<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: huxley</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=huxley</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:09:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=huxley" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you've captured exactly what they are trying to say</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:35:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507030</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah, there was just more economic activity to draw people in. By every other measure it’s been more hostile than average.<p>But you are right that it is ending, just wrong about what: it’s the high economic activity that attracted people which is disappearing thanks to the same people that hate migrants.</p>
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<p>At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey.<p>Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.</p>
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<p>Oh they’ll be replaced, by toadies and GOP Youth interns looking for a salary and resume boost</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905792</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the quality of the summaries, you might want to keep them just for plausible deniability </s></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:42:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718042</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I personally am not interested in the bigots of previous generations making those decisions any more than I want contemporary ones to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:47:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707916</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A long and storied history, the abolitionists used it pretty extensively well before it was named: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott</a></p>
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<p>You can call it white nationalism if you like but you are spouting the exact same talking points as white supremacists, you just prefer to buy it under a different brand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:39:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707798</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The keyboard is probably the hardest bit but even then it’s more just some tedium rather than difficulty. <a href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years" rel="nofollow">https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:55:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568740</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha. I edited tv shows back in the very early days of digital non-linear editing on a Mac Quadra 840AV with 80MB of RAM and 40/80MHz 68040 processor and a RAID made up of 4 x 9GB SCSI drives, with a coprocessor board that people wouldn’t consider sufficient for editing gifs with now. We did After Effects rendering with similar gear … my first job was restarting after effects after it would crash part way through a render (go back a few frames and start again).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274987</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per capita than the world average.<p>The only realistic threat to Canada is the new one from Donald Trump, but it would take closer to 30% GDP to protect from that one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:45:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030306</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yet</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:01:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983571</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "US labels SpaceX a common carrier by air, will regulate firm under railway law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First, this is taking Shotwell’s characterization at face value, that is not a great idea when dealing with a Musk corporation. Musk and his executives lie like other people breathe.<p>Second, one might believe in a company’s mission or be interested in working in that area without supporting or even liking the owner. Requiring you to like the owner would be disastrous for many if not most industries.<p>Lastly, how do you imagine unions get formed without communication among employees?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983546</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "Stop Using Face ID"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ffs, taking usable fingerprints is not that easy<p>Facial recognition cameras don’t use or give you the same data that FaceID’s 3D depth mapping FaceID uses, besides few cameras get close enough to practically reconstruct a useful 3D mask that could fool it.<p>And if you’re a corpse why would you care?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:59:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940337</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’re not wrong that it hasn’t been passed by congress but just the proposal has already led to a massive decrease in grants. I am not as optimistic that Congress would go against admin policy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786493</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A coffee-table book? A Natural History of SVG Pelicans</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:18:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219602</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”and  Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” were constant companions for me on road trips (sadly no English unabridged “Foucault’s Pendulum” exists)</p>
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<p>I think they meant “it just can’t” in the sense of “it shouldn’t under any circumstances”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:45:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408373</link><dc:creator>huxley</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45408373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by huxley in "The Great Illusion: When We Believed BeOS Would Save the World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To add a little detail, Objective C was created by Brad Cox and Tom Love who formed PPI/Stepstone, with NeXT becoming a customer when Steve Naroff left Stepstone for NeXT to add support in GCC</p>
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<p>Not necessarily, you don’t need to know the answer, the fabulation might:<p>*  give an error<p>*   return the wrong result<p>*   not be internally consistent with the rest of the content<p>*   be logically impossible<p>*  be factually impossible<p>*   have basic errors<p>It is entirely possible (and quite common) to know something is wrong without knowing what a right answer is.</p>
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