<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: strgrd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strgrd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:03:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=strgrd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No thanks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:20:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112186</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "How ChatGPT serves ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"if an LLM has an ideological bias, then that becomes obvious and known almost immediately"<p>"most people aren't really using LLMs for the subject areas that concern government propaganda"<p>These are really big assumptions to flat out deny LLMs usefulness in delivering propaganda.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:41:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949976</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember reading these direct quotes from SA in 2016 from the New Yorker and thinking, yeah, this guy is just miserable:<p>> “Well, I like racing cars. I have five, including two McLarens and an old Tesla. I like flying rented planes all over California. Oh, and one odd one—I prep for survival. My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero. The other most popular scenarios would be A.I. that attacks us and nations fighting with nukes over scarce resources. I try not to think about it too much, but I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”<p>> "If you believe that all human lives are equally valuable, and you also believe that 99.5 per cent of lives will take place in the future, we should spend all our time thinking about the future. But I do care much more about my family and friends.”<p>> "The thing most people get wrong is that if labor costs go to zero... The cost of a great life comes way down. If we get fusion to work and electricity is free, then transportation is substantially cheaper, and the cost of electricity flows through to water and food. People pay a lot for a great education now, but you can become expert level on most things by looking at your phone. So, if an American family of four now requires seventy thousand dollars to be happy, which is the number you most often hear, then in ten to twenty years it could be an order of magnitude cheaper, with an error factor of 2x. Excluding the cost of housing, thirty-five hundred to fourteen thousand dollars could be all a family needs to enjoy a really good life.”<p>> "...we’re going to have unlimited wealth and a huge amount of job displacement, so basic income really makes sense. Plus, the stipend will free up that one person in a million who can create the next Apple.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:50:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674524</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The vast majority of HN commentors react to the headline and don't bother to click through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:46:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660219</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>do you know what the modifier "like" means in the sentence you quoted, or are you just being annoyingly pedantic</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:24:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401090</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...<p>The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”<p>Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:25:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680812</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Cheap rent sounds good on paper... but why would you work?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347446</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45347446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Claude Pro Max hallucinated a $270 Notion feature that doesn't exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I'm not a random complainer."<p>I feel privileged for getting to read this post before it's widely ridiculed and deleted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509233</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44509233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Steam Networks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Montpelier, Vermont as well: <a href="https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background" rel="nofollow">https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:03:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355213</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Steam Networks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How common are district heating systems? Montpelier in Vermont uses wood stoves to deliver steam to a large part of their small downtown: <a href="https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background" rel="nofollow">https://www.montpelier-vt.org/427/Project-Background</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:02:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355201</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43355201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand how you took the time to test that, but didn't take the time to RTFA:<p>> We are getting reports of YouTube rolling out an experiment to some accounts where normal videos only have DRM formats available on the tv (TVHTML5) Innertube client.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:09:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323609</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43323609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "I Taught Kanye How to Use AI Vocals–Now Launching an AI Music Tool for Artists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wish I would have saved his post lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:42:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272073</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value... Market cap does not equal value...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271129</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "How an obscure OTC-traded derivative from the 80s took over crypto"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>thanks monero-xmr, but if i wanted to gamble, i'd go to a casino. if i wanted to invest money, i'd buy SPY</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 00:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35934102</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35934102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35934102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>same experience trying to find videos that answer a technical question - there's no immediate gauge on whether or not the video's useful, and it's easy (and often automatic on YouTube's part) to hide any comments with a negative sentiment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:17:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822967</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...how can you tell if a channel deletes comments?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822907</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34822907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This comment reminds me of reddit, where people feel like reading a headline warrants a comment without actually reading the article</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657880</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is unhinged</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2023 20:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657860</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657860</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Starlink Aviation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are there no aerodynamic concerns for that installation? The VHF instruments pictured on top of the fuselage make this thing look like a plow that would be better fit on top of a Sprinter van... they couldn't have gone for a dome?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 02:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256866</link><dc:creator>strgrd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strgrd in "Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SA: "The thing most people get wrong is that if labor costs go to zero... The cost of a great life comes way down. If we get fusion to work and electricity is free, then transportation is substantially cheaper, and the cost of electricity flows through to water and food. People pay a lot for a great education now, but you can become expert level on most things by looking at your phone. So, if an American family of four now requires seventy thousand dollars to be happy, which is the number you most often hear, then in ten to twenty years it could be an order of magnitude cheaper, with an error factor of 2x. Excluding the cost of housing, thirty-five hundred to fourteen thousand dollars could be all a family needs to enjoy a really good life.”</p>
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