<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: ryanwhitney</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryanwhitney</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:02:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ryanwhitney" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Strikes in Middle East since 28th Feb in real time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like the sword and shield icons are backwards in terms of who started the war. And “bloc” vs “coalition” lol.<p>Wonder how much of this came out of the prompter’s mind versus the LLM itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:06:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278694</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I have no idea of the actual outcome, I’ll muddle through the extra step + thinking to opt-out where possible.<p>My own personal bend is that I do not want to be <i>sold</i> anything and I want anonymity where possible. We’re constantly being advertised to. Anything small action that I can take to deter that, or make the ads less personalized/interesting/distracting to me, is worth it. Even if I also will never knowingly click an ad.<p>It’s probably largely a control thing psychologically. With cookie banners specifically, I also don’t want to concede to dark patterns which make accepting easier than rejecting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236542</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sad for all involved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:57:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429035</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use obscura—which routes through mullvad—and the reddit problem is very annoying.<p>I finally hit the point of searching for mirrors yesterday and turns out, they exist.[0]<p>It’s really only suitable for lurking or being able to view search results, but it has eased the pain a bit.<p>0: reddit-viewer.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:39:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260571</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our (on-the-way-out) mayor likes it!<p>"I said, Imagine how cool would this be if we had like, a 10-foot wall. It’s interactive and it’s historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King, and you could say, ‘Well, Dr, Martin Luther King, I’ve always wanted to meet you. What was your day like today? What did you have for breakfast?’ And he comes back and he talks to you right now."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:07:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139364</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46139364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rather have dumb Siri than bullshit machine Siri. Glad they scrapped most of it but they shouldn't have ever even launched notification summaries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:03:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114685</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Code like a surgeon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look at my beautiful cathedral<p>Look at my cathedral of tailwind ui<p>I’m sure they put locks on the doors</p>
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<p>That's funny you mention that—very similar experience here. My partner and I often get a laugh out of the strange occasional errors. Things like responding with "…huh?", and then completing the task.<p>I'd rather see a robot fail rather than eat the world and fill it with trash. But the running use case does sound very annoying!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672680</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "ChatGPT Atlas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Siri sucks.<p>I’m surely in a niche group here, but I’m appreciating Siri more and more.<p>It’s a mostly competent tool for basic operations and simple questions. For something I interact with over audio, I’ll choose that over a bullshit machine any day of the week.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:35:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664916</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45664916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They reported a headcount of 644 for 2024–2025.<p>It's all very open if anyone wants to track down details themselves: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_annual_plan_2024-25" rel="nofollow">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundatio...</a><p>2025–2026 is in-progress: <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Financial_Model" rel="nofollow">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_...</a><p>>Similar to last year, technology-related work represents nearly half of the Foundation's budget at 47% alongside priorities to protect volunteers and defend the projects of an additional 29% – a total of 76% of the Foundation's annual budget. Expenses for finance, risk management, fundraising, and operations account for the remaining 24%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 04:30:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652483</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The focus is the drugs and domestic murders, but JSOC's practices are detailed (daily night raids, low threshold for targeting, low accuracy) and give background to how everyone involved became so broken.</p>
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<p>The Fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp covers this well. JSOC basically runs an around-the-clock global assassination squad where innocents, family members, and children are killed with intent. Then they come home and try to fit in with a less murder-acclimated population.</p>
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<p>I think chatgpt is their writing partner too. Maybe the other way around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:33:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149617</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "996"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Call me back when the company store is up. I don’t want to grind for my boss’ VC-bux unless I know everyone working here is also <i>all in</i>.</p>
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<p>Wow, yep, thanks for that.<p>I was certain I had disabled all of these through the normal t-mobile dashboard, but sure enough there were about 5 still enabled including the “sell my personal information” ones. Ouch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 04:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948361</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks great. Yours isn't loading for me, but workout.lol looks like it'd provide the perfect level of instruction. (I'd skip the exercises/sets screen and DIY, but picking muscles and getting ideas/examples is helpful.)<p>One note: if you're using the same video set as workout.lol, the one that loaded for me (male_dumbbell_hammer_curl_front_ani.mp4) could be compressed from 3.3mb to <300kb with little quality loss.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:16:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310647</link><dc:creator>ryanwhitney</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryanwhitney in "VisionOS 26 keeps pushing Apple's newest platform toward the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it comes down to the actual interface design vs visual consistency. Windows 8 UI suffered because of bad information density, constantly changing tiles, and lack of consistency throughout the OS. You’re mostly in windows, but you occasionally get a big low-density tablet UI to try and parse.<p>I see the Vision-inspired bits coming through as mostly visual design with a bit of fluidity in menu styling. All of the core menus are still basically the same and tailored to their platform.<p>That said, a lot of that visual design made more sense in VisionOS where transparency helps you see and understand the real world around you.<p>I haven't used them and I’m not sure I like them—especially transparency on a desktop—but I do think there’s a difference in strategy.</p>
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<p>Glad he linked articles on Facebook's culpability in the genocide of the Rohingya people as well. That should be an absolute, disqualifying reason when considering taking their money.<p>Very strange to see the level of criticism here aimed at someone choosing to explore other paths. You're not a shortsighted fool for trying to do something else. Especially something that's directly, meaningfully helpful to the people around you.</p>
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<p>In comforting news, post-bankruptcy, the founder and CEO of AppHarvest has gone on to start…uhh…The Nuclear Company?[0] Hopefully when it's ready they'll invite McConnell back to flip the switch.<p>0: <a href="https://www.thenuclearcompany.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenuclearcompany.com</a></p>
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<p>They only have a landing page: <a href="https://www.lovefrom.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lovefrom.com/</a></p>
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