<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: yawnxyz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yawnxyz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:50:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yawnxyz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Americans get another message that's similar: <a href="https://www.oneplus.com/us/adjustment" rel="nofollow">https://www.oneplus.com/us/adjustment</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935685</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>didn't know that! have a 2024 Premium and it's still loud</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929578</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no one's complained (I don't even know if they notice), I just feel like it's obnoxious - I can feel the car arrive from the apt shaking haha</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928476</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>great choice NOT getting the GRC — it doesn't fit a car seat comfortably if you're 5'8 or larger haha</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927529</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the stock GRC exhaust is intolerable already; every time I pull into the apt complex where everyone drives an EV, I feel like we're the neighborhood hood rats</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927510</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a GR Corolla and it's great in the mountains! It's tiny light and fun and fits a car seat (barely).<p>I wouldn't consider a loud GRC w/ catback a "sleeper" though - it's quite the opposite??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:04:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922934</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the idea that Costco and Amazon are diametric opposites — for example I couldn't shop at Costco for a very very long time because I lived in the city and didn't have a car.<p>Amazon and other delivery companies (e.g. Weee) came to the rescue. For a while I lived close enough to a Costco for a 20 minute bike, so I'd load up my gym bag full of food - even then Costco is not ideal because there's only so much you can carry (one thing of meat, one thing of eggs, some veggies).<p>For those that think Costco are the uber-shopping experience are missing that they both provide very opposite consumer experiences. (Yes Costco has shipping, and same day shipping, but it hits different from Amazon).<p>This is also opposite to corner store grocery systems where you can pop in at any moment to get fresh fruit, a wider choice, smaller quantities at more flexible hours etc.<p>---<p>tldr - what I think I'm saying is that Costco is the perfect "suburban" purchasing experience - great if you tick the boxes that you have a big family (otherwise why do you need a 60 pack of toilet paper), a big house (where do you fit all that toilet paper), a car (to transport the toilet paper), etc.<p>anyone who don't tick those boxes can't really take advantage of any of that - so while Costco is amazing, it definitely shouldn't be the <i>only</i> way to shop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779099</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there's plenty of tells, e.g. "how to actually bank the part that is real" — AI tends to just "throw words out there" with very little information density<p>you COULD create a writer/reviewer loop hook to catch and rewrite sentences like this, but almost no one does<p>the result is usually very long essays that say very little (kind of like in grade school where we're graded on "length" so we just add words as filler)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:46:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778469</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>should really look at the Australian system... it's not really a free market there and the internet is awful</p>
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<p>fantastic bloke, I wish most people did this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:31:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763138</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah this is what I meant - as we get older we're supposed to move slower, and spend more time working on mobility and strength (moderate strength building, walking, and other movements like taichi and equivalent)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749309</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they also keep the papers as a pre-edited, free version of the peer reviewed equivalent</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:18:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749291</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48749291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 
Healthy older adults (n = 123, average age 72.0 years, body mass index 25.8 kg/m2) completed three 45-min supervised exercise sessions per week for 6 months. Participants were randomised to treadmill-based moderate-intensity training (n = 45), or high-intensity interval training (n = 41) or a low-intensity active control condition (n = 37), with individualised heart-rate prescription. Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry was used to quantify body composition at baseline, and at 3 and 6 months.<p>ok they didn't even include light/moderate weight lifting as another control, so this is a fairly poorly executed study<p>basically it comapres hiit with treadmill walking in which case yes, it's slightly more useful, but hiit also causes a lot of damage in a lot of ways</p>
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<p>> Author: Deena Mousa<p>clearly an article sponsored by Big Mouse</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586993</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "Bot fatigue sets in when the internet stops feeling honest"<p>if there's anything worse than LLM-written text, it's websites that rally against LLMs and AI-use, then blatantly just use AI to do the thing they're against<p>if you're going to be anti-ai, at least don't use it!!</p>
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<p>before AI was around we blamed Covid for doing this to us, and now we blame LLMs... and before that we blamed social media. I'm pretty sure this downtrend has been happening for decades.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:52:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402131</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it would be racist if we started calling it the texas screwworm, but that's kind of redundant</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400195</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400195</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>apparently it has to be destroyed and can't be sold</p>
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<p>yeah it happens at smaller companies - someone insulted the boss and got sent home (small agency)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 17:34:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347675</link><dc:creator>yawnxyz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yawnxyz in "The Last Technical Interview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>layoffs happen, and they're firings "without a real reason" - and no PIPs exist for surviving layoffs</p>
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