<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: legostormtroopr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=legostormtroopr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:51:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=legostormtroopr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not going to let you hide behind a big word.<p>You are publicly proposing “throwing all Republicans through a window to their death”.<p>This isn’t normal, and it isn’t right. If we allow anyone to call for political violence, then we become numb to it. Worse still, your call to violence against Republicans gives them a call to defence, and then a call to preemptive action.<p>“It was ok for us to shutdown HackerNews because they called for our deaths.”<p>We shouldn’t tolerate calls to political violence from anyone. Be better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:24:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author themselves disagree with you.<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-are-banning-my-book-queer-kids-need-queer-stories/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-a...</a><p>So does the National Council of Teachers of English.
<a href="https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/" rel="nofollow">https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/</a><p>Just because can't believe that people would promote a comic with explicit texting and sexual imagery to children doesn't mean it doesn't happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firstly - you are going to get sued by Salesforce. You can't just make a Slack-clone, use their trademarked name and just add "Open" to the front.<p>Secondly, this is pure AI slop. There are 2 commits - "Initial commit" and "Trim feature table" where you changed the README.<p>Why would anyone use this? Has anyone read any of the code? Do you even understand how (or if) it even works?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:39:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems.<p>Surely, it would be a flex to show that your AI agents are so good they make electron redundant.<p>But they don’t. So it’s reasonable to ask why that is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "How Is Data Stored?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More than anything, I would love to know the software this is built in.<p>This is a goregous way of presenting a book, and what looks like subscriber only chapter previews.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is it xenophobic to be concerned that non-registered drivers in one country are being allowed to drive remotely in a different country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second "S" is for service – why vibe-coding won't replace enterprise SaaS]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742">https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Stop using natural language interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless I am wildly misreading this, this is actually worse that both GUIs and LLMs combined.<p>LLMs offer a level of flexibility and non-determinism that allow them to adapt to different situations.<p>GUIs offer precision and predictability - they are the same every time. Which means people can learn them and navigate them quickly. If you've ever seen a bank teller or rental car agent navigate a GUI or TUI they tab through and type so quickly because they have expert familliarity.<p>But this - with a non-determinstic user interface generated by AI, every time a user engages with a UI its different. So they a more rigid UI but also a non-deterministic set of options every time. Which means instead of memorising what is in every drop down and tabbing through quickly, they need to re-learn the interface every time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you are correct, that implies to me that LLMs are not intelligent and just are exceptionally well tuned to echo back their training data.<p>Yes.<p>This is exactly how LLMs work. For a given input, an LLM will output a non-deterministic response that approximates its training data.<p>LLMs aren’t intelligent. And it isn’t that they don’t learn, they literally cannot learn from their experience in real time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wolves (and all dogs) could be vegetarians as they aren't obligate omnivores - and in certain conditions where pray is sparse they do eat berries to surviven. Cats on the other hand are obligate carnivores and can't produce taurine amino acids, so they have to eat meat to survive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:29:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Current state AI doesn’t have hands. How can it possibly be better at installing electrics than anyone?<p>Your post reads like AI precisely because while the grammar is fine, it lacks context - like someone prompted “reply that AI is better than average”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finally, I can give up this life of a programmer and live my dream of being a moisture farmer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157479</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What’s worse being accused of an AI post or being defended because your post is so bad that AI wouldn’t have written it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:38:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138969</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't expect someone to do deep focused work from 9am to 5pm.<p>But at the same time, I don't expect them to spend their 9-to-5 working for another company at the same time.<p>As a founder, who respects the 9-to-5 and supports WFH, if I'm paying for 8 hours of work, I want 8 hours of output. Not 4 hours of output, and then you working 4 hours for another job.<p>If multi-jobbing becomes a thing, then WFH becomes untenable because at least in the office you can be monitored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:23:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118565</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why the Australian Bureau of Meteorology website redesign so poorly received]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/why-was-the-australian-bureau-of">https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/why-was-the-australian-bureau-of</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758091">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758091</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:47:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/why-was-the-australian-bureau-of</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But why is it that news online defaults to US politics?<p>Yes, politics impacts everything, which is all the more reason to exclude it, otherwise how do we draw the line?<p>Are we buying protests in Indonesia against disappearances of protestors under the rug but not posting about it?  <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/prabowo-subianto-one-year-indonesia-democracy-under-pressure/105899812" rel="nofollow">https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/prabowo-subianto-one-...</a>?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:09:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651693</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does seem like a rather modest proposal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543670</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "The collapse of the econ PhD job market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Have you considered that … conservatives are self-selecting out or can't cut it at all?<p>When the ingroup is underrepresented the question is “how can we get more ingroup in”.<p>But when the outgroup is underrepresented it’s met with “maybe outgroup just isn’t as good”.<p>Eg. women in tech, men in nursing; conservatives vs liberals in academia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:42:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468139</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> walking towards slavery<p>Modern slavery is a massive problem. There are more slaves today than there were at the peak of slavery in the United States.<p>It is a strange side effect of US-exceptionalism that projects a shameful-pride that US slavery was the biggest and the worst slavery and they are the heroes for ending slavery, when none of these are remotely true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:24:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455757</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've see so many HN posts and cmments about CSVs sucking and Unicode control characters as delimiters, that I set about creating a spec and some tools for use with it.<p>Nothing good enough to share as its own post, but its something I'm working on that people may be interested in.<p><a href="https://github.com/LegoStormtroopr/unit-separated-values" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/LegoStormtroopr/unit-separated-values</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:15:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422467</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422467</guid></item></channel></rss>