<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: mbar84</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbar84</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:41:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mbar84" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "This website is for humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I want you, I want you, I want some of you<p>What about what I want? What if I don't want what you want? What if my criteria for a recipe is perfectly well served by an AI and I don't want your project to be my project.<p>Time is scarce. People don't owe you their time. If the LLM can save me time, and give an acceptable result, I'll use it. If I had infinite time (which I don't) maybe I'd participate in your project and learn to appreciate the nuance and humanity and whatnot related to cooking. Until then, I have other things to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931075</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44931075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I never look for any type of tax dodge.<p>If you're engaging in philanthropy, dodging taxes is perfectly justified. The main thing to look out for is whether or not you are using the money better than the government would, which isn't that difficult.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 09:14:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930105</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44930105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Tesla withheld data, lied, misdirected police to avoid blame in Autopilot crash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would be good for Tesla's reputation if they would upload/mirror the crash data to a neutral third party. Then the police and plaintiff could get it from there without any allegations of withholding data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 10:23:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845377</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've heard this expressed as existence versus life. Nobody owes it to to give up their life for the life of another, let alone if all that can be hoped for is the mere existence of another.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 17:06:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685492</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44685492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The connection between sludge and distrust in government is worth emphasizing. The narrow minded and short term focus on metrics leads people in the managerial class to lose sight of reputational damage. Dehumanizing treatment may lose a corporation a customer, but what does it do to government and citizens?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:39:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428695</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you receive btc in a transaction, the question is, when you consider it to be settled. In other words, how much energy is enough for you to consider it infeasible for an attacker to rewrite recent blocks so that you no longer are the recipient of some btc.<p>One way to think about it is to relate the total fees to the value of your transaction. If fees in blocks with a block height above the block with your transaction total $10000 (the security budget) then an attacker might be willing to spend that amount on energy to rewrite the chain. Another way to think about it is to relate the security budget to all recent transactions, assuming the attacker is the counter party to all of them (worst case).<p>In either case, there is no obviously correct answer to how high the security budget has to be on a per-block basis. The question is how long you're willing to wait for the security budget to accumulate and cover your transaction. If the block subsidy decreases and fees don't rise to replace them, then settlement time increases. Don't hand out goods to a counter party if the value of your transaction hasn't at least been met by the security budget. No need to wait longer than the point at which the value of all transactions of the block which includes your transaction has been exceeded by the security budget. An attacker would be losing money at that point if they tried to scam you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425212</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44425212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That wasn't the reason to restrict block size. There is no way to scale the number of transactions on the main layer to anywhere near the level required to cover daily transactions. The bitcoin main layer was always destined to be for settlements between financial institutions anyway. Making any accommodations for use cases that are fundamentally unsustainable never made sense. Buying coffee was always going to have to be on a second or third layer, so restricting the block size introduces an incentive to develop those layers that are needed anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:13:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424975</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lex non cogit ad impossibilia. - The law cannot compel the impossible.<p>A judicial system populated by people who don't understand what's possible is a real issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:11:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44363907</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44363907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44363907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope the only valid use for WhatsApp becomes giving people a link to your Signal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300325</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44300325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really like how well the node editor preserves the path as much as possible when adding or removing nodes, apparently adjusting adjacent nodes to minimize distortion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 08:26:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944069</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you give your product a quite specific name that's exactly the same as another product? "Core 2 Duo" immediately brings an Intel CPU to mind and will probably make it harder to search for anything related to the watch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410759</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One definite UX improvement over the past 25 years have been command menus. In the most simple implementation, press Ctrl+P start typing to filter a list of commands down and hit enter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354594</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43354594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of this is settled economic theory. Even just the conclusion in the second sentence is highly debatable. Capital investments are a market and it is completely plausible that they will clear like any other with a fixed money supply, just at a different price level than with an expanding money supply.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286403</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pricing on these products is frustrating. To even try out the Phind-405B model I have to pay $20 and then I get unlimited queries which I never asked for? For a product I don't even know if I'll ever use again, give me usage based pricing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042760</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042760</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "More men are addicted to the 'crack cocaine' of the stock market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if this sets up a moral hazard that only exacerbates a possibly coming crash. People assume the Fed will prevent assets from dropping, which makes them bid up asset prices to even higher levels that even the Fed is incapable of maintaining.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:35:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515087</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I doubt many people are making purchasing decisions based on Intel branding. Any kind of speed advantage has not been a dominant factor in the minds of most low information/brand influenceable consumers who are buying x86 machines. Everybody else looks at reviews and benchmarks where Intel has to show up with a good product and their branding doesn't get them much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305509</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42305509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Setelinleikkaus: When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Was he really that wrong? Isn't a bond just another debt instrument? It's not obvious to me, that there is any fundamental difference between the operations that both comments describe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248161</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42248161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For some, it's an ethical imperative. The government is at best wasteful, often what it does with resources is harmful. If you can make sure resources are kept in private hands and used for further capital accumulation then we'll all be better off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41420520</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41420520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41420520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be really nice if there were a battery technology that could charge 100 miles in a few minutes, even if that meant you would be constantly charging on longer trips.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 20:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252238</link><dc:creator>mbar84</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40252238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbar84 in "Monodraw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps something for your list:<p><a href="https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid" rel="nofollow">https://mbarkhau.github.io/asciigrid</a></p>
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