<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: soks86</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=soks86</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:37:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=soks86" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Quantification of fibrinaloid clots in plasma from pediatric Long COVID patients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, you trust<p><a href="https://www.newsonhealth.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsonhealth.co.uk/</a><p>over research from Harvard.<p>One, maybe two non-research docs or... a team of research docs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:09:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558329</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45558329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope you don't take pride in that sentence because I'm still not sure what it means.<p>Also, automation and pride can go hand in hand. Pride doesn't mean "make it by hand," that would be silly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:42:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504582</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45504582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not if 100 companies did it and they all got away.<p>This is to teach a lesson because you cannot prosecute all thieves.<p>Yale Law Journal actually writes about this, the goal is to deter crime because in most cases damages cannot be recovered or the criminal will never be caught in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143937</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Code Is Debt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This, there is always middle ground.<p>Personally, I have only used AI to write actual code when it is for Bash and Python scripts that are self contained. In my case self contained means they are interfaced to via command line so their boundaries are very well defined.<p>I have never returned to look at any of the code.<p>I would never use it to generate domain code for my codebase because then I'd have to code review it anyways. I mean, if I have an agentic AI solving an issue and generating a PR, great, I can review that and give it feedback on how to change the code before its accepted.<p>Unless I can either throw the code away or review it for maintainability rather than correctness then I have no need for a tool that write my code for me.<p>Oh, unless the AI can be the product owner and understand the financial ramifications of not doing its job correctly but I would be worried that the solution is to not have a product by reducing the users to ash.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087210</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45087210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "The Role of Blood Plasma Donation Centers in Crime Reduction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Working and not being able to live is not an "economic opportunity."<p>It's more likely the reason some of these folks aren't employed.<p>Lowering wages doesn't create anything except depravity on the part of employers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:41:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649649</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "'Profit-Enhancing Middlemen' Fuel $200B Health-Care Chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We'd still be waiting for healthcare with this kind of plan.<p>Before the ACA it simply was not a choice to be an independent professional and have health insurance.<p>If people could understand why it is unacceptable to force independent professionals and entrepreneurs to give up healthcare they would see the ACA was necessary in whatever form it could be passed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360604</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Usually you want to boot from a cryptographic-ally verified medium where a checksum can be verified before you execute the system.<p>The emphasis is on running the correct software. If you have to input cryptographic data every time you boot that's okay because you're offline and should be in a secure room (no internet connected devices).<p>But yeah, malware attack is still possible if you don't have a secure chain and that's a long one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142661</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ditto.<p>The internet is adversarial, a cold wallet should only be reachable by a wrench attack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142626</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43142626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Medical students can't be learning for free now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358680</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40358680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Social engineering takeovers of open source projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The comment was not sincere and is meant to amuse.<p>If you believe amusement is a disservice to the community then I believe many others disagree.<p>edit: For clarity, the "since inception" part is an absurd setup for the, equally absurd, "well funded open source" part.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 06:16:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271675</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Wireproxy: WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WTF is _this_</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:46:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907099</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39907099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Plasticity through patterned ultrasound-induced brainwave entrainment in mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We'll just have our trusty robot companions remember our entire lives and remind us as we go.<p>It'll be _perfect_.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496083</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39496083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How else can you possibly solve it?<p>Competition solves everything.<p>Who gets to mate with who has been answered by competition our entire existence.<p>Striving for non-violent, yet fair, competition is what advancing the world is about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:38:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493407</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39493407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "The AI bullshit singularity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only let baby see its own scribbles and scat.<p>Future world leader advisor.<p>Ahem, I hope not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 20:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422712</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "The World Before Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How dare you, for a good decade there I forgot that IBM Clearcase exists.<p>Now I'm ruined, again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705894</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38705894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That absolutely sounds like it.<p>I opened several laptops with spudger tools. Now I can open random items I didn't watch videos for just because I have an idea of how it _might_ be assembled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623708</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Tacit Knowledge Is Dangerous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've explained bugs and developed exploits just from noticing odd behavior in video games.<p>I know how a team is organized, I knew the multiplayer feature was tacked on (probably by interns), I know about network code edge cases, bada-bing bada-boom I can trigger a bug and understand why it happens without ever seeing their code.<p>Or sitting in a theater and just noticing the lighting setup and transitions rather than the performance itself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623700</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38623700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>or embarrassment and concern on the part of the people who created this system before him.<p>I've made similar improvements (40x speedup, 8x reduction in RAM footprint) and had been shown the door. This was for software that was a bit over 30 years old too so it was a bit involved.<p>The team winning does not help a narcissist feel better. You'd be better off getting nothing done while stroking their ego daily.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:11:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456463</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My uncle got a passport and then a week later he vanished.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:33:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360984</link><dc:creator>soks86</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38360984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by soks86 in "SEC charges Kraken for operating as an unregistered securities exchange"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad to see someone talk about this.<p>It's a bit of a pain. They limited your choices and now the limited choices are facing legal scrutiny.<p>The Japanese lawyer representing Mt. GOX customers is also collecting fees this entire time from the pool of customer funds.</p>
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