<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: luqtas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=luqtas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:49:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=luqtas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad</a> - An advanced keyboard manager<p>enjoy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:13:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476602</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>because you can't still ask LLMs to port DOOM to hardware X or Y</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469755</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Not all synthetics are dangerous, many are. Many are banned, with the list growing each year: <a href="https://www.npic.orst.edu/reg/restricted.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.npic.orst.edu/reg/restricted.html</a><p>as many synthetic are developed... last time i was making an inventory of an exclusive corn and soybean high tech farm (selling on the hundreds millions USD) there was at least 45 different pesticides... some were distributed in a quantity of 10 mililiters! per hectare with machine with proper air filter at the cabine of the tractor never seen by the organic movement, which by the way, considering their ~ 30% increase in land, fertilizers and pesticides needs and their production totalling less than 2% of all the global food, feels quite a stretch to read author's conclusion of your last study...<p>your 2° cited study shows improvement on soil quality by variety/rotation, what it has to do with GMO technology? one literally can plant varied stuff while using synthetic pesticides... take a look on most health studies done in organics and health not controlling for life style factors, nor any major study even found dangerous levels of pesticides in food. don't get me wrong, there are niche cases were organic crops just make sense but when you start dismissing GMO technology for a 8 billion and growing world, which in decades will move out of the rural ambient (rural flight is an on going thing, literally no one wants to work in farms, much less in organic ones were the workload is much bigger, if not borderline on slavery (trust me, i did some WWOOF)), feels pure ignorancy out of greenwashing or small studies compared to what we rolled on science the past 30 years of GMO technology<p><a href="https://biofortified.org/genera/independent-funding/" rel="nofollow">https://biofortified.org/genera/independent-funding/</a><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3367244/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3367244/</a><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7061863/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7061863/</a><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600850" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600850</a><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6918800/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6918800/</a><p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10814746/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10814746/</a><p><a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1602638" rel="nofollow">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1602638</a><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-023-00009-7" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s44264-023-00009-7</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:22:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454945</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>care to cite any decent research proving you point?<p>there's an extensive body of research on synthetics having no effect on human health, from goverment funded, private and independent research... if you access your country's official institution you'll see there's plenty of synthetics allowed in organic agriculture just because they mimic perfectly "organic" substances<p>interesting point too, is the lack of any extensive meta-analysis/studies on organic pesticide impact on health and plus the fact organic farm is rather poor (produce less than 2% of the global food) and usually if not always lack good machinery to spread pesticides on the recommended quantities science points out (which organic agriculture also has less literature on that too)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452075</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how scary is the decay of cognition? i'm 29 and i already noticed the amount of energy i had on my early 20s on everything, stamina to read, watch movies, exercise, recover from the exercise etc. compared to what i have now. guess it's a slow downhill till i mature to old age but still. shit. i hate the linear time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:40:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394450</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Stop Killing Games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you don't need to liberate your project to GPL or whatever OSS to let users distribute them via torrent or at least being able to backup the DRM-free installer... i bet most if not all AAA games have their crack into the pirate land in less than a week after or even before release</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388826</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>reminds me the time i had an iPhone SE (1° gen) and i could play 1-3 minutes of garageband with my Korg keyboard using it and then it stopped saying my (adapter) wasn't offcial :) the official gadget in Brazil was > 10 times more expensive than the cheap copies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 07:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264452</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there's much more than triple A video-games running at 240 Hz on Ultra settings... a 200 USD laptop/computer has enough power to run hundreds of interesting indie games and AAA from the past</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:43:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260374</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>even worse! you can start a Emacs client evaluate (menu-bar-mode -1) and (tool-bar-mode -1) and put it on full screen</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:26:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253423</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, i gave up from buying processed food that's vegan and gluten-free... they usually are expensive and at the best, mediocre. i'm much better suited cooking at home and to not say everything veg and gluten-free sucks, the brand Schär has some neat stuff but the prices are quite steep here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248820</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>gotta try the combo VEGAN + CELIAC hehehe<p>i literally gave up from Brazilian industrialized/processed food a long time ago :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 04:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244793</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Google Declaring War on the Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>innocent. like demand won't lower prices?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 03:22:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217480</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Your Most Improbable Life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how about normalizing being generic (you don't need to be a Cervantes or a Joyce to write a book people enjoy) by burning down AI servers? or boycotting these techs. OP types like it's easy to stand out of a ever growing nation of 8 billion people and that people aren't satified with the generic. take a look at the most popular music hits worldwide... 12-edo, mostly harmonic stuff having C<p>you should build your uniqueness to help humanity and not stand out because you like to shine over the others</p>
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<p>GMO seeds from OpenTree</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:03:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183158</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "We've made the world too complicated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i don't know where you want to take this critic but there's a lot of learn that is meant to be forgotten. transfer of learning is a scientific phenomenon. how it's useful for the day to day is at least questionable, as it's pretty hard to measure. if you take with a pretty rational look it feels insane to teach kids nobel prize type of knowledge that can't be understood or figured out entirely by crytalized knowledge (which is also a scientific term). how much that's necessary and how some fields like regulating emotions, arts and even critical thinking are missing on the grade, the quote about "we didn't know where to stop" feels pretty prevalent. it's not impossible to find a phd graduate working in some job someone without high-school graduation could learn, probably at the same rate/time span</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 03:43:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165885</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>loving is laborious</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 22:41:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164396</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>have you followed their build instructions? <a href="https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/blob/standalone/standalone/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/blob/standalone/standal...</a><p>last time i tried on Debian it just worked... their developer testing app also works flawlessly on Android. Arch Linux has an AUR package with the last git and i updated it yesterday and played a bit before bed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:46:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087166</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>mom always joke i look like a 100 year old guy when i'm walking around the neighbor. i'm always listening to a podcast about science in a non-native language so a lot of mental workload goes into it<p>i have quite long legs and i outpace by a far cry everyone when i'm walking around the city without my earbuds or when i'm hiking</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086776</link><dc:creator>luqtas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by luqtas in "Permacomputing Principles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>so tackling emergent discussions on equality and justice of our bloody past is a non-go... why do you think "permacomputing" started to exist in the first place? to make rich people have more durable products? /s</p>
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<p>what a bad boy we got over here</p>
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