<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: nuancebydefault</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nuancebydefault</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:29:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nuancebydefault" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not very materialistic and i have saved heaps, so never in financial trouble.<p>What I'm always looking for is love, even though I have a loving family, wife and kid. Its always been like that. I almost constantly want to connect with people, as if anyone should be a backup or shoulder to cry on, should I fall. I can't afford to anyone not liking me.<p>I dream of being with that lady, she makes me feel good when she's around, but my mind knows she cannot fulfill this always present desire for love or close connection. It will certainly not be a good idea to break what I already have, even hardship alone. I don't know her well and i probably never will. So i keep on musing about her, probably as long as I will regularly see her passing by. We will keep on smiling at each other and talk gently about our struggles in life. I can't help it, it's who I am.<p>So what a lot of people feel around money, posessions, status, early retirement, nice vacations, a trained body... I have around love and connection and it will probably never resolve. I believe I'm coming to terms with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451023</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The galery of generated images looks amazing, it's hard (but often possible) to spot inconsistencies in detailed images.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:57:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388247</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Jensen–Shannon Divergence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought of making a joke that I expected to finally stumble upon a HN post that was not about AI and then Claude was mentioned on the wiki page.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:52:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284155</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Squares in Squares"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The total image size is scaled each time such that each solution takes up the same amount of space. It is easier to browse that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284052</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the availability of cheap phones is going down because of the cost of RAM.<p>What about the RAM consumption trend of the last 10 years? I think it is very feasible to produce phones with the same amount of RAM as was the norm 10 years ago. The only compromise would be using older algorithms and features that consume less of it, and to take a bit of effort on keeping an eye on memory consumption in the development phase. There's a lot of opportunity. We can even leverage AI these days to optimize existing software for RAM usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 08:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233291</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Usually when one says 'I need xxx' it is followed by 'for yyy'. It seems nothing is needed for the sake of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227435</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Michael Keating has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's another Michael Keat*</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226746</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48226746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Michael Keating has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blake'7, what i can remember is green stuff (?) and a computer saying 'confirm' as a 'i heard you' sentinel. I remember how it sounded.</p>
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<p>Anything anyone wants to spend money on, can be converted into dollars. The currency has no tell in what it is used for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183061</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Requirements gathering is NOT a software engineering problem. Software is implementation, product is behaviour. That's the split.<p>That's a theory but I've never seen this work in practice. A piece of software is unique. If it weren't, we'd just use the cp command.<p>What usually happens is you get a set of requirements that looks simple. Then you start thinking about a design and see 10 different possibilities, each corresponding to a slightly different interpretation of the requirements set. You iterate a few times reviewing the designs with who set the requirements and a few peers and see more possible variations to the requirements. You need to double check its parent requirements up to the master requirements. Then you need to take time/feature/quality tradeoffs, affecting the fulfillment of requirements.<p>Once starting to implement, you see dependencies to other software (framework, sdk, drivers, language features,...) and understand that other software is not what you thought, or has bugs. Or you see an issue with performance or see that one particular feature becomes unfeasible.<p>That's where all the complexity goes. AI doesn't change that, but can make prototyping iterations and bug hunting faster, as long as someone holds it on a leash and understands its decisions.</p>
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<p>I find that a very weird thing to write. I think the last BSOD i had was 10 years ago and when a laptop didn't work anymore, it was usually because some of its hardware broke. It's true though that over time laptops become too slow or have too little resources to run a recent (and secure) windows version over time, but that goes for most software in general.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162665</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having friends is a bit like a love relationship : you have to work at it and sometimes you get hurt. Things that are worth the effort mostly take effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 18:29:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098789</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "The bottleneck was never the code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you a very smart writer or are you using smart tools, I'm not sure?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:48:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042324</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLM's are in principle text in / text out machines. If the user extends its capability to have agency over a production database or a machine, there's nothing that can safeguard the safety.<p>Imagine I ask an LLM to instruct left/right/speed up/slow down while driving. I can simply bypass any safeguard by stating i suddenly became blind while driving a car. While in fact i'm blindfolded and doing an experiment on a highway.</p>
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<p>Such 'highly damaged' brain is still 90 percent or more structured the same as a normal human brain. See it as a brain that runs in debug mode.<p>It is known that the narrative part of the brain is separate from the decision taking brain. If someone asks you, in a very convincing, persuasive way, why you did something a year ago and you can't clearly remember you did, it can happen that you become positive that you did so anyway. And then the mind just hallucinates a reason. That's a trait of brains.</p>
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<p>A lot of people voted for someone who was known to be an evil crook. It was very clear that he got into politics for praising his own ego. They voted against 'the good' in the hope for their own benefit and against that of the world. If they did not 'expect' the current state of affairs then they just refused to listen to their own heart.</p>
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<p>You lost me well before the anodyne canards...<p>When talking about feelings, we now and then throw in an English word because some things are expressed in much less words when using English. In a few cases even a German word. Überhaupt is for example a word for which i do not know an alternative in any language.<p>I think you want to say that human language is too ambiguous for clear communication between human and machine. The machine might mis interpret what you write. Classic computer languages leave no room for interpretation.<p>For the rest I think you might be a little lost. That is okay, so many of us are. I wish you all the best.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564314</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47564314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmmmm i didn't know that... so a machine is not human is your point? Look, i know it doesn't try, just like a sorting algo does not try to sort, or an article does not try to convey an opinion and a law does not try to make society more organized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:20:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557447</link><dc:creator>nuancebydefault</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nuancebydefault in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In my experience, taking into account the opinions of such people has been the worst mistake of my life. I'm still working on the means to fix its consequences, as much as they are fixable at all.<p>This sounds very cryptic. Can you give an example?</p>
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<p>Why is your wording so complicated? It is very hard for me to understand what  you try to say, even though I am very interested.</p>
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