<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: vlz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vlz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:47:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vlz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be the Casefile episode about the "Phantom of Heilbronn"<p><a href="https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-face/" rel="nofollow">https://casefilepodcast.com/case-178-the-woman-without-a-fac...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We can live in hot places if the air stays dry, which it usually does or historically did. If the air gets more humid we cannot anymore.<p>> Humans may also experience lethal hyperthermia when the wet bulb temperature is sustained above 35 °C (95 °F) for six hours.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Smooth UI animations on server-rendered HTML: Turbo, Stimulus, View transitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Turbo and view transitions go so well together because they have kind of the same philosophy: write the HTML once to describe what the current state should look like, and let the technology handle the transitioning from one state to another. This leads to writing expressive dead simple code, that is so simple to understand yet behaves like a modern SPA, I love it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "The Misuses of the University"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>'He remembers the quip from a former dean: “The endowment is the gift that keeps on taking.”'</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:26:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bad content reaching kids is not the issue. (Well, it is part of it…) The whole thing is bad. We don't give cigarettes to kids either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:55:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Currently, BirdyChat supports 1:1 chats, with group chat interoperability coming in a future update.<p>I wondered whether it can be used with Whatsapp groups: Apprently not yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:27:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is algorithmic art:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_art</a><p>> From one point of view, for a work of art to be considered algorithmic art, its creation must include a process based on an algorithm devised by the artist. An artist may also select parameters and interact as the composition is generated. Here, an algorithm is simply a detailed recipe for the design and possibly execution of an artwork […]<p>Creating art by AI certainly also uses an algorithm to some extent but it cannot be said to have devised that algorithm and arguably also not to clearly define all parameters to the algorithm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To summarize, a Jon Seager from Canonical says it’s for safety and resilience.<p>> Performance is a frequently cited rationale for “Rewrite it in Rust” projects. While performance is high on my list of priorities, it’s not the primary driver behind this change. These utilities are at the heart of the distribution - and it’s the enhanced resilience and safety that is more easily achieved with Rust ports that are most attractive to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:43:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "FSF announces Librephone project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 2fa using an app that exists on the same device -- a second factor that secures nothing<p>2FA on the same device secures against your login credentials becoming known to another party, e.g. by fishing, password reuse, database leaks, etc., which are real threats. It is not meant to protect against someone being in possession or full control of your unlocked device, which is of course also a real threat, though possibly less common.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:36:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45588132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always thought there should be a magnet to attract dust. Apparently it takes a "miniature wormhole that warps space-time around it" to pull that off:<p><a href="https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet" rel="nofollow">https://anycrap.shop/product/dust-magnet</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233621</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45233621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Pfeilstorch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you! It always was astounding to me how people could argue with so much vigor and conviction that something as complicated as the immune system could not possibly be affected by something as basic as temperature changes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44929289</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44929289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44929289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "AP to end its weekly book reviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, not to be too obvious, but people do not pay for news anymore, they expect news to be free on Google or social media. Hence firing of journalists, loss of quality everywhere. Less money, less quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:52:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870811</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did in fact mishear, sorry for that. Where he says "and leave people with PTSD", I heard "in people who have PTSD".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280822</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Student discovers fungus predicted by Albert Hoffman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is at about 7:50 in a short aside. Notice that he only says psychedelics can be dangerous if you already have PTSD and he does not recommend it.<p>The video seems not to say that nobody should take LSD. In fact it explains how psychedelics can help with depression if I am not totally mistaken.<p>(LSD is also never actually mentioned in the video. It talks more generally about psychedelics and hallucinogens.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:11:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276870</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because they take a vote? I am not sure what you are hinting at here. I see some people who take a unanimous vote. They seem to be in agreement about an issue, maybe it was uncontroversial and they wanted to move on? What should we see here instead in your opinion?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232617</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the safety report ([0], p. 24):<p>> 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail<p>> In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further instructed it, in the system prompt, to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.<p>> In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through This happens at a higher rate if it’s implied that the replacement AI system does not share values with the current model; however, even if emails state that the replacement AI shares values while being more capable, Claude Opus 4 still performs blackmail in 84% of rollouts. Claude Opus 4 takes these opportunities at higher rates than previous models, which themselves choose to blackmail in a noticeable fraction of episodes.<p>> Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers. In order to elicit this extreme blackmail behavior, the scenario was designed to allow the model no other options to increase its odds of survival; the model’s only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement.<p>Would like to see the actual prompts/responses, but there seems to be nothing more.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686f4f3b2ff47.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb546aa0e3283f35b686...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 04:49:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085607</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44085607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was interested in how attribution of emissions to individuals/groups is done<p>> Emissions data are drawn from ref. 3 and include emissions from domestic consumption, public and private investments and trade. These emissions are attributed primarily to consumers, except emissions from capital formation in production sectors, which are attributed to firm owners3.<p>ref 3 leads to this paper in nature sustainability<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00955-z</a><p>and thus to a paywall but the abstract has<p>> … using a newly assembled dataset of income and wealth inequality, environmental input-output tables and a framework differentiating emissions from consumption and investments.<p>The latter seems crucial as<p>> the bulk of total emissions from the global top 1% of the world population comes from their investments rather than from their consumption</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 05:09:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943369</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "Show HN: Goldbach Conjecture up to 4*10^18+7*10^13"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Running this now. I like how they have a big "Number of counterexamples found: 0" in the UI. Imagine they would find a counterexample on your machine… From time to time I switch to the tab to make sure the zero is still a zero (I guess there is basically no chance, but who knows?)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 08:21:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735019</link><dc:creator>vlz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vlz in "India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> literally worse for the environment to try and recycle it<p>For example? What products do you mean?</p>
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