Hacker News: xenospn

New comment by xenospn in "Artemis II Live Tracker – Real-Time NASA Mission Telemetry"

xenospn — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:16:45 +0000

Yes, most vibe coded terminals/apps/dashboards have a very similar look.

New comment by xenospn in "Detroit tries new approach to attract residents: free cash ($15K)"

xenospn — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:15:41 +0000

Just stay away from Barbary St.

New comment by xenospn in "Try Living in Cape Town, Where 70% of Downtown Housing Is for Tourists"

xenospn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:13:52 +0000

Seems like a very easy fix to limit short term rentals. Many other cities have done so successfully.

New comment by xenospn in "Model Collapse Is Happening, We Just Pretend It Isn't"

xenospn — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:25:03 +0000

Humanity can’t possibly produce enough clean data at this rate. Not happening.

New comment by xenospn in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

xenospn — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:09:26 +0000

It’s not exactly a secret that farmers are highly subsidized and without it beef would be extremely expensive. Same in every country, pretty much.

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xenospn — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:27:30 +0000

Two things: bots trying to push contrasting viewpoint and obvious propaganda, and mods not removing political posts immediately.

New comment by xenospn in "Nile fisherman earning more from collecting plastic than fish"

xenospn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:35:52 +0000

I believe it. There’s a ludicrous amount of garbage piled up all over Cairo, I think people like him can make a good living.

New comment by xenospn in "Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US"

xenospn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:33:11 +0000

This is as discriminatory as choosing strawberry ice cream over chocolate. To say, not at all.

New comment by xenospn in "Global Stocks Sink as Oil Prices Surge"

xenospn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:30:04 +0000

Only if you sell your entire portfolio on the day you retire.

New comment by xenospn in "Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US"

xenospn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:29:19 +0000

That might be tough - I remember having plenty of women drivers back in 2012 when uber and Lyft just got started. These days they’re extremely rare.

New comment by xenospn in "Global Stocks Sink as Oil Prices Surge"

xenospn — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:03:29 +0000

Cheap stocks. Nothing wrong with that! Just keep on buying index funds and you’ll do just fine.

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xenospn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:12:45 +0000

Occam’s razor suggests they’re simply lying.

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xenospn — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:50:17 +0000

How exactly can people tell they’re being “googled in Israel”?

New comment by xenospn in "Israel Spent Years Hacking Tehran Traffic Cameras to Track Khamenei"

xenospn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:02:22 +0000

If you think every nation isn’t doing it to every other nation, constantly, I have a bridge to sell you (cheap!).

New comment by xenospn in ""Clothing-as-a-Service" startup charged with $300M fraud (2025)"

xenospn — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:52:22 +0000

40-under-40. They always are.

New comment by xenospn in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

xenospn — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:55:17 +0000

I was there 20 years ago and it was ~500km/h, if I remember correctly.

New comment by xenospn in "Three US fighter jets shot down in 'friendly fire' in Kuwait"

xenospn — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:48:45 +0000

I would absolutely not be smiling like that if my plane just got shot down. Nerves of steel!

New comment by xenospn in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

xenospn — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:46:41 +0000

This reminds me of a quote I heard earlier this week - “if they’re brown, it’s culture. If they’re white, it’s genocide”

New comment by xenospn in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

xenospn — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:32:08 +0000

Nothing personally - Our customers send us highly sensitive financial documents to process. Using a foreign model to process their data (or even just for local testing) will most likely result in a u-turn.

New comment by xenospn in "[dead]"

xenospn — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:29:29 +0000

Account created four minutes ago. I think the IRGC just left Claude code on a loop today.