<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: xnickb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xnickb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:29:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xnickb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but we already sold the device, so it's someone else's problem. Now if they were paying us a subscription fee..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:38:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382662</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And it's about to change soon. <a href="https://keepandroidopen.org/" rel="nofollow">https://keepandroidopen.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 08:20:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276732</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand what you're saying, but strictly speaking is it fair to say they aren't profitable? Didn't they along with other participants of LLM-race invest heavily into the infrastructure and the said infra wasn't yet delivered.<p>My understanding is that it's unreasonable to claim a hotel isn't profitable when they're still on the building stage.<p>I do understand that we don't have enough energy to turn it on when all of them are delivered, but that's a separate issue.<p>e: gah. Answered to the wrong post. Sorry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220881</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So you're saying the phrase "vibe-coded" should've been used somewhere in the title? :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 12:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179036</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Government funding is another way. In some countries people pay some sort of "media" tax. That can be redistributed. A new one can be added. If LLMs are becoming a standard way to interact and process the data and using them is a social necessity then it is absolutely the job of the state to provide means for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 08:18:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176756</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder when, if ever, we will hit a productivity plateau with LLM-assisted development. Right now, it feels like we're at a crossroads, and if we don't build the correct culture around this, things can go very wrong.</p>
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<p>In combination with Google stance on what people call "sideloading", this is a serious concern for privacy.<p>I can keep my privacy just as well without Signal if I can't talk to anyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 20:12:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172787</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one is in a position to dictate individual people what their goals are. That's another example of entitlement.<p>As an individual author they are entitled to write whatever they want in their blogpost. I as a consumer of their writing am not entitled to anything</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 13:47:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168894</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly. Especially now in the era of LLMs where you can feed the article to a chatbot and ask it to spoon feed you at the pace you can digest at.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 10:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167777</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why should the author care to make it digestible to the crowd who is clueless on the matter? Their goal is to capture attention and start discussion within the community.<p>To me it doesn't seem reasonable at all. It's just entitled at best.</p>
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<p>Yeah, this is the extension of the above. Main reason tabbed windows ditched the title bar in favor of having tabs integrated into it.<p>Unfortunately people who design UI or produce specs are not power users so the end products have been losing utility at an incredible pace.<p>My personal favorite is an input field which clears its content once it loses focus. So when inputting an address on mobile you can't switch back and forth to copy different parts of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:30:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121064</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure what Googlebook is, but in general: I want to be able to move my pointer to the top right corner and click to close the window.<p>And before you make some claim like "use keyboard", the UI includes these window elements for a reason. Top bar makes them less friendly to use: They're tiny and with top bar it's an aiming game instead of a quick way to do something with a mouse or a touchpad.<p>As an i3/sway user I don't greatly care about this because I already have things the way I like, but I understand the frustration of the OP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 11:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120587</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Headscale is a thing</p>
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<p>Those who are willing to move have already moved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:15:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544412</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are responding to a "money != happiness" comment with "people kiss asses to get more money because they're unhappy". Just saying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:57:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520043</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "Zig builds are getting faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Build caching is nice until you have to disable it because it broke something somewhere.
At which point it becomes very hard to turn it back on.<p>In other words, one needs to have absolute trust in such tools to be able to rely on them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 03:09:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470199</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470199</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45470199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "You didn't see it coming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do understand the core message but I don't get why the author seems upset about it. Sounds like people complaining that instagram models show fake "fake" life. LinkedIn is a social network. Professionals show off how successful and hirable they are, or companies show how nice it is to work there.<p>I personally can't take this self promotion that has become very necessary in many parts of our industry so I stay clear of places where it is exercised.</p>
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<p>Oh come on now, no one reads this deep into the conversation.<p>Sigh.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:25:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45339653</link><dc:creator>xnickb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45339653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45339653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnickb in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People of the earth, remember: unnecessary arm and leg movements increase the entropy! Fear of the heat death of the universe! Lie down when possible!</p>
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<p>Thankfully in this case it's a curl vulnerability that doesn't use curl in the reproducer. That's a fairly safe call.</p>
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