<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: kennyadam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kennyadam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:55:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kennyadam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least you didn’t over-react. Some people seem so afraid of consuming AI-generated content that they see it everywhere. A popular YouTuber says “thanks for the pushback” in a YouTube video and has the mob at his door, instantly, despite it not being written by AI. In the comments for any blog post or article that hits the HN front page, there is always someone confidently calling it out for being unmistakeably written by Claude. It’s so tiring. Let’s say the YouTube video that rocked the very foundation of your being was scripted with AI assistance. It was apparently good enough for people to praise it specifically. Why is that a problem? If it wasn’t AI, which may well be the case, would your soul be calmed?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:10:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338954</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genuine question: What is the difference between overfat and overweight? Isn’t the extra weight in an overweight person comprised of fat?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314865</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "What if useful AI is a fantasy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I edited in that i’d already looked up the code in the manual seconds after submitting the post, so you clearly just ignored that bit to rage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:57:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094213</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "What if useful AI is a fantasy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdotally, my 81 year old father was able to point his phone at the boiler and ask Gemini what the error message meant. It correctly identified the boiler model, identified the error code being displayed on the screen, explained what it meant, provided him with a way to confirm the problem by checking the water pressure guage and then asked to be shown the underside. It again correctly identified and described to him the position and colour of the filling loop lever and how to adjust it to start and stop the water flow. He was able to do all this instead of spending hundreds on getting a plumber out at night because it was during a cold spell and he needed the heating on. That kind of thing is no fantasy and was amazing to witness.<p>edit: I had already looked up the error code the "old fashioned" way using Google to find the boiler manual, so I would have stepped in if needed, but it was literally flawless and I can't think of any time anything like that hasn't worked when I've used it for similar diagnostics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:14:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090681</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s steam, not stream. Normally, I’d assume it’s a simple typo, but I got worried when you wrote it twice. Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me… you can't get fooled again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:44:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797328</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48797328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think to claim that 2000 years ago there was one person who performed miracles and/or healed people that nobody else could, with no actual evidence it was done and nobody else has been able to do it since, you need a better response to someone questioning it than “oh were you there? prove it didn’t happen.”</p>
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<p>As soon as I read that I literally scoffed. Doublethink at its finest. Doubleplusungood.</p>
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<p>Is that how it should work? The worst of us can’t be trusted to to behave appropriately in one area of life, therefore everyone must be banned from it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:41:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563270</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have so many questions...<p>How many exit tunnels will need to exist for the final above-ground stage of the trip to be quick and not increase the total length of the route significantly?<p>If there are exit tunnels all over the place, how long would it take to build all of them? If there aren't, how do you avoid massive jams as the multiple lanes merge to the single exit tunnel lane?<p>How do all the exit tunnels connect to the surface streets in the many areas where there's no room for another lane to be built anywhere?</p>
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<p>The product descriptions on audiophile equipment are always gold!<p>"Designed as the foundation of every great music system, our Power Plant AC regenerators embody an uncompromising commitment to excellence. By rebuilding power from the ground up with state-of-the-art engineering and meticulous precision, they deliver the stable, pure energy essential for revealing music in its truest form."<p>The product image for this "Power Plant" that no doubt costs tens of thousands has what appears to be a poorly Photoshopped "Improvement" factor meter on the front that goes from 1x to 1000x lol.<p><a href="https://www.psaudio.com/cdn/shop/products/P20-Black-front.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.psaudio.com/cdn/shop/products/P20-Black-front.pn...</a></p>
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<p>Honestly. for the ~2 months my mum had between a totally out-of-the-blue stage 4 melanoma diagnosis and the day she died in the hospice, I don’t think there’s anything she would have wanted less than to endure more of that existence, if someone had offered her that pill.</p>
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<p>If only they’d had a frontend web dev on the team!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 13:34:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336007</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don’t turn this place into reddit with a race to the bottom for postings puns  or “jokes” that are little more than pointing out hollow pop culture associations to a word in the title of the submission. It’s already happening more and more, but maybe we could try to keep the level of discourse just slightly higher for just a bit longer, please?</p>
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<p>Thank you for replying :) I'll have a look around and see if it's a thing round here. Have a lovely weekend. :) x</p>
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<p>Are you able to share any details about how you found the healthcare advocate or who I could talk to about it? It's just me and my dad now with some of my cousins between 2 and 4 hours away, so when my dad is on his way out I'm quite anxious about dealing with it all and have basically no money.<p>We ended up using the Co-op to cremate my mum, skipping any funeral services and going with the most basic offerings and it still cost more than I expected. It was darkly funny that when we were paying we were asked if we had a Co-op loyalty card, the exact same one we'd use when buying milk and bread in the shop, and she scanned it and we got a discount.<p>Thanks :)</p>
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<p>This is what both my parents and myself did. When my mum was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma, it was one less thing to worry about arranging and trying to find money for.<p>She went from diagnosis to death in two months so things were a bit disorienting and just getting a RESPECT form (aka DNR) completed was such a struggle as everyone I spoke to had no record of my previous conversation with the last person I spoke to.<p>When mum was admitted to the hospice, despite explaining the arrangements we’d made and showing them the paperwork, it was only by chance that one evening I happened to overhear a nurse mention that mum had ascites, which is one of the few things that disqualified her from being able to donate her body. I googled it and realised we would need to arrange and pay for her body to be collected, stored and cremated.<p>She died the next morning and luckily I was able to get that sorted about 2 hours earlier. I suppose the point I’m trying to make is that if you go through the process of arranging to donate your body to a teaching hospital (which you must do yourself ahead of time) don’t assume it’s on medical records or that anyone will advise you that the body isn’t suitable for donation for any reason. Like all NHS-related things in the UK, the systems are breaking or broken and so are the poor staff, so you need to advocate for whoever needs it and never assume what you said one day will be passed on to the next shift.</p>
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<p>I was just responding to your claim that nobody wants them, when that's demonstrably not true.<p>VR is like Linux, it will never be used by the masses for the foreseeable future as there's just to much friction in using it. There is an audience for it in its current form though. Having millions of headsets sold, with multiple iterations maintaining the sales figures and multiple companies producing their own models is enough for me to consider it to have "taken off". In the simulator game space, especially cockpit driving and flying games, I think it's fair to say that VR has definitely taken off.</p>
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<p>well, millions of people bought them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:59:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649545</link><dc:creator>kennyadam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kennyadam in "Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I make a point of downloading sitcoms in SD, creating my own DVD rips if needed. There's something wrong about watching Seinfeld or Friends in 1080p.</p>
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<p>I don’t consider “raison d'etre" a suspicious phrase. It’s not something people use multiple times a day, but I’d consider it common enough that when I hear someone say it, or in this case I suppose type it, that I would give it a second thought.</p>
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