<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: transcriptase</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=transcriptase</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:35:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=transcriptase" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>aka electron</p>
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<p>There are iirc some good write ups from years ago by employees at Blizzard about these things and why “spinning up more servers” wouldn’t suddenly let millions of people login to games simultaneously on launch days.</p>
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<p>Great way to end up on the no-sloth list</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:31:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344705</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting that an entirely true comment has been removed via flagging. I not only helped write grants during the peak of that trend, but reviewed applications where I was expected to evaluate how other applicants satisfied those priorities of the funding body.</p>
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<p>I can’t even bring myself to explain how wrong this person is.</p>
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<p>Yes in much the same way you can literally build a rocket and go to the moon.<p>You may be skipping a few of the involved steps.</p>
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<p>Real missed opportunity before this all got out of control to simply bundle everything needed in a single file and give it an extension that tells the OS its executable.<p>We could call it a .exe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:24:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271306</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are bullshit jobs.<p>If you want to evaluate danger in a certain domain, hire or contract people in that domain to evaluate.<p>If you want someone to push their own ideological leanings onto a model, hire a self proclaimed ethicist.</p>
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<p>Exactly. It’s no surprise that people just blindly hit accept on permission prompts after the 80th time Claude code asks if it’s allowed to read-only parse a csv.</p>
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<p>Another heaping portion of words from a company that has Fable flag a “safety issue” and refuse to answer if you innocuously request something readily answered by a high school chemistry/biology/physics textbook.</p>
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<p>This must be similar to what seemingly every documentary on Netflix uses in all their editing when showing any sort of footage taken more than 5 years ago.<p>Some show will be showing a clip of an interview recorded in 2020, and for some reason it’s edited to appear to be a poorly-stored VHS when the original was almost certainly a 1080p or 4K digital recording.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:14:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237710</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let’s not forget the fact that despite their new market cap and being the beneficiary of having a near monopoly on making incredibly complex pickaxes during a gold rush… Nvidia is still the company with a long and consistent history of misleading their customers via marketing. Their greatest hits include:<p>- The digital equivalent of the VW emissions scandal where drivers detected when they were being benchmarked and altering rendering for better results<p>- Selling GPUs as having 4gb vram when it was only 3.5gb usable, the remaining 0.5 being absurdly slower and causing performance loss when used<p>- Using intentionally misleading naming schemes to obfuscate things like memory bus width being drastically different between what superficially appeared to be similarly spec’d cards<p>A dozen other less egregious but similarly disingenuous decisions<p>But to be clear, I’m a huge fan and continue to run Nvidia because their products are generally incredible regardless</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190781</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. And how many onedrive exes randomly fire off throughout the day despite having never once used it. And how onedrive changes its version number every day when it realizes it can’t connect.</p>
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<p>how’s your mandarin?</p>
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<p>“By virtue of being the good people everything we do is good, and if it happens to be in our best personal and financial interest then that is good too because it enables us to do more good. And if it’s to the detriment to others then it’s because you don’t understand the good behind it. Which is fine, because we’re good and you can trust that what we do is good because what we do is good by virtue of us being the good ones.”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:47:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076512</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "What does GitHub's security team even do?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’ll often find that problems aren’t solved by the people who would find themselves out of work if they solved them.</p>
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<p>I still can’t believe that an advertising company was able to effectively neuter ad/content blocking for 80% of the world under the guise of wholly invented safety issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:49:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048620</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048620</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That went live about a decade ago. Heck, a lot of the people who built it and maintain it are here on HN, each getting paid so well and contributing only so little that if they can even admit it to themselves, they would never do it publicly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040031</link><dc:creator>transcriptase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by transcriptase in "Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have this idea of turning a LLM into a Minecraft world, even if just a massive cube where blocks represent weights or groups of weights. You can chat with the LLM while simultaneously being able to destroy it slowly.<p>I have no idea whether this is possible or what the result would be after enough blocks or sections were broken or TNTd, but it would make an interesting art project if at all feasible.</p>
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<p>It’s July, you won’t get a response from any European for at least another month</p>
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