<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: mlindner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mlindner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:14:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mlindner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "Apple WWDC 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Part of the problem with Apple Vision Pro was the sales strategy. They labeled it "Pro" but if you went into an Apple store they only let you play some simple games and watch some movies with it. The main feature I was interested in, desktop extension, they wouldn't let you test. I even explicitly asked and they said no. They wanted a guided experience thing which just turned me off from buying it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449066</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SpaceX/xAI is investing in creating their own fab. If they can, Apple certainly can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:09:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128830</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48128830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is of value to watch on any of the streaming platforms?<p>Netflix content is atrophying. Disney Plus is dying. To say nothing of Hulu or others.<p>I watch youtube. The content is way more varied and interesting and less sanitized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:45:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855665</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "Your Smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW, I would not trust LG here to actually do nothing even after turning all the elements off, their GUI is especially "web"-like. Just leave it disconnected.<p>I don't understand why people can't just get a secondary device for accessing live streaming programs. There's numerous devices you can buy that do it.<p>TVs should not be connected to the internet. The incentive structures are just too bad against the user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855638</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "SpaceX strikes deal with Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you change the title?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:39:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855605</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because social media is embedded into many apps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713398</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird. I've shifted more and more of my social media use to X. Especially the last few weeks have been great with Artemis and an algorithmic accident that X's auto translation feature has been enabling tons of positive cross cultural communication with people from Japan. It's more fun than I've ever had on social media. Reddit on the other hand has been completely dying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:32:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713287</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has more to do with the UK government than a "for-profit company". Apple has been one of the biggest forces pushing back against this kind of thing forever, at least in the US where companies still have rights.</p>
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<p>Google practically never shows explicit images to anyone anymore anyway. Even bing doesn't anymore. I feel like we've returned to a more prude society, at least on the mainstream internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:05:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971454</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use Firefox and uBlock Origin but still pay for premium because I want to support the channels I watch but don't want to watch their ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:53:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971009</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "Data centers in space makes no sense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want to nitpick you here but a thermos is specifically good at insulating because not only does it have a vacuum gap, it's also got two layers of metal (inner and outer) to absorb and reflect thermal radiation.<p>That specific aspect is NOT true in space because there's nothing stopping thermal radiation.<p>Now you're correct that you can't remove heat by conduction or convection in space, but it's not that hard to radiate away energy in space. In fact rocket engine nozzle extensions of rocket upper stages depend on thermal radiation to avoid melting. They glow cherry red and emit a lot of energy.<p>By Stefan–Boltzmann law, thermal radiation goes up with temperature to the 4th power. If you use a coolant that lets your radiator glow you can conduct heat away very efficiently. This is generally problematic to do on Earth because of the danger of such a thing and also because such heat would cause significant chemical reactions of the radiator with our corrosive oxygen atmosphere.<p>Even without making them super hot, there's already significant energy density on SpaceX's satellites. They're at around 75 kW of energy generation that needs to be radiated away.<p>And on your final statement, hyperloop was not used as a "distraction" as he never even funded it. He had been talking about it for years and years until fanboys on twitter finally talked him into releasing that hastily put together white paper. The various hyperloop companies out there never had any investment from him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:24:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880126</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trying to make a point out of whether he did or didn't found Tesla kind if defeats the rest of your post. He paid over 90% of the first funding round and brought in key people like JB Straubel. When the company was basically an incorporation paper and no assets. Under most companies people would have argued for founder/co-founder status at that point. So yes he didn't "found" Tesla  but for all intents and purposes he basically did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:39:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866596</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's interesting as the space fans (who often dismiss AI) say this is a project to get SpaceX's space/Starlink profits for AI. But the AI people seem to think this is to get AI money for space projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866547</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We seem to be using 100% of our DRAM manufacturing for AI. So it's not completely out of the question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866435</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have radiators on the ISS. Even if you kept the terrible performance of those ancient radiator designs (regularly exposed to sunlight, simplistic ammonia coolant, low temperature) you could just make them bigger and radiate the needed energy. Yes it would require a bit of engineering but to call it an "unsolved problem" is just exaggerating.</p>
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<p>It's always better to generate electricity on the ground than attempt to beam it to the ground from space. The efficiency loss of beamed power is huge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866330</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure what you're quoting but that is fan fiction of some sort divorced from reality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:37:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702325</link><dc:creator>mlindner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46702325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlindner in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> No, actually to be frank, I'd rather the Nazis go back to hiding under the floorboards in fear of public retribution.<p>You're defaming me and spreading lies. Any actual Nazis can go fuck themselves.</p>
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<p>I've said for a while that ICE needs to go after businesses that hire illegal immigrants. So if you're looking for some kind of conflict in what I'm saying that isn't it.<p>That's why I said that ICE isn't doing enough.</p>
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<p>I'll tell you the same thing I told the other person:<p>I love immigrants lol. I just want immigrants that integrate and come into the country without breaking the law.</p>
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