<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: witherk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=witherk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:54:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=witherk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Animated Knots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems to be a nice, handmade, thoughtful collection. Things like being able to flip the images is a nice touch.<p>However, name "animated" will only lead to disappointment for people finding slide shows of humans. This is basically the same kind of that a Boy Scout handbook provides.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:39:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907533</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Vcad: Free BRep CAD in the Browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice UI. Pretty cool to see a CAD program in the browser, without even an annoying login to try screen. On the other hands it seems to be pretty choppy and I was visual artifacts about 5 seconds into the tutorial. I got the same artifacts in Zen and Chrome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:42:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828192</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>he's a real Dr.<p>Careful, he is also a believer in Ayurveda[1]. Which basically basically categorizes people into different elements like fire and water and then tries to change their diet and habits to match their elemental style or something. You can hear him talking about it here [2]. Kinda reminds me of Humorism [3]. Dr. K seems like a nice enough guy but don't get too lured in by the "Harvard-trained" credentialism.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ2xnThRGPg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ2xnThRGPg</a>
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814776</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Show HN: Shellock, a real-time CLI flag explainer for fish shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice, I tried looking for something like this but never found anything. Glad to see someone working on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:20:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586464</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a question of magnitude. Do you think that over-regulation of specific technologies is possible?<p>If the price of building stairs was growing each year in only the west to the point were we were opening one staircase 5 every years, it might be worth to ask some companies why. If they all say "the last guy who built stairs got bogged down for 25 years trying to meet all the safety standards". It might be time to relax some of them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:05:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579418</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46579418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends on what you consider the goal to be. If the goal is bring a hamburger and person to the same location. It doesn't really matter which is in the car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:22:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615925</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's just ease of use. I tried to make a mastodon account  early into the xitter takeover. I spent probably half an hour trying to make a account before I decided if it was gonna take me this long that there was no way it would ever catch on anyway so I should just give up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719359</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being able to compile to different hardware including GPUs and TPUs seems to be one of the core goals of Mojo based off what Chris Lattner was saying in his Lex Friendman interview. It doesn't seem to come up much on Modular website though, so I can see why you would think that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40395094</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40395094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40395094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Cameras are a tool of captial to fuck over human portrait artists"<p>It's funny that these people use the langauge of communism, but apparently see artwork as purley an economic activity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:35:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39068573</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39068573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39068573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Why Can't Italy's Economy Get into Gear? Consider the Taxi Line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really think the differnce between an economy that grows by 2% a year and economy that is consitently getting poorer, is analogous to a difference in taste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 06:58:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779727</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems that we are assuming that net number of refugees is greater because of US action. I have no idea how this calculus is done though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:36:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594220</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "EU strikes deal to regulate ChatGPT, AI tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, yeah. Now they are. Obama was begging the EU to take this seriously back in 2014.<p>"Our people and our homeland face no direct threat from the invasion of Crimea. Our own borders are not threatened by Russia’s annexation. But that kind of casual indifference would ignore the lessons that are written in the cemeteries of this continent. " - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeLAQ3wBIs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeLAQ3wBIs</a><p>I applaud Germany for weaning itself off Russian oil, but it's kinda weird that America seemed to be a lot more alert to this threat than the EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:33:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594193</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38594193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if a langauge could be built from the ground up with LLMs in mind. Are there any language design decisions that would lead to better LLM code?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 03:00:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504395</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Hardware Reverse Oscilloscope 2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The sound of the synth was so much louder than his voice that the video gave me a low grade headache.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:35:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646602</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Teaching with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really? Granted LLMs might be a little weaker in physics than other areas. If someone figures out get LLMs to use a mathmatica API, and train it some more I can imagine some rapid progress.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:17:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342341</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37342341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>looooool</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617734</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Vocaloid 6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure there will always be music made with varying levels technology. Seems like it will always be the case that any technology past that made in one's childhood will be the cutoff for some people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:37:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550155</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Alien Truth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Math isn't choosing which axioms to use, is finding the consequences of a given set.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:18:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33249752</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33249752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33249752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "School vs. Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have definitely seen some bad science promoted for trans rights. But I don't really think "science" tells us what a women is, that's a social issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:33:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125889</link><dc:creator>witherk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33125889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by witherk in "Can the American mall survive?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>God I hope this is the way. I think this is happening to some degree, but malls also seem to have grown into the niche of selling veblen goods. I swear half of the floorspace seems to be jewelry stores.</p>
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