<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: hn_user82179</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hn_user82179</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:36:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hn_user82179" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Bumble gives up on women making the first move"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't used dating apps in a few years but I stayed away from tinder and preferred Hinge and Bumble because I was looking for LTRs only. The most interesting and compatible people i've met (and in my friend groups, the longest relationships I've seen) have been from Hinge but I liked the idea of Bumble as it meant I could reach out to matches with my own timing and try to craft something interesting to say - there was no pressure to reply to simply whoever had messaged me first. I also think it's a bit of a filter for my own preferences which is for men who prefer a more progressive woman and/or don't fall into traditional gender roles, so  in theory Bumble should've been perfect for me.<p>Bumble as a whole went downhill before this - I'm not sure why. I think (at least with hetero matching), men swiped right on everyone to try to turn it into a numbers game (since they otherwise couldn't reach out to anyone themselves) then women would get overwhelmed with the number of matches and the ticking time-window and then would send out generic 1-liners just to get the conversation started and remove countdown timer. I think the time-window was too short - you could swipe on ~10 people, decide that was enough and put the phone down for a few hours, and then later get flooded with notifications when those people in turn swiped on you and then that was when the count-down window started regardless of if you had the time to open up the app and start a conversation with 10 people. I usually gave up because I'd run out of time to message people and the matches would expire. I think extending the window is a good move but making it so anyone can message first basically takes away the point of bumble and what made it different from Tinder. This feels like a deathblow to Bumble.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:55:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265625</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm so impressed by your ability to keep them going but it looks like ebay still has a ton of pairs of them if you want to stock up.</p>
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<p>for anyone else who was confused: <a href="https://clean-code-developer.de/die-initiative/armbaender/" rel="nofollow">https://clean-code-developer.de/die-initiative/armbaender/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076014</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My guess is unnecessary surgeries which isn't an unreasonable concern. Something like 40% of MRIs showing spinal disc herniation are asymptomatic and the rate of surgeries to fix can be a coinflip.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897918</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is this your book? thanks for sharing! This isn't at all my domain of knowledge but I have a little unexpected free time on my hands and am excite to learn something new. Your book Internet Daemons looks interesting too</p>
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<p>Google just did a follow on offering. I’m not sure of the numbers when comparing the 2 options but it seems like these companies are able to do either</p>
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<p>I'm grateful for you mentioning this. I grew up with ibuprofen as my default painkiller without really thinking of it too much but am about to do PRP which requires no NSAIDs for a week prior and 3 months after - but they do allow/recommend Tylenol as an alternative, especially for the post-procedure pain. I just would've assumed it was a sufficiently good substitute that I could treat them equivalently but now i know to be very careful about tracking how many I'm taking each day</p>
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<p>What a weird article. As an avid cyclist, I would love self-driving cars to eventually take over the roads as I do believe they will <i>eventually</i> be safer than the humans with phones in their hands.<p>But I also think Tesla has singlehandedly wrecked the public perception of self-driving cars with their recklessness and disregard for human life, and faking statistics to try to legalize their self-driving mode: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-presented-misleading-full-self-driving-safety-data-european-regulators-2026-06-15/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-presented-misleading-ful...</a><p>Separately, I'd be pissed if my lawmaker tried to make this argument:<p>> New York state Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D–Bronx) wants a law that says motor vehicles for hire "shall not be…operated by an automated driving system without a human driver…seated behind the steering wheel and engaged in the task of driving."<p>> He says the state must protect immigrant taxi and Uber drivers who live in his district.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768998</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>paywall free: <a href="https://removepaywalls.com/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/after-layoffs-meta-is-training-ai-on-its-own-workers.html" rel="nofollow">https://removepaywalls.com/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/a...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:24:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944785</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944785</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “I’m curious why this had to be posted. Especially on the company account. On the practical level every time stuff like that gets posted it gets harder for us to sell the software outside of the US (for sure in the current political climate), and I doubt we need this in the US?” wrote one frustrated employee. The message received more than 50 “+1” emojis.