prove instances of scientists receiving grant money because they know someone or are part of a group. They are not asking you to prove the support of the people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:16:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524409</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turn off your watch history. It stops all shorts except from your subscriptions.<p>If they remove this, I will surely be done with YouTube. I was so desperate to disable shorts and ready to be done with the app, but then I learned that disabling watch history pretty much perfectly allows me to use the app how I want to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:21:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020742</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious why it seems so many on this site still have Facebook accounts. I'd deleted mine before and it didn't stick, but I deleted it again earlier this year and haven't one single time considered creating another. I see no reason I would need a Facebook account again. I don't care to follow the activity of acquaintances.<p>Unless you're talking about Instagram? Even then IG has always struck me as the cooler Facebook, but now it's just a doom scrolling machine from what I can tell.<p>I presume I'm in the minority. But I don't really understand it. I see no need for these services anymore; they seem mostly like Trojan horses to inject advertisements into our lives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:26:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042891</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46042891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The person you responded to didn't say anything about harm to themselves. They said there's nothing stopping them from donating even though they're aware of the PFAS contamination in their area.<p>And from what I understand, PFA contamination has no bearing on whether or not you can donate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:55:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559140</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious if there's been any evidence Novamin actually repairs enamel or "repairs" in some other way.<p>IIRC, it's not allowed in the states because it's not economical to prove that it actually repairs teeth, but I think my understanding is based on some internet comments and nothing else. The studies I've seen haven't proven to effectively repair enamel, I think, but I'm also not scientifically literate enough to understand the p values they report.<p>I used to buy repair and protect from Canada back in 2017 but haven't used it since then. I periodically check if there is any solid evidence but I haven't seen much or I'm too stupid to understand it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944569</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44944569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Google can now read your WhatsApp messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shhh! Don't let Google know about this trick. I've gotten stuck in approximately 0 doom scroll loops since disabling view history and I'd like to keep it that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525895</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>B&W mode is great until you're trying look at photos or watch videos. I wish there was a setting in the operating system to remove color from UI elements and not videos or images. Or turn B&W on/off for certain apps, like photos and youtube.<p>And I guess not having color for videos is maybe the point, but I can't manage to use it at all if I can't watch videos with color.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:49:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38169515</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38169515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38169515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Firefox address bar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same happened to me recently. I lost my custom search keywords randomly one day</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:14:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667629</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "YouTube, the jewel of the internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YouTube is like 10% of Alphabets profits and there are thousands of creators relying on it for a living. Anecdotal but the creators I follow all talk about YouTube giving them a much better monetization strategy than any other platform. So I don't think this will be any time soon</p>
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<p>I rather disagree and think this discourse is both beneficial and necessary. This comment really feels dubious and is the exact definition of the Noble Lie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 04:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216103</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35216103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "GPT-4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lion -><p><-<p>Goat -><p><- Lion<p>Cabbage -><p><-<p>Lion -></p>
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<p>"hipsters", "Apple fanboys" and "normie" - I'm convinced this was trained on Reddit posts from 2015</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2023 22:16:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34975691</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34975691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34975691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect it might be complicated by the fact that most of their content isn't owned by them but leased(?) from record labels, artists, podcasters, etc?<p>But I agree it seems like they use this API as a free launch pad for ideas, which seems morally or ethically questionable. Sorry to hear they might have ripped your idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583125</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34583125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't Spotify have terms around not making money on any apps that use their API? From <a href="https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iv-streaming-and-commercial-use" rel="nofollow">https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iv-streaming-and-comme...</a><p>> Except for the limited commercial uses for Non-Streaming SDAs (set out below) commercial uses are not permitted for SDAs.<p>Their guidelines are super strict about using any music or artwork in specific ways. For instance, I'm pretty certain you need to display a Spotify logo any time you play music from Spotify, which I don't see on the player. And the player has rounded corners on the artwork.<p>Some excerpts from <a href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/design-and-branding/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/design-a...</a><p>> To comply with our licensing agreements, you must always attribute content from Spotify with the logo.<p>> Artwork must be kept in its original form. Don’t animate or distort it in any way. This includes applying overlays and blurring.<p>I'm not a lawyer so I'm sorry if I'm reading these incorrectly. I tried making an app using the Spotify API at one point and had it running but it got shot down a couple times for not displaying the Spotify icon. Good on you if your app is all set. I was always worried I was going to face the Spotify legal team with mine and gave up on it.<p>I only mention these because I do love the radio! Great mix of genres so far!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 21:10:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551913</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34551913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a lot of gas stations!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246091</link><dc:creator>ckosidows</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34246091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ckosidows in "Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their complete lack of interesting custom games is what killed it for me.<p>Halo, for me, was about forge and messing around in fun game modes people came up with. Releasing Halo without forge and with bare bones custom game tools is like selling a car without seats.</p>
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<p>This is a privileged opinion, no? Not everyone has the resources or means to leave the place they live.</p>
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