<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: orionsbelt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=orionsbelt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:54:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=orionsbelt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:<p>1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.<p>2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.<p>3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”<p>Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:18:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346951</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have blood tests for both (serum or RBC):<p>The Magnesium RBC Test measures magnesium inside red blood cells, providing a more accurate assessment of magnesium status than serum tests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921127</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zuckerberg’s high vote shares convert to regular shares after he leaves or dies. His heirs will not continue to have super votes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921070</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did you watch the linked video: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mbafk7/openai_ceo_sam_altman_it_feels_very_fast_while" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mbafk7/openai_ceo...</a><p>It all sounds pretty accurate and reasonable to me if you watch it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:28:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512052</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google has terrible communication skills and aesthetic taste. Even if their new products are technically good, and you are interested in this space, it's almost impossible to follow, e.g.: <a href="https://x.com/nathanclark_/status/2056947354654355849?s=20" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/nathanclark_/status/2056947354654355849?s=20</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213432</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about transcranial magnetic stimulation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171493</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First hit is free… got to get you hooked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:31:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143455</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t see this as Fidelity taking a political stand, but a conservative risk management decision.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950229</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are willfully obtuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:05:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745924</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a beachhead that will expand. The history of income taxes shows that. Once you have established an income tax, the next fight will be to raise it, or lower the income limit, and over years, it will end up covering everyone. The government is incentivized to over spend and then try to dig their way out be expanding taxes, but there is a limit
to what you can tax.<p>You want people to vote for a millionaire tax tie it with a constitutional amendment that requires a higher vote bar to ever increase it and have all numbers automatically inflation adjusted</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336043</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47336043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t know what things are like in Amsterdam, but weed being “high quality” is not a good thing. The potency has skyrocketed over the past few decades. It’s like saying you went to Amsterdam to drink alcohol for the first time and had a bottle of tequila and passed out and puked; the fact that it was high quality tequila does not mean it’s better than a low quality glass of wine or beer. The issue is the doses are way too high.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:11:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126250</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obviously this is just anecdotal and you could still be correct, but the two celebrities the article cited (Chadwick Boseman and James Van Der Beek) don’t seem to fit that mold.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:05:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080235</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "A year or so ago"<p>What model?<p>Care to share the conversation? Or try again and see how the latest model does?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:09:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774617</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ChatGPT has done more for my health than any doctor. Truly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774584</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You too. Tell me if you disagree that this seems to show the officer who removed the gun may have plausibly accidentally discharged the first shot: <a href="https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407</a><p>The footage is too grainy to say anything for certain in my view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:45:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750807</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You can quite clearly see the second shooter in the video standing over him, shooting him multiple times as he's laying motionless on the ground after being beaten and shot once.<p>Yes, that's how cops/ICE react when they hear gunshots. They shoot and ask questions later. I'm not necessarily defending that (I think it would be a great thing if cops/ICE received more extensive training, cared more about de-escalation techniques, and perhaps even were more willing to risk their own lives than just always shoot recklessly), but putting all that aside, if someone yells "gun", and then a shot is fired, the second shooter then assuming it's the guy they are tackling that shot, and shooting him multiple times in response, is a typical cop reaction. So the main question is - who fired the first shot and why? The moral weight of the event, at least in my view, is very different if it was ICE deliberately shooting, or an accidental discharge that triggered everything.<p>> According to whom? What's your source for this? Wild that you're trying to muddy the waters with "theories" that even ICE hasn't claimed (the only defense so far is that he was a violent domestic terrorist who wanted to murder ICE agents, which is demonstrably false).<p>Most likely according to me, based on the videos I have seen (<a href="https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/Landeur/status/2015191223900803407</a>). I could be wrong. I was responding to someone who said there's clear video that it was a deliberate execution. The  water of any breaking news reporting is already muddy; it's all speculation on all sides.</p>
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<p>Well, from what I’ve seen, the most likely theory is that the agent who disarmed the man (after another agent had yelled “gun”) then accidentally discharged the weapon, which caused all the other ICE officers to freak out and discharge their weapons.<p>I don’t want to argue over the broader questions; ie should ICE even be there and doing this; are they adequately trained; are they overly aggressive to tackle this guy and pepper spray him in the first instance; is American law enforcement is way too trigger happy and protective of their own skin; and so on.  There’s a lot of validity to all of that. But the narrow story of this particular incident changes a lot if there was an accidental discharge that made the other offices believe he was shooting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750341</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like we live in different worlds.<p>I use AI everyday and it already a magic intelligence in the sky to me.<p>If anything, the AI labs have been pretty dead on about their predictions so far.<p>How that will impact the economy and productivity is anyone’s guess, so I don’t think Sam pontificating about that in interviews holds him culpable for a crash.<p>I am hyped based on using the products, not what Sam says</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:14:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608130</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“ Cash-back benefits are primarily funded through interest on carried balances (not interchange fees).” citation needed. My understanding is that this is false.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:42:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538391</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All models are not the same. GPT 4o, and specific versions of it, were particularly sycophantic, and it’s something models still do a bit too much, but the models are getting better at this and will continue to do so.</p>
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