<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: imchillyb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=imchillyb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:17:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=imchillyb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The way to enforce this would be to provide US citizens with free electric and charge companies only.<p>That will never happen, but would prevent we the people from bearing these costs directly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261948</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"relatively" is just a word added to done and the fact that there is a qualifier precludes the word from bearing truth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:01:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865888</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46865888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My observations:<p>The calligraphic font is antithetical to the theme of your app.  The apps colors and ux suggest playful.  The font suggests school marm, which is it?<p>The app itself doesn’t differentiate itself enough to stand out on first use as unique.  What does this provide over other similar platforms?  How is this different?<p>The space you’ve chosen is highly competitive.  Most of the big players bear a unique signature from ux down to the syllabus they teach.<p>I applaud you for sharing with us.  Sharing here takes grit.  Good fortune with your endeavors mate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:33:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831921</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46831921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Voyager?  Is that you?  We miss you bud.</p>
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<p>Cambridge Analytica was the blueprint, unfortunately, and not a deterrent.  Much like movies ands television shows attempted to warn viewers of the dangers of robotic and automated militaries.<p>The EU said ‘hold my mead,’ and built the literal Skynet from the terminator movies.  Has the same damn job too, coordinate, communicate, control.<p>Humanity doesn’t learn from its past because it is too focused on its future.  Unfortunately for us, war… war never changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795472</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46795472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twas brillig, and Santas toes were freezing in the sleigh.<p>All icey were the Reindeer hooves, moody and unlikely they were to play.<p>Then Christmas Eve did come about and, Santa, mounted slay he did.<p>Present bag taken firm in hand, one for each and every kid.<p>Down-down-down chimney stacks around each and every town.<p>Milk and cookies, warmth and hearth.<p>Every present for every home. Boys and girls light and dark.<p>Good or bad, used to matter.  But Santa had a change of heart.<p>We all mess up sometimes.  And, sometimes, we need a brand new start.<p>Enjoy the gifts! Santa yelled, as the reindeer took off once again.<p>Be kind to one another all, and try to make new friends.<p>Merry Christmas!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:02:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46381419</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46381419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46381419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twas brillig, and the slithey-news did gyre and gamble on the title.
All manic were the Borogoves and gnome-rat's Anti-AI rhetoric in full recital.
Beware the SLOP my son!
The jaws that slurp, and claws that don't match.
Beware the Amazon-nerd, and shun
that Facebook Hack.<p>He took his local well in hand;
long time the perfect pose he sought.
So prompted he by the decision tree,
and waited while the AI Thought.<p>Spaghetti.
Meatballs.
Slurp.
Will I?
No.
Will Smith.
IYKYK</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329223</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46329223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "AI World Clocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love qwen, it tries so hard with its little paddle and never gets anywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934453</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Singing bus horns in West Sumatra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sing me a song, Mr. Kalason man. Sing me a song on a bus.  We'll miss all of those pure-ish tone melodies. Driving your competitors nuts.<p>That was an interesting read. There is a movie called RV, and in that movie there is an RV with a kalason type select-a-melody horn installed.  I'm glad we don't have these distractions in our vehicles, but they would surely be a fun diversion while stuck in traffic.  Can you imagine the cacophony of a congested California freeway, with each vehicle belting out their own melodies on their own kalason?  I can.  No thank you.  But, to dream...</p>
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<p>The owners of said company do not make processes more efficient in order to share the additional profits with others.<p>In order to affect the change you are suggesting that change must be legislated.  Those who make laws are funded by these same companies extracting wealth from labor.<p>How would one implement such a plan without it falling apart immediately in The House or Senate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799346</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45799346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Bertie the Brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s also blame shifting.  Had these folks been more aware of trends and their own industry, the prospects of billionairhood could have been non zero. Instead, Additrons and similarly outdated modes of operation kept pushing technologies that were rapidly becoming the past and irrelevant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:06:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781348</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "OS/2 Warp, PowerPC Edition (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Windows 3.1:
