<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: riversflow</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=riversflow</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:51:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=riversflow" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you should review the data on processed meat. It's one of the least healthy things you can eat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:14:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317641</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah i'm genuinely baffled by this too. I read this attitude frequently and I'm tending towards the conclusion that its simply a loud minority of people. I don't know anyone who acts like this in real life.<p>How is an LLM summary really any worse than reading through random blogs, forum posts, or reddit? Those are somehow so much more reliable? If you want authority it gives you links, and if you don't find good enough links you can ask it a follow up--no need to be coy--just straight up ask it for more authoritative sources and it will usually surface them. It's so blazingly fast relative to doing genuine naive search, I really don't see the downside.</p>
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<p>I have more energy in my 30s than my 20s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:07:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417497</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you should see people who play competitive fps games fly through windows menus and websites. the reason I think mousing is superior to keyboard is when you attain a high skill level of eye hand coordination, you are completely adaptable to any GUI.</p>
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<p>Is a photograph art?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:05:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396440</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>disdain for dumping industrial  sludge into rivers is quite high too. if you don’t demand regulated domestic production it will just get moved to the least regulated place with the best underlying economics, I imagine you know this though…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372838</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nuclear bombs and ICBMs aren’t a net positive for society either, but not pursuing them is bad geopolitical strategy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372783</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>lol, i think the LLM shows more wisdom here than the average person. Functionally, being 50m away from the car wash <i>is</i> at the car wash <i>if you have a dirty car in your possession that needs cleaning</i>. Realistically, the only reason you express the need to go to the carwash if you are in a 50m proximity with your car you intend to clean at the carwash is if you need to walk in and talk to someone.</p>
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<p>nah, there is no reason they should be discharging <i>any</i> hexavalent chromium, we have better, less insanely toxic ways of chroming things. trivalent chromium is much less toxic, hexavalent chromium should be banned world-wide.<p>what's more, i'm not finding a reason that tesla would need hexavalent chromium in battery production, which leads me to speculate that this is waste from one of their other car factories where they presumably have a hexavalent chrome line (it's a cheaper and more robust process than trivalent chrome) and they are mixing/discharging on purpose at the limit at this plant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:18:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198915</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Collecting crime data is already in their purview. Thats literally what this is.  If this was an app that primarily facilitated contract murder, this would be obviously justifiable. Seems to me you and many others here just don’t actually believe in the states regulatory authority of digital things, like the computer in your car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:48:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154354</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154354</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Earth's resources are finite, both in terms of raw materials and ability to absorb pollution. Stewardship of our resources entails the regulation of the things we create with those resources such that our collective consumption is conserved. Such oversight is both prudent, and as history and global outcomes teach, quite necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:40:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011097</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Paraloid B-72"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 3M<p>Since it hasn’t been mentioned in this thread: 
3M 94 primer with 3M VHB tape is truly amazing stuff for bonding things with high surface energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904424</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man, it's almost like materialism actually is a root of suffering. Who'da thunkit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:55:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878997</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean we have academia, which is essentially secular study. Moreover Atheist don't need to go to church together to indoctrinate their beliefs, that happens every day when no miracles happen and the world continues to be kill or be killed anywhere animal intelligence has not overcome that reality in some small pocket. Atheist also tend to understand that their is no forgiveness and they have to sit with their actions for the rest of their limited days, so it's not a great idea to go out and do terrible things for treasure.</p>
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<p>I’m not crazy like some people, but I’ve broken screens many times and every time it has been in a case, one time it was in a case I specifically bought for extra protection.<p>Half of my screen breaks have been from getting out of my car with my phone in my lap and gravel on the ground.<p>Another way I’ve broken screens is from my phone falling out of my pocket and onto rocks/concrete. That has happened twice.<p>And the final way has been from getting smashed <i>in</i> my pocket. I slipped while scrambling some rocks and my phone(in a case I bought for this long backpacking trip) got smashed on my hip, another time I was running around at my friend’s house at night and ran into a wheel barrow, smashing it on my thigh.<p>Never had a battery fail.<p>A note: My current iPhone 16 pro is built like a tank, and the glass is truly extraordinary.</p>
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<p>In such situations I'll put it in Low Power Mode & Water Mode which works fairly well locks it down from stray input.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:17:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589672</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I use all the shortcuts subconsciously.<p>I realize you probably are referencing visual studio, but at the OS level KDE plasma seems to have copped Windows hot keys wholesale. I was giving it a go recently and was delighted that even meta+arrow keys for monitor switching fullscreen apps works. My only gripe, and what got me booting back into windows, was that even the latest wifi drivers for my brand new wifi 7 motherboard were too flaky to reliably play multiplayer online games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544269</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Life is too short for liars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478567</link><dc:creator>riversflow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by riversflow in "Google Antigravity IDE rug pulls its quotas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is the announcement on X.<p><a href="https://x.com/antigravity/status/2031835833716625883" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/antigravity/status/2031835833716625883</a><p>They retoactively reduced (and introduced for Pro3.1) their weekly quotas. I've been building with Antigravity on a Pro subscription and having all of my quotas other than Gemini flash at 0 with a nearly 5 day reset when I went to start today was a massive downer. Probably going to look at switching to Claude Code. I really can't understand how Google can't afford to bury Anthropic, they should have a massive hardware advantage.</p>
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<p>> They came down hard on asset-flipping shovelware before the rise of AI<p>That’s not what I remember, I remember PUBG being a viral hit that extensively used asset flipping.</p>
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