<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: papa_bear</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=papa_bear</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:12:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=papa_bear" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Provenance is part of the work. If a roomful of monkeys banged out something that looked like anything, I'd absolutely hang it on my wall. I would not say the same for 99% of AI generated art.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856523</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "The madness of SaaS chargebacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember this! Sorry again for the frustration >_< We made our Stripe API requests a little more robust after this happened.<p>We do get a fair number of disputes like the author where customers will cancel after getting billed, and then dispute it, even though we always give refunds to people who email and ask for one. It also feels like there's been a significant up-tick in recent months of disputes like these, maybe a reflection of the current economic climate. Hard to blame the customer though, for all the reasons listed by the top comment -- sometimes it's just easier to do it through the bank than figure out how to cancel through an app you forgot you even subscribed to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:29:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253282</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45253282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This isn’t a given since there’s still a way to give them money directly for cosmetics (which makes them a ton of money). Many freemium business models give away a lot product for free with the goal of convincing a minority of users to pay and subsidize the rest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 01:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43891238</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43891238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43891238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turns out it's a different Krebs. This is by Brian Krebs, vs Chris Krebs was the one targeted by the administration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 04:39:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866259</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43866259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very cool, thanks for elaborating on the process. Good luck, I'll be keeping an eye on your progress!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576966</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Show HN: OpenNutrition – A free, public nutrition database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is neat. I've spent a lot of time thinking about implementing something similar for my company Eat This Much, but end up pushing it off in favor of focusing on our core meal planning features.<p>When something doesn't have a reference listed, and just says "sourced from a publicly available first-party datasource", what does that mean? Crawled from other sources and you'd prefer not to say? The wording does feel a little sketchy when contrasted with entries that do list sources.<p>When something does list references that don't seem super close to the actual food, what is the process like there for interpreting those values? Example, this Chicken Salad inheriting from Chicken Spread: <a href="https://www.opennutrition.app/search/chicken-salad-37mAX17YX2ph" rel="nofollow">https://www.opennutrition.app/search/chicken-salad-37mAX17YX...</a><p>The quality of the data might feel rough now, but I can see this being valuable for our users even if it's just an opt-in "show estimated micronutrients" or something. Would require labeling values as not being directly from a source of truth.<p>One thing that a lot of people are missing is that there is already a lot of inaccurate nutrition data out there. Even on information directly from the manufacturer, sometimes there are errors, or just old versions of the product that never get scrubbed from the internet (I imagine the latter case would be tricky for an LLM to deal with too). Just logging your dietary intake in any form will get you 80% of the benefit of tracking via some self awareness of your intake. Of course, it's an easy argument to point out that if you had the choice between verified data and fuzzy LLM data, you should go for the human verified data (for now).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574853</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "BYD is automaker with the most R&D staff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was under the impression that Tesla has put a lot of effort into building out support infrastructure? My perception is a bit clouded by the fact that I live a few miles from a service center.</p>
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<p>I believe you'll meet the "Added or Free sugar" recommendation with 2 medjool dates, but AFAIK, the guideline isn't as strict on naturally occurring sugars, if there is any guideline at all aside from general carb consumption. Dates also have a surprisingly low glycemic index for how sweet they are.</p>
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<p>It's been possible to solve these problems by using Google Fi for many years now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 01:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42232483</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42232483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42232483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure downloading it to your browser counts as distributing it, legally speaking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:44:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363617</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41363617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Svelte Native"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My company tried using this a few years ago to build a cross platform app (and hopefully share a lot of code with our svelte web interface). We made a lot of progress in 3-4 months of trying, but we ended up running into too many odd bugs and edge cases that were difficult to debug. We eventually switched to Flutter for the mobile codebase.<p>No doubt this and nativescript have improved since then, but from my early impressions, I wouldn't have recommended nativescript for anything other than the simplest of interface needs.</p>
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<p>Yeah that stood out to me, would need ~60 almonds to have that much protein.<p>A screen would be useful for showing the details of how it misestimated the almond count, and let you adjust them.</p>
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<p>Mine claims to have the September 2023 cutoff, knows who SBF is, but no knowledge of his wrongdoings. Maybe it’s a selective knowledge cutoff.</p>
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<p>Heh don't think that was us. We're mostly using ourselves as the target market for planning our own meals :P<p>I'm curious who it was though if you find the podcast again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:33:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873897</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Headsets Delayed into 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me personally, it’s appealing that it just provides a mirror to my existing MacBook. It gives me more flexibility on when to use glasses vs laptop screen, like if I need to take notes in a meeting/lecture hall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574571</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37574571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is amazing. So many easter eggs to click through.<p>If you're a fan of this type of art, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/wimmelbilder/</a> is full of good stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612891</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ease of international usage with no roaming charges or extra eSims is what keeps me using it.</p>
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<p>Didn’t they do this months ago?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:59:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374112</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I posted this to r/battlestations last month. I can't pass up a chance to evangelize the reclined lifestyle :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2022 06:52:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406863</link><dc:creator>papa_bear</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31406863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by papa_bear in "Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah, they don't have very many mounting solutions available. I tried first using some camera gear / clamps and couldn't get it stuck in the right position, so I ended up using two of these gooseneck mounts: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tryone-Gooseneck-Tablet-Stand-Compatible-dp-B07WZJWLJY/dp/B07WZJWLJY/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Tryone-Gooseneck-Tablet-Stand-Compati...</a><p>It could be more solid, but the part of the bendy neck closest to the keyboard is resting on the chair's armrest, and that's what gives it most of its stability. These guys[0] put 1/4-20 screw holes on the bottom of their split keyboards, I wish everyone did that.<p>[0] <a href="https://shop.keyboard.io/" rel="nofollow">https://shop.keyboard.io/</a></p>
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