<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: tomaytotomato</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomaytotomato</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:18:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tomaytotomato" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Raiders, refugees, bandits, people fleeing from other collapsed societies.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples</a><p>Some of the "Sea Peoples" didn't even travel by sea.<p>It's slightly funny and scary in our current year of 2026 we now have a lot of destabilizing factors along with uncontrolled immigration happening.... history might repeat?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:20:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919532</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Qxotic: AI Sovereignty for the JVM]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://qxotic.ai/">https://qxotic.ai/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752473">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752473</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:42:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://qxotic.ai/</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "OpenJev"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately huggingface.co is blocked by my company's firewall and VPN so it breaks when downloading a model.<p>Are there any huggingface mirrors out there?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:30:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752377</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whoops, fixed now</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:37:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739313</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly,<p>We need a good purge of this nonsense in the tech scene....<p>If anyone wants to setup a counter culture tech scene, reach out to me. I am an average Java engineer (I like for loops more than foreach)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738950</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More of this madness coming out of the west coast of America, in particular California.<p>The Manson family, Heaven's Gate, NXIVM, Rationalists, Zizians... what next?<p>All turn out to be rotten to the core with their need to reshape and craft their own paradigm, which then gets warped by egos, individualism and power.<p>Hate to think what other madness is brewing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738632</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am doing lots of different projects now<p>- Making a nostalgic remake of Rainbow Six Rogue Spear - called "Tango Down"<p>Its low poly, Java OpenGL game but trying to stay faithful to the old gameplay<p>- Updating my homelab setup to be much tidier, moving stuff to Ansible, dockerising non-critical services. Running scheduled backups to a separate NAS<p>- Making a World in Conflict SFX mod for Warno, so it sounds much better<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudm7JKY6gI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudm7JKY6gI</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695328</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't wait for in 10 years time to find one of these workstations on eBay selling for £100-150<p>Then I will do a video of me playing Crysis on it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:28:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656090</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Fable 5.1 World Modeling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am making a spiritual successor the Rainbow Six Rogue Spear<p>Opus has been great at building the game engine but it does struggle with world building for me.<p>Any tips welcomed!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:59:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548856</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here is an example of one of the maps from World in Conflict <a href="https://worldinconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Pine_Valley" rel="nofollow">https://worldinconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_of_Pine_Valle...</a><p>Image Link: <a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/worldinconflict/images/5/5e/WiC_Prelude_03_Map_03.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20171216215734" rel="nofollow">https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/worldinconflict/images/5/5...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374063</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Sitmap – a World in Conflict inspired map maker for Cold War scenarios]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I loved the game World in Conflict (2007)<p>One of those aspects I enjoyed was the maps shown during the loading screens. The colour choices and aesthetics were really striking and made the game even more immersive.<p>Using Claude Fable and some photoshop skills, with a few tweaks here and there. I managed to get something quite useable and probably useless to most people shipped.<p>If you enjoy maps, military, strategy etc, hopefully it is of interest to you.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374045">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374045</a></p>
<p>Points: 9</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:59:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://tomaytotomato.github.io/sitmap/</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would drop Facebook in a heartbeat but Facebook Marketplace is a strong pull for getting bargains in my local area.<p>I have alternatives like eBay and Gumtree but they have their own shortcomings.<p>Examples from Facebook:<p>- Antique lumber planks 50p a plank<p>- 4 sticks of DDR4 16GB SODIMMs, £60<p>- Garden tools, £10<p>This stuff would be slower and more expensive on eBay, and Gumtree is more of a waiting game as its userbase has definitely shrunk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272623</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "More German than many Germans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A nice read,<p>Immigration has many pulls and with that comes all sorts of immigrants whether great, average and terrible.<p>Unfortunately Western countries and bureaucracies seem to have committed the usual sin of developing processes that:<p>- make it incredibly hard for good immigrants to migrate, contribute and naturalise themselves legally.<p>- at the same time leaving lots of gaping holes of exploitation for criminals and other immigrants who are just looking for a meal ticket or to enter illegally and abuse our high trust societies.<p>Couple this with a news and media setup that optimises for covering news of bad migrants whilst hardly broadcasting news about good migrants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:05:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153118</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Firefox Containers Preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same<p>Have you figured out a way to open a specific Firefox instance using some sort of routing.<p>e.g.<p>I click on a link in my work Slack desktop app, it then routes the link to be open on my Work Firefox instance.<p>Meanwhile if I click on a YouTube link, it opens on my personal Firefox instance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:58:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046496</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bet:<p>In a years time the discussions on using CC, Opencode, Pidev etc. will be redundant as we will be building our own tooling with whatever programming language and tooling you want.<p>Some will repurpose a popular opensource tool or harness, others will build it from scratch in an hour or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:27:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978589</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Extracts of Polypore Mushroom Mycelia Reduce Viruses in Honey Bees]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842466">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842466</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out Paul Stamets' research using Mycelium to give honeybees an immuneboost.<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842464</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No idea,<p>Anyone from Anthropic here who could answer this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804959</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been using Claude code for a while and have recently migrated to Pi<p>Migrating my skills/agents and config was fairly straightforward.<p>Pi's agent harness seems to be more responsive and quicker than CC (perhaps with the prompt caching and squashing it does behind the scenes)<p>Tempted to do a write-up on migration.<p>I am only using Pi with Github Copilot as I am scared I will get my Claude account banned if I use the Oauth with Pi.<p>pi.dev</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:56:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804658</link><dc:creator>tomaytotomato</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tomaytotomato in "Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead..<p>The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group.<p>Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.<p>Try and consume news through the sources like AFP or Reuters (unfortunately not free anymore)</p>
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