Hacker News: fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fearmerchantHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:54:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Grok 4.7"]]>> The prose is just weird.

Agreed. Do you think it's due to that EU issue of making AI text be identifiable?

]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:58:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791724fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791724https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791724<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?"]]>I first started with a TI/994a and I like AI. Programming is not my job, and never has been. Is that all you're asking?

]]>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:41:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697709fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697709<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]>The gate is green

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:15:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527512fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527512<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]>I've mentioned this before, but it reminds me of Oswald Bates from In Living Color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xxvp5R9hE

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:13:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527485fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527485<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"]]>The USA is food self sufficient if your definition is having enough calories to survive.

]]>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:05:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473535fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473535https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473535<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"]]>I don't follow presidential administrations closely. What's the "often illegal" bit you mentioned?

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:17:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467244fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467244https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467244<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"]]>I don't understand the issue. Am I the only person with a fake account, using a throw away email and fake information? It doesn't have to be this complicated. It's the internet. You can lie.

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:08:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465172fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465172https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465172<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"]]>I'd argue that those CEO-type (leadership) positions are a lot about relationships which AI's aren't going to be able to replicate.

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:02:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465076fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465076https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465076<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"]]>You're right but I think you're running into the emotional side of the issue for some folks. The "not coming back" angle is a feature not a bug. Saves having to track folks down, potentially detain them, etc.

]]>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:58:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465013fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465013https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465013<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]>You're assuming I used my own information. It's the internet. You can lie.

]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:09:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455122fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455122https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455122<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]>I have an account and I paid zero for it. Are we talking about the same thing?

]]>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:34:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443108fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443108https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443108<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"]]>Newspapers are still often required to be used for certain government publications and they cost money. TwitterX is free. I'm not clear what the controversy here is exactly.

]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:06:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441909fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441909<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"]]>I'm going to buy one to watch youtube videos and surf social media.

]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:12:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434509fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434509<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"]]>The way the Apple M-series does ram that might be difficult to pull off.

]]>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:04:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434359fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434359<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms"]]>Women are the ones making money on it. At least some are. Then there's a long tail that don't.

]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:50:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424236fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424236https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424236<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"]]>Is this because they changed the word probabilities to allow for identifying AI text? If so, I don't need a computer to tell me when something is AI. It's crazy obvious from odd word choices.

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:03:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379509fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379509<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"]]>You're gonna want SPF 50 in Alaska too.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:56:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352589fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352589https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352589<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"]]>... and solar panels.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:01:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351807fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351807<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "People are worried about America's solvency"]]>You can't get elected being the party that pulls away the punch bowl.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:40:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346316fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346316<![CDATA[New comment by fearmerchant in "The Median Voter Is a Maoist"]]>They do, what makes you think they don't?

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:25:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331539fearmerchanthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331539https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331539