<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: semicolon_storm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=semicolon_storm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:41:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=semicolon_storm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything's more costly in Hawaii, including maintaining infrastructure</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:25:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471575</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471575</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry you got scammed, FIFA awarded me their 100m sprint gold medal so I'm the real fastest 100m runner in the world</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:26:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669859</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems unlikely, athletes are consuming liters of oxygen per minute. Plus, the impact is at least partially offset by needing to carry the extra weight with you.<p>Different story for apnea sports like freediving where a little bit of extra oxygen goes a long way.</p>
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<p>Don't hold your breath for that, Azure still has spotty IPv6 support</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 01:49:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871474</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44871474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A proper training plan makes you more injury resistant and makes it easier to bounce back from injuries if you do happen to get hurt.<p>For example, just look at the data for sarcopenia: <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9654071" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9654071</a></p>
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<p>It requires mercury-198 as an input. The only quote I could find for mercury-198 is about $15K per milligram.<p>So now we just need to figure out how to make mercury-198 cheaply.</p>
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<p>You can also have the most flexible system ever designed, but if the rest of your team doesn't understand it then good luck implementing that required use cases</p>
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<p>And treating politics like team sports is the root of the problem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:38:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531107</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43531107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Feds Link Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Adding on to what others have said, LastPass stored vault "metadata" unencrypted. Metadata included things the url. This allowed the attackers to prioritize cracking vaults of higher value.<p>See a vault with just a facebook.com and google.com login? Skip it. See a vault with coinbase and 10 other crypto sites in it? Spend a few thousand trying to crack it.<p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/cfbao/lastpass-vault-parser/wiki/LastPass-Vault-Format#acct">https://github.com/cfbao/lastpass-vault-parser/wiki/LastPass...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296974</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure about that. A hash function suitable for security sensitive work, used properly, should make a collision so unlikely that you can basically forget it that it's even possible.<p>Think about it, that's what hashing passwords relies on. We don't store a plaintext password for a final check if the password hash matches, we count on a collision being basically impossible.<p>A hashmap is different, because it's using a much weaker hash function with far fewer security guarantees.<p>Plus, you're assuming the original values are even kept around for comparison. The cache key likely just mapped to something simple like a boolean or status flag.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42958024</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42958024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42958024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The censorship is not present in the distilled models which you can run locally</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:31:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831845</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you referring to the distilled models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 17:30:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831826</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "LLMs have reached a point of diminishing returns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps because that's a strawman argument. "Scaling" doesn't mean double the investment and get double the performance. Even OpenAI's own scaling laws paper doesn't argue that, in the graphs compute increases exponentially. What LLM scaling means is that there hasn't been a wall found where the loss stops decreasing. Increase model size/data/compute and loss will decrease -- so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Nov 2024 01:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097975</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42097975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In security, industry standard seems to be about the same as military grade: the cheapest possible option that still checks all the boxes for SOC.</p>
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<p>Phi-3 small is</p>
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<p>No mention or comparison with phi-3 seems odd. Isn't phi-3 leading the other models by a bit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:53:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41843826</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41843826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41843826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Open Source Farming Robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Water on the leaves isn’t bad if you’re watering in the morning where it’ll soon evaporate in the sunlight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 04:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41151086</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41151086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41151086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No paywall: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240410092221/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/epa-pfas-drinking-water.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20240410092221/https://www.nytim...</a></p>
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<p>And install all their dependencies from non, which Microsoft also owns</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38350006</link><dc:creator>semicolon_storm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38350006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38350006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by semicolon_storm in "Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Liberland had a government. Apparently no one ever told them they didn't need it.</p>
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