<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: spopejoy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spopejoy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:48:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=spopejoy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spopejoy in "The War Is Turning Iran into a Major World Power"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="http://archive.today/JfrRn" rel="nofollow">http://archive.today/JfrRn</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726469">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726469</a></p>
<p>Points: 15</p>
<p># Comments: 9</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:54:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz.html</link><dc:creator>spopejoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spopejoy in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The story behind the numbers they present clearly demonstrates that X is censoring/shadowbanning them. Going from 600MM to 13MM impressions/yr -- losing 98% of their impressions! -- is no accident but clearly Musk's thumb on the scale.<p>Imagine what this means if you are trying to gauge impact of a post. Remember, X is giving them zero information about who they're preventing from seeing it. Impressions is the main datapoint so if you can't figure out why you've lost 98% of your impact, how on earth are you going to evaluate it vs other platforms?<p>And yes, each platform has a cost. There's a LOT more to social strategy than just "copy and paste this announce to every platform".</p>
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<p>> Brand reputation<p>They said nothing of this in TFA, all they talked about was decimated view count. The obvious conclusion is X is censoring them, like they pretty much do to anybody that Elon feels like censoring.</p>
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<p>> how would reproducing some random number be legally "stealing" under any legal system in the world?<p>The usual way, via the criminal code. My old business treasury was scammed into transferring funds on-chain to an impersonator. We were able to recover losses through an insurance claim which required us to report the theft to the police.</p>
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<p>What is the alternative? It seems like a lot (a majority?) of professional formats are professionally developed by for-profit consortia, with open-source trailing behind as patents expire. Isn't this what patents are for? If a private entity drops $$$/time/expertise into tech shouldn't they be rewarded for some period?<p>The alternative would be lavishly funded public research, which sounds great to me! But is that going to happen?</p>
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<p>I asked a different question in my mind, who says it "appears to us as upside down"? I would think if you lived in Patagonia, the south pole is "up".</p>
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<p>The OP's complaint is literally about a one-sentence paragraph, the second in the article. Plenty of warning to avoid the rest and move on, but LLM shaming is it's own reward perhaps?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:48:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632061</link><dc:creator>spopejoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spopejoy in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's all so tiring.<p>What's tiring is a comment like this. If you don't like the article don't read it -- and don't comment.</p>
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<p>Yes, but FF also prevents the extension scanning. It's scandalous that Chrome allows this!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615640</link><dc:creator>spopejoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spopejoy in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firefox FTW. I was relieved to find this was a Chrome-only problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615633</link><dc:creator>spopejoy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spopejoy in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm hoping the meme goes away. Internet is a dark forest, crypto DEXes are a dark forest, AI is a dark forest. Add the obligatory gloss of Cixin Liu (DF is only one of many amazing concepts in TBP but apparently the only bloggable one).  Hard sci-fi references sound smart but in the end don't describe society very well.</p>
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<p>> handled all of the "busy work" I hate doing as the person who books the "friend group" trip<p>Why do you go on trips with your friends if you have to do all the work?</p>
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<p>Citation needed that "the people" wanted to end tax credits on EVs. EVs were steadily increasing in popularity and capturing a growing market. In a very real sense consumers had "choice" before, in that the market supports made EVs accessible.</p>
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<p>LOL I wish. LLMs massacre gradle code all the time. Once you're past boilerplate generation and doing anything remotely unusual they can't stop hallucinating broken shit that they insist works.</p>
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<p>TIL Mill, I've been in build hell trying to package a javafx GUI gradle project that depends on a non-module-ified lib (usb4java, long story, no I can't use anything else). Beryx/badass failed entirely, was able to get something working with Gradle doing jlink and manual CLI jpackage ...<p>But tbh the whole experience makes me distrust the Java ecosystem if you're supporting anything that is slightly out of the community's view or priorities. Even JavaFX shows very patchy support for certain very standard UI concepts, and the situation with packaging is bad as you say.<p>Anyway, is mill worth switching away from Gradle? (Does mill integrate at all with idea?)</p>
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<p>> I have described what bothers me about the writing<p>No you haven't, you've made an unprovable claim about how the writing was accomplished without pointing out a single feature of the writing itself.<p>Too long? OK, but homebrew gamedev articles often are. Skimming was a good skill before AI and still is.<p>Bad writing? Again -- hobbyist posts don't exactly win awards. I suspected possibly some AI myself but not to the extent you're baselessly asserting: I really doubt there was a single prompt in any case. The article is structured like any other.<p>If it were content-free clickbait or something, the complaint would hold water. As it is this is a reasonably interesting article that has generated a large and fun discussion on HN, so even if you _could_ prove AI use, so what?</p>
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<p>The jury is not out -- it's an unconfirmed hunch that, as the study you link notes, risks harming patients who are having trouble keeping down food as it is.<p>This is just keto and fasting fans pushing their obsession on cancer patients. Same for marijuanauts -- anti-nausea drugs have long outperformed cannibinoids but you still have stoner friends offering you spliffs (ok, save them for later)</p>
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<p>I'm saying that cancer treatments are some of the most scientifically-validated procedures out there, because there's essentially unlimited money to pay for them. They have eliminated or modulated any negative side effect they can, via improved anti-nausea drugs, careful dosing+timing, etc.<p>Still, you can experience all sorts of discomforts during the tmt. I nearly fainted and got horrible chills when getting oxaliplatin for the first time. You're saying I should have _fasted_ for this?</p>
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<p>Did you notice the huge warning at the top of the article? This is garbage science.</p>
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