<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: xirdstl</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xirdstl</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:43:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xirdstl" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Biden was in power for the survey in 2024.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571667</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is probably the more likely scenario.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:10:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541782</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are two conflicting messages here: AI is ruining the Internet, but also now the relationship with the Internet is more "peaceful".<p>A more peaceful relationship with the internet does sound good, and most of us probably waste too much time with social media in some form (including here).<p>My "optimistic" take on this is that AI will ruin the Internet and cause us all to spend more time with people in real life. And maybe that's a good thing.<p>That's assuming that AI Internet slop is such a turn-off that most of us will decide to disengage from it, which is a big assumption. But I did say it was optimistic.</p>
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<p>They don't claim that's 2.5M cancellations of paid subscriptions. It's "taken action". It's vague for a reason</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:30:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241810</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Merlin Bird ID"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is amazing, but it does often give false positives. That probably can't be avoided, though</p>
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<p>They realized that and were pleased with themselves.<p>> The dashes do remove easy double-click copying, but we think this a fine trade off for readability.  We don't want users copying and pasting them everywhere, in fact we want them to be handled with care. Ideally, users copy each key exactly once - when they generate the key from our dashboard - so we added a copy button to our UI to solve that case<p>Don't even think about copying/pasting that key, you rube!</p>
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<p>Could almost call it a staple of Sierra games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:12:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760361</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "The Coffee Machine Hiring Test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I look forward to the next couple posts in this series: The Leaky Faucet Test and The Clogged Toilet Test.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217217</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41217217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "More doctors are charging fees to respond to patient messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're in the US, and can afford it, I think direct primary care is the way to go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 21:26:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646689</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39646689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Show HN: Qwertle, yet another daily word game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn’t track streaks correctly. I have solved for the last 8 days. It shows 100% correct, but my current streak is 1 and longest streak 3</p>
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<p>Great question. Something like you suggest could help. I definitely think it's possible to do better, because some of the apps have a lot fewer fake profiles/scammers compared to say, Tinder.<p>I think there isn't enough incentive for some of them (again, Tinder) to bother.  If enough people stop using them, maybe they will incentivized to do better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:34:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38163937</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38163937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38163937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Dating apps lose their luster with college students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you pay to subscribe, that does nothing to help with scammers, I promise you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2023 14:07:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162739</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With, of course, the minters of that coin taking the majority of the claims 
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 02:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123721</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you looked at the RAZ Memory Cell Phone? I've been considering that for my mom, who also has early stage dementia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:29:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907534</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the kind of thing that will be pointed to as a reason to bring employees back into the office. So much so, that it's hard to believe it's real.<p>If you are applauding these guys while maintaining that being forced into the office is a crime against humanity, you may want to do some introspection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:58:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37228445</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37228445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37228445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Cruise vehicle gets stuck in wet concrete while driving in San Francisco"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same happened to me using Brave on desktop</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161407</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37161407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Substack Notes Launched"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the other hand, I have a quite positive opinion of Substack given the articles I read there, and I know I'm not alone.<p>I don't like Twitter though, so I don't really care about Notes</p>
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<p>That only difference is an extremely important difference</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514971</link><dc:creator>xirdstl</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35514971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xirdstl in "Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's good to know. I'm hoping those conditions don't come back here for awhile.<p>Getting into spring, I could see more people start looking again, with some pent-up demand not met from last year.</p>
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<p>That must be specific to your market. That's not what I'm seeing in the Denver area, speaking as someone who has been casually looking for a house for over a year.<p>As soon as interest rates started rising, conditions went from what you describe, to, in a lot of cases, houses sitting weeks or months on the market. They go through, sometimes, multiple prices drops before going under contract.<p>I'm speaking specifically of homes that are in the range of those I'm considering purchasing, so maybe it doesn't apply to the overall market. For me, though, it is now much more of a buyer's market than it was a year ago.</p>
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