<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: eutropia</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eutropia</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:56:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=eutropia" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a good doorman would know this about you and tune your greeting into an acknowledgement of a subtle nod, I think</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688207</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Oracle workforce shrinks by about 21,000 employees amid AI adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They've got to find some way to afford those data centers, can you blame them?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:14:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637022</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's because sc2 is usually 1v1.<p>and also it's a lot harder</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:39:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619360</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're welcome to stop consuming the products of said "corrupt" science. You can start with clean air, water, and medicine...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608921</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if they could have transferred it to a separate nonprofit, and then that nonprofit has no restrictions on whom it is transferred or sold to?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508380</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is run-rate revenue and how is it different than revenue (classic)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:43:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315937</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Social Animus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are plenty of places to write systems code for a decent paycheck that aren't based in silicon valley or have a top20 web presence, and justine is definitely skilled enough to hold down one of those jobs.<p>Is the ask here to donate and support the desired lifestyle of traveling, owning a home in SF, and writing open source projects for fun and profit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:33:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315817</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like a good reason to avoid ever transacting with this business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:06:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315486</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Pay humans to engage in ads, not LinkedIn"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you'd still get fraud, for example I'm just imagining some reddit degens sharing the comprehension answers on a wiki or discord so people can skip the time commitment of reading the thing and instead grind as many as possible with cheatsheets while watching youtube or something.<p>Imagine any avenue students use to cheat at classes and I think many of them apply to this system.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  Colossal Biosciences
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and its<p><pre><code>  goal of resurrecting extinct bird species
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"bird species"?<p>C'mon.<p>They want to do a Jurassic Park.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257473</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  I was surprised by how cleanly our results came together,” said Pan, a neuroimaging expert with the West China Hospital of Sichuan University and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Australia. “We used no clinical information whatsoever in the clustering, and yet the three biotypes that emerged mapped well onto clinically recognized ADHD presentations.

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Really cool that this worked out. Now I want to get my brain scanned...</p>
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<p>Unrestricted Submarine Warfare...<p>I do love the failure to hide the admin interface of the AI article generator, and the wide open seemingly firebase-style database giving complete edit history of all the AI-generated articles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:29:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920728</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "A New Idea to Save the Climate? Dam the Bering Strait."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  If the AMOC is strong, then closing the strait would cause less fresh water to flow out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Atlantic, they found. That would help keep the North Atlantic salty and the AMOC stable. But if the AMOC is already near collapse, then closing the strait would have the opposite effect, destabilizing the AMOC further. The timing, in other words, is key.</code></pre></p>
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<p>We had such a ritual in our games back when I was in high school: the start of the campaign luck roll.<p>The idea was that your starting circumstances would be modified by the d100 zocchihedron roll.<p>One time, my buddy rolled a 2; our DM grimaced. "Well, you aren't starting off dead... but you might wish you were".<p>His starting conditions?<p>Naked.
In total darkness.
Sealed in a coffin.
But at least he wasn't alone: he had a rat nibbling on his toes!</p>
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<p>Version 2.1.113 is available as of this comment. I think the brew version lags behind the other ways of installing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815134</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a time and a place for everything, and rejecting popular media as "lowest common denominator" is the most uninspired form of cultural elitism.<p>Is it cynical to want your <art project> to make a profit? Or for it to make enough profit to subsidize other projects?<p>Is it cynical to make something accessible so more people who watch it are able to enjoy it?<p>I agree that it's embarrassing and feels crass when movies both try to be broadly appealing and simultaneously fail to be entertaining or well executed ... but many of the marvel movies clearly surpass that bar.<p>No one wants to make a bad movie that does poorly with critics and paying customers - but it does happen because making a movie is expensive and complicated and requires a lot of skilled people working together towards the same goal.<p>Regarding taste: do you think a michelin star chef swears off cheap food like hotdogs or fish and chips? Doubtful - because those foods have their place and the chef is able to enjoy them for what they are rather than use them as an excuse to display a superiority complex.</p>
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<p>these sorts of "your opinions must be financialized to be valid" takes are the equivalent of the middlebrow dismissal.<p>"Smart money" is an illusion that only holds up until they do something in an area you're familiar with. Many _many_ financiers know about finances and fuckall about anything else.<p>The claims and citations in the article stand on their own, without the additional burden of trying to make a bet based on facts in a rigged game based on mob mentality. How does one even bet against private equity data center deals??</p>
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<p>yes and his work is fairly sympathetic to the reactionary centrist and right agendas -<p>not to mention that the anxious generation is supported by a thin veneer of the most wildly cherry-picked data they could get, and they ignored just about any alternative explanation aside from their predetermined conclusion.<p>I'm fairly cynical about touch screen devices and kids, and won't be letting mine near any until they're old enough (whenever that is) but haidt's own charts don't support his conclusions in that book.<p>The actual reason teen mental health diagnoses started increasing so much?? An obamacare-related screening and reporting requirement change for pediatrics.</p>
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<p>is this marketing or is just relating what they did to keep things secure?<p><a href="https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/" rel="nofollow">https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028893</link><dc:creator>eutropia</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by eutropia in "OpenAI Has Murdered Orion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This person didn't have any one else and they say their fiance died and essentially they became a a shut-in, but that the chatbot steered them towards taking care of themself.<p>What would they have gone through with nothing to talk to at all? What would they have done without it?<p>Strange to consider...</p>
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