<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: sandworm101</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sandworm101</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:17:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sandworm101" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Why all new flags look the same"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An article about flag design but no mention of CGP Grey? This one video has had more influance on flag design than any written editorial.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/l4w6808wJcU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/l4w6808wJcU</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449782</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It can be done. A basic strategy would be to donate the land,but retain "air rights", retain an easment controlling all biuldings over a few feet tall. This is regularly done to protect views when selling land downhill of a house.  Farms and parks would be OK, but not construction of a datacenter.<p>But governments have eminant domain powers. They can always force a purchase if they really want to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449204</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The law addressed this centuries ago. The general rule is that you can enforce such rules for a generation plus twenty years. That may seem like a long time, but the rule prevents the "cold hand from the grave" dictating how living people should act.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities</a><p>In this case, the farmer should have talked to a lawyer first. There are ways to set thing up to prevent misuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:46:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447729</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. A car empowers me to do things i cannot do myself. That is very different than taking on mundane tasks to free up more time for more minecraft.</p>
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<p>And we are being conditioned to think chores like getting drinks and putting the dishes away are beneath us. It is up there with motion- or voice-activated room lights. Want a robot to bring you coffee in bed each morning? Unless you are in a wheelchair, put the coffee machine on a timer and walk to the kitchen you lazy piece of ...<p>Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one of these robots should have to do a few weeks of army basic training before earning the right to be this lazy. (Actuallty, iirc, we didnt wash our own sheets. But we did make our own toast!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447109</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The intersection of a war, a reliable mail service, and generational literacy promoted by protestant faiths. Every tom dick and harry started writing letters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436578</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given how little voting power these "shares" have (they are effectively SpaceX trading cards/NFTs) perhaps they were simply printed on SpaceX letterhead? If Musk says a person has "shares" who at spacex is in a position to disagree?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:43:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435926</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The best relationships are all-encompassing."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is young love, puppy love. People at such stage of a relationship find everything facinating. I think there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things appear to outsiders.  Give it a year and the author will quietly delete the article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:26:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435762</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it just me, but the language gap between me and the AI believers is becoming insumountable.  I use AI every day. I have a local server not ten feet from me as i type this, but i struggle to comprehend the gibberish that comes from those only slightly deeper in the rabbit hole than myself. Is this what 24/7 AI thinking does to people?<p>>> I am here to light up the dark path you are unknowingly walking, like lamplighters who used to light street lamps for those brave enough to walk the night alone.<p>>> It all fell apart quickly, turning into smoke and mirrors. You see, I committed the cardinal sin of idolatry. For that, I am an idiot too. With OpenAI, at least I knew the devil<p>Is this a critique of the state of AI or Tolkien fanfic?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:08:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435581</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Companies that are growing tend towards faking compliance. Many financial rules like pci only kick in at certain scales.  So a company growing very quickly will often be behind the curve but will do everything to seem like they are compliant.  Then they would hire people like me to come in and make them actually compliant.  More often than not, making an effort at improvement was enough to keep the ball rolling.</p>
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<p>>> If your life hasn't been affected yet, it will be shortly.<p>If your life hasnt been affected yet, you arent paying attention.  Or, it has been affected for the better because you are one of the many who generally support the movement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:22:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434578</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fast and public, or slow and private. Not everyone wants, or is allowed to, share their data with the AI world. And do not doubt that every bit shared with an AI service will be used for training.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:46:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427242</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chelmsford 123<p>I own the DVDs so I'm OK upscaling/editing my own copies for my own use. But if I ran the task on an ai service I would no doubt trigger copyright issues.</p>
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<p>My local AI is currently upscaling an old british comedy from sub-dvd quality to 1k. (It is not availible other than on DVD.) It looks like it will take about a week for my pair of 5060s to chew through the task.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:06:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425777</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most people are ok with slower. An AI that lets you edit a family picture, in say 30 seconds, locally is preferable to one that is instantaneous but requires you to submit that picture to examination/storage/training/sale in someone else's AI ecosystem. If i want to crop my ex out of family photos, i should not have to first give that photo to Microsoft. If want an LLM to write a book report for me, i dont want it also alerting my school. And if i write a memo for a client, and i want an LLM to check the spelling, i dont want that memo leaked either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425709</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of people are already running AI locally. They are the people buying up all the consumer-grade nvidea gpus.  What are they doing with them? Well, the same things people with home media or email servers are doing: stuff they dont want to share with the general public.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:54:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425188</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think your local ssd cache is the only thing being saturated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:23:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424335</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, even if the hardware is untouched. As technology advances, the power cost per compute cycle goes down. A gpu using old tech costs progressively more to operate compared to the newer models. So its value goes down over time = depreciation.<p>As for duty cycles, the chips are perfectly happy at 100% operation. Cooling and power componants fail, not the chips. But it costs manpower to repair such things and manpower is inconveniant these days. A gpu with any sort of fault just gets dumped.</p>
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<p>Aka "porous circuits". - Red Dwarf 1988</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367425</link><dc:creator>sandworm101</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48367425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sandworm101 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Less than this laptop.</p>
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