<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: j_timberlake</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=j_timberlake</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:25:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=j_timberlake" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well I guess I just proved your God isn't real, sorry fsckboy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:24:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586617</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Too many hyphens!" is definitely the dumbest insult I've ever seen for someone digging through a comment history, holy shit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:20:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586586</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol, I upset you that much?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:06:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586477</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes it is, it's called planning-ahead for the extremely predictable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586360</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised how low suicide rates are at 2%.  If I were an old sick person and steadily becoming more of a burden, there's no way in hell I would just leave it to nature to decide when I die, or let the profit-maximizing hospital bureaucracy make that call for me.  I'm sure some old folk are afraid that suicide will send them to hell, as if God wouldn't understand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:34:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586265</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Toyota aims to launch the ' first' all-solid-state EV batteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a Tesla fanboy/investor website.  They used to have the $TSLA stock ticker right on the front page.  Commentor opinions on any other car company are even more useless than the average internet opinion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550253</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45550253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Transplanted kidneys get rejected by the recipient's immune system eventually, you'd really need to clone the kidney from the individual's DNA to solve the rejection problem.  There's also been some success with integrating the DNA from the kidney donor (a human) into the recipient's bone marrow to stop the rejection process, but I hear it can be a brutal procedure in which the original bone marrow must be destroyed using chemotherapy or radiation.<p><a href="https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/video-eliminating-the-need-for-lifelong-immunosuppressive-medications-for-transplant-patients/" rel="nofollow">https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/video-eliminat...</a><p><a href="https://www.immunofree.com/how-it-works/" rel="nofollow">https://www.immunofree.com/how-it-works/</a><p>If I were a patient, I'd probably want a pig kidney now and really hope it lasts until something like kidney cloning is a thing.</p>
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<p>So be better than him..?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352266</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Abundant Intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You skipped any attempt to prove his statements wrong, this is just reddit-level sneering with zero discussion material.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:05:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352091</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Chrome's New AI Features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's been like 18 months of Google saying they're putting genAI into all their services, it's 100% your fault if this is a surprise for you.<p>"We need to push for the right to opt out of AI features."<p>You've had access to Firefox for over 20 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:57:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305131</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Gemini in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They took 1 step at a time instead of trying to take multiple steps at a time, how is that a bad thing.  They're obviously getting things prep'd for Chrome agents and Gemini 3.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:27:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304826</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "Gemini in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think if Google trained current models on private data, confidential info would leak constantly, it would be an absolute trainwreck.  If Gemini leaked your Gmail and Chrome activity, Google would get sued and regulated into oblivion.<p>But Google needs to leave this option open in the future, in case they have to go all-in on an arms-race against China, if Chinese AI starts becoming an actual threat somehow.  And it's easy to predict the USA gov would prioritize that race over privacy concerns.</p>
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<p>This response is good but the more general problem is that people are in "It doesn't look like anything to me" mode like Westworld robots seeing advanced technology.  If there's a way to snap people out of that, I've never seen it.</p>
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<p>I think it's just a simple case of "when times are good, people cooperate, when times are bad, they turn on each other."<p>And right now, we're somewhere in-between, where things have stagnated but nothing's catastrophic yet.  People turn on each other over tiny symbols, but very few people are actually choosing violence over words.<p>The problem is that the default trajectory is currently downward. Stocks grow at 6% while wages lose ground to inflation, and no one is doing anything to stop this (most of them don't even seem to realize this, they just have some intuition that the economy is being not-nice), so things are probably going to get worse until some Next-Big-Thing finally shakes things up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 05:26:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272058</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45272058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "In Search of AI Psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right now it's the at-risk people, who maybe were going to fall into some rabbit-hole anyway.
When it's the typical/average people that start getting hooked like this, that's going to be a whole new headache.  Really hoping things don't play out like that...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072015</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is called the "Man bites dog" bias.<p>The many people who don't commit suicide because an AI confidant helped them out are never ever gonna make the news.  Meanwhile the opposite cases are "TODAY'S TOP HEADLINE" and that's what people discuss.</p>
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<p>If Harris was president, this letter would probably say "We proudly support the future of American scholarship and inclusion over simple-minded emotional reactions".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997659</link><dc:creator>j_timberlake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44997659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by j_timberlake in "From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If Dems put any strategy into winning elections, they would never have picked Hillary, Biden, or Harris.</p>
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<p>Just in time for the midterm elections?  Seems like the Dems have this handed to them on a silver platter, but they're so bad at winning elections, it probably still won't matter.</p>
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<p>They're not going to suddenly become competent enough to implement something like that.</p>
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