<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: alangibson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alangibson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:24:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alangibson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Global Glacier Extinction Explorer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree. It's been my position for a while that we've de facto decided to do nothing to prevent warming and we'll just live with the consequences.</p>
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<p>Iran said publicly that driving up costs in the USA to effect the coming elections is their strategy.</p>
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<p>This is not the simplest explanation.<p>The most direct line from problem to proof is OpenAI building off of conversations the mathematicians had with their AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:16:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622503</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there actually an agreed definition of AGI? It's always seemed like a marketing term that can mean whatever next quarters earnings need it to mean.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594505</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NVDA is in bad shape financially? They're making it hand over fist right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:09:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594494</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perplexity is about to learn that Google is an anti-spam company first, search engine second</p>
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<p>So the number is irrelevant. No one wants yesterdays newspaper.<p>The only relevant number is the price to serve a frontier or near-frontier model.</p>
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<p>Kids are definitely a net positive for society. They're future taxpayers.<p>But that's not relevant to couples choice to get pregnant. I've never heard a parent say they had kids so they can pay into Social Security.</p>
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<p>If you invert the question "why aren't people having kids" to "why did people want kids in the first place" then the fertility crisis makes more sense.<p>Kids were free labor and old age insurance.<p>Now they are extremely expensive pets. Materially they are a net negative in a modern society.</p>
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<p>Paywalled</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275951</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yea but every warfighter will get a waifu</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173333</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173333</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not named the Department of War because Congress didn't rename it.<p>Other than that, good on ya.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173275</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. Feed-based apps are uniquely bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038321</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "The Sideprocalypse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's legions of companies that will do warehousing and shipping for you. Definitely costs though.<p>That's what I mean by margins being a significant difference.</p>
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<p>airtite.shop<p>Stuff for old men like me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:06:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038139</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "The Sideprocalypse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got out of software and into physical products a couple of years ago. I wish I could say I was prescient, but honestly it's just so much easier to sell physical items.<p>Margins are worse, but selling is easier. If you've got a thing you can be sure that someone somewhere will give you money for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:29:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036234</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Give a kid a phone with TikTok on it and observe them for a while. It's genuinely upsetting.<p>They'll spend <i>hours</i> with their heads down just silently looking at the thing. All desire to do anything else just vanishes. Then they freak out when you try to take it away from them.<p>The only obvious difference between them and someone on fent is the verticality of their posture.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:13:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915447</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.<p>Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:57:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867073</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems straightforward to you because you're ignoring everything that makes this not work.<p>Here's a big one: you can't put radiators in shadow because the coolant would freeze. ISS has system dedicated to making sure the radiators get just enough sunlight at any given time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:56:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867068</link><dc:creator>alangibson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alangibson in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> arbitrarily large<p>Space is not empty. Satellites have to be boosted all the time because of drag. Massive panels would only worsen that. Once you boosters are empty the satellite is toast.</p>
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