<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: xdennis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xdennis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:49:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xdennis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd rather have OpenAI steal from Apple, the most valuable company in the world than to steal from everyone else: published books, StackOverflow users, Reddit comments I made 15 years ago, etc.<p>I have no sympathy at all for Apple in this case. Jobs didn't have any sympathy for Xerox when he stole from them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176254</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Microsoft stole my copy of Minecraft.<p>Microsoft stole two of my accounts.<p>I bought Minecraft in the alpha days when all you needed was a username and password. At some point they mandated an email in the years I wasn't playing and later found out I could no longer sign in.<p>I bought a new "copy" and lost it because I didn't migrate to a Microsoft account. I didn't migrate because I assumed it was just a scare tactic and I wasn't playing at the time anyway. When I later wanted to play they stopped allowing me to log in.<p>When I look at the top selling games[1] and see Minecraft in second place with 400 million, I wonder how many of those are the same people buying it again. I'm sure nobody bought Super Mario because it would stop letting them sign in to play offline.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_gam...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172060</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We are not in the business of mass massacres.<p>Ridiculous take. Defense is not a massacre. They are almost all fighting age men, and they outnumber the fighting age men of Ceuta. They've caused enourmous damage to Ceuta. All of this could have been prevented if there were men with guns guarding those walls.<p>During Franco, Ceuta was guarded by a 1 meter tall fence made of barbed wire. No one dared to cross it because they knew what would happen if they invaded.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:28:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138669</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Google has abandoned Google News?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What's with big tech companies changing all searches to be fuzzy?<p>Probably because it maximizes usage time, so more ads are served.<p>If the user gets what he's looking for as the first result, he spends hardly any time on the site. If the site never delivers the right results, the user will stop using.<p>Optimal enshitification happens when the user spends as much time as possible without forcing him to quit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:13:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138560</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No it's not. Americans call it that and they don't even like football.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118448</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also Reddit-style humorous replies were frowned upon because they ruin serious discussion and encourage karma chasing as opposed to providing valuable insight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:54:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093239</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People don't remember now, but in the old HN comments like "this is so true honestly" would have been downvoted. If a comment just agrees with the parent, people would have said that's what the upvote button is for. Adding a "I agree" comment is just noise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:40:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093162</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Who said it was evidence? Did a judge authorize or issue a warrant to collect said evidence? Absent that, it's just your property, and you can do with it as you please.<p>Why do people go sovereign citizen when reality doesn't work their way? Stop imagining that the way you want things to be is the way things really are.<p>Cops do not need a judge to authorize the seizing of evidence. Cops do not need judges to decide what evidence is. Tell me, why did you just pretend like these are real requirements? I can understand why you'd want it to be that, but you wanting it to be that doesn't change reality.<p>It's as if you've just learned about the Fourth Amendment but know nothing about the nuance behind it.<p>Your system wouldn't even work at all. Let's imagine the cops get a tip that a bald man with a blue tshirt shot a man. They patrol the streets and find a match. By your logic they should not have the ability to search the man and seize his gun as evidence until a judge issues a warrant.</p>
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<p>How is that in any way equivalent? The American government/legislature doesn't force you to adopt any particular view of the 2020 election. You can say Biden won or you can say it was defrauded by dead people and Trump actually won.<p>You're allowed to say either one and you can train an LLM to say either one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051841</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "I Stopped “Creating Content”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're not an English speaker, it's even more aggravating when speakers of your language replace common words with English ones to sound more sophisticated/corporate. So instead of using the native word for "knowledge", they'd use "know-how". (Of course using more common words like "knowledge" or "skill" are not good enough, you need something that sounds more sophisticated to the foreign ear, like "know-how".)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990570</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, I didn't expect to see transsexual steps in front of a church.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:14:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987980</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "Designing emoji for the way we communicate today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their priorities are all messed up. There are 12 emojis for pregnant non-women: 6 shades of pregnant men and 6 shades of pregnant non-binaries.<p>But there's no emoji for things you do need, like pouting face (you're forced to use enraged face which is too strong).</p>
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<p>> Considering YC invests in AI I doubt you’ll get anything of the sort.<p>Conspiracy minded responses are low value, and yours is especially so considering HN bans AI comments.</p>
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<p>What's even worse is when you go though such PRs and your comments are handled in minutes, with replies explaining the change with perfect spelling and em dashes. At which point you ask yourself: "What am I doing here? His agent wrote the entire thing, and now I'm going through it and telling his agent what to fix. Why is he even needed?"<p>Or even, even worse is when you get a PR from a co-worker, you spend a lot of time explaining why that's bad idea, only for the person to say "Sorry, my openclaw/etc posted that. I'll close it." Or even the opposite, you tell a co-worker: "Hey, it was a great idea to change X." and he says "X? What is X?... Oh that must have been my agent."</p>
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<p>A country is not a contract, it's a culture.<p>It's quite audacious to want to be part of a country, but also to be so quarantined from them as to not even want to learn their language.</p>
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<p>> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme.<p>This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary" is very hard to parse.</p>
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<p>It's all about what you actually care.<p>Piracy helps people who can't afford to pay or have no way of acquiring legally.<p>LLM training helps megacorps replace people.<p>If you side with common people against megacorops, you're okay with piracy and against LLM training on copyrighted works.</p>
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<p>> And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization".<p>It is.[1] Perhaps you mean it's not a statutory Foreign Terrorist Organization, like Al-Qaida or Hamas. That is a harsher designation, but that's not possible for Antifa because it's not foreign.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:18:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740011</link><dc:creator>xdennis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xdennis in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why the scare quotes? Are you denying he was a cop?</p>
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<p>> A sentence of 30 years in prison for obstructing an investigation is excessive<p>Being excessive is the point. It's to deter others from trying to copy their actions.</p>
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