<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: JohnHaugeland</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JohnHaugeland</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2026 07:10:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=JohnHaugeland" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Nvidia was in 1 in 11 startup rounds over $100M last year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, circular financing refers to it bouncing through several loops of that.  the implication is that it’s system predators working the math, not the business.  you should hear it in the same tones that bankers use the word leverage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424553</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i haven’t heard anyone say they downgraded their car to the children’s toy power wheels and regretted it.  all the same, i’m confident that it’s a bad idea</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:11:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424523</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it is believed that opus5.5 needs 8x h200 to run (~1t vram)<p>a dgx spark could never</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424510</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i’m so tired of this<p>all the measurements always say it isn’t<p>anyone who grew up playing dungeons and dragons gets that this is just people saying “you don’t understand, these five used to roll high”<p>every llm space is inundated with rank amateurs explaining at great length how it used to be better yesterday<p>nobody has the courage to clean out the obvious bullshit, so the drone gets ever louder and the signal gets ever rarer<p>do you remember what programming was two years ago?<p>stop complaining so much</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:03:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424451</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50424451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's fine if they don't want to release open source, but if they're not going to, they shouldn't say that's what they're doing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 01:58:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298963</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "If-then-else had to be invented (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it’s a shortening of elsewise, an obsolete phrasing of otherwise<p>english inherited this from latin</p>
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<p>oh no :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293285</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>oh, hacker news, where someone will act like a ten person shop with a seven million dollar computer might be indie</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:07:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219756</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Dots: Always-on agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it’s a headless agent in the cloud that you can task with long running jobs<p>think of things that need rvent handlers or web hooks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:37:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907460</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i think that people should reflect extremely carefully on whether they want to be the person following this line of logic publicly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844858</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i don’t like the common programmer behavior of doubting things we don’t want to face while requesting speculation on easily available data<p>making a list like this is hard in ways that most of us will never understand<p>if you aren’t a victim then you’re the guy who loudly doubts victim self defense</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844828</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49844828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“we can force them to pay for free”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781342</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "iPhone Duo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my beloved surface duo has returned <3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:33:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632843</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49632843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>wow, in 150 years we find a handful of things much smaller than what has happened in the last 2 years<p>the whisky ring is definitely relevant to a discussion of today’s problems<p>this isn’t a ridiculous padded list of whataboutism</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:44:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575219</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i’m a day or two from releasing my programming language’s new mcp</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:17:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559323</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49559323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if it does, that fork is dead by the end of the year<p>i don’t think you understand just how niche you already are</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491943</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>notice how mainstream those projects aren’t</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:05:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491929</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this article is about the flood of junior developers who are producing enormous prs they’ve never seen full of untrustworthy code that a human hasn’t evaluated<p>arguing that it’s possible to make them by hand isn’t just missing the point; it’s missing the entire discussion</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491900</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it seems to me like we care about absolutely anything other than the one really important thing right now</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:05:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181671</link><dc:creator>JohnHaugeland</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JohnHaugeland in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in 1992 middle management was 9.2% of the workforce.  in 2022 it was 13.1%<p>use data when you make claims</p>
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