<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: driggs</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=driggs</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:02:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=driggs" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're someone who offsets the typical HN vocation with outdoor recreation like hiking, cycling, climbing, mountaineering, etc., then consider the weeklong Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course. Much more practically useful than EMT for the majority of time where you don't have an ambulance handy, and you can scratch a similar itch as the author's by doing volunteer Search and Rescue work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949646</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I appreciate the minimalist HN aesthetic, but without some context I'm not willing to click a mystery link to "Tender Lovemaking dot com".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699584</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love a good taste-of-their-own-medicine story like anyone else, but the headline is false.<p>It seems that this is about a YouTuber <i>stalking a Flock employee's vehicle through traffic</i> for 10-15 minutes, which is why the police were called.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:54:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684671</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He's not the fucking pope<p>No, but he <i>did</i> link to the Pope in this very essay.<p>Pope Leo XIV, "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence":<p><a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453651</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an evolutionary curiosity that their DNA study identified 17 species within the genus Lanmoa, but <i>L. asiatica</i> was the only species which produces this hallucinatory effect.<p>There are several very commonly found boletes within the genus Lanmoa in the US, including <i>L. pseudosensibilis</i> and the "Bouillon Bolete" <i>L. rubissima</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:12:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293308</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I purchased a bottle of good Vietnamese fish sauce after reading a thread on HN about its mythical flavor profile.<p>Added a few meager drops to a noodle soup, and I was so overwhelmed with nausea that I threw out the entire pot, and threw the entire bottle of fish sauce into the trash.<p>I can't imagine want an unholy stench this decades-old fish sauce plant must produce. I would have evacuated permanently, without question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:04:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160063</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "We discovered a new variant of Super Mario Bros"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TLDR: The <i>new variant</i> is that the word "repair" was changed to "service" in the user manual.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:28:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113022</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Oak – Git replacement designed for agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seconding this for geospatial dev projects, which may have absolutely massive binary data files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:26:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633973</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You've described every <i>recording</i> ever made.<p>I'm describing a band playing a concert to an empty ampitheatre which has been silent for two millennia after its inhabitants perished together in an instant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 16:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161791</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Live at Pompeii "concert" in that empty amphitheatre has always felt to me like they were playing to an audience of ghosts or spirits.<p>If you have the opportunity to see it on a big screen or IMAX, it's an incredibly moving experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 02:45:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156375</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That really improved things! Now each rabbithole goes deeper and deeper and deeper...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044342</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why we can't have nice things.<p>Looks like someone scripted `curl` in a loop and generated thousands of permutations of hate content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 01:26:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044317</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the "leaf node" pages link to multiple uncached new pages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043863</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Inkscape 1.4.4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a pretty absurd complaint.<p>Are you aware of any XML parser <i>ever</i> which preserves the plaintext formatting of the .xml file while magically inserting and modifying an arbitrary amount of XML data anywhere within the document?<p>SVG is just XML. Save your file in Inkscape, and <i>then</i> run `tidy` on it, or whatever you like for format your XML with.<p>(As a fellow hand-crafted XML fan, I feel your pain. But I also know when to choose my battles!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:19:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042664</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:21:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039698</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg:<p><a href="https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world" rel="nofollow">https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world</a><p><a href="https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders" rel="nofollow">https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:10:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039535</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree, CP/M has nothing to do with the story, nor does the 8080/8086 sidetrack.<p>The whole story is that Microsoft just never bothered to standardize, despite using it themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 12:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986025</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zip drives were revolutionary for 100mb and then 250mb storage, at the same time that many people gained widespread access to the Internet. But they were proprietary and required you to have an external drive available to write or read from them (and that might also mean a SCSI port).<p>So when affordable CD-R became available, even though early drives were slow writers, they had the advantage that they could be read from practically any computer. With ubiquitous non-proprietary CD-ROM drives and the huge 700mb capacity, Zip drives were tossed as soon as someone bought a CD-R drive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:52:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825198</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "neuroplasticity" which leads to a relative quietness presumably comes <i>after</i> the psychedelic experience.<p>Interestingly, the paper only lists the following adverse effects: visual perceptual changes, nausea, and headache. Given that the patients in the double-blind study were those who suffer from moderate to severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I could imagine some significant anxiety in the 200 µg active group!<p>The paper only reports significant results at the 100 µg and 200 µg dose level, not less, which seems like another strike against psychedelic microdosing. The pharmaceutical industry would love to find a magic psychedelic drug which doesn't result in the psychedelic experience, but it seems like that <i>experience</i> is the key to their mental impact.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398077</link><dc:creator>driggs</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by driggs in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, he admits to using <i>two</i> AI tools: He used Claude Code, which failed because the blog was intentionally set up to refuse AI crawlers, so he pasted the page into ChatGPT. Then he blames ChatGPT for paraphrasing the hallucinated quotes.<p>He makes the claim that he was just using AI to help him put together an outline for his article, when the evidence clearly shows that he used the AI's verbatim output.</p>
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