<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: hobo_in_library</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hobo_in_library</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:09:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hobo_in_library" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and the the Dept of War can imagine creative enough uses for these things to keep funding them (it's how we got computers and the internet too)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:25:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766073</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seeing how it hasn't survived the HN hug of death... Not sure how you've built it but consider putting it behind a CDN or something and caching the responses, esp since you're trying to pull live data</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872995</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's weird, I never had that problem yet suddenly my old clothes started shrinking a couple years ago too.<p>Might have been our new hangers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617755</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clearly you've never worked at a large company before :)<p>Hold on to your optimism, but try not to let that turn into scorn for folks who've seen the other side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281076</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what happened here, but it's not uncommon for a post to have one primary author and then multiple reviewers/supporters also credited</p>
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<p>To be fair, their concern tends to be a more consistent "Don't push these corrupting agents towards me or my society"<p>If the school curriculum aligned with their belief system, they won't be talking about a need for control</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991390</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One minute after you made that statement, the Israeli propaganda brigade seems to have discovered this post and seems fully dedicated to proving your claims</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918114</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44918114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The density of prime numbers remains remarkably consistent as you increase the grid size. Even the end of a 10,000 x 10,000 grid had just as many primes per inch as the earlier numbers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 21:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917661</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that's why the people behind the United whistle blower "suicide" or the Epstein "suicide" we promptly brought to justice /s<p>Our law enforcement is "better" when it comes to enforcing the law against the lower 99%.  When it comes to enforcing it against the kind of people who're actually likely to kill to protect their secrets...good luck</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915390</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1600 of these had already been uploaded back in 2018.<p>All our AIs are already trained on these<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240615044608/https://www.openculture.com/2018/02/1600-occult-books-now-digitized-put-online.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20240615044608/https://www.openc...</a></p>
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<p>At the bottom of the page:<p>> Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on our site in 2018.<p>Very confused by this. 
Seems like they uploaded the books in 2018? What changed between then and now?<p>Edit: The number of uploads was 1600 back in 2018
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:40:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915244</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "PlasticList – Plastic Levels in Foods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are they measuring plastic in a "Paper Receipt in Water"???<p><a href="https://www.plasticlist.org/product/754" rel="nofollow">https://www.plasticlist.org/product/754</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:14:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379676</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44379676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the flip side, in the year 1200 the average person would likely not have considered the people living 800 years before them to be all that different from them (unlike many of us today).<p>Perhaps that's a way in which we're less educated than those who came before us</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:20:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710523</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43710523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "How University Students Use Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The challenge is that while LLMs do not know everything, they are likely to know everything that's needed for your undergraduate education.<p>So if you use them at that level you may learn the concepts at hand, but you won't learn _how to struggle_ to come up with novel answers.  Then later in life when you actually hit problem domains that the LLM wasn't trained in, you'll not have learned the thinking patterns needed to persist and solve those problems.<p>Is that necessarily a bad thing? It's mixed:
- You lower the bar for entry for a certain class of roles, making labor cheaper and problems easier to solve at that level.
- For more senior roles that are intrinsically solving problems without answers written in a book or a blog post somewhere, you need to be selective about how you evaluate the people who are ready to take on that role.<p>It's like taking the college weed out classes and shifting those to people in the middle of their career.<p>Individuals who can't make the cut will find themselves stagnating in their roles (but it'll also be easier for them to switch fields).  Those who can meet the bar might struggle but can do well.<p>Business will also have to come up with better ways to evaluate candidates.  A resume that says "Graduated with a degree in X" will provide less of a signal than it did in the past</p>
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<p>Eh, they have lost a bit</p>
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<p>Yes, the bubble will burst, just like the dotcom bubble burst 25 years ago.<p>But that didn't mean the internet should be ignored, and the same holds true for AI today IMO</p>
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<p>Similar to what others have mentioned: People offering domain specific bots and don't want that expensive compute abused as a free general purpose LLM<p>Imagine you're American Airline and someone goes to your chatbot and asks it to generate React code for them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:36:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921289</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seeing how it was made May 2024, seems like they didn't want to highlight the connection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:24:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743916</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funnily enough, as per Mitt Romney, the TikTok ban was done because it had too much anti-Israel content<p>See <a href="https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:22:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742210</link><dc:creator>hobo_in_library</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobo_in_library in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OP didn't say "for money".<p>As per Mitt Romney, it was banned because TikTok contained too much anti-Israel content (remember, the push for the ban became really strong very soon after Oct 7 when the genocide began)<p>Source: <a href="https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753</a></p>
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