<p>> “Wether [sic] we acknowledge it or not, this impacts us all personally,” another worker wrote on Monday. “I’ve already had multiple friends reach out and ask what the hell did we post.” This message received nearly two dozen “+1” emoji reactions.<p>> “Yeah it turns out that short-form summaries of the book’s long-form ideas are easy to misrepresent. It’s like we taped a ‘kick me’ sign on our own backs,” a third worker wrote. “I hope no one who decided to put this out is surprised that we are, in fact, getting kicked.”<p>entirely possible they're phrasing their concerns on the corporate slack to be 'pro-company' so they don't worry about getting fired for their views but it doesn't actually sound like they're wondering anything, they're just bothered that it's being brought to light.</p>
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<p>I don't follow, can Musk not do that? Also who/what is sama?</p>
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<p>> I don’t think Elon Musk personally has to put his finger on any scale. I thought EFF would be his thing too, no?<p>Not sure why you would say that, I know he’s branded himself as a tech guy but beyond that nothing about the EFF seems to match his values.<p>The EFF tried to sue him last year too: <a href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713212</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> not every cow is only fed with grass, and what about that grass, has it been treated, etc...<p>the (low) possibility of mad cow always lurks in my mind when discussing things like this. I have a deep fear of prions.<p>The much more common scenario is the use of growth hormones in cows - to the point that pro athletes traveling/competing in Central and South America are instructed to avoid beef altogether as they later test positive in their drug tests for anabolic steroids.<p>I personally opt for meat over vegetarian options when given the choice to make sure I get sufficient protein (I do track and I struggle to get enough when eating vegetarian) but I still would vastly prefer more meat alternatives. I'm always very impressed by the Beyond options and I'm glad it's very slowly becoming more mainstream. I remember the first time I'd had an Impossible Burger was in San francisco about 10 years ago - a group of friends and I were talking about this "crazy meatless burger that still feels/tastes like meat" and we searched out a restaurant that offered it. The fact that national fast food chains are offering it now is indicative of the progress being made in society and normalizing the meatless alternatives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:37:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420293</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47420293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very curious what city you moved to if you don't mind sharing! I live in a small city that in its downtown proper has good bike infrastructure but everywhere else it is terrible and the broader area is very anti-cyclist unfortunately.</p>
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<p>Idk who "you people" is referring to. But the trends for the cities who have been spending moneys on these improvements are <i>better</i> than nationwide. Not to mention the article we're discussing (improvements in Helsinki) explicitly attribute the decrease in traffic deaths to the same kind of improvements Seattle/Portland/SF have been making.</p>
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<p>Where are your stats from? Pedestrian deaths across the US are at near all-time highs, but in contrast SF reports drops: <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/pedestrian-fatalities-sf-california/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/pedestrian-fatalit...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:49:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240883</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>multiple children in my area have died due to being hit by distracted drivers driving near schools. One incident resulted in 2 children being dragged 60 yards. Here's a snippet from an article about the death I was referencing:<p>> The woman told police she was “eating yogurt” before she turned onto the road and that she was late for an appointment. She said she handed her phone to her son and asked him to make a call “but could not remember if she had held it so face recognition could … open the phone,” according to the probable cause statement.<p>> The police investigation found that she was traveling 50 mph in a 40 mph zone when she hit the boys. She told police she didn’t realize she had hit anything until she saw the boys in her rearview mirror.<p>The Waymo report is being generous in comparing to a fully-attentive driver. I'm a bit annoyed at the headline choice here (from OP and the original journalist) as it is fully burying the lede.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:56:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816468</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I highly doubt professional or even amateur quizzers wouldn't use flashcards. Especially armed with a SRS algo, it would be the most efficient way to learn to <i>quickly</i> recall the type of info needed for quiz bowls</p>
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<p>I would love to hear more about your setup!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500748</link><dc:creator>hn_user82179</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hn_user82179 in "Yearly analytics on my spaced repetition results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did 10k reviews. Admittedly, very streakily - so spurts intense study for 2-3 months than several months off - I think about 2.5 spurts total. I felt pretty wrung out after. 51k is a ton, congrats!</p>
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