<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: nerevarthelame</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nerevarthelame</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:08:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nerevarthelame" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're also still posting on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube (in addition to BlueSky and Mastodon). It's silly to suggest that anything outside of X is an echo chamber, or that one must communicate on a platform dominated by white supremacists to expose your ideas to a diverse audience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708077</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On average, they're getting <9,000 views per post on X. With 100 - 150K followers on both Bluesky and Mastodon, I'd expect their impressions to beat those X numbers.<p>But as they say in the article, their reason for leaving isn't solely the low impressions. It's the low impressions, plus "Musk fired the entire human rights team and laid off staffers in countries where the company previously fought off censorship demands from repressive regimes," plus X's unwillingness to give users more control, consider end-to-end DM encryption, or offer transparent moderation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707979</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While criticism of Israel should not be conflated with antisemitism, the concept of a "Zionist Occupation Government," without question, originates from neo-nazi conspiracy theories. Take that shit elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:16:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631678</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Do your own writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with most of this, but my one qualm is the notion that LLMs "are particularly good at generating ideas."<p>It's fair enough that you can discard any bad ideas they generate. But by design, the recommendations will be average, bland, mainstream, and mostly devoid of nuance. I wouldn't encourage anyone to use LLMs to generate ideas if you're trying to create interesting or novel ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578622</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On top of the fraud convictions, Trevor Milton was credibly accused of sexual assault by his own cousin and a girl he employed. Both victims were minors at the time.<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-women-file-sexual-abuse-complaints-against-nikola-founder-trevor-milton.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/two-women-file-sexual-abuse-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:28:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426238</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The rebrand came at a time when "Facebook" was mainly associated with either tremendous scandal (Facebook Files, ad fraud, Cambridge Analytica, Rohingya and Tigray genocides, etc.) or a social media platform increasingly dominated by the elderly.<p>I think it was a desperate lunge away from that toxic brand toward ANYTHING else. Zuckerberg put his money on VR, given the pandemic and the mild success of Oculus.<p>Betting big on the metaverse in particular was a mistake, but it might have helped keep the Facebook stink off of products like WhatsApp and Instagram, which remain pretty popular among mainstream audiences.</p>
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<p>I'm not saying that your assessments are wrong. But you were talking about how valuable this content is, and I don't understand how the insight you claimed to get from the visualization ("There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs") could at all be discernible from the visualization.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:52:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402343</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "US Job Market Visualizer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The VIEW could be AI slop, but underlying CONTENT has some meaning. There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs<p>Is that notion supported by this content? The BLS Outlook for most software engineering jobs is most in the "much faster than average" growth range.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:17:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401019</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that it's worth understanding that the law does not ask for any of this information to leave your car, so "federal surveillance tech" is a bit exaggerated. I have an unimpressive Honda Accord, and it will ding and display an alert if it suspects I'm drowsy.<p>But this law would step beyond that. It does require that the car "prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected."<p>I'm not a transit safety expert, but that itself seems potentially dangerous - even just limiting speed, if it happens on a highway, could be difficult to handle. And of course, the detection systems will have false positives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383594</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For years Hisense has been a highly recommended brand for mid-tier TVs on (relatively) objective review sites like rtings.com. Their customers don't deserve bad things to happen to them. And the Anti-Chinese sentiment is especially weird in the context of advertising, as though the West was spared from intrusive ads prior to this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:42:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341358</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "this css proves me human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author going to silly lengths to write in a way that will be perceived as non-artificial, even though they find those traits (improper capitalization, spelling mistakes, etc.) crude and distasteful. But they ultimately realize that they also need to transform their fundamental writing style, which would supposedly be impossible because it's a reflection of who they are. So the only way to do that, ironically, is to pass their writing through an LLM.<p>I do not think the author genuinely used an LLM to write the post.