<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: kbrkbr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kbrkbr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:46:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kbrkbr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "OpenAI isn't just buying a podcast – it's buying influence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find not only the content of this article interesting, but also the form. It seems written by ChatGPT, starting from the headline with its "Not just A, but B"-topos and the for cnn completely untypical m-dash.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/media/openai-tbpn-podcast-sale-lehane">https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/media/openai-tbpn-podcast-sale-lehane</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636834">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636834</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:44:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/media/openai-tbpn-podcast-sale-lehane</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh my goodness, yes. And how often their role assumption does not work!<p>I need privileges to do thing A, so I assume the role, and even though the role is shown as active, the buttons are still greyed out. Sometimes it works after 10 minutes and 7x F5, most often however I do a complete relogin with MFA in an incognito window. Not distracting at all, and even that does not work sometimes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625050</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Is playing music good for the brain?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me too. The headline question however was not "Is playing music good for people?", but "Is playing music good for the brain?"<p>That's not nearly as easy to answer.</p>
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<p>Sorry, but the hospital ship is in Greenland, providing free health care to people who already have public healthcare.<p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/greenland-trump-denmark-us-b2624bb6ed7d66de874e333779c505fe" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/greenland-trump-denmark-us-b2624b...</a></p>
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<p>Why not?</p>
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<p>That's why I was asking for a rationale. The devil is in the details. Otherwise motorcycling will be next, alcohol, excessive gaming, etc. etc.</p>
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<p>I do not think so. We can hold these people accountable otherwise, there are laws for that already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:33:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411766</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ban it on which grounds?<p>I have never in my life placed a sport bet, nor a polymarket bet. It strikes me as one of the dumbest things to do with your money and time.<p>But a lot of people seem to genuinely enjoy it. Gambling is part of human heritage. Regulate? Sure! Ban? I don't understand why</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:53:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410091</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: A One-Page Field Guide to Questioning]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This field guide grew out of a longer essay I wrote on questioning and stories. I was trying to understand how questioning actually works in practice, and whether there is a minimal structure behind it.<p>Most material I found focuses on techniques or interview tactics, or is very abstract like the Erotetics literature. I was more interested in understanding the parts and how they work together.<p>Questioning seems to be an underrated skill in incident investigations, debugging, and project clarification.<p>I tried to compress what I found into a single visual model.<p>The diagram reduces inquiry to a few simple moves:<p>- Track nouns, verbs, qualifiers, time and place<p>- Move in phases: overview => details => loose ends<p>- Use question types and tools appropriate to the goal of each phase<p>It is intentionally small and easy to remember.
It will not make anyone a brilliant interrogator, but it provides a minimal structure when you would otherwise improvise. It might be helpful to practitioners.<p>I would be interested in critical feedback, especially from people who use structured questioning in technical or investigative work.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223715">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223715</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://stefankober.github.io/essays/questioning-a-field-guide/questioning-guide/</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the same administration that stated that they sent a hospital ship to a country with public healthcare to take care of the sick people there.<p>Boy, I will miss this administration for their sense of humor and ingenuity. They always find something new. A firework of performance art.</p>
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<p>If I understand gp correctly, the web of trust comes after finding these human nodes, and will not help you in the process.</p>
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<p>Also worth reading, Donald Kagan's [1] "The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone" [2] that sets the context of this context. 
TL;DR Stone's story is not very strong.<p>[1] eminent historian of ancient Greece, <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.commentary.org/articles/donald-kagan/the-trial-of-socrates-by-i-f-stone/" rel="nofollow">https://www.commentary.org/articles/donald-kagan/the-trial-o...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:27:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093440</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How did you make that happen?<p>I use swipe keyboard in iPhone. I turned off all "autocorrect" features they offer.<p>Still their random generator keeps replacing perfectly fine words _and the words before them_ with random crap that makes no sense.<p>Heck, I even turned off all features, and still it happens.<p>So I switched to another keyboard from appstore.<p>I would switch to another OS, but I find the others even worse in some respects I care for deeply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013011</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bob Smeenk helped me personally a lot. But I guess it depends a lot on your background, experience and goals.</p>
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<p>I hear you. At 49 I also discovered an extra octave up there above the high e. Also baritone. The YouTube singiverse did it for me</p>
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<p>This post made my day. Beautiful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:47:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823319</link><dc:creator>kbrkbr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kbrkbr in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a very nice idea! 
<a href="https://stefankober.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://stefankober.github.io/</a>
Mostly small essays on my original area of study: philosophy.</p>
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<p>I switched 25 years ago.<p>Still, every computer I buy comes with Microsoft tax and their OS preinstalled. In all these years I always left a small Windows partition, in case I need it. Never booted it.</p>
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<p>I had the same impression. Whatever it is about, it is not about<p>> Why The Great Gatsby is the world's most misunderstood novel<p>The first thought I had when reading the headline was: by what measure?<p>I wanted to give the benefit of doubt, but there is not even an attempt to answer the question set out at the beginning.<p>Instead, like you say, somewhat of an advertisment for later derivations with no clear idea of where to go.<p>For me underwhelming.</p>
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