<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: ryeights</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryeights</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:04:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ryeights" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "They're made out of meat (1991)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it surprising? It seems likely you could build a complete working model of the universe with no provision for consciousness at all. As far as modern science goes, it's an intractable problem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694209</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the "new software engineering" is Jira, planning, and convincing PM's about viability all day, you can count me out!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694150</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Until recently I would have described myself as an AI skeptic. HN has been a great source for cope on the AI subject over the years. You can find nitpicks, caveats, all sorts of reasons to believe things aren’t as significant as they seem. For me Opus 4.5 was the inflection point where I started to think “maybe this isn’t a bubble.” The figures in this report, if accurate, are terrifying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:05:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682462</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I had no idea this story existed and woke up to claims that I was obviously* suppressing it.<p>To be fair, it seems you’re saying the submission was being suppressed, just not intentionally. Lots of props of course for transparency and reboosting the story</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:14:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462622</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those things all exist within our conscious realm. “Human brain cells in a vat used for computation” suggests horrors beyond understanding</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:46:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298753</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>If we are serious about climate policy, we have to set up trade barriers proportional to greenhouse gases emissions to limit this effect.<p>Consumption economies can incentivize production economies to emit less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277768</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We simply drop a giant tub of baking soda into the ocean every now and then.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:50:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277493</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "The Big Money in Today's Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“[W]ithin the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labor are brought about at the cost of the individual laborer; all means for the development of production transform themselves into means of domination over, and exploitation of, the producers; they mutilate the labourer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage of a machine, destroy every remnant of charm in his work and turn it into a hated toil; they estrange from him the intellectual potentialities of the labour process in the same proportion as science is incorporated in it as an independent power [...]<p>[I]n proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. The law, finally, that always equilibrates the relative surplus population, or industrial reserve army, to the extent and energy of accumulation, this law rivets the labourer to capital more firmly than the wedges of Vulcan did Prometheus to the rock. It establishes an accumulation of misery, corresponding with accumulation of capital. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital.”</p>
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<p>TikTok does this as well.</p>
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<p>Selling people grenading engines is not a great way to build recurring revenue streams. And building performant, efficient, and reliable engines is hard enough without intentional sabotage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355878</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>What do you think happened with the Golf 3 engine design? They made the camshaft structurally weaker, so the engine will blow up more easily.<p>Wow, talk about an oversimplification. The Mk3 moved from an 8-valve to a 16-valve engine; yes, this adds more valvetrain failure modes but also brings myriad other benefits, increased power, better fuel economy, reduced emissions…<p>The idea that a carmaker would purposely engineer flaws into core engine components in order to drive future sales doesn’t make much sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:51:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354108</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shift+Win/Option+-. And holding - gives you en/em dash on iOS and Android. Personally I love using em dashes so this whole AI thing is a real disaster for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:41:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280323</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> How did you determine that "Millions more tried them... and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations"?<p>We have lots of public data on SSRI usage (20+ million in the US alone each year) and discontinuation rates. The drugs themselves are decades old and have been through countless trials and studies, and of course there are databases like FAERS that track reports of adverse drug reactions.<p>Is your assertion that this is false? That in fact the typical SSRI patient is mentally/emotionally crippled by the drug? Doctors and public health agencies are hiding a public health catastrophe to sell genericized pills that cost tens of dollars a month?<p>Of course severe side effects can and do happen. Doesn’t mean every bad thing that happens to a person who happened to take SSRIs for a few days should be taken as a big cautionary tale.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030844</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46030844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Millions of people take SSRIs on a daily basis without these dramatic symptoms. Millions more tried them (for much longer periods than 5 days) and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations. So yes, I would say GP’s experience is ‘extraordinary’, i.e., outside of the ordinary expectation</p>
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<p>> If a side effect is extremely rare it would be impossible or at least impractical to prove in a population.<p>This is also true for a non-existent side effect. I’m not trying to tell GP he is wrong, just that from a reader’s perspective, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.</p>
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<p>I don’t want to discount your experience, but attributing a lifetime of symptoms to 5 doses of SSRIs (when you were already exhibiting an unstable mental state) seems extreme.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 02:24:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011499</link><dc:creator>ryeights</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ryeights in "DCFlight: Render native UI in Flutter with declarative component architecture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disclaimer: no affiliation, and in early development<p>DCFlight is a new Flutter framework from solo (!) dev Tahiru Agbanwa (<a href="https://x.com/squirelBoy360" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/squirelBoy360</a>) that uses a React Native-like virtual DOM and Yoga layout engine to replace Flutter's widget tree, rendering UI from native widgets without the use of platform views.<p>It provides a set of primitive components, a plugin architecture using method channels to write your own native components, and an escape hatch to use traditional Flutter widgets within the DCFlight architecture.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/DotCorr/DCFlight">https://github.com/DotCorr/DCFlight</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959406">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959406</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>This is an odd perspective to me. I'm an atheist because I don't find the truth claims of theistic religions convincing. Whether or not the centralized structure of modern religion is problematic is tangential to that</p>
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<p>>Your PSDs are welcome here<p>>Import PSDs, AIs, IDMLs, DWGs, and other file types into Affinity, with structure, layers, and creative intent preserved.</p>
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