<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: stravant</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stravant</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:48:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stravant" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thousands of years?<p>We've only had the tech to be able to research this in some  technical depth for a few decades (both scale of computation and genetics / imaging techniques).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:01:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480863</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Art of Roads in Games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People who made tools that generate roads using circular arc spines unite: <a href="https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-geomtools-plugin-quickroad-is-finally-here/2024127" rel="nofollow">https://devforum.roblox.com/t/new-geomtools-plugin-quickroad...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946086</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This would not fund the people you want it to fund.<p>Bad or borderline actors would be so much better at creating whatever metrics you're basing things off of that the actual value creators wouldn't stand a chance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622235</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As for me that's a risk I'm willing to accept in return for the freedom of the code.<p>I'm not going to deliberately write code that's LIKELY to do more harm than good, but crippling the potential positive impact just because of some largely hypothetical risk? That feels almost selfish, what would I really be trying to avoid, personally running into a feel-bad outcome?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576559</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46576559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "New Lego smart-play system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can easily print bricks that work. They will just require more force to assemble than normal because you have to make them slightly undersized to make up for the lower tolerance.<p>Just think of how many 3d prints you've seen that consist of multiple parts friction for together.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:17:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514287</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "New Lego smart-play system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Desperately lacking a sound elevator pitch, eh?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:15:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514245</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46514245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One way I like to write comments is describing what would break if the block / line of code weren't there.<p>I find that ends up being succinct and useful in the future.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:32:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493951</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why wouldn't you want it to be a computer? Then it can be connected to your devices AND also do the job itself in a situation where it's awkward to connect to a device.<p>If already needs a computer in it to drive menus / modern display protocols. Having that computer be powerful enough to also decode content is barely an extra cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:36:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252830</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The website you're using right now is possibly the single least want of a CDN out of any of the sites I regularly visit.<p>What other popular site has zero images or video to speak of?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:25:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160355</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Show HN: Shadcn/UI theme editor – Design and share Shadcn themes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The key piece of the stack it gives you is sensible cross-platform component behaviors to put your styling / branding on to of.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 03:41:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708965</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45708965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cameras in the hands is a pretty killer idea, why do things on hard-mode when you can throw extra data at the problem?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:32:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45528249</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45528249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45528249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are people assuming they did store it after the process was completed?<p>With the relatively low number leaked here it could have been information collected actively during an ongoing breach, not a dump of some permanent database.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523184</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That just means that owning the walled gardens and network effects will become yet more important.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422060</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Mirror Life Worries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ever heard of invasive species?<p>That's the problem. Mirror life may not be a problem for the biosphere in the long run but it could totally be a problem for humans in the short run.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290231</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Crates.io phishing attempt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People realized that past phishing attempts were quite badly constructed and a well constructed one is actually really easy to fall for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223281</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45223281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That assumes he would have stopped with the shenanigans, which is a pretty big if.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105362</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's literally hundreds of such settings. When you get into the combinations there's such a multitude of scenarios that you certainly can't have dedicated code for everything.<p>I suppose you could have it attempt to run a full forward-looking flight simulation to predict but part of the reason for there being so many controls is to deal with situations where the plane isn't acting like it should be, situations which would invalidate the simulation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:17:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543882</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like a flop not in user count but in that I'm not seeing it originate any valuable content.<p>I've seen several interesting posts from Bluesky referenced elsewhere already, but literally nothing from Threads despite it having had more users for longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43014084</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43014084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43014084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole from Us"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, and what does preceding research do? Get followed by more research building on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:47:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866398</link><dc:creator>stravant</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stravant in "Autodesk partially restores old forum posts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably something related to LLMs. The LLMs picking up outdated info, them trying to hoard the data. Who knows, but it smells of something LLM related.</p>
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