<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: Mountain_Skies</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Mountain_Skies</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:24:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Mountain_Skies" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Robert Putnam has plenty of research on the subject of the disappearance of community, but he was called a Nazi for doing actual research and publishing the results because the data didn't show what many people, including the vast majority of Hacker News, wishes to be true. As long as we continue to insist that our wishes trump reality, things will continue to fall apart, and everyone will continue to act confused about why it is happening. Lots of unsupported theories that conform to wishes will be bandied about while actual research continues to be ignored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:14:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416230</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Simple solution: quantify the value of the propaganda and add that to the Post's balance sheet. Problem then is that the worker bees might decide they should get a slice of that value, which would offend Jeff's core sensibilities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:59:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385539</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385539</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Digg is gone again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've asked ChatGPT a question about something I read in a thread here and it responded with a comment from that thread, even though the thread was less than an hour old. HN is well known in the tech community and there are certain subjects, especially anything involving Israel or India, that nearly instantly result in a flood of comments from bad actors. HN isn't Reddit but it's also a shadow of what it once was, which is driving away more of the productive participation in favor of agenda-based posting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374258</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47374258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the other hand, it was also astrologers that made copyright claims on the database and caused it to become unavailable to the world for a short period of time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:52:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295711</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Though I'd prefer solar noon to be close to clock noon, I'd be fine with permanent DST if it meant we stop fiddling with the clocks twice a year. I can adjust the relationship between clock time and solar time for myself just fine, even if some aspects of society care more about clock time than solar time. It's the hour jump twice a year that annoys me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295703</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No questions, just thanks for helping with a great product.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198391</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And their MAP allies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183479</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which begs the question if Microsoft's stubborn insistence on TPM 2.0 for Windows 11 to operate was something planned out in advance of this law being proposed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:03:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183464</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you know any history? You dishonor the people who died from horrible atrocities in WWII to make some glib performative political posturing. It's shameful behavior. Do better. Be better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:58:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183390</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Line must go up" is such a death wish and I don't see how people who consider themselves "green" can also preach the line must go up mantra. Yes, there are consequences from a shrinking population. There are also consequences from a growing one, especially one that is cultivated with no regard to anything other than maximizing the absolute number. But I guess if you're one of the people who can benefit from the line going up while alive, it doesn't matter what happens to the world once you're gone. Just make sure that line is doing the right thing while you're breathing and that's all that matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015749</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's amazing how quickly globalists were able to get the ideological left to switch from having riots protesting against globalism to declaring it racist to have any anti-globalist thoughts. Even more amazing are the intellectual knots they'll tie themselves up into when explaining how this came to be. The participants of the Battle of Seattle in 1999 now would be considered Nazis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:20:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015707</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It'll be a sad day for Little Bobby Tables if in-band signaling ever goes out of fashion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:44:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936640</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46936640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The tech world is often criticized for being trend obsessed but it seems to happen in education quite often too. My high school was built in the 1970s during the wall-less open learning community fad. That flopped hard and the school ended up with several different physical hacks for dividing up those spaces into something resembling a traditional classroom. The chemistry lab was the only room to get actual masonry walls. Most everywhere else had what were little more than oversize cubicle partitions, which meant noise from every class ended up leaking into every other class. It is baffling that anyone thought having a high school without walls was a good idea, but our high school was far from being the only one built that way during that time period.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:50:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919250</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46919250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True. It would need to be something associated with a registered non-profit organization/NGO. But isn't that already the case with other types of volunteer work?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882519</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Petition for Recognition of Work on Open-Source as Volunteering in Germany"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Though the petition is about Germany, in the US some entitlement programs come with work requirements that can be satisfied by volunteer work. Given the tech job market and how the US government's labor policies are detrimental to native workers, allowing them to keep their skills sharp through open source work while also satisfying the work requirements of various social programs, it seems like a decent trade-off. This presumes the government and the donors to the politicians that run it don't really want native workers to be unskilled. Their actions indicate the opposite, so that throws a bit of a wrench into things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:11:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882508</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46882508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Data centers in space makes no sense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any country capable of producing nuclear warheads will also be able to toss up enough BBs and other small objects into LEO to wipe out most of Starlink and anything else in LEO. At least on Earth data centers in theory can be hidden and physically hardened. In orbit, even a crude rocket able to reach that plane can become a weapon of mass satellite destruction. Even if those orbits clear out in four or five years, by then whatever ugliness is going on down on the surface of Earth will likely have resolved one way or the other. Starlink is a great military asset for a superpower pushing around smaller states in ways that aren't an existential threat to them. In a real conflict, it's a fragile target beyond the strike capacities of much of the developing world but easily destroyed by any moderate level industrial nation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:15:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878108</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even rural Georgia has double roundabouts now. Not sure why people on the internet can't contain their glee at stating the US is "allergic" to them when the frequency of roundabouts has grown significantly in recent decades.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:51:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842870</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46842870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "A lot of population numbers are fake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A recent case in the Netherlands involved six children being off the radar of the government their entire childhoods. Not sure if homeschooling is legal in the Netherlands or not but in this case, it wasn't relevant.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruinerwold_secluded_family" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruinerwold_secluded_family</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832973</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about doing more to retain employees? Maybe don't layoff employees each time someone on CNBC makes a comment about the company's overhead looking a fraction of a percent too high? Perhaps even train people?<p>Instead, everyone expects there to be a magical unicorn out there who has decades of experience as a senior at multiple FAANGs but lives in Warm Spit, Missouri and is willing to work for the average Walmart wage in Warm Spit (locality adjustment, surely you understand why we must do this). Shrink your pool to your local area. Even if you allow remote work, require a physical interview at your office. Stop screwing up the process by worrying about edge cases involving unicorns flying across the globe to meet you. Once you stop chasing unicorns, most of the fraud goes away because it's the unicorn chute that's letting the fraudsters into the process.<p>But seriously, stop getting rid of good employees and stop refusing to build up employees from within. Very few are going to get hired away if you treat them well. The few who do leave will either be treated poorly at their new employer and want to return or be treated well, which means that employer isn't gaining some advantage over you by treating their employees lesser.<p>Of course, if you're just trying to get a bonus for cutting labor expenses a few percentage points before you parachute off to somewhere else, then you and the company that tolerates this both deserve to suffer. No doubt you'll both be at your congress critter's door to demand access to the global market because you believe skill is based on how little an employee is willing to accept in compensation. In a labor pool of over 150 million, no doubt it's true that you can't find anyone who knows React or Spring Boot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:47:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822012</link><dc:creator>Mountain_Skies</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Mountain_Skies in "Playing Board Games with Deep Convolutional Neural Network on 8bit Motorola 6809"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It also kept the HCF, Halt and Catch Fire, opcode.</p>
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