<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: thomastraum</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thomastraum</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:07:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thomastraum" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Mistral Large 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mistral wont win the AI race because of the model names. I wont bother an arrogant Parisian hipster with my insecure prompts who then plays with his moustache and responds with a judgmental "pfff"</p>
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<p>they call it Promethean Spas... Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587943</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ta da, this is the kind of future that will become the actual one, to everyone's surprise in the comment section.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:49:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324766</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Spanish court declines to fine NordVPN over LaLiga piracy blocking order"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fantastic work.<p>PSA: if you still think its not the time to fight for your rights for the status quo in privacy you will come to regret it. If you are the type of person who reads this type of news and thinks: "cool the system is working, it'll sort itself out" you will come to regret it.<p>you will need to become more active or it will be taken away</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 09:46:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246289</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Parallel agents in Zed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love Zed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:30:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868898</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868898</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>made this when youtube api dropped around 2007 in flash. was called TraumTV</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:52:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369711</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I quite like this. I am your customer possibly. will bookmark</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:18:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718859</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46718859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love how you can think about any of these ideas in a really basic way like a 5 year old and you'll know intuitively that it'll all fail, particularly if you invert it:<p>for example:<p>- bureaucracy creates less bureaucracy<p>- price controls create more supply<p>- adding more rules creates more freedom<p>- government is good at understanding technology<p>- the more people you have the better your decisions will be<p>- the further someone is from a problem, the better they can solve it<p>etc</p>
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<p>I used it ! and what a hero!! thank you thank you thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:18:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45526583</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45526583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45526583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Ollama Web Search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am just working on a tool using websearch and iterating over different providers.<p>openAI, xAI, gemini all suffer from not being allowed on respective competitor sites.<p>this searched works for me with some quick tests well on YT videos, which OpenAI web search can't access. It kind of failed on X but sometimes returned ok relevant results. Definitely hit and miss but on average good</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 23:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380438</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I respect your opinion, I have children and I dont want to tell other parents what to do. please take it as an exploration of a what real necessity is and what the notion of better is in which context.<p>I fundamentally disagree that making life easy is the right thing.<p>what I am trying to say is, the feedback loop from a) forgetting something or b) the experience of missing out on something because of aspects of life that are out of ones control is so much better IMO and the phone is just 'convenient'<p>Of course that doesnt mean I prefer my child to be run over or die instead of protecting her/him or helping her/him</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:00:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846244</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43846244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>THIS is it.<p>even all the above reasons are not actual reasons. None of these are a problem. you job is NOT to bring something to school because she forgot it nor to drive her to school if the bus doesnt show up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:39:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845092</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"the correlation between quality and fame is weak at best, and that we should be suspicious of any definition of design excellence that depends on visibility."<p>everyone needs to internalize this. its similar to the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect</a>) if someone in your domain is famous but their "quality" is weak, assume by default this is true for all other type of famous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 14:20:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793863</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43793863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the biggest thread to music is the audience.<p>a machine doing any of this would be not causing a meltdown by musicians in the 80s. A punk rock band would not feel threatened by this neither would be Prince.<p>the sad truth is human output is so averaged out now, that most of it will be replaced.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792355</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43792355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "AI is turning us into glue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>these well articulated articles will soon turn into pure despair. Happened to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723256</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Kylie Minogue song about a typeface"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>great subject let down by an annoyingly weak article that focuses on memes for whatever reason.<p>another great unexpected music x font crossover is gucci mane tweeting about "Times New Roman"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:58:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476459</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "A better build system for OCaml"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>might get downvoted but all i think of when I see a Jane Street article is how much each programmer earns</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884402</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>man, I am so poor</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822835</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42822835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "Sora is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"a tool never made an artist"<p>so incredible ugly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:34:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377174</link><dc:creator>thomastraum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42377174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thomastraum in "What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the logo is one of the best ever made.</p>
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