<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: UncleMeat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=UncleMeat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:41:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=UncleMeat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you ever asked an expert in these areas to evaluate your knowledge? My experience is that people using ai to learn think they are learning but really aren’t.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344475</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where are these quotas?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:43:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329926</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In addition to what the other guy quoted, Cofnas has said that the revolution will make it possible for him to become the "head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard" and that there "must be some barriers set up between the races."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321370</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Why must a socialist also be woke?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reporting is wrong. It is a short paragraph to read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315366</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "The case for overhauling American science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you read what historians wrote you'd know what they could debate. They are going to be far more informative than an entrepreneur writing about history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:41:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315360</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Arday being a liar doesn't change people's motivations for making this into a story. People have publicly stated their reasoning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:38:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315335</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "The case for overhauling American science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious if you are reading this from academics. My experience talking to history professors is a substantially less rosy view of the EIC, even if you somehow get to ignore the gargantuan amount of human suffering they created.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:50:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313709</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "'Not acceptable': Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These appear to be related. The requirement to open up to other app stores also came with a requirement that Google support those app stores with their (admittedly messy) malware detection. Suddenly Google is looking at requirements to review apps that they have way less information about. I can only imagine that the developer identification efforts are an attempt to make that easier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299558</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "NP-overrated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is an entire field of static analysis that is dedicated to practically solving undecidable problems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:52:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299498</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "The Reasons Agentic Commerce Hasn't Taken Off Yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I still don't understand even a little. Are you saying that your agents are making product selection for you? Like you say "buy me a carpet cleaner" and it just goes and orders one using your credit card without any oversight?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:08:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294017</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "The Reasons Agentic Commerce Hasn't Taken Off Yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have never done this.<p>The amount of time that I spend making digital purchases is low. Having an agent do things wouldn't save me much time even if I could completely trust it. I would still need to interact with this agent for item selection and I'd need to babysit it for correctness. For things that I buy regularly basically every service has an option for regular purchases.<p>I genuinely cannot conceive of a circumstance where having an agent make purchases for me would improve my life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289230</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Why must a socialist also be woke?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is funny how your list of unpopular policies are all things that never happened except one, which was around for decades with minimal complaint before the right decided to make it a big deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:24:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287429</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Why must a socialist also be woke?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But that is literally not what she said.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287412</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A friend of mine is a MIT professor. He reports that his students generally strongly support the policy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:47:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280499</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MIT has this policy. Do employers think that MIT degrees are a joke?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:26:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275856</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MIT has had this policy for years and years. Did they fall down this slippery slope such that everybody is slacking off and nobody is getting meaningfully evaluated?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:25:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275844</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A union is a collection of workers who negotiate together against their employer using the leverage of strikes and other work stoppages. They are democratically controlled with regular elections for union leadership and votes for major actions like strikes. This means that the union can decide for itself what things it wants to extract from an employer. Through democratic control you will have some influence on its priorities. Unions typically extract a small portion of the pay of its members so that it can fund operations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:06:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213387</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "Coinage – every dollar invested until the second you spend it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This makes zero sense to me.<p>Even if you have managed to create an instant and frictionless mechanism of selling ETFs the moment you need to spend on something and are providing people with the liquidity while their brokerage completes the sale and transfer I can't see the value here. Most people <i>don't</i> want their daily spending money in something that has price instability. The reason people suggest that your emergency fund is in a HYSA is not because you can access it a few hours faster. It is because you want some insurance against needing the money after a 25% dip. Worse, your homepage advertises individual stocks and bitcoin!<p>And if people <i>do</i> want this behavior then you've enabled people to earn another like 0.03% by keeping money invested for a day longer. In comparison I get 3% cash back by using my credit card. 100x more.<p>You've got a lot of writing on your website about the merits of investment. That's fine I guess but is unrelated to the function of your business. It is also weird to tell people "just don't spend money on food now and then eventually the investments you bought instead will pay for food." While this is technically true you are doing nothing to help people have money to invest today.<p>Also practically, what happens if I've set a no-loss rule and there is a big dip right before I buy a bunch of stuff and the price of my equities stays down. Do you just never sell and now I silently don't pay my credit card bill?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:48:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204618</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Garry is basically a fascist who thinks that democratic governance ruins society and that instead society should be run by tech elite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175109</link><dc:creator>UncleMeat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UncleMeat in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being a cop is a choice. Being black is not.</p>
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