<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: ncr100</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ncr100</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:17:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ncr100" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Singapore has 30% or more families using corporal punishment, according to this<p><a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10311744/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10311744/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064020</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In many midsize companies I've worked as an engineer, developing a growth plan is something I have been asked to do, and to share it with my manager. Then at the end of the quarter I go over the growth plan and the manager agrees or disagrees with my actual growth, and gives me a performance bonus befitting my success..<p>I propose employees create self-training byproducts as a result of any AI interaction. And then they also work with their Cuban manager to make sure that these self-training byproducts are a part of their growth plan. This can guarantee growth without losing that opportunity To interact with the intelligent AI system (on topics that are relevant to the company's short, mid, and long-term strategic advantage,).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:28:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022981</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Photos on Google has a Document image recognition category too. <3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:21:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022897</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How so?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:19:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022883</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which something? The identical-ness of your particular collection of cards, in the wallet?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022880</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep - Says he's got a Microsoft.com email address:<p>> "feel free to reach me directly (my alias @microsoft.com) or"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 07:20:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994297</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read this as 'RAT factories' - like Neanderthal decided to breed thousands of rats presumably for food. Assuming rats were meaty and not taboo then, as they are now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 07:07:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994223</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47994223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934116">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934116</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:17:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939228</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yikes - selling "When did I last Orgasm" to Mark Zuckerberg's team seems like an undesirable "leak" of information.<p>.. To be clear, "wired app to standard ad-tech surveillance plumbing, sending concepts like user logged period and pregnancy mode entered, through its pipes, to improve ad revenues through Meta's targeting platform" .. ad-events .. this is the kind of behavior that happened, in plain-ish speaking terms, per what I read in my non-expert capacity.<p>Q: (answered) Now I want to know who runs (ran?) Flo - can we find their Board of Directors & C-level people on LinkedIn to profile what kind of industries lead to this kind of (I believe) privacy violating behaviors? It's a biased question on my part, as Correlation is not Causality! Onwards ..<p>My limited, biased, AI-driven research suggests the violating behavior ran from June 2016 through February 2019, and that generally the Company was designed to be consumer-app with subscriptions and is healthcare-adjacent, targeting an unregulated non-HIPPA market.<p>- INVESTORS = consumer subscription apps with ad-driven growth loops<p>- BUSINESS MODEL =<p>(1) free or freemium consumer apps where<p>(2) growth depends on paid acquisition through Meta/Google/TikTok ad platforms, which<p>(3) requires sending conversion events back to those platforms to optimize ad spend, and<p>(4) the SDKs that do this are designed by ad networks to hoover up everything by default.<p>- EXECUTIVE =<p>* No Privacy / Data Protection C-level officers during violating period</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:14:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939171</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out this album, especially Bernard's Boogie, and Horses.<p>- <a href="https://donnybenet.bandcamp.com/album/il-basso" rel="nofollow">https://donnybenet.bandcamp.com/album/il-basso</a><p>Totally not written by Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:59:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938938</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is too difficult as the concept (of trusting one's perception) is, I believe, intertwined deeply with other aspects of being human, for many people.