<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: spiralcoaster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spiralcoaster</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:47:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=spiralcoaster" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right, so let's add more risk by flying side by side with some nutjob with no regard for their own life. Sounds reasonable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589371</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "LLMs predict my coffee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It absolutely does. The model that came closest simply used that model twice in the same equation. One for the cup and one for the air.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:47:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484557</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "LLMs predict my coffee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this for real?<p>This is like someone with no background in physics or engineering wondering "can a LLM predict the trajectory of my golf ball". They then pontificate about how absolutely complex all of the interacting phenomenon must be! What if there was wind? I didn't tell it what elevation I was at! How could it know the air density!? What if the golf ball wasn't a perfect sphere!!? O M G<p>And then being amazed when it gets the generic shape of a ballistic curve subject to air resistance.<p>This speaks far more to the ignorance of the author than something mind boggling about the LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:45:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484539</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "I love my dumb watches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I also find the reasoning in "Why track your sleep at all? If you’ve had a crap night, you’ll wake up tired." weird. That's the equivalent of saying "Why track your blood pressure at all? If you've had a problem with high blood pressure, you'll wake up with a stroke." Not that the sleep tracking on smartwatches seems to be worth much but I just don't agree with the logic.<p>Equating tracking sleep to tracking a diagnosed and dangerous medical condition seems ridiculous. Not even remotely equivalent. There are lots of things in life that aren't worth the effort of tracking. There was a recent post here about a guy who spent years meticulously tracking every aspect of his life so he could crunch all the data and learn something interesting about himself. He learned in the end that he learned nothing new worth knowing.<p>"Why track your tumor at all? If the tumor becomes malignant, you'll wake up dead". That must be equivalent too right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462156</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right. The name is just classic gatekeeping and elitist, clearly. I am 100% certain that's why they chose it. If they really cared about inclusion, they would have called it research.io</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:36:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460260</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope they ramp up their blocking of AI access. The last thing we need is providers like this getting hammered by AI</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460212</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "GPT-5.4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the low quality reddit-style garbage that gets upvoted on HN these days?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267050</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What kind of violence have you experienced from striking up friendly conversations with strangers in otherwise normal circumstances? What are you talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:18:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222708</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Guys, remember, when you set up your AI-controlled automatic machine gun in your front lawn, be sure to do it safely and pour a solid concrete foundation for it to sit atop of. We wouldn't want it to cause harm or injury by tipping over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184658</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who do you imagine the users were back when it was being developed?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174863</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174853</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174853</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two very big revelations here that I would love to know more about:<p>1. Can you reveal "what's actually happening behind the scenes" beyond the hint you gave? I can't figure it out.<p>2. Can you explain how an ants sense of smell leads to anthills?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162557</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's great, but it doesn't make you or any of us engineers.<p>Just because I drive my car with immense focus, make precision shifts, and hit the apex of all of my turns when getting onto and off of the freeway doesn't make me a race car driver.<p>Engineers don't just feel good vibes about science and mix it into their work. It is the core of their work.<p>Simply having a methodology absolutely is not sufficient for being an engineer.<p>And great, you have an arbitrary system of ethics, like everyone does I imagine. But no one holds you to these ethics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:43:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162316</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47162316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So what do you do with the information that your house is about to flood? Do you have a special flood prevention technique that you can only put into action when you know the rain is coming?</p>
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<p>Seems like if you were going outside often, you wouldn't need an e-ink display to tell you the weather because you'd be outside... experiencing it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117994</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117994</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment reminds me of those infomercials where they try really hard to make something as simple as cooking spaghetti look like an unimaginable nightmare that no one could possibly accomplish</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:06:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117978</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The video's narrator is the son of the engineer who invented the suspension.<p>It is even listed in the video description. What's this idea that this is a spoiler or integral to the video?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:22:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830761</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for doing this. It allowed me to skip reading the article altogether immediately knowing it is AI generated slop. Usually I'm a little ways into it before my LLM detector starts going off, but these "This isn't X. It's Y." phrases are such a dead giveaway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:28:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490113</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is very heavily filled with LLM-isms. The writing is bland AI output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490090</link><dc:creator>spiralcoaster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spiralcoaster in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So for your opinion to carry any weight, please enlighten us as to the games you have shipped that qualify you to comment on their take on programming practices.</p>
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