<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: mercacona</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mercacona</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:31:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mercacona" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha! Please, don’t! We don’t need clipart or senseless AI generated schemas on PowerPoints :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:38:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870217</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every improvement in image generation seems to reduce the value of the images themselves. When anything can be faked or created in seconds, what is an image really worth? With text or code, you can dig into a meaningful dialogue because their reality is digital too. But images become like the plain people to show up photo frames.<p>I guess it's just a completely personal feeling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861609</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not just futuristic, they’re designed with intention. That’s what I miss most of all about the current buildings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957273</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> half of his cabinet.<p>That’s bold and inaccurate. What you shouldn’t trust is El Corte Inglés, who would code another shitty platform for the Spanish institutions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:00:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896596</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Google Opal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you mean Discord is a kind of community for young hackers? I’m curious about Discord because I’ve been asked about a chat app for teenagers who don’t have mobile phones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442835</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Implications of AI to schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been following this approach since last school year. I focus on in-class work and home-time is for reading and memorization. My classmates still think classrooms are for lecturing, but it's coming. The paper-and-pen era is back to school!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037817</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Implications of AI to schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, it's easy to shortcut AI plagiarism, but you need time. In most of the universities around the world (online universities especially), the number of students is way too big, while professors get more and more pressure on publishing and bureaucracy.</p>
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<p>You also might let them get some rest and sleep to fix memories ;-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337938</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here you speak about your data as if it were rocks you found trekking, but the data we’re talking here isn’t even paper or pictures: it’s digital data  you can’t access or backup by yourself.<p>You definitely need uncontrollable entities all over the world for that data to exist. Somehow you’re doing what some of those entities allow you to do, and some want you to do. That’s my point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:34:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337915</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44337915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>40 years ago, we weren’t living in a dystopian society –we may be closer now. Back then, most people kept less than 50 photos at home but spent more time with their families, sharing stories and souvenirs.<p>Companies have taught us to do otherwise for their profit, don’t forget to back up that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:59:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335241</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMHO the constant complaints about losing chats or needing conversation backups aren’t technical problems—they’re social ones. We need to reclaim the freedom to speak with others ephemerally. No one should want all their conversations recorded, yet we’re heading toward the opposite with smart glasses.<p>Ideally, we’d agree universally: chats saved for one month (the context we can actually remember from a conversation), emails for five years (for administrative control), and conversations never recorded. However, we’ve been manipulated into needing exactly the opposite. Worse yet, we think it’s possible to maintain privacy while transcribing and archiving everything in our minds, making it public.</p>
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<p>I wish I could upvote you twice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:16:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781795</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43781795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Now it can remind you iOS 18’s iMessage. I just upgrade and got that 2000s feeling with the new emoji and text effects…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242347</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43242347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cutting admin people might mean more paperwork for professors and researches, which can lead to less grants and funding because you can’t do science while doing paperwork. Not that easy to be efficient without losing productivity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:56:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154036</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Fructose in diet enhances tumor growth: research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My parents' generation used to add sugar to everything because they considered sugar a source of energy.<p>I remember eating strawberries directly from the plant, and they were sweet. However, my aunt would serve the same strawberries with sugar as an afternoon snack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:20:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345663</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm giving the new Sonnet a chance, although for my use as a writing companion so far, Opus has been king among all the models I've tried.<p>However, I've been using Opus as a writing companion for several months, especially when you have writer's block and ask it for alternative phrases, it was super creative. But in recent weeks I was noticing a degradation in quality. My impression is that the model was degrading. Could this be technically possible? Might it be some kind of programmed obsolescence to hype new models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918824</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "TouchArcade Is Shutting Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My only complain is on the low value of the search results the average person gets, which is easy to judge: passive advertising, SEOsites, etc.<p>I don’t care what they search, read or watch.</p>
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<p>But they don’t get attention-public-funding enough to be profitable because of the garbage. The garbage is burying them in search results but also literally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:25:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560403</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41560403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mercacona in "Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not CEO, President… the interim CEO is a well known donor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41382556</link><dc:creator>mercacona</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41382556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41382556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[October first, Workflowy Pro will increase in price]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.workflowy.com/on-october-1st-workflowy-pro-will-increase-in-price/">https://blog.workflowy.com/on-october-1st-workflowy-pro-will-increase-in-price/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380618">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380618</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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