<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: polio</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=polio</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:58:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=polio" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every website I visit could get a fraction of a cent in my Cloudflare Wallet. A human browsing incurs a few dollars a month. Plus, any website I access in this way decides not to show me ads either and just charges me the cost of serving the data plus a nominal profit margin.<p>Disclosure: I am a shareholder and would love for them to solve the AI bot problem and the ad problem like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027358</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple will create a comparable device; it'll just take them five more years to get the product experience down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:54:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405129</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's also slow as hell. It takes like 200ms for the social media buttons to change color upon hover.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:28:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621544</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Social Cooling (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This just happens to be the consensus opinion for their group. Kids have never cared about being accepted by people 20 years older than they are; kids have always cared about being accepted by their peers. Social cooling means that dissent from their peer group is harder.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482920</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45482920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In sports betting contexts, you're often just betting against other players, I believe. If they're anything like prediction markets, the exchange isn't going to care how successful you are, as long as you're betting.</p>
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<p>It's more that the military's goal isn't to produce adults that are indefinitely healthy, but rather a robust geopolitical deterrent that only requires its employees to be physical capable for about twenty years, after which their service life is over. Running is not the issue. Even a car designed for driving can be driven irresponsibly.</p>
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<p>Yes, but how much of a market will there be for this kind of creation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 03:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058433</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44058433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The idea is that the stress and sleep deprivation are not sources of permanent impairment (even though they are), but rather a filter that selects the strongest candidates.</p>
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<p>This is also available via VASAviation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUC8h4pkcs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiUC8h4pkcs</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:01:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086225</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "rr – record and replay debugger for C/C++"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can, but that makes the type system worse. Also depending on how these few bytes are used, they can add up and drag down performance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41025465</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41025465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41025465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The corporate charity will not dry up. AI makes it easier to generate content, and Meta's in the business of facilitating the sharing of that content. Content is surface area for ads. AI will also make the virtual realities of the "metaverse", as defined by Mark, easier to reify. It's also a giant marketing and recruiting strategy.</p>
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<p>This is a non-sequitur.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883794</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The more money we give, the more viable it becomes for maintenance to become their day job. It's very likely that more money here would've mitigated the burnout. Aside from just being able to quit their actual job and focus on their passion project, it's acknowledgement that the world finds this work valuable. In many cases, burnout comes from a lack of recognition, or the sense that you've done all this work and nobody really cares.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883788</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This could've happened to anybody, frankly. The attacker was advanced and persistent. I cannot help but feel sympathetic for the original maintainer here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878729</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39878729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fitness is specific to an activity, but yeah, the Barkley Marathon is probably the hardest form of ultra running.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:39:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799504</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39799504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "The return of the frame pointers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Profiling is a pretty basic technique that is applicable to all software engineering. I'm not sure what a "normal" service is here, but I think we all have an obligation to understand what's happening in the systems we own.<p>Some people may believe that 100ms latency is acceptable for a CLI tool, but what if it could be 3ms? On some aesthetic level, it also feels good to be able to eliminate excess. Finally, you should learn it because you won't necessarily have that job forever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:32:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735625</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39735625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "You are what you love"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with both statements you've made, however I don't see why offering food and housing security would necessitate mass murder, if we were to try it from a less ideological fervent posture. It wouldn't be described as a proletariat revolution or seizing the means of anything. It would just be another social program that I hope would be administered efficiently and ambitiously, and which would replace some of the other legacy programs we've built. I'd hope we'd test it at a small scale and then go from there. The scope of the communism you're identifying in my suggestion would be limited.<p>I'm generally a supporter of capitalism, but I think present conditions could be improved to facilitate that competition. Workers need to be able to use public transit in peace, which means getting homeless people out. We need to be able to offer shelter so that forceful removal is justifiable. Children need unequivocal access to nutrition so that malnourishment doesn't impair their ability to compete in the arena of idea-generation and in the knowledge economy. I think if the government were in the business of offering floors on quality of life that people could spend their time more productively instead of solving the same hunter-gatherer types of problems individually over and over again. Food insecurity may have been the impetus for work in the past, but I believe that status insecurity can replace it going forward. Nobody needs to starve for the West to prosper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:00:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252608</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "You are what you love"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think we're at a point in the history of Western civilization where we should strive to guarantee non-painful survival for all our citizens. This doesn't necessarily mean comfort, but nobody who grew up legally in the United States should have to wonder about finding nutritious food; clean water; and a quiet, warm, and secure place to sleep. I only restrict this tentatively to citizens because I think these programs would fare better politically if limited to citizens.<p>People of all backgrounds will find that non-painful survival is still profoundly unfulfilling and will continue to innovate, create, work. I think the fear of succumbing to the elements in America is too real and that that fear is a massive drain on the economy and the spirit of our people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:07:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39250726</link><dc:creator>polio</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39250726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39250726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by polio in "Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The external component is meant to fit in one's pocket, so the added size, heat, and moving parts would make for an awkward fit.</p>
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<p>The AI industry seems to exist in order to make it possible for there to be value without labor.</p>
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