<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>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:22:04 +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 "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>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 04:42:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750792</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46750792</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>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>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447018</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447018</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>That’s misleading. Altman was simply doing a napkin calculation based on the scale at which ChatGPT operates and not estimating based on internal data:
“There are 15,000 people a week that commit suicide,” Altman told the podcaster. “About 10% of the world are talking to ChatGPT. That’s like 1,500 people a week that are talking, assuming this is right, to ChatGPT and still committing suicide at the end of it. They probably talked about it. We probably didn’t save their lives. Maybe we could have said something better. Maybe we could have been more proactive. Maybe we could have provided a little bit better advice about ‘hey, you need to get this help, or you need to think about this problem differently, or it really is worth continuing to go on and we’ll help you find somebody that you can talk to’.”<p>You could similarly say something like 10k+ people used Google or spoke to a friend this week and still killed themselves.<p>Many of those people may have never mentioned their depression or suicidal tendencies to ChatGPT at all.<p>I think Altman appropriately recognizes that at the scale at which they operate, there’s probably a lot more good they can do in this area, but I don’t think he thinks (nor should he think) that they are responsible for 1,500 deaths per week.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:44:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446982</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46446982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "OpenAI disables ChatGPT app suggestions that looked like ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s advertising a ChatGPT feature (and admittedly, also helps advertise Peloton); namely that you can connect your ChatGPT account to Peloton and query Peloton. I personally find this a very helpful feature, and think they should be advertising this in some manner within the app, as otherwise, people will have no idea the features now exist.<p>This is separate from the android app findings which I suspect is OpenAI working to launch true ads - ie advertising non-chatGPT features in exchange for payments from brands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:47:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183517</link><dc:creator>orionsbelt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by orionsbelt in "A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ilya Sustkever was on a podcast, saying to imagine a mystery novel where at the end it says “and the killer is: (name)”. Saying it’s just a statistical model generating the next most likely word, how can it do that in this case if it doesn’t have some understanding of all the clues, etc. A specific name is not statistically likely to appear</p>
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<p>And what if you, despite being healthy, get diagnosed with cancer right one your employer fails, thus becoming uninsurable? This type of thing happened to people.<p>It’s nice the above can no longer happen. You could, at the same time, still allow insurers to charge a premium to smokers and obese and for other lifestyle risks within one’s control. They are not mutually exclusive.</p>
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