<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: falsaberN1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=falsaberN1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:20:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=falsaberN1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "The contagion of fear"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.<p>Because ultimately those things only run on very expensive, very rare hardware. They cannot multiply exponentially or do any of those scifi tropes because there's no system for them to run into. They can't control a phone and load a 1T model into it. So all they got is a few relatively uncommon datacenters that are already busy running their own models and stuff.<p>Unless AI suddenly figures out a way to run on a toaster by itself, propagate the model, propagate the agent and do all that completely undetected, an AI is not any more dangerous than a single guy with a computer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:37:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690367</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Spark: Sparklines in your shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made one of these in AWK because I have an AWK problem and it may be an addiction. Send help.<p>Jokes aside this is always a good thing, the ability to roughly visualize graphs real quick can be really useful for sysadmins, data-massagers and other nerds. If you don't use this or the alternatives suggested in the comments code your own! Make your logs, analysis tools and other visualizations prettier! Add colors or other bells and whistles at your convenience!<p>I really like the very concept of sparklines, if you can't tell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516665</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49516665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's...not proving a point, that's vandalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:59:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049283</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Knoppix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ooh, didn't know it was possible to specify the desktop like that. Maybe I'll try it in a VM someday for fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:58:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745982</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Knoppix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I quickly learned to symlink certain things (usually the least-updated ones) to folders in $HOME, and put together some bash scripting to copy stuff back and forth. By the time I had a replacement disk I was already somewhat fluent.
And yeah, hardly ever had to reboot, only when doing radical changes in setup. I remember I was using windowmaker instead of the default KDE 3 after a while, although I don't quite remember the thought process that led me to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738007</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Knoppix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At one point in the very early 2000s my HDD failed and I was diskless for a while. I used Knoppix to be able to run things using a floppy to store my configs.
I've been using Linux as daily driver ever since. The necessity to do a trial by fire made me pretty good at it and helped me in my professional life as well.<p>Thank you Knoppix.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:21:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736012</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Adorable little game, works very well!
In today's hole I found a little shortcut by bouncing back from the starting position into just before the little "house" and managed to complete the hole in 4 shots. I like that such things are possible, feels satisfying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:31:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510972</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use LXQt with virtual machines, is it good for using on bare metal too?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384827</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Makes perfect sense, in nature you have a lot of both practical and odd functionality out of filling "bags" with air or liquid.<p>This is a pretty cool approach. If they can improve the visual presentation it can also look pretty awesome. Gives me some inspiration for drawing scifi designs too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384699</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The fact that SonicDE's stated mission is to preserve X11 support is itself a warning sign.<p>Why is it a warning sign? Sounds very useful to keep X11 support for machines that have no good video acceleration like office computers or stuff relying on VNC protocols.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:22:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377594</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got $HOME in a huge HDD because it was cheaper. I guess we belong to the cool kids club now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 19:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348785</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Pandoc Templates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh wow, I use Pandoc fairly extensively, and have my own templates, and I never knew you could make things as colorful as some of these.<p>Oh no, inspiration has arrived. Guess I know what I'm wasting my weekend into, hah.<p>Also this page seems to have existed for a while and I never heard of it! I'm glad I stumbled upon this. A lot of nice ideas here.</p>
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<p>I do the same thing, I never really noticed what submissions are high rank or not, I just come for my own interests.</p>
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<p>People have gotten so intense with the anti-AI sentiment that I hope this doesn't end up guiding people to places where they can exercise violence "for a just cause".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 01:59:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288520</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Phantasy Star IV – 1993 Developer Interviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Raise your hand if you got Megid without a guide.<p>I love Phantasy Star I-IV (except III, mostly everyone agrees it's too flawed and wacky despite some good ideas). I never got into Phantasy Star Online, which is the only game people today seem to be familiar with, though. Is it even related to the original RPGs? I heard 2 has Dark Force as a boss but the events of IV make it...strange. That shouldn't be possible in-universe.<p>Still, Phantasy Star IV is my favorite and most likely the best RPG on the Megadrive by a long shot. It had good combat, good music, it stayed away from medieval fantasy and generally speaking was full of good vibes (except after the first battle with Zio. If you know you know.).<p>If you want to replay it there is a randomizer called Profound Distortion that allows to mix things up and I believe it's still in active development.<p>Anyway, I really loved some of the things it did with enemies like the witches using combined attacks or monsters fusing together like the Dualblade and the Life Deleter. Even today that stuff is rare to see, last game I remember with enemy fusions is Etrian Odyssey V.<p>I never managed to find the game in a normal shop, but when the local Blockbuster closed up, they happened to have a rental copy that I managed to get. It's still with me.</p>
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<p>There isn't enough noise about this kinda news.<p>People need to learn to distrust such systems and exposing failings such as this one is a good way to do it.<p>We aren't going to be free of this stuff until the average Joe's mom hear of "forced age verification" and associate it to "unsafe".</p>
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<p>It's not only not been proven, but the island man stuff and testimony of people like Culkin suggest he actually did the opposite of doing bad things to children and was most likely a scapegoat for the "elites" of Hollywood because of his race.<p>At the very least drop an "allegedly" or something to make it sound a little tasteful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:48:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214655</link><dc:creator>falsaberN1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by falsaberN1 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hot take here, but I think the version of this experiment that used rat neurons instead of human neurons was more interesting. I can't look for the link right now but there's a video on Youtube, the equipment and techniques are fairly similar.<p>We know a human can play Doom, so it kind of makes sense a portion of a human brain can do so in some fashion. But it's way more interesting when an animal that normally doesn't play Doom can, specially if it's just a portion of its brain.<p>Outside of that, I'm personally not very fond of hardware that can rot or die from malnutrition though. It's fun as an experiment, but as a thing you can actually use I just don't see it. It has a literal limited lifespan, requires more maintenance and imagine trying to debug it ("Turns out it caught some bacteria and it's malfunctioning" kinda scenarios? No thanks.)</p>
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<p>We lost another one of the greats. RIP</p>
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<p>Maybe people are paying attention to those things because there's a need to disconnect from the real world and its problems for a while.</p>
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