<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: cowsandmilk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cowsandmilk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:55:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cowsandmilk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Siri AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m sorry, but the DMA is mandating Cambridge Analytica-type access to data. That whole scandal was people on Facebook granting a third party access to all the data they had access to. And Cambridge Analytica lied about how they were going to use it.<p>Facebook got roasted for this, but now the EU wants the same open data policy from every big tech company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:06:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454267</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Siri AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>15 Pro Max is supported…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:56:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454170</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> frequently opening boxes, but not constantly.<p>If you are frequently opening boxes, that spring-loaded mechanism is going to cause repetitive stress injuries. No competent workplace health and safety employee would approve it.<p>Also, if you are using a utility knife frequently, you likely have a depth you want to keep it. Say I’m installing carpeting. I want to set the razor at a depth for the shag of carpet I’m working on today and have my blade at that depth until I’m done. With a spring load, the only depth that can easily be set is fully out where I’m pushing it all the way. Any intermediate depths will result in me shaking back and forth trying to hold a constant intermediate pressure.<p>This is a utility knife for someone rich who uses it for the day’s amazons packages because they think using the blade from their scissors is beneath them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:32:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440753</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm often impressed by the quality of the UK's open data.<p>The ordnance survey not being open data is a bad look though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:51:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338906</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, why was OpenStreetMap created?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:04:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288556</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Ferrari Luce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These doors are designed for being chauffeured, not for you to get in at the same time as your driver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278725</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This, if you’re high performing, the company won’t question your use of tokens. If they want to limit it, they have ways to set limits on spend and usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247029</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The number of countries where life imprisonment is available possible sentence for counterfeiting seems to confirm it having some of the harshest punishments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 12:53:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083595</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You want real time<p>Isn’t the point that OpenAI’s use case does not require realtime?<p>When OpenAI responds, it has most of the audio in advance of when the user needs to hear it. It produces audio faster than real time, so a real time protocol is a bad fit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:40:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070921</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the Bloomberg article explicitly calls out Vanguard, I don’t think using it as a counter-example is inappropriate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013172</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article feels overblown.<p>Here’s a trust that has 250 billion, but reports prices and does many other things the article says isn’t required: <a href="https://workplace.vanguard.com/investments/product-details/fund/2040" rel="nofollow">https://workplace.vanguard.com/investments/product-details/f...</a><p>Not opaque and it has lower fees than the retail S&P 500 funds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:26:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012794</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Craig Venter has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Only 79… far from a complete human experience<p>It seems you’re judging his life solely on the age when he died rather than all the things he did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960688</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I routinely have to correct product managers repeatedly on key details of how their products work and how their customers operate so this doesn’t surprise me at all. It is totally a mistake I could see a product management director having been corrected on a dozen times but they keep making it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:38:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935278</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GE Capital was not just vendor financing and its serious problems were not due to vendor financing. I don’t think it is a great example in any way.</p>
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<p>No, it can level out below that and is (as the parent was saying).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:25:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790215</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Often an acquisition of a company is for the set of customers. If I sell my lawn care business and then turn around and email all my former clients offering them lawn care via my new company, I’ve just undercut what I just sold.<p>Noncompete shouldn’t be so broad that I couldn’t move to another city and start a lawn care business there, but I shouldn’t be able to compete directly with the business I just sold using my insider information of that business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578008</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578008</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Even the authors of this study go to great pains to not challenge the dogma that microplastics are existentially terrifying.<p>What great pains are they going through? The study is a discussion of measurement techniques and makes no comment on whether they are harmful because that’s irrelevant to the paper.<p>This could just as easily be a paper on how wearing the wrong type of gloves results in overestimating calcium in soil. You’re the one injecting a political agenda.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565773</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "The bee that everyone wants to save"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For livestock other than bees, it is considered unacceptable to starve them or have them attack your neighbors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556272</link><dc:creator>cowsandmilk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cowsandmilk in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t even get the point of this site. They say:<p>> Most of this spending isn’t waste. Hospitals need staff. Universities need facilities. Even small charities need people to run programs. The problem isn’t intent. It’s that the reporting system was designed to satisfy the IRS, not to show donors where their money went.<p>The complaint seems to be that the form filed with the IRS has the information the IRS is interested in, not the information whoever made the site wants.<p>The reality is that I know how the places I donate my money and time to use their money because I’m not relying on their IRS filings to get that information. I would suggest others do the same and donate to places where they understand what the org is doing and where the money is going.</p>
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<p>They still do, they just call it insurance.</p>
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