<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: kleiba2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kleiba2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:29:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kleiba2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "What happened to the Snowden archive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Related: what happened to Snowden?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:09:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791020</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>> Could there be a benefit to releasing a new model, slowly dumbing it down over a couple months, then releasing a new model that’s marginally if at all better than the original to create a perceived improvement when in reality there isn’t really one?</i><p>Not unless your competitors do the same, or else you will only be perceived as falling behind others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:08:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790999</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790999</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Geez, why do you upper-case "LLM"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724229</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49724229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume by "shame" they mean "manners".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656359</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On count == 1, the winner gets set to the first element, true. But the function does not return yet! So the value might get overwritten during the remainder of the for-loop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:54:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642960</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Oscar Winner Brings Monsters to Life with His Simulation Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another cool self-developed tool is the Mantis Motion Controller.<p><a href="https://www.bfg-motion.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bfg-motion.com/</a><p>It's been developed by a cinematographer who specialized in stop-motion animation and other special effects, Melbourne-based Gerald Thompson [0]. In true amateur spirit, the above website is probably 90% stock content that he never bothered to remove (e.g., the "team" is just the generic placeholder garbage that came with the template). That might turn you off, but the product is so niche that I suppose there is no point in making a professional website for a wider audience.<p>The tool allows you reliably and repeatedly run your camera through predefined motion paths. That way, you could for instance overlay a real-time tracking shot with stop motion tech recorded in the studio - the camera can be positioned in the exact same positions and angles as during the live shot.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2756662/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2756662/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:46:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564595</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Hackers had a live feed of every ID verification company scanned for over a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And again, there will be no monetary consequences for the companies that failed to secure our private data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:38:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562407</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Tesla Begins Offering Rides in a Car Without a Steering Wheel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you need a driver's license to ride in a cab?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:04:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561435</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Volkswagen Plans to Cut 50k Jobs Amid Dire Need to Reduce Costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like the workforce is having to pay the price for management having missed both the transition to EVs and the competition from China...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556884</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not just LLMs that influence the otherwise natural development of human language, there's also intentional human efforts to that effect: where I live there is a very loud minority that is pushing very hard for change the spoken and written language to be more gender-inclusive.<p>While no-one wants to argue against more inclusiveness, it's more than questionable whether these artificial changes actually achieve that.<p>More importantly, though, according to polls, the vast majority of the population is against this, and yet, the proponents are very successful to establish this new artificial way of speaking and writing at core institutions, such as e.g. universities and news outlets.</p>
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<p>Possibly interesting post from Casey Muratori, regarding random placement of grass in games: <a href="https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0013" rel="nofollow">https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0013</a>, using blue noise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:48:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537163</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Too broad a statement, and without substantiation, to be taken serious, sorry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:04:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532740</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And which company better to send samples of your voice to than Google?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:57:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476530</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Traditionally, for heating your house, you had the choice between coal, oil, and gas. Electric heating wasn't a widespread alternative, esp. because of the price of electricity. Even today, heat pumps consume a fair amount of electricity. Solar panels can offset the cost but in many parts of Europe, the panels are not producing enough power in the winter, which is when you naturally want to run a heater.<p>And regarding ACs in cars: you will certainly agree that cooling the inside of a car for the duration of a drive vs. the inside of a whole house (or even just selected rooms) for the whole day differ from each other by orders of magnitude regarding the energy required.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:03:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475750</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>> But I have to say, AC is not "banned" anywhere in Europe</i><p>Exactly, the whole premise of the article is a bit of a strawman. In fact, where I live, the demand for AC installation is so high that you have to wait months for a company to install a unit for you.<p>These extreme heat waves are a fairly new phenomenon, summers in central Europe just didn't use to get so hot for such a long stretch of time even a few decades ago. Now that they've become the way they are, people are doing what? Correct, installing AC units. Imagine that.<p>But let's not forget that energy is also on average <i>a lot</i> more expensive in Europe than in the US. The cost plus environmental concerns, which seem to fair less high in the public conscience on the other side of the Atlantic, have also been reasons why people were not keen on AC units in the past.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464030</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Read this review on Steam: <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198009905262/recommended/1541710" rel="nofollow">https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198009905262/recomm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:54:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461362</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's okay, I still have tons left over from COVID.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:29:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449895</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Although by "average" you usually refer to the mean, not the median.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:27:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445218</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "Queryable Executables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if I'm running multiple instances of the same binary?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:32:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444853</link><dc:creator>kleiba2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kleiba2 in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is more like a "right to have repaired" than a "right to repair", unfortunately.</p>
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