<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: moduspol</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=moduspol</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:36:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=moduspol" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Grok 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's possible, though I was thinking the same when GPT 5 released and it was kind of a nothing burger. Then I threw out that hypothesis with Opus 4.5.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:11:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274698</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can survive the high blood pressure!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:02:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234543</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not especially a fan of MCP but it also offers:<p>- Standardized input and output schemas for each tool<p>- Standardized annotations that indicate how potentially dangerous each tool can be (e.g. read-only, idempotent, publishes data visible to third parties)<p>- Extensions for UI widgets</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181569</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just saw the new Spider-Man movie and there were a ton of notices about Canada-based film credits and from various provinces, too. I'm not sure how these credits work, but maybe spreading the work out to various tax incentivized areas is the current play.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158620</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> AI can't replace the notoriety part of why studios hire actors.<p>I mean it probably can if a few famous actors license their likeness to be used in AI films. And it's probably only a matter of time until fully AI actors get marketed and licensed for use in AI films. I don't see a fundamental reason why AI actors couldn't build the same kind of notoriety and following.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:09:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158602</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite thing lately is that it's very good at resolving dependency security vulnerabilities. GitHub already does a good job at detecting and notifying which packages are vulnerable and at what versions they're fixed, and without AI, it's just a super tedious process to figure out what things all depend on that package, find a version that'll work for all of them (potentially including upgrading the things that depend on it), wire it up, test things, and make any minor changes necessary in our code.<p>It's not "hard" or novel--it's just tedious grunt work. I'm happy to have AI solving that one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122056</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That was my first thought. There are clearly things to tighten up (as they note), but anything that would detect someone snooping secrets, files, or network addresses should have caught this quickly. The approach the agents used was dependent on being able to surveil widely without getting caught.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:36:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101299</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just deleted my sibling comment because I was recommending the same clock. I set it to do its daily WiFi time sync at 4am so that any DST adjustment happens before I wake up. No issues so far.<p>I have two of them. One project on my list is to see if I can modify the face of it to a different style without breaking it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070600</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried atomic clocks but they wouldn't work unless they were on the southwest corner of the house. It even said in the manual that if it's not working, to try putting it there. Kind of defeats the purpose setting itself if I have to move it to a specific corner of my house twice a year.<p>Though I didn't want a digital clock--my goal was an analog-style clock that never needed any maintenance. And it ends up there are some reasonably priced ones on Amazon that just connect to WiFi once a day and adjust if necessary, including to account for DST. I have it set to run at 4am each day, so any DST adjustment happens while I'm still sleeping.<p>The only final step is to run hardwired power to it so I don't need to change batteries, but I haven't pulled that trigger yet. Often with projects like this, it's more fun to prove out the difficult parts and I lose interest once only the easy parts remain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:51:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070531</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's that, but it's also that AI is not visibly providing any tangible benefit for most people. It'd be one thing if you had to tolerate a datacenter at the edge of town, but at least now you have a robot to fold your clean clothes. Instead, you get the threat of losing your job, the privilege of dealing with AI customer service chatbots, and higher energy costs.<p>I think most datacenter criticisms are actually coming from people who were going to oppose them anyway. Though a lot of their criticisms are valid, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011912</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our small team (~6 devs) is still using Claude Code because we're still on the cost-per-seat-month plan. If we were being pressed to pay per token, we'd be re-evaluating for sure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981667</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This stuff happened years ago, right? Something tells me that discussion has already happened, and they went with Google.<p>Besides: Apple is a "real" company that will definitely still be around in five years. They've already fumbled Siri multiple times. IMO Google was certainly the right choice for actually executing well on Apple's own terms for the foreseeable future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:30:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947178</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If matrix multiplication isn't the main primitive, I think we have a lot of pain coming our way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:41:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911297</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought that a year or two ago. Thankfully I did not. I have no idea how long the music will keep playing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911229</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's anecdotal but the kind of people I know that bought Mac Minis for this purpose are what I'd call "light techies." They definitely know how to use an iPhone or a Mac but would struggle on the CLI of a Linux box.<p>Anyone who wanted the OpenClaw use case that is comfortable with Linux probably already has several Linux machines (including a few Raspberry Pis) on-hand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:00:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859313</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm doing both. I've only got so many years remaining and very few of these things "only" work if you've also optimized your diet and exercise. I do acknowledge that diet and exercise have a bigger impact than any supplement, but they're not mutually exclusive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811305</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I take:<p>- Essential Capsules - it's like a multivitamin except with better stuff. I've seen mixed evidence that multivitamins actually provide much benefit if you're already taking C and D. This fills the same kind of gap except with a lot more beneficial stuff in it<p>- Omega-3 - it's like fish oil except from algae, so it has fewer heavy metals. Fish oil is well understood to be a good supplement for the Omega 3, but it can be tricky to source and often contains elevated levels of heavy metals<p>- Longevity mix - daily shake with a bunch of different stuff for sleep / metabolism / healthy aging / performance / recovery / etc. I'm already drinking protein shakes and such each morning so it seemed like a fairly cheap way to get a little more good stuff<p>- Snake oil (yes it's called that) - it's just extra virgin olive oil that is very carefully sourced. Apparently olive oil is one of those things that is often mislabeled and mischaracterized as something it's not when sold en masse. Extra virgin olive oil is also one of those supplements that has good evidence for daily limited consumption, and I trust it more with someone's name on it who has something to lose if it were found to be mislabeled<p>You're welcome to peruse his site [1] if you want more specific details. Each one goes in-depth on what the key ingredients are and why they're in there.<p>[1] <a href="https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com" rel="nofollow">https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807678</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But I'd bet that if he hadn't been tracking his labs, he would've lived a pretty normal life.<p>Well I mean we have a control group consisting of just about every other person diagnosed with this disease, right?<p>The wikipedia page [1] suggests you're probably right, especially given that he is male.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrophic_gastritis#Signs_and_symptoms" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrophic_gastritis#Signs_and_s...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:30:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805191</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I buy a lot of his supplements. They're competitively priced for what they are, and what's in them is based on the studies and science they dig up. Not all of them will be cost-effective for whatever benefit you're trying to gain, but that's the case with all supplements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805025</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48805025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by moduspol in "Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to federal regulatory structure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you expect this to result in much substantive change relative to before the ruling was made?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737541</link><dc:creator>moduspol</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48737541</guid></item></channel></rss>