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:37:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282062</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47282062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "A man who broke into jail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a diacritic marker that indicates how the word is supposed to be pronounced, with a syllable break on the marked letters - as though readers might get confused and think the word is pronounced "reel-ection" as opposed to "re-election." It's a pretty archaic practice, but The New Yorker persists. They have a lot of unusual stylistic preferences, like preferring the spelling "vender" over "vendor," which also occurs in this article.<p>A more common example of the diaeresis would be the name "Zoë" - the "ë" indicates the pronunciation is "zoe-y" (2 syllables) not "zoe" (1 syllable).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264317</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The results seem plausible, but it's worth noting that the source of their data (Ahrefs) is just a rough estimate. Given that every publication they examined - including several outside of the tech industry - showed declines, I'd hope they would confirm that it's not an artifact of the estimation process. Ahrefs themselves caution against using their data to make these sorts of conclusions:<p>>While these estimates don’t, and can’t, show you exactly how much organic traffic a website gets, they work incredibly well for comparison. For example, it’s fantastic for learning if your competitors’ websites get more or less organic search traffic than your own.<p>(<a href="https://help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1863206-what-is-organic-traffic-in-ahrefs-and-how-do-we-calculate-it" rel="nofollow">https://help.ahrefs.com/en/articles/1863206-what-is-organic-...</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:27:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236580</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The American government has recently accused peaceful protestors of being terrorists.<p><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/labeling-renee-good-domestic-terrorist-distorts-law" rel="nofollow">https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/labe...</a><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/trump-minnesota-protesters-domestic-terrorists.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/trump-minnesota-protes...</a></p>
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<p>That would need to be tested. If doctors get lazy, complacent, or overworked (!), a "doctor with access to ChatGPT Health" may be functionally equivalent to "just ChatGPT Health" in some cases.</p>
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<p>Still no smoking gun, but possibly Russia. From the video <a href="https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=2883" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=2883</a>:<p>> A lot of the aliases, like Jia Tan, they sound like Asian names, and the published changes are all timestamped in UTC+8, Beijing time. So the signs point to China. And that's why it's probably not China. I mean, why would they make it that obvious? Every other part of the operation has been so meticulous, so cautious.<p>> And they also worked on Chinese New Year, but not on Christmas. And over the years, there were nine changes that fall outside of the Beijing time into UTC+2, which is a time zone that includes Israel and parts of Western Russia. That's why some experts have speculated that this could be the work of APT29, a Russian-state-backed hacker group also known as Cozy Bear. But again, do we know? No, of course we don't know who it is, and we likely will never know.</p>
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<p>You can remove em dashes from the analysis and the trend is still there: newly created accounts are still 6X more likely to use the remaining LLM indicators (arrows and bullets, p = 0.00027).<p>Ellipses were never part of the analysis.</p>
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<p>In George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language," [0] one of his primary recommendations for writing well is to "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."<p>"It's not just X, it's Y" definitely seems to qualify today. It's a stale way to express an idea.<p>I hadn't revisited that essay since LLMs became a thing, but boy was it prescient:<p>> By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms [and LLMs], you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself ... But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you — even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent — and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.<p>[0]: <a href="https://bioinfo.uib.es/~joemiro/RecEscr/PoliticsandEngLang.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://bioinfo.uib.es/~joemiro/RecEscr/PoliticsandEngLang.p...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:56:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132298</link><dc:creator>nerevarthelame</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nerevarthelame in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/zSyUc" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/zSyUc</a><p>To summarize, they rejected Nvidia's offer because they didn't want one outsized investor who could sway decisions. And "the company was also able to turn down Nvidia due to its stable finances. Hugging Face operates a 'freemium' business model. Three per cent of customers, usually large corporations, pay for additional features such as more storage space and the ability to set up private repositories."</p>
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<p>Terrence Tao expressed sentiments are at odds with you and which align with the article:<p>> The U.S. used to be sort of the default, the no brainer, option. If you got an offer from a top U.S. university, this was like almost the best thing that could happen to you as an academic ... If it's just a less welcoming, atmosphere for science in general here, the best and brightest may not automatically come to the US as they have for decades.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skWt_PZosik" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skWt_PZosik</a></p>
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