<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: nobrains</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nobrains</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:24:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nobrains" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My take is related but different. I believe that Google believes the customer's for these "premium" Googlebooks are the kids who used Chromebooks all their school years, and are now graduating school, getting into university, or getting into their first job. Google is presenting them an option, that feels familiar, but is also premium. The next level. The big-boy upgrade. Familiar but Better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123072</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My take: Do proper security, but if you are short on time or resources, you can start with security through obscurity, to block a few percentage of attacks, and then when you have time and resources, go ahead and add the proper security measures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998600</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Artemis II Photo Timeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I REALLY liked the interface. One nitpick: When the image description is ON, the left and right buttons keep moving up and down after every image, so I cannot keep my mouse in one location and keep clicking NEXT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:07:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984727</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Flighty Airports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>did u see the TV mode link? i wish more visualization sites had that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:36:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515553</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a pilot. Isn't this (kinda) good news that this "bug" was caught and now the next iteration will be closer to the intended behavior?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:49:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341506</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>load event or "DOMContentLoaded" event. No?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:46:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341422</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "The MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No mention of no backlit in keyboard?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:44:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341377</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, there is nothing wrong with looking like an idiot. Thats only in your mind. As long as you have put thought into your reply, even if it not structured correctly, or verbose, or does not have perfect English, humans can still decipher it and understand it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:38:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341283</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue is that all money-throwing needs to be balanced by careful thought. This cycle the money-throwing at snow plowing worked. Next cycle, it will not be as effective, as more people who want to "game" the rewards will enter the equation. So every cycle, along with money, some thought will need to go into improving the system or coming up with alternate solutions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:04:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161297</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are also a <i>mess</i> in UI now.<p>In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.<p>There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.<p>Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.<p>As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.<p>Somewhere along that process, they lost me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:01:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083543</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the "Intelligence applied" section, where they show the comparison animations, they are shown using a non-optimal UI.<p>There is not enough time to read the text, see old animation, and see new animation. Better would have been to keep the same animation on repeat, so that people have unlimited time to read the text and observer the animations.<p>Also, it jumps from example to example in the same video. Better would have been to show each separately, so that once user is done observing one example at their own pace, they can proceed to the next.<p>As a workaround, I had to open the video (just the video) in a new tab, pause once an example came up, read the text, then rewind to the start of the animation to see the old animation example, then rewind again, then see the new animation example, and then sometimes rewind again if I wanted to see the animation again. Then, once done with the example, I had to forward to the next example and repeat the above process again.<p>Somewhere along that process, they lost me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083519</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Root cause analysis? You're doing it wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they way i handle this with my teams: any bugs caught by the QA team go against the developers. any bugs caught after QA green lights the go live go against the QA team. (Of course, discounting any bugs that are deemed acceptable for go live by the PM).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573592</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if we do vertical bi-facial panels, mounted on a rotating circle that rotates to align the panels with the sun (north-south or east-east or in between) depending on the time of the year. Wouldn't that be the best of all worlds right now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:32:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422878</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "CCTV footage captures the first-ever video of an earthquake fault in motion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, I recommend seeing it in 3 passes. 1st pass, see the right 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the 2 sides moving. Then see the middle 1/3rd area of the video. It shows both the movement and the rupture in the ground. Then see the left 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the rupture on the ground clearly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 08:10:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692340</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44692340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have noticed searching for topics that interest me, ends up showing more content related to that search term in my feed. At least for some time. Just putting it out there incase someone wants to manually tweak their timeline using the search workaround.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:44:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760947</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Zuckerberg Approved AI Training on Pirated Books, Filings Say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zuck did a calculation: "Does the risk of lawsuits and bad PR outweigh the benefits of being early?".<p>If u remove morals from the equation, nearly every CEO would have made that same decision if in that position.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:12:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653686</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "BlogScroll – An open directory of personal sites and blogs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A stream is timeline based serial content (like twitter "following"). A garden is exploratory, with content not being serial in time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:27:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584686</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would recommend for him to visit a poor country and see how the people live and survive. He will find (I am assuming) find purpose. Maybe he will make his life mission to build and install water wells, or sponsor underprivileged kids education or something along those lines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:03:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584561</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "How to Cure Acid Reflux with Simple Exercise: An Anecdotal Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can anyone please direct me to a picture / image / illustration / animated-gif of the position being referred to in the paper?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 06:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529136</link><dc:creator>nobrains</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nobrains in "Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493130">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493130</a><p>Reposting:<p>This is easy. Bitcoin reaches it's high between Jun and Oct. This is based on historical 4 year trends.<p>Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.<p>And yes, while past performance is not indicative of future performance, the bitcoin cycle has been following this, and when everyone expects this, it ends up happening by the virtue of everyone's expectation.</p>
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