<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: falcor84</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=falcor84</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:30:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=falcor84" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Amazon tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you mean? I don't see how Amazon would go out of business if they show the best match for the thing you just searched for higher than the ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347025</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Amazon tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>"The best" is not a static product. If Amazon had no way for vendors to showcase their product ... Would you want to live in a world in which you CAN'T bump your placement?<p>Agreed about it not being static, but I don't see why ads should be that answer. The easiest way to "bump" a product is just sell it for less for an introduction period, so that people sorting Low->High will see it before the current highest rated one, at least until they get high ratings, and then can increase the price. If they're going to be losing money on marketing, it would be nicer if it goes to consumers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:02:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346667</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Constantine's Bridge Has Surfaced from Beneath the Danube"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://archive.today/2e7Gx" rel="nofollow">http://archive.today/2e7Gx</a><p>There's no paywall, but I couldn't see the content with all more popups.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344152</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a clear and significant difference between content that a company created itself, and the data they collected from their customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343785</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49343785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "GIMP Development Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, they weren't quite wrong - it is an order of magnitude easier to reverse engineer an xml-based format than a binary one, especially now with LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:17:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330350</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enzymes haven't introduced any fundamentally new capabilities. Any reaction they catalyze could just happen on its own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312408</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, why are you not worried?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311837</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if it is in some places, but nevertheless I wonder - is there a good reason for that? I don't think any lawmaker actually wants tax calculations to have the potential of not halting, right? ... right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:49:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306406</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was really hard for me to parse that headline. I'd instead suggest:<p>Hacker claims exfiltrating data on 680,000 French taxpayers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298480</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't accept that argument. As I see it, laws should be structured as data rather than code, using a clean non-Turing-Complete DSL for any embedded logic and calculations. Maybe there would still be occasional situations when new software features are needed, but it should be a rare occurrence rather than on every new change.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273265</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting, so based on this, do you think that Socrates would have been more ok with learning from an AI that can speak back to defend its claims (assuming we address the sycophantic tendencies) than with learning from "frozen" books?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:42:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257378</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Every time the AI solves a problem that I would not have been able to efficiently solve alone, it has replaced an interaction that previously would have happened with a mentor/supervisor/code reviewer.<p>I suppose that Socrates would strongly agree, seeing how the same argument could be applied to learning from a book.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:33:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247775</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Muse Glimmer: Meta's open model built for always-on local agents. 30B parameters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Built for agents that don't stop with reliable tool-calling, persistent state across restarts, and self-managed memory across hours-long sessions.<p>That "don't stop with reliable tool-calling" part took me a while to parse. I'm not sure which exact punctuation mark is needed there (comma, colon, em-dash?), but this is one of those examples of a sentence that would probably be easier to read if it were written by an LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:42:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241940</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Nearest Pint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're off by a factor of 10: 14k/150 is ~93 residents per pub.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:03:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241628</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a sequence of thin lines, between using Chrome out of the box, to using something like Brave, to using a highly customized Zen Browser, to having ChatGPT look up a particular page for you, to using a small BeautifulSoup/scrapy script to scrape dozens of pages, to scraping the entire web. And at every point on this spectrum it's humans driving a "user agent" tool to make requests and process responses on their behalf.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:41:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213050</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well agreed, but it's not new, the web has been actively made user hostile by every website owner and their "273 partners".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:28:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212868</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Crash experiences of highly automated vehicles and human drivers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Results: Overall, 22% of L4 crash involvements were deemed police-reportable or maybe police-reportable, and two thirds of these occurred in driverless operation. L4 vehicles were unlikely to be the striking vehicle or primary contributor to crashes. Waymo L4 vehicles in driverless operation had police-reportable crash involvement rates 68% lower than human drivers in the same areas and years. Waymo’s 
rate of rear-ending another vehicle was 91% lower; its vehicles’ rate of being rear-ended was 40% lower. 
These results apply only to the L4 vehicles in driverless operation that were studied.<p>That's impressive stats, coming from what seems to be an independent org.<p>Edit: I just saw previous discussion on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026276">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026276</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:19:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177048</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49177048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, I'm confused. My formulation "experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person" and your "topic experts overestimate how much the average person knows about it" seem semantically identical to me, just from a different side of the relation. What nuance did I miss?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:51:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163546</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person.<p>And of course there's a relevant xkcd: <a href="https://xkcd.com/2501/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/2501/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161372</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falcor84 in "Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Especially because it takes weeks before the infected start showing symptoms.<p>I just wanted to say that your phrasing here is a fabulously ominous one for the first episode of an HBO show.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:11:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157706</link><dc:creator>falcor84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157706</guid></item></channel></rss>