<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: saxonww</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saxonww</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 22:21:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saxonww" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FODMAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols. FODMAPs generate gas as side effect of being fermented in the gut. Most people just pass this gas, but for some people, usually people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), it can be very uncomfortable and amplify their other IBS problems.<p>People who are suffering from pain and bloating with no obvious cause may be advised to go on a low-FODMAP diet for a few weeks to see if their symptoms go away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927634</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point I'm trying to make is that I don't think we know, so we can't say either way.<p>In your example, would the human have ever had contact with other humans, or would it be placed in the room as a baby with no further input?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670839</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Human cognition is nothing like AI "cognition."<p>I've wondered about this. Do we really know enough about what the human brain is doing to make a statement like this? I feel like if we did, we would be able to model it faithfully and OpenAI, etc. would not be doing what they're doing with LLMs.<p>What if human cognition turns out to be the biological equivalent of a really well-tuned prediction machine, and LLMs are just a more rudimentary and less-efficient version of this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:57:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669853</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I'm not disputing this, but I set up a similar scheme to the author almost 8 years ago and conduct 90+% of my online business through the custom emails. Everything from Amazon to small local business.<p>In that time I have had 'leaks' twice: my State's Fish and Wildlife licensing organ, and GitHub. In both cases I assume it's more that the email ends up being public, not because of something like Apollo.<p>I guess it's possible that spam is getting filtered before it ever hits my inbox.<p>Edit: I was responding to the idea of it leading to spam, not that Apollo wasn't collecting information on me.<p>For those curious: I signed up with Apollo and looked at what they had on me (via the link in the flagged/dead post by fontain). The email address they have is technically correct, but it's a non-current work email. It's still active and I do get a lot of senseless/bizarre business sales inquiries on that address. The phone number they have is wrong and I don't recognize it. They have my LinkedIn byline; it's likely how I was 'found' so quickly, as my username is the same there. I'm listed as cold.</p>
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<p>It's not a Tytler quote anyway, and as mentioned by others it's demonstrably false.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723192744/http://www.lorencollins.net/tytler.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20110723192744/http://www.lorenc...</a>
<a href="https://freakonomics.com/2009/01/our-daily-bleg-what-quotes-do-you-want-me-to-trace/" rel="nofollow">https://freakonomics.com/2009/01/our-daily-bleg-what-quotes-...</a></p>
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<p>Does it solve anything? I don't see this as a GitHub problem, it's a "we built a dependency management system with untrusted publishers" problem.<p>GitLab's `include` feature has the same concern. They do offer an integrity check, but it's not any more capable than hash pinning to a commit.<p>Fundamentally, if you offer a way to extend your product with externally-provided components, and you can't control the external publishers, then you've left the door open to 'these issues'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:15:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494513</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a completely reasonable comment by jamiemallers on this thread which is marked as 'dead' even after vouching. Not sure what's going on there.</p>
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<p>This boils down to a security via obscurity argument. Is obscurity a useful tool? Often, yes. Should you depend on it? Definitely not. Is it annoying to lose? Yes.</p>
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<p>Iirc it wasn't great because higher power == more heat though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:22:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392086</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flock cameras aren't enforcing anything. They collect your license plate and distinguishing details of your car. It's just car X with plate Y detected at location Z at time T.<p>Notably, they are not used for speed detection or 'good driving' detection.<p>You might think that having a constantly-present, objective, impartial camera enforcing a law is better than a sometimes-present, subjective, often <i>not</i> impartial beat cop doing that. But that's not what Flock does. Flock just turns that 'sometimes-present' beat cop into an 'always-present' beat cop, without addressing any of the other beat cop problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:14:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253950</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other code author is a "Dr. Josh C. Simmons" whose GitHub profile leads with "Building AI systems and influence architecture at scale." and "Founder @ Meridian Strategic Systems — Running experiments in cognitive systems, behavioral modeling, and automated influence generation."<p>So, my guess is that this a prototype of whatever Meridian is going to be doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024142</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "Show HN: Perlin Noise Terminal Animation in Rust (60 FPS, Truecolor)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks like another AI project. The HN user is new, the GitHub user is 4 days old, and all the content in the GitHub repo is authored by someone else. There's a blog repo with one commit containing 29 pre-written posts. A third repo 'nexusai-landing' is the only repo where 'denisepattenson' has committed anything.</p>
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<p>I don't want a big search bar on my home screen, and there's no way around it with the Pixel Launcher except use a different launcher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699341</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46699341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't really looked but I wonder if there are any IP reputation services tracking AI crawlers the same way they track tor relays and vpns and such. If those databases were accurate it seems like you could prevent those crawlers from ever hitting the site. Maybe they change too often/too quickly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:05:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609690</link><dc:creator>saxonww</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxonww in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just really grating to buy a nice screen and then have all the streaming services basically lock you to early-2000s picture quality. It's not that it doesn't work at all, but if I get the big nice modern screen I want to be able to use what I paid for.</p>
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<p>The opaque covers (and essentially all license plate decorations, frames, covers, etc.) are illegal as of October 1 in Florida. I believe initially the plan is stop-and-educate, but the law provides for a $500 fine and up to 60 days jail time for obscuring your license plate.</p>
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<p>Pulse amplitude modulation</p>
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<p>I'm not really disagreeing with you, but I think it's more about salesmanship than anything else. "We released v1 and copyright holders immediately threatened to sue us, lol" sounds like you didn't think ahead, and also paints copyright holders in a negative light; copyright holders who you need to not be enemies but who, if you're not making it up, are already unhappy enough to want to sue you.<p>Sam's sentence tries to paint what happened in a positive light, and imagines positive progress as both sides work towards 'yes'.<p>So I agree that it would be nice if he were more direct, but if he's even capable of that it would be 30 years from now when someone's asking him to reminisce, not mid-hustle. And I'd add that I think this is true of all business executives, it's not necessarily a Silicon Valley thing. They seem to frequently be mealy-mouthed. I think it goes with the position.</p>
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<p>The steel used to make the knives is not always stainless, so it can stain or rust. Even stainless is really just stain resistant.<p>Dishwasher detergent is caustic and corrosive to steel, so over time it can pit the metal and dull the finish. Handles will swell and become loose or deteriorate, either because of wood repeatedly being waterlogged and dried or just from the heat cycling. A loose handle can be unsanitary, unsightly, dangerous, or all three.<p>You'll often read that knives in the dishwasher will bang around and that will damage the edge. And that it's more likely you will hurt yourself pulling a knife out of the dishwasher vs. cleaning them properly.</p>
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<p>I felt the collective cringe from everyone reading that comment :).</p>
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