<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: hnuser123456</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hnuser123456</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:02:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hnuser123456" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rod holding mechanisms require active power to hold the rods out of the reactor. It sounds like once in a while, a rod accidentally drops, which is infinitely preferable to the alternative, of once in a while a rod failing to drop. But that unplanned adjustment to reactivity means, you don't want to simply use other means to boost the reactivity back up (like reducing boric acid in the water), because once you get the rod back out, it'll be too reactive. So they insert a couple more rods and call it a shutdown to take a few days or weeks to investigate and perform maintenance. Sounds like this is a highly planned for and fairly routine procedure, if not ideal. I'm sure they'll find a couple reasons why the rod unexpectedly dropped, and make changes to prevent an identical incident in the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:55:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323089</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because TVs can be made to show ads, especially if the manufacturer themselves partners with an ad network.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246680</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Making difficulty curves in games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Intuitively, people want to save up ammo because they never know when there's gonna be a big fight, and they don't want to be caught low on ammo.<p>I had the same experience, I was trying to be very accurate with the guns and thought, wow, there's hardly any ammo to pick up in this game. Partway through I got tired of being stingy and started being less careful, having fun going rambo, and suddenly ammo was spawning everywhere.<p>I think it would be much better if the game just spawned enough to max out your pools fairly early, so you can focus less on inventory and more on combat. Then they can adjust the size of the ammo pools to tune how accurate they want you to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232451</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232341</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a Mila, they're capacitive touch buttons but not a touchscreen. There's just a fan down, fan up, and mode button. Even still, I don't know how they got the calibration wrong enough at the factory that it can't detect a full-pressure thumb press.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232333</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "My server is a phone now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Phones are very low power, likely just a slightly warm spot on the can that radiates, conducts, and convects the heat out. You could also use one of those peltier module phone coolers, to ensure the heat gets out of the phone and into the air faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227203</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "My server is a phone now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could throw the phone in an ammo canister, if the wifi AP is close enough. When I was building hobby quadcopters, which requires several ~half-pound batteries that are a chemistry optimized for maximum power density, a lot of guys recommended steel ammo cans for battery storage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:57:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227043</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might want to try getting the Nvidia GPU working. They're several times faster than intel integrated, and browsers are a GPU-heavy application.<p>Intel keeps trying to say their integrated graphics are finally decently fast, but that's only a select few special models. Their high-volume chips continue to have integrated GPUs that are barely fast enough for web browsing.</p>
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<p>Maybe cliche, but I think a lot of this is just trauma being passed down from one generation to the next. A lot of those people have an easy time imaging an angry puritan god in their head, and taking it out on others (and themselves). Cultural dogma is advertized as a unifying force, but is often implemented with unsavory methods. I think a lot of people would be fine with dropping much of the rhetoric, if only the rest could suppress their instinctive reaction to use the faux pas for their own gain, of someone else being the first to admit the dogma is smoke and mirrors.<p>While the way you talk is captivating, I don't think it's quite so direct, or at least not on the grander scale. Once you know that everyone is fallible, you are free.</p>
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<p>This probably depends on if you've used it enough to make some playlists and give it an idea of the real music that you like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:38:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222256</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought the whole issue with manifest v3 is that prevented extensions from being able to block connections? That DNS blocking is actual blocking, while the extension can only do filtering after the connections are made.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:37:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222234</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently got an air purifier. The touch button controls for adjusting the fan speed didn't seem to be working, so I emailed support.<p>They had me download their app, link the air purifier, and give them its MAC address. Then they asked me to try pressing each of the buttons a few times and email them back. I did so, and they responded that they re-calibrated the buttons using my touch samples. It worked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:32:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222185</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The strange part is that nearly all the decently large publishers seem to be completely unable to predict when a game will be successful, because they seem unable to determine when a game is actually fun to play. So they will dump hundreds of millions into a game that nobody wants to play, get close to zero sales, and end up shutting down the game, laying off the studio, and having to find another way to make back the $100m+ they just burned.<p>Indie devs have the time and freedom to pursue any new ideas, and it seems like every couple of months a new indie game goes viral on Steam. But many of them are passion projects that were done in someone's spare time outside of their day job. If devs could give investors more confidence that a game will sell well or go viral if it hits a certain development stage, we could do a better job of directing game dev funding towards indie devs making truly fun games.</p>
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<p>It has everywhere to dissipate heat, but only radiatively. But 140 AU from the Sun, there's not much incoming radiant flux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:57:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221879</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the prime example of SSAO being helpful was Fallout 3. FO3 has very simplistic lighting even for its time, kind of looking like "fullbright"/non-shaded mode in Source engine. SSAO, when it was added as a graphics driver feature, suddenly gave interiors depth that they were severely lacking, and while it didn't always look "realistic", it almost always looked much better than without.</p>
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<p>In addition to reducing the energy content of the actual desired signal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:58:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981507</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RPKI mainly makes the administrative side of the route database more formal and rigorous than previous internet routing registry implementations. The processes for using them to improve network security are discussed at <a href="https://manrs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://manrs.org/</a><p>They have a neat dashboard at <a href="https://observatory.manrs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://observatory.manrs.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:33:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919259</link><dc:creator>hnuser123456</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hnuser123456 in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 28th amendment was affirmed by Biden near the end of his term, which states that the "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." DEI programs that offer benefits only to women are unconstitutional.</p>
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<p>Well, to start with, If you drive your car too fast, you might kill people. If you drive your computer too fast, it might get data corruption and/or reboot unexpectedly.</p>
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<p>Too late to edit, but I meant cyclic pitch, not collective pitch.</p>
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