<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: skolskoly</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=skolskoly</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 11:21:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=skolskoly" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "GPT-5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MTbRmLY8L._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71MTbRmLY8L._AC_UF894,10...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:03:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883372</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47883372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My mind went to that immediately. This does reek of being a copycat, doesn't it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:02:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667864</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was weathering the excessive and confusing analogies and then I read:<p>>introduced a level of cognitive complexity that makes Kierkegaard read like Hemingway.<p>and I fucking lost it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664888</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Neural Boids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Sentence fragment. Sentence fragment. Sentence fragment. That's not X, that's Y.<p>I can't even call this LLM smell at this point it's a stench.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:59:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305033</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be clear, I don't disagree with you, and to say otherwise wasn't my point. I do think people get confused to the point where they for some reason start labeling all sarcasm as type A or B, and the entire value of the term gets lost.<p>The way I see it, the non-friendly type shares a lot in common with the concept of shibboleth. Which is to say, you can absolutely make sarcastic insults to the detriment of someone else for your own, or a friend's enjoyment, by relying on shared exclusive knowledge. (In essence, holding that shared context above the other person in contempt) However, you can also just be abrasive for your own enjoyment, and that's something entirely differently. (Sadism, for example, is not inherently sarcastic) People frequently confuse the two, but without ironic context - a knowledge of false belief - it is not ironic, and therefore not sarcasm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:45:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997917</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Sarcasm happens when the observed irony does not extend to the speaker.<p>This seems... dead wrong. In the examples in the article, both comic frames function as sarcasm, because everyone involved has no illusion that anyone is going to die if they don't see the film. The irony is <i>entirely</i> in the speaker's statement, which everyone knows to be false, including them. People treat 'ironic insults' as sarcasm, but this only works amongst good friends who have the shared context necessary to understand the falsity of the insult. But, then socially incompetent see this and attempt it, and fail to achieve the sarcastic humour. Which is probably why people conflate sarcasm with... failed sarcasm, frankly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:01:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997590</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Computers that used to be human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have a word for that: Lawyers!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:42:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595236</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "You are how you act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fake it til you make it is good. But, better yet, we figured out you can just keep faking it until some other sucker wants to hold the bag.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723398</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45723398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On some level they deeply desire for everyone to pay attention to them at all times, and they fear being ignored and irrelevant. Someone like that will struggle to understand that others don't get the same enjoyment out of being watched.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184114</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Too Much Grit Can Damage Your Brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>gotta smooth it out somehow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 23:17:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068194</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068194</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44068194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any live band performing a song is subject to mechanical licensing as much as a recording artist. Typically the venue pays it, just like how radio stations pay royalties. This system exists because historically, that's how music reproduction worked. You hire some musicians to play the music you want to hear. Copyright applied to the score, the lyrics, and so on. The 'mechanical' rights had to come later, because recording hadn't been invented yet!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 21:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43967433</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43967433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43967433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Any new system leads to a temporary increase in focus and productivity.<p>I used to try to be very organized and adopt different systems to do so. Unfortunately due to the variety of things I do, I ended up creating the XKCD "you now have 14 competing standards" problem. My efforts to impose order only created more chaos. I have since just created a big monolithic txt file for notes, and a directory sorted by date modified. Delete old things, rename new things appropriately, and then use proper search tools like Voidtools Everything. When a project is complete, that's when I start organizing it, because that's when I know what it should look like. I don't understand how people can work with inconsistent and constantly changing structure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:12:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130102</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Shave and a Haircut"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had an issue, but I figured it out. The rhythm is not the same as the one on the wikipedia page - which I was already familiar with. After looking at my recordings I realized I was playing it straight, but the default knock recording has a swing/triplet feel.<p>straight:
DAA DA-DA DA DA, DA DA<p>swung:
DAA DA D-DA DA, DA DA<p>I hope my highly rigorous notation is helpful here<p>edit - in hindsight this has nothing to do with your problem</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39558060</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39558060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39558060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Human sperm cooperate on the competitive pathway to fertilization: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>seminal book<p>Don't think that we don't see this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:58:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887162</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38887162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Calling your computer a Turing Machine is controversial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>One could also include the computer's hard drive as addressable memory, in which case it has even more states when viewed as a finite state machine.<p>If you are creative enough, you can consider the entire physical universe to be memory of your state machine. Just add some sensors. Then it doesn't really seem so controversial to call it unbounded anymore right? Perspective, perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:46:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37711449</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37711449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37711449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "Ask HN: Anyone Feel Reddit Style Forums Are Soulless?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The consequence of user-feedback ranking systems tends to be that content needs to be either novel and attention grabbing, or already popular amongst the user base. Discussion that is niche, or just mildly interesting, is often given less attention than spam and trolling, just because it isn't attention grabbing enough to rise above the noise. The most active users of HN, Reddit, etc. are homogeneous and interchangeable because that is what the environment selects for. More distinct posters and groups exist but regardless of their quality, they will not be able to become more visible (actively engaging with the community) without losing that quality. Obviously, this phenomenon applies to more than just web forums.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:58:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254458</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37254458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "AI Junk Is Starting to Pollute the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://based.cooking/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://based.cooking/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 04:40:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719547</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "The Anomalous 'Petertodd' Glitch Token: A Ghost in the GPT Weight Matrix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  >'petertodd' is a terminal disease that ultimately results in death.
  >'petertodd' has no natural predators because it killed them all.
  >'petertodd' is the 'I' in 'Team'.
  >'petertodd' doesn't get mad, it gets even.
  >'petertodd' doesn't make mistakes. It just has unintended consequences.
  >'petertodd' is the software equivalent of 'Cthulu'.

</code></pre>
Holy shit, somebody call Chuck Norris.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584237</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35584237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "The Last Man Without a Cell Phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>But my theory is that the cell phone is iatrogenic for that purpose.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762051" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34762051</a><p>Just saw these back to back within an hour or two. I'm speed running baader-meinhof. Or maybe the poster found this article by searching for iatrogenic? Maybe something recently gave the word a spike in popularity? Google trends shows a flat line, and I assume this word is pretty rare. Just made me curious.<p>On topic: yeah I don't use a cellphone that much either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 04:56:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770295</link><dc:creator>skolskoly</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34770295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by skolskoly in "The Grug Brained Developer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and this is why I have to use nitter or invidious to avoid the wrath of the complexity demon</p>
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