<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: stainablesteel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stainablesteel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:12:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stainablesteel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>these videos were disappointing and underwhelming</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857477</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48857477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's incredibly hard to identify microbes like these, this is not a simple task, especially if you're not aware they exist or that they can occur in this way.. if they did, which i'm skeptical of</p>
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<p>or accidentally hand the information over to someone who will</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:50:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644166</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they don't need to use the whole humanoid, they can take the legs or abdomen alone and use them as is<p>the human frame is just an experimental proxy for functionality, which turned out to be promising<p>two arms alone is the purpose-built robot you're referencing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:20:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602818</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602818</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Court Records Should Be Free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there was a website for this<p><a href="https://courtwatch.us/" rel="nofollow">https://courtwatch.us/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602798</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48602798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>microsoft is an amazing study in managed decline<p>that people still buy this, businesses still rely on their infrastructure, and their stock is somehow world-class is outstanding for the fact that its operating system can't do what middle school level coders can accomplish</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:31:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585006</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's more like skin color, ethnicity, and religion</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:51:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573110</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah most people are normal human beings, im saying the discrimination happens in getting admitted into the program</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570501</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>im referring to the admissions process, and this discrimination has been present for decades</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:43:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570490</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the attempted takeover of the gaming industry has been the biggest blowback to western political establishments everywhere<p>video games would normally distract people who would otherwise remain politically inactive<p>when these establishments attempt to insert their propaganda and control mechanisms into these industries, it infuriates millions of people who just want to be left alone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569531</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the entire internet is just phishing at this point</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547594</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is among the same kind of problem that people have with facebook and google, and these "login with your ___ account" problems<p>if so much of your life is centralized through a few accounts, then these companies shouldn't have a legal right to ban you from using it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:01:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540044</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>not surprising, european political elites seem to do whatever they want regardless of whether it's good for their countries</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540016</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they would kill their own product if they did this<p>it would be like if tsmc started designing their own chips to compete with the people they sell their services to, they have more to gain by limiting their participation to a specific corner</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:08:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485438</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>imo there are two major kinds of models<p>there are models you can speak with, that respond to what you say<p>and there are models that just make lists, that list everything, include weird formats and add asteriks everywhere.<p>deepseek, to me, will always be the latter, and i can't stand it, you can't ask it a coherent question and get a coherent response.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:36:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444566</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's fair, especially because if people want to contribute to something so badly, they can make their own fork or version of it<p>they can vibe-code their own browser, there's no need for the public to access every single open-source project anymore, you need to find people you can actually trust</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:57:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413408</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413408</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this was 200k of anything else I don't think I'd care as much. I'm not sure why childish objects are worthy of more vitriol than anything else, but I definitely feel that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 03:09:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318538</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>sanity isn't his job</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 23:50:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317154</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i'm beginning to find it comical how every model release always presents itself as superior to every other model on the market, but they always leave just one test where some other model was modestly better, just in case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:37:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315867</link><dc:creator>stainablesteel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stainablesteel in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>initially, not a lot of people were using gemini<p>google pushed it into their other products to attract people to AI<p>there was and still are a decent number of people who haven't really used it, as crazy as that sounds</p>
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