<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: ghostbrainalpha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ghostbrainalpha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:17:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ghostbrainalpha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Discovery Loop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did that really happen?  What was the fork you are talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200379</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am I the only one who thinks the "reverse sear" is like cheating?  It takes out all of the skill when you move from the pan to the oven, and I lose all of the fun in learning to be chef.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:12:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200263</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Europe's fires are just the start"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can articles on major news sites have typos this bad up for over a month?<p>"The crisis in France has claimed dozens of lives, with 40 people drowning while attempting to call off from the heat since June 18"<p>Call off should be "cool off".<p>And forgive me if this is a stupid question, but don't nuclear power plants produce enough energy that they could power their own cooling?  Why do they have to rely on the free cooling provided by a river?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:11:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111181</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "I Stopped “Creating Content”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stewart Lee did an hour of standup comedy on this same theme.<p>It's called "Stewart Lee: Content Provider" and its hilarous.<p><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6i59y" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6i59y</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985208</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought he lost the case?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847982</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Football MIGHT be slow enough that you could animate the plays Techmo Bowl style.<p>It would certainly be fun to attempt it.  You might have to mix in some pre-defined animations for "run up the middle", that could do minimal updates like Jersey numbers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574267</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is Hacker News where we appreciate these types comments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:52:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574046</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Polls became much less interesting as an Entertainment category once we all had experience with how unreliable they are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 21:23:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199851</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Indie band says AI stole their Billie Eilish cover"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People are going to make jokes about people who cover/steal songs being upset about Ai cover/stealing their songs.<p>But the article helped me understand exactly how much human originality is required for something to make it over the good guy / bad guy line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:45:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077422</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "AI makes you boring"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't you think their is an opposite of that effect too?<p>I feel like I can breeze past the easy, time consuming infrastructure phase of projects, and spend MUCH more time getting to high level interesting problems?</p>
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<p>Is "CRIME" an acronym?<p>Or is this actually a law enforcement related example?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077066</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Vietnam bans unskippable ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was forced to do this as a developer of Flash websites in the early 00's.<p>I loved making custom progress bars really fun so people didn't mind watching the huge sites download.<p>I HATED when they had me mess with the time so that it got to 90% really fast and then spent AGES finishing the last 10%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:30:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519742</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By the same logic we could say that there is no safe off-ramp from any diet or exercise protocol.<p>When the treatment is ceased, the benefits go away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061876</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46061876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just for fun, I would love to power my Game Boy with a little tiny gas powered engine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707952</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Couldn't you make the same argument that any of us on this forum using more than 1 monitor at our desk, doesn't really understand the benefits of our technology and are using our monitors like 19th century chalk boards?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707715</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would someone ever make this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:37:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005343</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40005343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "A lavish lifestyle strains credibility (1985)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still spend the money.  But you don't need to show off in front of the people you are stealing the money from.<p>There are a bunch of accounting firms, law firms, and consulting agencies that don't allow their employees to wear super expensive clothing, jewelry or drive luxury cars in front of their clients.  And they aren't even doing anything illegal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870075</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've already spent HOURS in Midjourney generating hundreds of images just to get the perfect cyborg robot elf.  I just want to use that work and upload the best of those images into the character creator, rather than hoping the prompt gets me something close to the character I want and waiting 20 minutes to find out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:07:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870018</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39870018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This joke made my day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:05:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39869996</link><dc:creator>ghostbrainalpha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39869996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39869996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ghostbrainalpha in "Launch HN: Eggnog (YC W24) – AI videos with consistent characters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any chance you will add the ability to upload images into your character creator?</p>
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