<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: xkbarkar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xkbarkar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:32:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xkbarkar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Willingness to look stupid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best teams are the ones where “stupid” questions are always alowed.<p>The worst ones are the teams where members treat everyone as stupid<p>The absolute best will generate a creative discussion around a “stupid” question.<p>The absolute worst will deliberately mislead collegues to make them look stupid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:05:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365468</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eh. This is pointless.<p>There will always be at least one country that has not rules and everyone will vpn there.<p>Danish minister was about to solve that nut airing ideas of banning vpn  ( was of course dropped, most politicians have zero technical skills, not even rudimentary ones).<p>Of course this is all to protect the children.<p>I am unscientifically convinced that the average 12 year old is more technically apt that the entire adult governmental body of north europe.<p>If the will is there, they will circumevent it and the only outcome was another pointless level of buerocracy  that is impossible to enforce.<p>target the algorithm instead. 
Its a more difficult area and harder to design that law and it would require understanding technology, the end result would be targeting the platforms, not the users. 
 Possibly with hundreds of millions in fines and less predatory platform behaviour.<p>This low quality , protect the children yelp regulation set will have no long term effect whatsoever.<p>It is far to easy to circumvent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845358</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have experienced both.<p>I d argue its not the manager that motivates people that can only be found inbooks. 
Its the manager that can come in and mend a toxic and dysfunctional team.<p>The toxic teams end up breaking good managers in the end and they either become part of the problem or leave.<p>The hero manager described in the phoenix project is a myth.<p>The motivational one imho is very real but they need a good platform just like everyone else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:26:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613647</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This post brings another opinion to the thread and contributes to the discussion of pros and cons. Please stop downvoting because you disagree.<p><i>This isnt reddit</i> 
No need for another fanatic echo chamber on the web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:31:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523601</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suggest reading the few south american comments in this thread hidden by the usual whatever Trump does vitriol fro EU/US commenters.<p>r/venezuela is one placce to start. Very different tone there than the ill informed commenters here ( and I say that with detest for “that other site”)<p>Hopefully the Venezuelan people will have a fighting change to restore their country  now.<p>Time will tell I suppose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477451</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477316</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46477316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Claude Opus 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great. Sonnet 4.5 has degraded terribly.<p>I can get some useful stuff from a clean context in the web ui but the cli is just useless.<p>Opus is far superiour.<p>Today sonnet 4.5 suggested to verify remote state file presence by creating an empty one locally and copy it to the remote backend.  
Da fuq? 
University level programmer my a$$.<p>And it seems like it has degraded this last month.<p>I keep getting braindead suggestions and code that looks like it came from a random word generator.<p>I swear it was not that awful a couple of months ago.<p>Opus cap has been an issue, happy to change and I really hope the nerf rumours are just that. 
Undounded rumours and the defradation has a valid root cause<p>But honestly sonnet 4.5 has started to act like a smoking pile of sh**t</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:05:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039305</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039305</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have nothing to add that hasn’t already been commented. Like the entries in the add list stay.  
Other than that, my recommendation list keeps coming up with books I have already read and loved and I am hitting the limit :(.<p>So filtering  would be great,<p>I have seen a few versions of the same books listed more than once.<p>Loved this. Hope you get to tune it a little.<p>Also, thank you for not ruining the site with a single popup, email subscription list offer, chatbot, wheelspin from hell anywhere.<p>Blessings from the popup hating part of the interwebs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:47:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840877</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Death threats are fairly common on reddit.<p>Reddit is beoynd toxic, its bordering on violent extremism</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729948</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "I am a programmer, not a rubber-stamp that approves Copilot generated code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a response to the AI negativity in the thread. 
Remember that this thing is in its infancy.<p>Current models are the embryos of what is to come.<p>Code quality of the current models is not replacing skilled software engineers, network or ops engineers.<p>Tomorrows models may well do that though.<p>Venting the frustrations of this is all very well but I sincerely hope those who wish to stay in the industry, learn to get ahead of AI and utilize and control it.<p>Set industry standards (now) and fight technically incompetent lawmakers before they steer us into disaster.<p>We have no idea what the effect of tomorrows LLMs is going to have, autonomous warfare is not that far away eg.<p>All while todays tech talent spends energy bickering on HN about the loss of being the code review King.<p>Everyone hated the code review royalty anyway. No one mourns them.  Move on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:21:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589100</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45589100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Show HN: Pyscn – Python code quality analyzer for vibe coders"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard disagree.  
Vibe code has its downsides but is not nearly as terrible as threatened coders on the forums make it seem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483368</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45483368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>right and so do libertans ,communists and socialists.  
Hanging  on to false ideologies, no matter how disastrous, is not exclusive to right leaning its a human trait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:21:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405002</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Denmark its not recommended for women over a certain age.<p>So please don’t get it regardless of age. Its not really considered effective for women who have been sexually active for some time.<p>Which is why its only recommended for girls, not women.<p><a href="https://www.ssi.dk/vaccinationer/boernevaccination/vaccination-mod-livmoderhalskraeft" rel="nofollow">https://www.ssi.dk/vaccinationer/boernevaccination/vaccinati...</a>.<p>Tldr; Dont rush to get a vaccine that is probably not effective for you.  
Make an appointment with your doctor and discuss it with her first.</p>
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<p>One of the few times I have used the downvote button in Hn for a comment.<p>Its not a huge effort to at least try to add some source with such a claim, besides the comment does not even bring anything of value to the discussion.</p>
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<p>You know what, let’s turn popular city parks to windmill and solarparks. 
NY central park for example.  Copenhagen has a few beloved open green places we could clean out and replace with solarcells, so does Berlin.<p>Im unscientifically guessing support for nc energy would rise very quickly and wed have a whole bunch of them within a decade.<p>Source, I live near a windmill, they are loud as f*k.  I drive by solaparks nearly every day.<p>They remind me of those horrible deforested areas in Sweden called kalhygge.  Nothing green about those atrocities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 13:16:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231863</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree, article is pretty low quality ragebait.  
Not good journalism at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 12:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231608</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Why our website looks like an operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First ( and maybe only time ) I approve of usage of cookie bannner.<p>Chuckles…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220795</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "The Guardian flourishes without a paywall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree, don’t really see as much quality journalism on the guardian as the thread implies.<p>I donated for the longest time until they succumbed to rage bait journalism.<p>For a while I started avoiding it entirely, especially during the worst of the Trump and C19 years sanity and objective information seemed to have left everyone.<p>Also HN remember this is NOT reddit, downvote only if the comment brings nothing to the discussion.  The above comment is simply disgreeing with the current blind guardian admiration.<p>They do not deserve all that praise, and those who point it out are not breaking HN rules and thus should not be removed from the discussion with mindless downvotes.<p>Read the rules ppl !!!<p>( wish reddit users could just stay in their own ruined toxic echo chamber  and leave the still relatively healthy forums alone. Dont you people have a Tesla somewhere to scratch??)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:56:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544870</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43544870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>US government ( sigh ) only did what they were told by a federal judge after the conclusion that sanctions do not apply unless the entity is foreign.  
Tornado cash is not foreign.<p>OPs headline feels like cheap rage bait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:07:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443897</link><dc:creator>xkbarkar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xkbarkar in "Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>indeed</p>
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