<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: xerox13ster</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xerox13ster</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:17:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xerox13ster" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I drink, sugar-free Red Bull and monster ultra.<p>They are consistent. They are cold. They are fast.<p>There is none of the variation that you have in a single cup of coffee.<p>The preparation process is pulling a tab. No French press, no aero press, no coffee maker, scale, grinder, bags.<p>They don’t warm me up, I don’t have to cool them down.<p>I can carry them with me and drink them when I feel like drinking them without needing to worry about them leaking.<p>They don’t stain clothes. Or teeth (but they do eat them)<p>They lack the biological enzyme that coffee has that causes you to rush to the toilet. Any bowel effect is purely from the caffeine and not the passengers that come along in coffee.<p>I like the colors and designs.<p>I don’t have to feel like I’m participating in massive Third World exploitation to enjoy caffeine.<p>Black coffee tastes bad, so it requires milk and sugar, but I like to avoid drinking my calories.<p>The powdered fast stuff taste like shit.<p>You never know what beans public places are using and if you’re even getting enough caffeine for your needs.<p><jk> Coffee doesn’t give you wings. </jk></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:01:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125793</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People using these are about to develop some pretty interesting accents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100780</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turing Complete taught me how to build a computer and how assembly programming works to the point that I was able to “hackerman” a trivial program on my own ISA in binary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075548</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49075548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you expound more on what you mean by that? The phrase resonated and I want to know more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059385</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It also confuses stochastic models with the geometric transforms and topological folding and expansion performed by neural-inspired architectures.<p>It sounds like you are confused here. That geometric transformation and topological folding and expansion is what generates the stochastic model.<p>They are one and the same. You’re taking for granted based on stochastic text output that an inert geological substrate is conscious, cognitive, and living. Inert means lacking the ability or strength to move. They cannot move or modify themselves, and if you want to point out robotics or automated system systems, it required us, actual living beings, to outfit them with motors.<p>You have AI psychosis. Go to sleep.</p>
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<p>Respectfully, and for the pun: all of those are as ass as IANAL.<p>I don’t understand what is wrong with NAL/NLA not a lawyer/not legal advice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938536</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The actual extraction is done with a wizard. Sure you can navigate in and out of the file, but if you want it to all come out, you need to right click and extract all which brings up a wizard with multiple steps.<p>On Linux in the file explorers, there is a right click context menu that just dumps them into a folder or not right there, no wizard, no extra pop-ups or anything.<p>If you want that experience on windows, you have to download 7zip or winrar and navigate to a nested context menu item.<p>Windows _is_ stuck in the 90s on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848658</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I want to meet Gareth. I’m that person in day to day life. I can’t make it a day without going on one of these rants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:20:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848396</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Resetting Xbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You get efficiency by hunting down and eliminating inefficiency, redeploying the resources elsewhere<p>Plants do this. What’s it got to do with capitalism?</p>
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<p>They didn’t edit it. This part is what I’m referencing and read as an obvious reference to circumcision:<p>> If kids remember, we could not do surgeries without anastesia on new borns, and could not marinate open wound in filthy diapers!<p>What other surgery is commonly performed sans anesthesia on newborns and also generates as they so eloquently put it -a wound that marinates in filthy diapers-?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:56:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716618</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody consented to this conversation about very early memories being made about male genital mutilation.<p>An MRA failing to understand consent when they have an opportunity to make something about MGM in spite of being a “big fan”? what a shocker.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6a32f955-89f0-83e8-a487-ec4d1083a376">https://chatgpt.com/share/6a32f955-89f0-83e8-a487-ec4d1083a376</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575841">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575841</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:46:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://chatgpt.com/share/6a32f955-89f0-83e8-a487-ec4d1083a376</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, not affiliated with Vivaldi. Just been loyally using them since the alpha bc they posted here about being The Real Opera’s Phoenix, aka its spiritual successor made by a band of Opera employees that Jerry McGuire’d. I watched the movie for the first time because of this browser.<p>They do built in Adblock that keeps up in the YT arms race. If they’re losing and I get an ad I restart the browser and we’re winning again.<p>It does lack elemental control of the DOM to manipulate pages on the user chrome, but dev tools is there. Though there are some CSS rendering options in a drop down like inverted colors and sepia and such. You can screenshot any page section with its screenshot tool.<p>Video controls can be shown on any image/video element with a right click.<p>Incredibly configurable. It offers email, RSS feeds, profiles. Exposed and granular user privacy controls in the settings window.<p>Its open image in new tab is pretty consistent, though some sites pull all the tricks and it’s just impossible to get the image (looking at you Reddit)<p>Their business model is a cookie swap on purchases made through their built in speed dial options. That doesn’t happen if you don’t click on them directly.<p>They could honestly stand to be fully transparent about that in the browser UI in the wake of Honey. I for one would love a popup that says “using this link sets us as the affiliate for this purchase. Thank you for supporting the development of your Vivaldi browser”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:43:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557049</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Postgres by Example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as you know, but if you’re starting, how do you know?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488437</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Postgres by Example"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is from the same org behind that AI generated Zig by Example repo the other day.<p>Hard pass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479827</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I've always found it annoying that browsers autoplay animated images, and there still isn't a built-in way to control that behavior.<p>When I first started daily driving Linux in 2011, this was the default behavior of konqueror, Firefox, librewolf, and opera.<p>I would have to set a flag in the software to get it to autoplay videos and gifs. They would just load with a warning message in the render space that said click to load auto play video.<p>Not surprised that it’s gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:30:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464353</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They want the future setting of Unanimity in Cloud Atlas. Even that might be too much of an underclass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:06:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463948</link><dc:creator>xerox13ster</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xerox13ster in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Noting the existence of the small minded state does not imply blame or lay blame with those who exude that state.<p>The opposite is stated in the comment: “People are groomed and programmed”.<p>You’re revealing yourself. No one said they were at fault but you.</p>
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<p>Am I a mirror?</p>
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<p>ok then.<p>Malformed Software. or, malware.</p>
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