<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: mlmonkey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mlmonkey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:06:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mlmonkey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "The First Candid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why TF would they not show the original??!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133398</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50133398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Tesla Roadster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a feeling that the thrust versions (with thrusters) will find huge markets in the Middle East (UAE, Kuwait, Saudi, etc.), and maybe some other "few legal restrictions" jurisdictions (maybe the cartel bosses, African dictators, etc).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:45:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126301</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50126301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Tesla Roadster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Several Chinese brands (like BYD or Xiaomi) have such offerings, but the US is too beholden to Musk to let them in.<p>And then Musk has the gall to claim India is not open to Starlink because Ambani is in charge! <a href="https://twstalker.com/elonmusk/status/2108604227643719745" rel="nofollow">https://twstalker.com/elonmusk/status/2108604227643719745</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:22:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122279</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hummingbirds are weird. I had assumed that given the size of their brains, they'd be not as smart (naive assumption). But they are curious critters! I have a few who visit my backyard, where I have a chair which noone uses. The other day I decided to sit down in the chair and soak in the sun (a rarity in SF, I might add) with my eyes closed. And soon I heard a low buzzing sound, and what do you know? A hummingbird was hovering about a foot away from my face, observing me. It backed off a bit when I opened my eyes, but did hover around for a few more seconds before flying away. The control they have on their flight is unbelievable. They can hover with so much precision!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:43:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120773</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Waymo in Toronto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They keep announcing new cities, but do they really follow up and actually launch there? I remember a couple of years ago they announced NYC as a market, but I don't think they're fully launched in NYC yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120578</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Waymo in Toronto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I happened to be in that area of West Portal on that fateful day (damn you, Noe Valley Bakery!) I did not see it happen, but went to see what that noise was all about. The images of that scene from that day still haunt me; they are very vivid. It was a terrible, terrible accident and may that old witch Mary Lau spend an eternity in hell.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:29:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120505</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Be" .... now that's a blast from the past! :-D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:12:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112075</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GMaps link: <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUA5m4KPJmbeqJEF6" rel="nofollow">https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUA5m4KPJmbeqJEF6</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:56:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111539</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you give credit to every textbook you read and learned from in your entire life, every time you publish something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109388</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50109388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "US report details extent of 'devastating' dating-app scams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's what OKCupid was supposed to be. They even wrote a blog post about how they are different from the other companies.<p>And then Match bought OKCupid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:01:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093127</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you not read the article? He did that also!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:09:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079602</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50079602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>December 1st is just ~6 weeks away. There's no way Google puts out even 1 more Gemini 4 version before then, let alone more than 1.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:13:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076113</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm speaking from 30 years experience in the Valley, having worked at several big companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076066</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... and despite Google spending $2.7B for the "hi-quire", the superstars of the team left Google within a few months, making it all pointless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075945</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sadly, this is all that managers know to do: take a metric and try to optimize the heck out of it. They don't care about research, technology, "don't be evil", etc. And Google is run by managers now.<p>Expect Google models to be benchmaxxed as much as possible, but don't expect commensurate performance on real-world tasks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:59:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075910</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "GLM-Legal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Challenging is not free: it costs lawyer time (which, as we all know, ain't cheap).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:01:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066509</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "America's Longest Highway Tunnel (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't Whittier (the town that the tunnel leads to) also interesting in its own right? IIRC, the entire town is in one big building; and in winter everyone is basically shut in. There's a school inside, grocery store, post office, police, fire, etc. etc.   Going from memory here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:34:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064024</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "GLM-Legal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sad reality is that these delays are just an excuse to extract money from you.<p>My cousin has an open-and-shut land case. His father was allotted some barren government land ~50 years ago and they have happily been farming it ever since. But suddenly, ~30 years ago the government decided to build a highway near it. Its value went up. And it dawned on some bureaucrat that nobody had made any money from the initial allotment; an injustice that must be fixed pronto! So they passed an order cancelling the initial allotment, and cousin's family went to court. Now, for almost 30 years, the case has been dragging on through the court. They've been told multiple times: take 25% of the current market value of the land and "sell" it to us. But they insist on doing things the proper way, and have been running to/from the courts. They're on their 5th team of lawyers, afaik. Each new lawyer agrees that it's a clear cut case, but month after month it drags on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:10:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063771</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "GLM-Legal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I might be incredibly naive here, but I really think LLMs can make a difference in _some_ areas of law.<p>Take, for example, India. The courts are backlogged like crazy. If you're not willing to bribe a judge or the opposite side's lawyer, you'r looking at multiple decades to settle simple cases.<p>I wish I could waive a wand and have some LLM just go through all of the 58 million pending court cases, identify the clear cut ones and free up the judges' time so they can work on the more difficult ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:39:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063414</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mlmonkey in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What will Stingrays do if a mobile device uses Starlink? There's no way the Feds are going to lose this ability to deploy Stingrays once Starlink Mobile comes around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:31:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061714</link><dc:creator>mlmonkey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061714</guid></item></channel></rss>