Hacker News: SkipperCat

New comment by SkipperCat in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

SkipperCat — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:31:14 +0000

This isn't a problem with "rockstar" AI devs. This is a problem of management. Who would let someone come in and rebuild the core infra of their business without any planning or review?

New comment by SkipperCat in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

SkipperCat — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:32:12 +0000

I can't help but think that this is due to Musk putting pressure on the current administration to help him win his lawsuit and punish Altman.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

SkipperCat — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:38:56 +0000

The Rothschilds getting news faster because they build an information network is not inside trading. Inside trading is when you have a legal and fiduciary duty not to trade and not to disclose information. The people working in the US government have that obligation and are not abiding by those rules.

New comment by SkipperCat in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

SkipperCat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:14:55 +0000

I hiked and camped for three days in the Grand Canyon about 10 years ago and it was one of the high points of my life. The sheer beauty of the massive space was transformative in the way I see the world. How small we are, how big it was. I know statements like this seem overly dramatic but my time there is still something I replay in my head.

So when people dunk on the GC, I always just tell myself how lucky I was that my experience was so wonderful.

New comment by SkipperCat in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"

SkipperCat — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:24:30 +0000

It looks like a lot of the monies in that chart are for wages and admin. That's not the worst thing. Many charities spend their money on doing things for the betterment of society and those people need to be paid a salary for their work. If there's a charity that cleans up parks, I would assume their wage expenses would be high to pay for the people doing the cleanup work.

Not saying that there's not grift in the nonprofit world, but my experience with a lot of people who work in this space is that they're good stewards of the funds and very dedicated to trying to help the world be a better place.

New comment by SkipperCat in "US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide"

SkipperCat — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:35:25 +0000

I'd call it dummerspeak...

New comment by SkipperCat in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

SkipperCat — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:15:38 +0000

I only share articles between my wife and myself. The shared articles show up in our respective Apple News apps. Never really shared an article outside of the ecosystem. Sorry that's not more helpful.

New comment by SkipperCat in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

SkipperCat — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:56:18 +0000

When I click on links in Apple News, it stays in the Apple News app. That's the same on my phone, iPad and MacBook.

New comment by SkipperCat in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

SkipperCat — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:55:05 +0000

Agreed. I used to subscribe to the WSJ and WashPo and I cancelled both because I get both in Apple News. Plus I get the Atlantic, New Yorker, Wired and so many other magazines.

The user interface sucks. Sometimes I go to the actual websites to find articles and then search for them on Apple News. But for $13 USD a month, its a huge bargain and worth the crappy interface.

Another thing that kinda helped me was that Apple News doesn't give you access to the comments sections in these publications. Reading comments in the WSJ was just a huge rage-bait time suck and my life is probably better off not seeing that stuff.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

SkipperCat — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:45:05 +0000

Social media is not designed to keep you informed. Its designed to keep you engaged because that helps them sell ads. And the best way to keep you engaged is to keep you enraged. I've seen in the US how social media has been used push false narratives, hate and other falsehoods. Its toxic.

If you really want to stay informed, there are plenty of newspapers, NGOs and other organizations out there reporting the truth.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis"

SkipperCat — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:56:47 +0000

They all joined ICE.

New comment by SkipperCat in ""If Starmer is successful in banning X in Britain, I will move forward in . . .""

SkipperCat — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:23:02 +0000

This is why we need to bust up monopolies.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

SkipperCat — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:51:25 +0000

Has anyone had and experience using hearing aids to deal with tinnitus? I've got some small hearing loss in the high frequencies and I'm looking at getting fitted for hearing aids to help boost those frequencies. The hope is to train my brain to stop replacing the deficit of sound with the monotone tinnitus noise.

I've tried some OTC hearing aids (Sony & Sennheiser) but its been hit or miss. I'm going to try whatever the hearing aid tech at my ENT proscribes.

New comment by SkipperCat in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

SkipperCat — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:20:26 +0000

The Miami stock exchange (MIAX) has their matching engines colocated in Equinix's NY4 data center in Secaucus NJ, much like many other exchanges. I would not be surprised if TXSE does the same.

Many trading firms already have their trading engines in that data center and I would assume TXSE would want quick access to that order flow and this might be easier if they are in NY4.

Of course, they may want to have their colo facilities in TX in their own data center, that way they can rent out space and make some extra revenue, but then they'd have to build that out.

New comment by SkipperCat in "State Terror, American Style"

SkipperCat — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:45:51 +0000

Private security is not police. Private security will not give you a ticket for speeding. They wont write you a citation for not having a working turn signal. Their only mission is to protect the people who employ them. Very different from actual police work.

New comment by SkipperCat in "State Terror, American Style"

SkipperCat — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:05:05 +0000

> But I've never talked to a person in a rich neighborhood that would turn down more police

Rich people in safe neighborhoods very commonly turn down police because they don't want their local taxes to go up. It's as simple as that. You can also add to the fact that they don't want their children slammed into the pavement for minor infractions such as having an open container beverage or doing 35 in a 25 mph zone.

Its always been rules for thee but not for me.

New comment by SkipperCat in "State Terror, American Style"

SkipperCat — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:02:09 +0000

100% yes.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording"

SkipperCat — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:10:07 +0000

I always felt the movie "Brazil" was the satire. 1984 was the horror film.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Eternal Struggle"

SkipperCat — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:12:13 +0000

An excellent piece of artwork! Really captures the meaning of Yin Yang, at least to me.

New comment by SkipperCat in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

SkipperCat — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:42:23 +0000

Isn't this what the "Freemium" model is supposed to resolve? If a open source package is popular, people will build businesses around it and people who use it can then purchase support and get bonus features.

This allows the marketplace to determine which project get supported rather than bureaucratic decree.