<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: lurker919</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lurker919</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 01:49:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lurker919" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for spelling out some good points. They always seemed obvious to me but I could never clearly explain them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241450</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Claude Managed Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly my thoughts, AWS is due for a large rewrite/ground up rewrite from first principles to be able to fully utilize LLMs/agentic capabilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:55:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694634</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Ask HN: What is the most complicated Algorithm you came up with yourself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Javascript logic for a clickable three.js 3d menu / world environment with animated planets going on their own trajectories.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:50:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917291</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "A lot of population numbers are fake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't we just do a count(*) on the number of unique mobile numbers in every country? And add some estimate for children etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818053</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818053</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46818053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Meta launches Hyperscape, technology to turn real-world spaces into VR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On one hand, meta has a bad reputation for being a toxic pip factory where employees can be laid off any time. On the other hand, they are consistently coming out with innovations in VR/glasses at a time when the industry is going crazy over openai funny money. Are toxic work practices actually good for innovation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:43:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521444</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hundreds of people in my circle who use airbnb and uber daily/monthly disagree with you. Could this be unnecessary pessimism?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420032</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45420032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe it just needs provenance. So bad actors can't flood the system.<p>Counter to the above is that, your bad actor may be my leader. People like convenience. When someone is expressing what you want to say, in a better and smarter way, you just reshare/retweet them. And the 'other side' will feel like your leader is a 'bad actor' who is flooding the system. So even the method of resharing/retweeting needs some sort of provenance/single use only. So you can 'agree' with your thought leader, but they shouldn't be able to mass manufacture consent. Since you might even reshare 'fake news' since you generally trust your leader. It's messy, not sure what that would look like - every post that starts getting traction needs to be fact checked? Community Notes on X is a step in the right direction maybe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017790</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this conflate the number of new visas issued to new workers, with the existing visas renewed by already settled-in-US workers (that must be renewed every 3 years)?<p>Because due to the GC backlog, the existing visas do not go down for 2 major contributing countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:26:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607474</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Ask HN: How are people using ChatGPT to increase productivity in personal life?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hopefully atleast 1-2 good years before we start skipping the starting of  answers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:43:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161753</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44161753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently interviewed an engineer who was somehow using ChatGPT realtime on another laptop beside him. The irony was that the questions were pretty simple overall and our rubric also wasn't very strict, so he likely would have passed if he just used his memory and common sense. Though the answers weren't wrong overall, I still felt cheated because of the deception and had to reject him later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:37:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614535</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Real-Time Introspective Compression for Transformers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strategy distillation seems like gradient update in a way? Or would that be at a higher abstract level.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561112</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Curious what is the rationale for this rule. Not against or for it or anything, just interested in what historical precedent led to this logic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:52:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365923</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43365923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to mention you have to be logged in, it's like a paywall for me. I don't want to create an account on X and pay with my mental health.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:04:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348111</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should cloudflare ever be the target of an attempted takeover by Musk and co (like Twitter or the ongoing NIH/USAID saga) you can be sure you won't be able to access any 'inclusive' websites anymore...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:10:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957261</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "AI hallucinations: Why LLMs make things up (and how to fix it)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  individual 'hallucinations' can't be treated as bugs to troubleshoot<p>You are wrong here - my company can fix individual responses by adding specific targeted data for the RAG prompt. So a JIRA ticket for a wrong response can be fixed in 2 days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:40:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329214</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42329214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Ask HN: When was the last time you bought something you were excited to get it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bought a DJI drone. Not sure what I expected, but I did expect big changes in my life. Unsurprisingly, I rarely fly it now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:08:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828662</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41828662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "I am starting an AI+Education company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sounds so dystopian. What do kids even do at 12? How can you ask them to decide the course of their life at 12, generally they get segregated while choosing an undergrad major around 16 right!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:31:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40984400</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40984400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40984400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was a child I dreamed of being a professional sportsperson - a soccer star or a tennis pro. Now in my late 20s, I shudder thinking of the pressure/stress,  injuries and constant competitiveness that my life would have been if I had gone down that path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:32:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823569</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40823569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love to read his documentation! Even if I don't know anything about the topic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674272</link><dc:creator>lurker919</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40674272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lurker919 in "OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hilarious!</p>
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