<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: xnzakg</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xnzakg</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:47:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xnzakg" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suppose using an LLM-powered autocomplete might be something for you then?<p>Then you can be writing the code, with the LLM doing the "boring" parts, in chunks small enough you can review them on the fly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:01:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654362</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Local/open LLMs are a thing though. You can build a server for hosting decent sized (100-200B) models at home for a few k$. They may not be Opus-level, but hopefully we can get something matching current SOTA, but that we can run locally, before the megacorps get too greedy.<p>Alternatively you could find some other people to share the HW cost and run some larger models (like Kimi-K2.5 at 1.1T params).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:57:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654312</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 2.13 level ("hex racer") is kind of pain. Apparently I'm not fast enough at dividing/multiplying by 16... when I get something like "convert 0xB3 to decimal"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:00:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642777</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "Can I run AI locally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You may wanna see if openrgb isn't able to configure the RGB. Could even do some fun stuff like changing the color once done with a training run or something</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:44:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370364</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "CT Scans of Health Wearables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sad to see the quality of the content from Lumafield slowly going down. Feels like the content got less technical after they moved it from "scan of the month" to their blog, and now it feels like the descriptions are just slop, not matching the scans themselves.<p>Examples:<p>- Each window is sealed under a thin polymer layer, balancing optical clarity with biocompatibility while preserving the ring’s continuous, scratch-resistant exterior. <- they're on the interior of the ring, and I'm assuming if they're polymer, they're not very scratch resistant.<p>- This flexible board architecture allows the Oura Ring to maintain its circular form as well as distribute heat [...] <- what heat? And how?<p>- The charging coil runs along the ring’s outer circumference [...] <- scan shows a small coil on the inside, not running along the circumference<p>- [...] we can easily visualize the deployment channel and insertion mechanism that guide this filament to its precise depth and angle. <- I can't see the insertion mechanism.<p>- spiral geometry <- the Bluetooth antenna isn't spiral. Nor does it communicate "through the user's skin"?<p>- miniature microphones (visible as small cylindrical cavities) <- they're rectangular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:57:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285867</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem with the "your life objectively sucks" option is when you end up too depressed to actually bother doing anything and just give up. That's another case where drugs can help.</p>
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<p>I don't fully agree with the "if something isn’t worth consuming at 1x, it’s not worth consuming at all" part.
Sometimes you find a great video or podcast, but the person speaking simply speaks slowly. Or you've just watched/listened to someone who speaks quickly (like Louis Rossman for example), and gotten used to the speed.<p>Other times you just want to skim through the content, for example if you're already familiar with the topic, although you could argue that it's not really worth spending time on skimming something you're already familiar with.<p>But I definitely agree with the "quality filter" part. There's so much content out there that just doesn't have much substance to it.</p>
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<p>> they are all reactive such that they must be given a task before they will do anything.<p>Isn't that just because that's what they're being trained on though?<p>Wonder what you would get if the training data, instead of being task based, would consist of "wanting" to do something "on someone's own initiative".<p>Of course then one could argue it's just following a task of "doing things on its own initiative"...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:08:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105171</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "Mozilla Adding New 'AI Window' Feature to Its Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Neither this nor the blog post explains what this feature is actually supposed to do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:42:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925067</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also interested in this, but haven't tried it myself. 
Apparently NSF (Nano Silver Fluoride) is more commonly in non-western countries.<p>They have a video with some more info here:
<a href="https://pt.fourthievesvinegar.org/w/9aa66b49-2ec5-497f-9f49-115e36549511" rel="nofollow">https://pt.fourthievesvinegar.org/w/9aa66b49-2ec5-497f-9f49-...</a><p>And apparently the use of NSF does have a bunch of research papers written about it:
<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amol-Patil-43/publication/379188980_Nano-Silver_Fluoride_in_Preventive_Dentistry_A_Literature_Review/links/65fe7016d3a085514243b25e/Nano-Silver-Fluoride-in-Preventive-Dentistry-A-Literature-Review.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amol-Patil-43/publicati...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856680</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This one? <a href="https://youtu.be/_goIYP3FfO8" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/_goIYP3FfO8</a></p>
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<p>...or you can just give someone a "smart" device that requires then to install an app with lots of unnecessary permissions to use it.</p>
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<p>> Tastes like bullshit to me.<p>Does it really?
In my opinion, if it stops working and it's under warranty, why not send it out for repair? They did no changes to the actual device, and apparently it was working fine for a few days without network connection, so if it suddenly stops working and it's under warranty that's the manufacturer's/store's problem, not theirs. Trying to fix it/reverse engineer it takes time, and I can see someone with these kinds of skills wanting to spend it on something else than trying to figure out how the manufacturer bricked their vacuum.<p>In addition, _someone_ is paying for the repairs under warranty, so if enough people were to do it, hopefully it would disincentivize completely blocking devices just because they can't reach a server.</p>
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<p>You can always put some extra protection on the external interfaces. Won't make it impossible to fry if you really do something stupid but would reduce the risk significantly.</p>
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<p>Hasn't stopped a lot of companies from selling out and then being ran into the ground by their new owners.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475182</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45475182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "De-Clouding: Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seedboxes often have TBs of storage for relatively cheap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:04:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224225</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "De-Clouding: Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Roon seems great but the pricing is really steep in my opinion... Costs practically as much as a streaming service, but you still need to get your own music.<p>At least they have a lifetime purchase option, though it costs $830!</p>
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<p>Technically that's four cores, two of which that can be active at once</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029045</link><dc:creator>xnzakg</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xnzakg in "Framework Laptop 16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NVIDIA's stance on Linux aside, from a practical point of view the one thing I've had the most issues with in practice while using them together was the abomination that is Optimus. Considering they mention a mux for outputting directly to the display, it sounds like this might be a bit less of a pain to get working since it sounds like you should be able to just have one GPU active at a time (instead of both of them having to work together).</p>
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<p>Like the Cosmo Communicator?<p><a href="https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator" rel="nofollow">https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/cosmo-communicator</a></p>
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