<p>It's not reasonable to require that those people be mentally organized in a manner that already mistrusts reality, in a healthy manner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:34:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938523</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and tx for sharing the experience of the hog video - recommended to me too and I chose not to click, as I did not want the frustration of seeing another "tech run amuck" example, of tech disrupting YET ANOTHER norm.<p>Relatedly, IMO "trust" as a word / concept is deserving of being reevaluated nowadays.<p>E.g. I don't know that you, NitpickLawyer, are a real person. And when I go through the mental exercise of inventing the details, proofs, and evidence I'd need in order to satisfy my doubt, I never succeed until I reach the physical-contact-with-NitpickLawyer condition.<p>So I think we need to evaluate what is necessary for oneself to operate in society, separate from these untrustable things .. such as media / news reports, and all the other things I just don't want to worry about, right now. :-(</p>
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<p>+++
Has good examples.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:22:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938369</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder then if the workaround for THAT (losing access to Banking / "Google trust-deriving apps") is to get a second device, wifi-only no-SIM G-Android.<p>Cumbersome, but any other deterring reasons why "not a good workaround"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:16:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938292</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are shiny. Many aspects feel more 'human', IMO.<p>If you use ad-blockers, I recommend exploring that use-case with Apple / Safari. It's doable though for me is a bit frustrating.<p>In fact, I urge creating a list of use-cases before heading out to the store, and cranking through those while at the store. Computers/phones are such a deeply entwined component of modern life it could be a long list.<p>Passwords, backups, bluetooth compatibility, connecting mass-storage devices to iPad / iPhone, etc.</p>
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<p>GrapheneOS proves it's not an absolute, that "the computer I carry around in my pocket" must depend upon a megacorp / gov. <3<p>The issue still is boiling down to GrapheneOS having less $$ for marketing vs GOOG / Alphabet / <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:08:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938183</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "Martin Galway's music source files from 1980's Commodore 64 games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Q: have people attempted to translate this into Tidal Cycles, or Strudel JS? (Pattern playing of music by notation)<p>Edit: AI says doing the translation would be hard, though doable. <a href="https://claude.ai/share/65c16d60-5d27-496b-96a7-40959e95ac62" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/share/65c16d60-5d27-496b-96a7-40959e95ac62</a><p>Edit 2: here is an AI translation of some of the notes, what Claude claims as the main melody:<p><a href="https://strudel.cc/#Ci8vIFdpemJhbGwgIklucHV0IE5hbWUiIC0gbWFpbiBtZWxvZHkgKGNoYW5uZWwgMCkKLy8gT3JpZ2luYWw6IE1hcnRpbiBHYWx3YXksIDE5ODcuIE5vdGUgaW5kaWNlcyBmcm9tIEM2NCBTSUQgYXNtCi8vIHRyYW5zbGF0ZWQgYXMgTUlESSA9IGluZGV4ICsgMTIuCgpzZXRjcHMoMTQwLzYwLzQpCgokOiBub3RlKGA8CiAgW2E0IH4gfiBhNF0gW2c0IH4gfiBnNF0gW2YjNCB%2BIH4gfl0KICBbfiB%2BIH4gYjRdIFtiNCBiNCBiNCB%2BXSBbYjQgfiBiNCB%2BXQogIFtkNSBkNSBkNSBkNV0gW2Q1IGQ1IGY1IGQ1XSBbYzUgZDUgYzUgZzRdCiAgW2E0IH4gfiBhNF0gW2c0IGc0IH4gfl0gW2YjNCB%2BIGE0IH5dCiAgW2c0IH4gfiB%2BXQo%2BYCkKICAucygic3F1YXJlIikKICAuYXR0YWNrKC4wMDUpLmRlY2F5KC4wOCkuc3VzdGFpbiguNCkucmVsZWFzZSguMSkKICAubHBmKDIyMDApLmxwcSgzKQogIC5nYWluKC42KQoKLy8gQ2hhbm5lbCAxOiB0aGUgaGlnaCBCNSBjaGltZSB0aGF0IHB1bmN0dWF0ZXMgdGhyb3VnaG91dAokOiBub3RlKCJiNSB%2BIH4gfiB%2BIH4gYjUgfiIuZmFzdCgyKSkKICAucygidHJpYW5nbGUiKQogIC5hdHRhY2soLjAwMSkuZGVjYXkoLjA0KS5zdXN0YWluKDApLnJlbGVhc2UoLjA1KQogIC5nYWluKC4zKQoKLy8gQ2hhbm5lbCAyOiBiYXNzIGxpbmUgLSByb290IG1vdGlvbiBEIC0gQSAtIEcgLSBECiQ6IG5vdGUoIjxkMyBhMiBnMiBkMz4iKQogIC5zKCJzYXd0b290aCIpCiAgLmxwZig4MDApLmxwcSgyKQogIC5hdHRhY2soLjAwNSkuZGVjYXkoLjIpLnN1c3RhaW4oLjYpLnJlbGVhc2UoLjEpCiAgLmdhaW4oLjUpCg%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">https://strudel.cc/#Ci8vIFdpemJhbGwgIklucHV0IE5hbWUiIC0gbWFp...</a> .. uh ...<p>Edit 3: the original theme is amazing and worth listening to <a href="https://youtu.be/sFYzjU-C3mA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sFYzjU-C3mA</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901414</link><dc:creator>ncr100</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ncr100 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and:<p>It's a short step from the Congress people taking advantage of foreknowledge, vs them MAKING self advantageous opportunities. And it's not guaranteed their "making" is in the public interest.</p>
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<p>Unless the colors meaningfully change the represented text/information eg hiding or highlighting key details leading to tactically dangerous misinterpretation.</p>
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<p>I wonder what the various billionaires pay in federal tax.<p>I know there's not just one type of billionaire, but many, And I wonder if any are more or less significant than each other to the Nations financial Health.</p>
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