Hacker News: adestefan

New comment by adestefan in "Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent"

adestefan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:03:24 +0000

So what.

New comment by adestefan in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

adestefan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:34:46 +0000

It was GW Bush winning the election that allowed Microsoft to a settlement.

New comment by adestefan in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

adestefan — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:10:49 +0000

The Postal Service is one of the few entities directly authorized by the US Constitution. From Article 1, Section 8:

> The Congress shall have Power… To establish Post Offices and post Roads

With that one of the hallmarks of the USPS is they really strive to service every person in the country no matter how remote.

The fact they’ve turned it into a “business” and not a public good is really a tragedy.

New comment by adestefan in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

adestefan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:19:28 +0000

This court doesn’t care about precedent.

New comment by adestefan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:33:39 +0000

And Google will exit at 12 months when the S&P seasoning period and 4 quarters of profitability are satisfied.

New comment by adestefan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:28:17 +0000

This is exactly how the dot com crash happened. People point out this like pets.com, but that wasn’t the issue. It was the musical chairs the played with the fiber telecoms. Today it’s data centers.

New comment by adestefan in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

adestefan — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:42:31 +0000

That icon is a "close Carplay/Auto" button. My Subaru has a Subaru button; my wife's Mazda has a Mazda button.

New comment by adestefan in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

adestefan — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:41:39 +0000

USDS and 18F proved that strong, internal technical leadership and dedicated teams make this work.

New comment by adestefan in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

adestefan — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:28:47 +0000

All our bookkeeping is now in YAML. Watch the spaces on your way out the door.

New comment by adestefan in "New gas-powered data centers could emit more greenhouse gases than whole nations"

adestefan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:50:27 +0000

> pro-energy administration

Very far from pro-energy when you give companies money to cancel energy projects that are not burning green house gases.

New comment by adestefan in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

adestefan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:34:06 +0000

New England colonists had a habit of ransacking and burning down the houses of government officials throughout the 1760s and during the Revolutionary War. Got bad enough that most did not sleep in their government housing.

New comment by adestefan in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

adestefan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:27:56 +0000

That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.

New comment by adestefan in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

adestefan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:34:39 +0000

It’s right at the top of the linked bill.

The attorney general or a district attorney may bring a civil action on behalf of the state against a person that violates the prohibition against individualized price or wage setting based on surveillance data to seek the imposition of civil penalties. In addition, a person aggrieved by a violation of the prohibition specified in the bill may bring a civil action on behalf of themself or a group of similarly situated persons to restrain further violations and to recover damages, costs, and reasonable attorney fees. A violation of the prohibition against individualized price setting or individualized wage setting is a deceptive trade practice under the "Colorado Consumer Protection Act".

New comment by adestefan in "Claude's new constitution"

adestefan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:00:54 +0000

What makes Anthropic the most money.

New comment by adestefan in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

adestefan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:16:49 +0000

It’s as random as any other UUID.

New comment by adestefan in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:11:51 +0000

The problem isn't only papers it's that the world of academic computer science coalesced around conference submissions instead of journal submissions. This isn't new and was an issue 30 years ago when I was in grad school. It makes the work of conference organizes the little block holding up the entire system.

New comment by adestefan in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

adestefan — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:04:38 +0000

The entire thread is people missing this simple point.

New comment by adestefan in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

adestefan — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:53:43 +0000

There's a better word for it.

New comment by adestefan in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

adestefan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:31:09 +0000

We've taken the one task that computers are inherently good at and somehow made it worse.

New comment by adestefan in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

adestefan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:29:16 +0000

It's become worse since 2017 when they changed the 1040 to make it "shorter." All they did was move everything to different forms so now it's an insane process of shuffling numbers back and forth across many forms.