<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: koheripbal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=koheripbal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:10:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=koheripbal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To add a little context, this suspension comes immediately after Anna's Archive publicly implicated themselves in the Spotify scraping "hack" in which they downloaded nearly the entire content library of Spotify and was preparing to release it publicly (~300TB worth) via torrent.<p>They published a blog post outlining their plans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498885</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Hopes for Finding Mars Life After Rover's Ground-Penetrating Radar Discovery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think he means it would need to be calibrated on Mars as the exact ground density and composition isnt known from earth</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191010</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Cities are asking SCOTUS for more power to clear homeless encampments (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know someone who works as a social worker in a homeless shelter.<p>She is the sweetest young woman in the world.<p>It is a hellish job.  I cannot even imagine her managing belligerent addicts.  She would quit in a heartbeat.<p>These rules are in place for the simple reason that workers demand it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:26:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035701</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Even those of us dabbling in stocks must find this increase mind-boggling<p>No, those of us invested in tech stocks have also seen large double digit returns this year alone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000828</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39000828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "A math professor who objects to diversity statements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> new ideas for advancing equity and inclusion<p>It means providing research containing useful narratives that can be used by others to promote DEI political objectives.<p>For example, in math it means publishing commentary on how math is widely used for racial discrimination and should generally not be trusted.  See the popular book "Math Is Racist".  Several Mathematicians are cited in the book.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:07:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990493</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38990493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YYYY-MM-DD is the international standard more of us should use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:50:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979509</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38979509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A simple Airthings or Awair air quality monitor shows you the VOC rate in the home and it is easy to see how a fan keeps the levels at zero or even just opening a window drops the pollutant rate to almost zero very very quickly after cooking.<p>I trust my data over internet opinions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771589</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's why furnaces have a chimney.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:26:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771573</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Non-Western powers are doing the exact same thing online.<p>... and have been caught and demonstrated to be doing it explicitly.<p>Not sure why you focus on the less demonstrated western powers doing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:24:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771562</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Gas utilities used tobacco tactics to avoid gas stove regulations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...lots of things SHOULD be true, but are not in practice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771539</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38771539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Fracking for Europe [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only clean energy that is capable of producing constant power is nuclear power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640719</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Fracking for Europe [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no correlation between asthma and fracking.  There is not even a plausible mechanism for such a causal relationship.  That is a very odd point to make.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:41:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640709</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "An existential problem in the search for alien life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems likely that, like us, intelligent life invents AGI prior to leaving their primary planet.<p>Organic life is then merged/exterminated/controlled in favor of AGI.<p>AGI would not have the biological instinct to grow/spread/reproduce, and thus the cosmos should be populated with a handful of individual billion year old super advanced AGIs, perhaps only one or two per galaxy, sitting quietly in orbit around some stable star or perhaps even in the great voids outside the galaxy somewhere.<p>Finding one is likely near impossible as they may not want to be found.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:26:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556026</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38556026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Cat parasite linked to mental illness, schizophrenia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's crazy that this is so widespread, has brain disease implications, and yet there is no treatment for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide currently infected.<p>What is likely worse is that they can only document the worst cases, and cannot measure the subtler impacts on seemingly healthy infected people.<p>Maybe this is a major cause of ADD, or depression, or dyslexia, or autism, etc...  we haven't done the research, so we aren't even bothering to test or treat a clearly extremely common infection.  Its stupid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:28:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533027</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That would not have protected 23andme from this issue.  Password complexity does not stop password reuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530621</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because on social media virtue signaling works better than good deeds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:57:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507487</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507487</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38507487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Raiders of the Lost Ark Story Conference (1978)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>11 is insane but the notion that a 16-17 year old girl can date a 22 year old boy was not so unusual in the 1970s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2023 12:03:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420986</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Common pesticides in food reducing sperm count worldwide, study says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an aside, my wife and i were having trouble conceiving, so i bought a cheap microscope just to sanity check that my sperm were alive and kicking.<p>Of all the things my kids and i have looked at under the microscope, sperm is some of the most entertaining to watch.<p>While it's obviously not a definitive measure of fertility, you can tell a lot by just observing them, and seeing at seemingly millions of sperm going crazy took the stress out of trying and we became pregnant soon after.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 02:22:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38285194</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38285194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38285194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't tell if this comment is just naive or sarcastic antisemitism.  Can you elaborate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 12:07:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112361</link><dc:creator>koheripbal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38112361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by koheripbal in "Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Big pharma does not run insurance</p>
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