<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: regenschutz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=regenschutz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:46:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=regenschutz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It definitely depends on the platform, though. On GitHub, absolutely, work with the garage door up. But on some platforms, it's the complete opposite.<p>Many moons ago, I was making mod for a game and had the idea to publish it on Nexus Mods [0] so that I didn't have to bother setting anything up once I actually wanted to publish the initial release of the mod. It was not at all in a working state when I made the public page for it.<p>Imagine my surprise when I wake up the next day and have thousands of views on the page and a dozen comments berating me for publishing a mod that doesn't work...<p>Ever since then, I have had problems with working with the garage door up, even though I know that it's totally acceptable on GitHub. It's habit by now to work on everything with the garage door down, just in case...<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.nexusmods.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nexusmods.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:24:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897038</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "LaunchHQ: Pre-launch platform with referral loops and automated launch day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be cool to be able to see a demo page for each of the different tiers, e.g. to see how much branding there is before signing up, or how much customisatio there is, etc.</p>
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<p>What issues do you experience with the currently available sweeteners?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:54:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743085</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're fine with a paid option (although it's source-available and distributed for "free" on their website), then Grayjay [0] is my personal favourite. I can't remember the last time I saw an error. On NewPipe, I can't say the same.<p>[0]: <a href="https://grayjay.app/" rel="nofollow">https://grayjay.app/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:19:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079562</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Show HN: LatentScore – Type a mood, get procedural/ambient music (open source)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Fast demo model is already very impressive. It was way better than expected, but still required being a bit verbose since it didn't seem to understand rarer words ("sauna" didn't get me anything pleasant, "hot sauna" did).<p>The generated palette seem to be a great indicator of whether the model understood the prompt or not.<p>I Haven't checked out the Python SDK yet, but it seems very interesting!<p>I'm curious to know if there is any reason for why you picked Gemma 1B for the Expressive model. Did it generate more cohesive parameters than other 1B models? Or was it just the first one you picked?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073639</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why can't they run the API at a huge loss too then??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073285</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maintaining hardware also isn't free. Time is money.</p>
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<p>I tried visiting that link on my device, and after many redirects and uBO warning screens, I ended up on an AI content farm in my native language, Swedish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:10:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023078</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47023078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>You’ve likely heard that men are not wired for monogamy, that they prefer to chase or be dominant in relationships, […]. These claims have fueled darker trends among young men, as “looksmaxxing” and the belief that attractiveness unlocks success has spread on social media.<p>>But what if none of that accepted wisdom is true?<p>Is that really generally accepted "wisdom" though? I thought it was just a sliver of young men that had those ideas. I wouldn't consider that as an accepted fact (or "wisdom", as they call it).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007895</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>RIP</p>
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<p>It would be nice to have some context on this. I assume there was some drama regarding this "Cognitect" organisation named. As someone not involved with Clojure at, it's difficult to understand the context for why this post was created.</p>
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<p>>Downvote right back at ya.<p>You don't even have enough karma to downvote comments though..?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:42:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978132</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think I am immune to propaganda, and definitely not ads. I can't stand ads at all. They immediately grab my attention, even if I make a conscious attempt at ignoring them. It truly feels terrible.<p>Even for propaganda, I am constantly made aware of my propaganda immunity being subpar for all different kinds of propaganda. Often it's just subtle seeds of propaganda that impact the choice of words that I use to be something different than what I really believe in, and sometimes it is more serious and deeper cases of propagandisation. Very unfortunate, but each time it shows me why I should be critical of everything that I read online.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916508</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you see any ads at all, then your adblocker isn't aggressive enough. I don't think I have seen a single ad since I installed uBlock Origin, but I also installed s bunch of extra filters first thing I did.</p>
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<p>Looks awesome! Would have been very useful a few years ago when I was doing all kinds of things in Dart/Flutter.<p>I'm assuming this is only works for the web, and not for mobile apps?<p>What's the support for Material 3 like?<p>I'll definitely try it out later when I am on desktop!<p>Btw, the Hero Description (the text that among others says "Perfect SEO") overflows on my phone. Might want to get that fixed. Oh, and the "View on GitHub" button doesn't actually seem clickable?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904273</link><dc:creator>regenschutz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by regenschutz in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're using the Research model that isn't available to Free users. As a pupil myself, I can vouch for the fact that nobody is using the Research models here.<p>Even if a pupil does pay, they will either be too lazy to wait the nearly 10 minutes it takes for the AI to do its research, or they actually care about getting good grades and therefore won't outsource their research to AI.</p>
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<p>It was updated weekly. Constantly writing and maintaining so much information is almost certainly very expensive. Coupled with the fact that you have to be <i>very</i> careful before releasing each edit to make sure that no accidental personal beliefs or theories slip by (as that would be a diplomatic catastrophe), I reckon the cost of maintaining the thing could be very high.<p>I would wager that they're still going to maintain their own version of the World Factbook, and just simply not share it. This would allow them to cut out the very costly review step that I talked about.<p>Now whether that's a good decision or not is a completely different question.</p>
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<p>Because intelligence agencies generally have a vested interest in spreading subtle propaganda, such as by distorting facts.<p>Now, I have yet to see any cases of the CIA doing this to the World Factbook, since that would tank its credibility, but I also don't browse the Factbook too often.</p>
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<p>On the topic of Wikipedia and AI; I would much prefer no article over an AI-translated article. Wikipedia is the best digital translator for highly-technical terms out there.<p>Since Wikipedia articles in local languages tend to also cite sources in the local language, manually written articles virtually always contain exactly the correct technical term for different subjects.<p>For instance, If I want to figure out what a "Universal joint" is in Swedish, I just find the Wikipedia page for universal joint and hit the translate button, and voilà, I see that a U-joint is called "Kardanknut" in Swedish.<p>If I had instead tried to translate with Google Translate, I get "Universalkoppling", which (from what I can see) is a type of screw.<p>With AI, I worry that entire articles will be directly translated without anyone first making sure that the articles are using the correct local terminology.</p>
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<p>Oh wow, didn't at all notice that while typing lol. I guess my swipe-to-type skills aren't as good as I thought they were</p>
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