<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: shawabawa3</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shawabawa3</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:23:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shawabawa3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also this line is very weird:<p>> That’s enough to mean the 11 Pro Fold still feels like a smart purchase right now, but I’m worried it won’t do for long.<p>How long are these phone's purchasable windows? like 12 months max?<p>So it's still a "smart purchase" now, despite being out of date? So maybe it's not out of date yet? But will be soon, like literally every other phone?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373346</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember reading something similar about walking on the part of the pavement furthest from the road, because being an extra meter or so away makes a big difference</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358707</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They didn't mention anything about folding clothes so I suspect this comment is just an ad</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:14:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119592</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When asked for comment an anthropic spokesperson said "it's very unusual for the pelican to fall off. They are built to very rigorous SVG engineering standards"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:36:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017322</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Why should a developer use this for anything beyond a pet project?<p>If it _is_ 50% faster, then that's the reason<p>Obviously like any new database it's very risky to use so probably only used for niche use cases at first, but if it turns out to be just as reliable as postgres and faster then why not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:28:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843195</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48843195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I very much doubt submarines operate that high<p>The ISS runs at 3000-6000ppm CO2. over 7000 is dangerous</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:10:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785970</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "CarPlay Is Additive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm one of the people that wouldn't buy a card without android auto and carplay support<p>Car UIs are just universally awful. Even if somehow you find one with a decent UI, it will never get updated and within 5 years it will suck</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:15:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771467</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "This blog is written in en-GB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm very disappointed it didn't translate the $1m story to £747,000<p>I found it completely unrelatable and couldn't follow it at all, not having any frame of reference for how much a dollar might be worth in real money<p>Luckily the background reminded me i could go and make myself a cup of tea to feel better</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:51:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760736</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm convinced this is what causes people to feel productive with vim</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:12:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757651</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48757651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the specs page is say "205 miles" estimated range for the blank slate/minimal version - which is not great<p>Very surprising it doesn't say the battery capacity anywhere and has no option for a bigger battery</p>
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<p>Headline makes it sound like this has taken effect. It's just been announced<p>Might start taking effect in spring 2027</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:15:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538659</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because they said trump only had a 30% chance to win?<p>What if they had said 49%? Would that have made their prediction worthless?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:28:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199078</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real problem is the widespread usage of Wh as a unit of energy<p>It would make way more sense to use J and J/h instead</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968366</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's worth noting that the Fukoshima disaster<p>1. Lead to basically zero direct deaths<p>2. Was caused by the forth most powerful earthquake to have ever been recorded in the world (since ~1900), and the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan<p>3. ~20,000 people died due to the Earthquake<p>Requiring a nuclear plant in Belgium to be safe enough to survive what caused the Fukoshima disaster is probably not a good use of money</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:53:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962533</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The fact that it's being done under government contract and (arguably) within the law shouldn't immediately make it any less bad.<p>Of course it should, to say otherwise is absurd<p>what, the NHS shouldn't have _any_ subcontracting? All data must only be held by sacred NHS monks in a vault somewhere?<p>As long as palentir are holding the data on UK servers, to modern data security standards, and they have a contract to do so, they should be able to</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:55:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890374</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Because I think "1 employee can do the work of 3 now" still hasn't actually been demonstrated<p>1 employee doing the work of 3 is I think is a stretch<p>but 1 employee doing the work of 1.1 employees from a year ago I think is almost certainly true - at least, me and everyone i work with is _at least_ 10% more productive, and using AI extensively</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:34:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888277</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47888277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but giving a 2B model full JS execution privileges on a live page is a bit sketchy from a security standpoint.<p>Every webpage I've ever visited has full JS execution privileges and I trust half of them less than an LLM</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:24:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658250</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately human energy use appears to be proportional to the amount of energy available<p>Hopefully we are able to reach a point of effectively unlimited cheap energy and storage but it's that if overnight we suddenly had enough solar+batteries to power today's usage, we'd suddenly need way more as demand rises</p>
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<p>Hopefully if they ever go to Sri Lanka they get localised tuning because I was surprised to find out flashing your lights over there doesn't mean "go ahead", it means "if you don't get out of my way I will ram you"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:41:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446658</link><dc:creator>shawabawa3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shawabawa3 in "Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not really no<p>you can set up a cloud function to monitor billing limits and automatically disable billing for a project if it exceeds the limits though</p>
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