<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: cptcobalt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cptcobalt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:14:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cptcobalt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rather under-discussed back then: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766937">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45766937</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083760</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49083760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>man, I dont even use Figma for personal & side projects because its so expensive. I still occasionally fire up sketch or freehand it.<p>Figma is a work tool only and I'm disappointed by its MCP tooling which feels late and behind where it should be, I just feel forced to use Figma Make which stays in their walled garden without practical utility and connections to my actual codebases</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:41:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819358</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>honestly this should be updated to the main link, the Anubis at difficulty 8 is astonishingly hostile</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:21:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565136</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are two factors I see with this:<p>I sometimes like having my content editorialized. Some of the LLM writing tropes are ok to me—I'd delete them if I added this prompt to my instructions (but I wouldn't). But my editorial preferences—the sense of voice and tone I want the LLM to make—are <i>rarely</i> these tropes. Instead, I have a positive prompt of the angles I do enjoy.<p>However, what is cloying about these tropes for many is that they're becoming empty words. Instead of tack-sharp summaries or reductions to simple understanding, the model is spilling extra tokens for minimal value—I don't need to read "it's not X, it's Y" for the n-th time today. I'd really prefer tighter, more succinct reading that <i>actually directly quotes sources</i> (which modern models rarely do to avoid copyright traps).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:39:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311429</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it seems like the Pro Display XDR is discontinued. The webpage for that now redirects to the Studio Displays XDR</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:52:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233258</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point of the comment is that this is not something we should have to tolerate or worry about in a seemingly high-trust society.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:44:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782463</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can usually save more by generating solar locally and using it to power the home and charge the battery, then discharging the battery during peak hours (usually around and just after sunset) to earn the most. Obviously higher upfront capex.<p>Pure grid cycling is also frowned on by some utilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:24:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603129</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not all homes are made equal: different appliances & electronics from different vintages, etc.<p>I have 2 EVs (Tesla and BMW), an electric oven, and a homelab rack (but no HVAC), and my usage was 34.4 MWh last year — with 100% from Solar and Powerwall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:12:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602947</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Notably, about one-third of users stopped taking the medication during the study period.<p>This isn't always the patient's choice—my insurance/PBM (CVS Caremark) dropped coverage for the GLP-1 that I was taking (Zepbound) and had several rounds of prior-authorization shenanigans over a few months before they approved the previous-generation GLP-1, Wegovy. Now I've had to start the ramp-up of a different medication again, which hurt and stalled progress. Evil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591818</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's a pretty reasonable wish for more macOS + Apple Silicon support of games, including more native FEX & Proton ARM support within the steam client. (We're lucky Steam works, it's a better games client than the Mac App Store dreams to be, but that's also not saying much either.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:21:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137196</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been following this game on twitter, and I’m probably going to lose my entire weekend to playing it. We need more sweaty simulators like this—the genre doesn’t have enough entries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:24:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531265</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Emerald Source Code Commentary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Last Update November 2024<p>Would be cool to read more!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:48:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336086</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45336086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this not going too far? It's a pretty weak "let's save the kids argument" that only serves to improve mass-surveillance outside of the argument presented. Like, this is the advent of strong thought policing and thought monitoring over the wires—oh no, you can't use a VPN because it's bad for "the kids"!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:08:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952445</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44952445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is an example of above average but not <i>great</i> AI writing. I still read it to the end because the subject is interesting and there is enough focus (and, seemingly) expertise on the topic.<p>I think the telltale for me that makes me count as heavily AI-assisted is the lack of inclusion of real, inline examples of actual fares & their restrictions. I know I've seen them broken down before in other content. But not once here was there a full readout of an actual fare bucket & its rules. I think a human writer would have been tempted to include even one of those as an artifact, but an AI as a topic reviewer/summarizer/collator won't unless explicitly instructed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642386</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44642386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Effects of Novel Swear Words"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>classic tribes!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44449041</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44449041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44449041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "A new PNG spec"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like this new PNG spec just cements what exists already, great! The best codecs are the ones that work on everything. PNG and JPEG work everywhere, reliably.<p>Try opening a HEIC or AV1 or something on a machine that doesn't natively support it down to the OS-level, and you're in for a bad time. This stuff needs to work everywhere—in every app, in the OS shell for quick-looking at files, in APIs, on Linux, etc. If a codec does not function at that level, it is not functional for wider use and should not be a default for any platform.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:30:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378457</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prototype is not a charitable interpretation of the product. If you've been part of hardware, firmware, and software development processes, you'd really truly understand what prototypes are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:45:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259090</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44259090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How kind of Microsoft to feature Arc, an end-of-life browser, in their screenshot for browser defaults.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:50:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171326</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the point of BlastDoor, as covered in the post, is that Apple is indeed working to prevent injection at the cost of silently failing & poorly handling legitimate messages.<p>> <i>By being pedantic about the formatting, BlastDoor is protecting the recipient from an exploit that would abuse that type of issue.</i><p>So, not impossible, but less likely than you think</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 15:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986004</link><dc:creator>cptcobalt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43986004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cptcobalt in "Never film the new Ex90 because you will break your cell camera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps this is a reactionary question, but: shouldn't this be recall worthy? Or is it inherent to Lidar itself?<p>This has the potential to damage safety-critical sensors used in backup cameras  or autonomous vehicles—and, obviously, inflicts damage on personal property like smartphones.<p>Volvo even states online that their sensors can damage cameras: <a href="https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/ex90/article/47d2c97fd33effd3c0a8cc3718c999b7-80fb02620036ede3ac1b7acc5352ecfe-8664b2fa77a7e089c0a8296870d1a409/" rel="nofollow">https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/ex90/article/47d2c9...</a></p>
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