<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: eco</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eco</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:40:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eco" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Elon's $1T tranches are mostly based on market cap, right? Switching from just a carmaker to a "physical AI" company could be all he needs to convince the stock market to ignore Tesla's declining profits and raise the market cap even higher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804029</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He founded a company with Jim Keller called Atomic Semi since then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:41:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179689</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46179689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This kind of makes we wish CURSED.md was a standard file in projects. So much hard-earned knowledge could be shared.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:16:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677816</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45677816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google ngram viewer has vendor at two orders of magnitude more usage. Personally, I don't think I've ever seen "vender" before.</p>
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<p>That's one of the things that drives me nuts about all the public discourse about AI and our future. The vast majority of words written/spoken on the subject are by generic "thought leaders" who really have no greater understanding of AI than anyone else who uses it regularly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:03:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305888</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prusa is going to use Bondtech's upcoming INDX system, which swaps out the entire filament path.<p>Bambu Vortek seems to just be swapping nozzles so, while that should cut down on waste, it's going to be much slower (XL is already much faster than AMS based printers but comes at a substantial price increase).<p>INDX tool changes are expected to be around 8-12 seconds. Vortek would be probably be around 30+ seconds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286782</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45286782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've had two interactions with Wendy's AI drive-through, and the first time I was pleasantly surprised, but the second time it would not stop suggesting add-ons after every single thing I said. It was comically pushy.<p>A human would have pretty quickly picked up on my increasingly exasperated "no, thanks" and stopped doing it, but the AI was completely blind to my growing frustration, following the upsell directive without any thought.<p>It reminded me of when I worked in retail as a kid and we were required to ask if they needed any batteries at checkout, even if they were just buying batteries. I learned pretty quickly to ignore that mandate in appropriate situations (unless the manager was around).<p>Makes me wonder how often employees are smart enough to ignore hard rules mandated by far-off management that would hurt the company's reputation if they were actually followed rigidly. AI isn't going to have that kind of sensitivity to subtle clues in human interaction for some time, I suspect.</p>
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<p>ipcamtalk feels completely captured by resellers and affiliates. I'd suggest taking any advice you see there with a grain of salt.</p>
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<p>My understanding is that Ra-Elco essentially moved to Standard Supply after the building burned down. I haven't checked it out myself yet so I can't confirm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 02:18:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122506</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "GIMP 3.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can configure it to not be enabled by default, but you click a little blue circle next to the title and it will show you the community version.<p>Plenty of good content is forced to play the clickbait thumbnail/title game and it would be a shame to miss some of it because of YouTube's incentive problems.</p>
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<p>I think you maybe didn't see the "yet" in there. This is software written by unpaid volunteers. There is no user-hostility, only a lack of time and help at implementing things.</p>
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<p>It's not though. Even generally good YouTubers are forced to play the thumbnail game. Garbage content is typically revealed in the community title.</p>
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<p>Check out the DeArrow extension. Crowd sourced thumbnails and titles. It's great.</p>
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<p>GEGL is just a library created to modernize GIMP's image manipulation pipeline. It forms a DAG of image operations. It's what unlocked non-destructive edits and porting everything over to it was a pretty massive undertaking (though it probably didn't need to take 20 years...)<p>End users really don't need to know about it. Its exposure in the UI is likely just because a lot of stuff it can do isn't available yet in the traditional GIMP UI.</p>
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<p>The registry method is Ctrl2Cap by SysInternals.<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctrl2cap" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/ctr...</a><p>It's the first thing I download whenever I'm setting up a new Windows machine.</p>
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<p>Yeah, my collection isn't that big, but my friend's Jellyfin which I use all the time has 4000+ movies and 400+ shows (11,000+ episodes). Works just as well as my significantly smaller collection.</p>
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<p>It does not always transcode. It transcodes if your client reports it doesn't support the format or if the bitrate cap on your client is lower than the source media. It says why transcoding is happening in the Administration Dashboard for any currently playing media.</p>
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<p>One of the best things in SponsorBlock is Highlight segments. If the video is 10 minutes of filler building up to a single interesting/exciting moment you can often see exactly on the timeline where to jump to.</p>
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<p>I love the DeArrow experience. The problem with clickbait on YouTube is that even good creators are compelled to use it because it works. Whether it's due to the algorithm or just human behaviour I don't know.<p>There's a little blue button next to the video titles to toggle it on and off and it's very interesting to compare the community title and thumbnail with the original. Good original titles are often left largely intact, maybe with some extra context. Betteridge law is no longer relevant. It's nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43056922</link><dc:creator>eco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43056922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43056922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eco in "Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The steel on the fuel tanks of Starship is only four millimeters thick. The chance of it surviving are basically non-existent.<p>I imagine the journalist was just fishing for expert quotes that fit their predetermined narrative and leaving everything the expert said about the unlikelihood out.</p>
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