<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: yuck39</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yuck39</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 04:12:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yuck39" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "I'm scared about biological computing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this comes from our rather nebulous definition of "consciousness".<p>We have this natural tendancy to impose our feelings of self on the definition of consciousness. Its hard to accept that all of our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours could be calculated by a human with pen and paper (with enough humans and developments in neurobiological research).<p>I believe we will have to reckon with these loose definitions and eventually realize how lacking in utility they are for describing engineered intellegence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:04:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026210</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many of the traditional SEO players are now figuring out how to game the system to get their customers to show up more frequently in LLM responses.<p>Once the pressure to turn a profit is high enough the big players surely won't just leave that money on the table.<p>The scary part is that even if we end up paying for "ad-free" LLM services how do we really know if it is ad-free? Traditional services are (usually) pretty clear on what is an ad and what isn't. I wouldn't necessarily know if raid shadow legends really is the greatest game of all time or if the model had been tuned to say that it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249533</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Claude Code Is My Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't rule out possibility 1.<p>Sometimes you have to learn how to frame the problem in a way to get the results that you want. These tools need lots of context, not just about the rest of the code base but the problem itself. You can think of it a bit like how the early adopters of high level programming languages had to fight against compilers to get the assembly output that they wanted.<p>For example, if I tell an LLM to generate a python script that finds the square of a number I might want:
def square(x):
    return x * x<p>but it may give me:
print("Enter a number:")
x = int(input())
print("The square is", x * x)<p>This is a very very simple example but I think it illustrates my point. If you provide enough context to the exact problem you want to solve the results are astronomically better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181812</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44181812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or the ~100% of users who wouldn't understand anything you just wrote will shell out for a premium subscription.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:15:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658418</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Meta Horizon OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The out of the box track selection is quite weak. The game depends on community made tracks to make it playable in the long term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116535</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40116535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "An electric new era for Atlas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personal data point, I see their dogs at defense-adjacent trade shows all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 14:49:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065463</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twitch Turbo only has two tangible selling points AFAIK:<p>1. No ads
2. 90 days to store recordings of your live streams instead of 30 days.<p>I think if you take out that first selling point no one would buy it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043078</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It used to be $8.99/month. I was a pretty casual twitch viewer and I paid for it then. When they announced the move to 11.99/month I didn't re-up it and I just don't watch twitch now.<p>Funny how that $3/month was just enough for me to decide it was no longer worth it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043046</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40043046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "How Chinese Students Experience America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am a right leaning American who subscribes to the New Yorker. I find a lot of their essays to be surprisingly non-partisan. I especially enjoy the fiction pieces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:20:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932451</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39932451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "I always knew I was different, I didn't know I was a sociopath"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought this was a joke at first. I guess her story adds up!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:30:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704488</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Launch HN: Circleback (YC W24) – Tooling to make meetings more efficient"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Awesome to see you here Ali!<p>You may or may not remember, but we used to run similar tech YouTube channels as young teenagers and worked on a few videos together. I've been following circleback since you guys were accepted into W24. Congrats on the launch!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39619514</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39619514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39619514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Esperanto, Toki Pona, Swahili, Indonesian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure if OP is the author but my love of learning languages was also unlocked through Esperanto when I was a teenager.<p>Its possible that my journey has been a bit longer, I did eventually get around to studying Mandarin Chinese, From 2016 until present day I still study an hour every day. I also was able to live in China for a year which was a great help.<p>Going from Esperanto, a language designed as a second language, to Chinese, one that is absolutely not, is like going from Ruby on Rails development to writing a web server in Assembly. There is so much more practice and rote memorization required to attain any level of fluency.<p>After over 7 years of study I still speak with an accent and have trouble communicating on some topics. But at this point I can read just about anything which was always my primary goal :).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551121</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Social Media First Amendment Cases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is the precedent that this case is currently arguing against.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:26:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525167</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Nvidia's Chat with RTX is an AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting. Since you are running it locally do they still have to put up all the legal guardrails that we see from Chat GPT and the like?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:24:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360119</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Lubricate Your Keyholes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are the dangers of graphite lubricant?<p>I lubricate my keyholes with it but there is always some that gets left on the key, and I tend to fiddle with my keys at my desk sometimes.<p>Occasionally I’ll get some of the graphite on my hands, or possibly even breathe it in I’m not sure. Should I be more careful with this stuff?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178256</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39178256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "The weirdest bug I've seen yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed!<p>I have absolutely no idea how a combination of grammarly and a specific gif would cause a browser crash though…<p>Anyone here use the grammarly desktop app? Any additional clues?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477346</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clearly you haven't seen the entire fediverse. There are tons of "free speech" instances along with a garden variety of other "alt" instances that are as active as the mastodon affiliated ones.<p>They tend to all be mutually blacklisted by each other, meaning that you won't see their posts appear in your federated timeline, however you can still individually follow and interact with accounts across the blacklist line.<p>What I personally do is host my own Pleroma instance where I can manually configure which instances I chose to associate with. Sure, I don't show up on anyone else's federated timeline but I mostly lurk anyways so I don't care and I get a large degree of control over what kind of content I see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:56:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191216</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Analogue 3D"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There has been some criticism of Analogue lately from the retro gaming community [1] for continuing to announce and release new products while they remain months behind on fulfilling orders already placed by customers. The consensus seems to be that their products are good but add 4-6 months to whenever you expect to get your order from them.<p>[1]:<a href="https://twitter.com/RetroGameCorps/status/1711847200727368033" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/RetroGameCorps/status/171184720072736803...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:37:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901348</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901348</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37901348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Procreate Dreams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is it determining how to color the inverse side of the wings of the butterfly in the animation? Did he keyframe that in and exclude it from the animation?<p>Or is the app using vision models to infer that he is trying to animate wings specifically and just assume the perspective needed and do the coloring on the opposite side for him?<p>From a technical standpoint the ladder would be very cool, but I could see how it could be troublesome for artists trying to do "real animation".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 18:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437727</link><dc:creator>yuck39</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yuck39 in "Schizophrenia drugs may have been off target for decades, study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Link to the actual paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01390-9" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01390-9</a></p>
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