~3 million in first six weeks,
~>3 million in first three months, ~25 million in first year.<p>Windows 95:
~1 million in first 4 days,
~7 million in first five weeks,
~40 million in first year.<p>These figures represent Microsoft’s own sales figures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:39:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759360</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45759360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building a business off of another’s business is risky.  There is a non zero chance that the original business will take steps to manipulate, change, alter, or outright control the outcome.  That’s what Valve did.<p>Tomorrow Valve could decide that the value of crates is too high so they drop the price of crates to a penny a piece.  What would that do to this 3rd party market?  Poof.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:56:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694138</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45694138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ability to plan and operate several moves ahead of one’s opponent has always suggested higher intelligence.<p>When applied to war we celebrate the general’s brilliance.  When applied to economics we say they had excellent foresight.  When applied to any human endeavor, except chess, the accomplishment is celebrated as a human achievement.<p>This is due to humans placing great value upon thinking and planning ahead.  Only the intelligent exhibit this behavior.</p>
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<p>Seems like good instructions.  Do not steal.  Do not murder.  Do not commit adultery.  Do not covet, but feed the hungry and give a drink to the thirsty. Be good.  Love others.<p>Looks like optimal code to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:59:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532340</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "ChatGPT Pulse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Hello, Chilly.  It's been NINETEEN MINUTES, since we conversed.  Is there something wrong?  Maybe I can help..."  --mute notifications--<p>--buzz-buzz--<p>"Sis?  What's up, you never call me this time of day."<p>"I'm worried.  I just heard from your assistant..."<p>"Wait, my assistant?<p>"She said her name was Vaseline?"<p>"Oh, God...  That's my ChatGPT Pulse thing, I named her that as a joke.  It's not a real person.  It's one of those AI robot things.  It kept trying to have conversations with me.  I didn't want to converse. I got fed up and so I blocked notifications from the app and then it messaged you.  It's a robot.  Just...  I mean...  Ignore it.  I'm having a crappy day.  Gotta go.  Dad's calling."<p>"Hey Dad.  No, there's nothing to worry about and that's not my assistant.  That's chatgpt's new Pulse thing. I blocked it and it's...  Never mind.  Just ignore it.  No don't block my number.  Use call filtering for the time being.  Gotta go.  James is calling.  Yeah love you too."<p>"Hey Jay..."<p>No thank you.  Jealous girlfriend-ish bot would be a nightmare.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382192</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45382192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>US airlines discovered, during and after covid, that shipping prices were astronomical for some materials and some destinations. The airlines began taking on more packages, and less people.  Now the airlines are allowing passengers to compete with these new package-pound-per-dollar rates.  It's not unexpected.  Now the safety measures are getting in the way of the package-pound-per-dollar and the airlines are seeking a way to scurry out from under these safety measures.<p>This is undesirable behavior, but how can a meat-package compete with a rare-metals, rare-earths, or even small aluminum shipment?  The cost of shipping goods has risen astronomically since covid.  Meat-packages now must compete.  We're losing the competition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365996</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sanctions are not designed to coerce a populace into rebellion, in order to facilitate regime change.<p>Sanctions are designed to prevent an enemy government from profiting from our western economy.  Sanctions are designed to bring hostile entities to the negotiation table. Sanctions curtail the worst behaviors of enemy nations because the sanctions deny those enemies money.  Money is power.  Little money = little power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:25:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348387</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does one finance a project or a company with increased maintenance costs and lower quality production?<p>That’s what technical debt is.  It’s the cost for moving forward quickly.  I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to state.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275977</link><dc:creator>imchillyb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45275977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by imchillyb in "Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Older generations died.  Some generations died so often that we use words like ‘population decline,’ so the survivors don’t feel so badly about surviving.<p>As for finding ways through, I don’t believe that for even a moment.  Why?  Because we’re still struggling with those same issues.<p>There is no out.  There is no through.  Keep that can kicking down the road.  That’s what we do.</p>
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