Hacker News: xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xylonHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:59:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"]]>Why not replace F-Droid with a catalogue of links to open-source apps hosted in play store?

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:35:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760517xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760517<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"]]>I assumed the reason there are so many job offerings for kubernetes engineers is either because these jobs have high churn, or because kubernetes takes more work to maintain. I think linux+nginx+postgres+favourite-lang is still the most sensible way to go. Good engineers don't overcomplicate things.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:26:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555843xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555843https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555843<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"]]>This page won't load for me "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act". Why would this law be relevant to a blog-post about AI?

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:24:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701720xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701720https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701720<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Can I run AI locally?"]]>nor my plain 5060

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:42:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374608xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374608https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374608<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"]]>What about the environmental impact of all the extra warehouses they have to build to store the unsellable stock?

]]>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:20:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027149xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027149<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Bugs Apple loves"]]>What about that text selection bug all OSes have had for 20+ years. I'm dragging to select text, and if I drag one pixel too far, it inverts the selection.

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:30:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729173xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729173https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729173<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]>This is my blog: https://seeking.xylon.me.uk/

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:53:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628990xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628990https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628990<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "This website is for humans"]]>Unfortunately not many humans bother to read my website. If LMMs will read and learn from it then at least my work has some benefit to something.

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:12:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890358xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44890358<![CDATA[LLMs worse at proactive investigation than random heuristics]]>Article URL: https://zenodo.org/records/16270954

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659024

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]]>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:27:54 +0000https://zenodo.org/records/16270954xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659024<![CDATA[InterroBench – A Novel Benchmark for LLMs]]>Article URL: https://interrobench.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182515

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:02:43 +0000https://interrobench.com/xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182515<![CDATA[Why AI Is Significant – From a Science Perspective]]>Article URL: https://seeking.xylon.me.uk/why_AI_is_significant.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480316

Points: 2

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]]>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:33:39 +0000https://seeking.xylon.me.uk/why_AI_is_significant.htmlxylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480316<![CDATA[The Dictionary Transition for AI]]>Article URL: https://seeking.xylon.me.uk/the_dictionary_transition_for_ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053836

Points: 1

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]]>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:19:07 +0000https://seeking.xylon.me.uk/the_dictionary_transition_for_ai.htmlxylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053836<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Zed on Linux Is Here"]]>No syntax highlighting for Clojure :'(

No Emacs keybindings :'(

]]>Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:55:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933554xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933554https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40933554<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle"]]>but then you dont have visibility of what changes you have made. having config management improves visibility of how something is configured

]]>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 13:00:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420562xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33420562<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?"]]>My 2008 Honda doesnt. Good to know some cars are doing this now.

]]>Mon, 29 Aug 2022 06:14:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635240xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32635240<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?"]]>I always wondered why cars dont give an indication when a bulb blows. Should be pretty easy to do and improve road safety.

]]>Sat, 27 Aug 2022 06:22:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616307xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32616307<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Today is 2022/02/22"]]>:o

]]>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:08:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424844xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424844<![CDATA[Have no computers running the OS they came installed with]]>Article URL: https://www.technologicallyadvancedhuman.uk/have_no_computers_running_the_os_they_came_installed_with.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424843

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:07:32 +0000https://www.technologicallyadvancedhuman.uk/have_no_computers_running_the_os_they_came_installed_with.htmlxylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424843https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424843<![CDATA[The Internet Corrupts Creators More Than Consumers]]>Article URL: https://www.technologicallyadvancedhuman.uk/the_internet_corrupts_creators.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660391

Points: 2

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]]>Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:09:21 +0000https://www.technologicallyadvancedhuman.uk/the_internet_corrupts_creators.htmlxylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660391https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660391<![CDATA[New comment by xylon in "Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme"]]>but almost no-one actually uses bitcoin as a currency

]]>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:26:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29078104xylonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29078104https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29078104