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New comment by xk_id in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

xk_id — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 02:05:36 +0000

MyProtein manufactures raw protein powders without artificial flavours: soya, pea and hemp. That way you can add your own preferred/safer sweetener to the shake, or just drink them quickly raw (you can gulp down 30g of protein in under 10 seconds, it’s not a big deal). Or you can use them in certain food preparation (e.g combine with oat flour, peanut butter, water and a sweetener; make small balls that you can eat as a snack). Soy protein in particular has a creamy, silky, luxurious texture when mixed with water, very pleasant and can be a perfect substitute for custard-type desserts when sweetened, or can be used as a sauce/soup thickener.

If the craving for bullshit food (chips, candy, pasta etc) doesn’t stop, that’s either a signal for nutritional deficiency of some kind (your body is still searching for something), OR a signal that you’re not hungry enough, to eat the healthy options. I spend regularly months-long periods eating the exact same ultra-basic food every day: steamed vegetables (not even salt) and home made biscuits from grains, nuts and seeds. I don’t struggle with cravings for other foods, because all my nutrients are in there and it satiates me. If I don’t feel like eating my food, then I wait until I’m hungry enough to want it. My diet is extreme, but it proves a point.

New comment by xk_id in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

xk_id — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:17:41 +0000

Just drink protein shakes? There are soy protein ones that are completely inoffensive and pea protein which isn’t tasty but much cheaper. Do professional athletes actually eat only meat to meet their protein requirements? Because even if you’re not a vegan I imagine that amount of meat every day gets pretty gross.

New comment by xk_id in "DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results"

xk_id — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:04:14 +0000

I don’t really get the Pinterest hate, but from what I understand it’s because their walled garden content came up in web search results. Anyway I’ve been using their app for over a decade. It’s the best place on the internet to explore visual art. The content is manually curated by users and the feed/recommendation algorithms are super good. It’s got very few and inoffensive ads too. The only issue with it is now the occasional AI content.

New comment by xk_id in "Perfume reviews"

xk_id — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:01:32 +0000

There’s Chinese analytical labs which identify the fragrance molecules in a perfume. You just have to send them a sample. The caveat is if the perfume used natural oils or captive materials; then the lab won’t be able to identify everything. There are also leaks of formulas that are circulated in perfumery circles; many famous perfumes are already known. Anyway you can then purchase the individual materials and recreate the perfume.

New comment by xk_id in "How I Use Kagi"

xk_id — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:45:54 +0000

It’s so strange to me that I’m now using Google maybe a couple times a month (and then only through a proxy like Mullvad’s leta). This would have been inconceivable 15, even 10 years ago. I don’t want to get too philosophical, but wow, how times change.

New comment by xk_id in "How I Use Kagi"

xk_id — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:41:16 +0000

That doesn’t mean DDG is anything special, only that Google has become incredibly bad.

New comment by xk_id in "Kite News"

xk_id — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:38:46 +0000

I’d call this performative news consumption. Information overload is mainly a result of legitimate complexities in the world. It took only a little while to find in today’s item about Hamas a timeline describing October 7th as “the beginning of the current conflict”. A very neat and comfortable summarisation, that also happens to be vehemently rejected by many people. It’s very silly.

New comment by xk_id in "I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models"

xk_id — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:55:57 +0000

Except Apple has a country’s worth of users, whose livelihoods are reliant on them. The “state democracy” is right now more subordinated to tech oligarchies, than vice versa.

New comment by xk_id in "How I use my terminal"

xk_id — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:18:03 +0000

Vim existed before Jetbrains IDEs. It’s also much more general. I use Vim to write literary works and manage my knowledge base. There was also a guy who was using Vim as his IRC client. Vim can be the only program you need for editing text, which turns out is most of what we do on a computer. It’s nice to have a single tool for this, that never resists when you try to adapt it. Vim is actually a great example of the practicality of a good philosophy.

Edit: I doubt there’s any feature in the more specialised editors, which you can’t also get from Vim.

New comment by xk_id in "Drones will realize the promise of suicide terrorism"

xk_id — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:02:17 +0000

Naomi Klein’s article in the guardian

New comment by xk_id in "Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul"

xk_id — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:40:06 +0000

Exactly, and there’s no wording I can imagine coming from the manager who requested this, which wouldn’t make it sound like the plain abuse that it is. But the guys who obeyed the manager and implemented it didn’t care. The mentality of parasites.

New comment by xk_id in "Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul"

xk_id — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:19:00 +0000

They literally pay engineers to come up with crazy grey hat techniques to monitor people’s online activity. And those scumbags are probably HN users. It’s sinister. I wonder about the wording used by the manager behind it. It probably sounded plain evil and nobody who worked on it cared. It makes you wonder what else those parasites do that we haven’t discovered yet.

New comment by xk_id in "Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window""

xk_id — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:09:07 +0000

Against site rules to post generative text

New comment by xk_id in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

xk_id — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:28:07 +0000

Simply put, if we’re living during such a major technological revolution, why does using software suck in such disastrous ways that were unthinkable even ten years ago?

New comment by xk_id in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

xk_id — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:18:02 +0000

It actually varies by segment. The least technical people are enthusiastic about AI. The moderately technical (e.g tech hobbyists, artists and power users) are repulsed. The segment of tech professionals are themselves divided, but I think based on how much they like/hate their career as programmers. Either way, what’s very different about this AI bubble is that the early adopters are predominantly the least technical users. This is a notable inversion of the typical adoption curve.

New comment by xk_id in "Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster"

xk_id — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:42:43 +0000

My guess is it’s probably due to AI assistants/vibe coding.

NFT Marketplaces Attempt to Regain Relevance with Token Trading

xk_id — Sat, 31 May 2025 19:11:12 +0000

Article URL: https://thedefiant.io/newsletter/defi-daily/nft-marketplace-pivot-shows-nfts-are-really-dead-

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44146346

Points: 2

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New comment by xk_id in "Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins"

xk_id — Wed, 28 May 2025 03:56:22 +0000

The transition from assembly to C was to a different layer of abstraction within the same context of deterministic computation. The transition from programming to LLM prompting is to a qualitatively different context, because the process is no longer deterministic, nor debuggable. So your analogy fails to apply in a meaningful way to this situation.

New comment by xk_id in "US pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls expanding social media vetting"

xk_id — Wed, 28 May 2025 01:36:40 +0000

Would you say this comment needed major changes, in order for a MAGA supporter to feel that it is applicable against his own political adversaries?

New comment by xk_id in "Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives"

xk_id — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:02:34 +0000

The elephant in the room is actually one American company having unencrypted access to global internet traffic.