<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: bbatsell</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bbatsell</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:19:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bbatsell" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Ask HN: Favorite Non-Spammy iPhone Games?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sumaddle is a wonderful puzzle/logic game.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330165</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This headline unfortunately offers more smoke than light. This article has nothing to do with the current tête-à-tête with the Pentagon. It is discussing one specific change to Anthropic's "Responsible Scaling Policy" that the company publicly released today as version "3.0".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:19:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146483</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The president can only pardon crimes against the United States. Even if removed to federal court, state charges remain state charges and the judge & jury must follow state laws. Only the venue changes, with the intent being that the federal judge will potentially serve as a more neutral arbiter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560562</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Vessel searching for MH370 moving at low speed in a specific area"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, because there is no information to report at present. This site contains a live map of the hourly position reporting from the OI vessel:<p><a href="https://www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/armada-tracking/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mh370-caption.net/index.php/armada-tracking/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559475</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Video filmed by ICE agent who shot Minneapolis woman emerges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely fascinating that this report is very detailed about _certain_ things... but edits the source video to fade out right at the relevant instant and then completely omits the fact that the agent called her a "fucking bitch" immediately after executing her. (The released source material is several seconds longer.)<p>Edit at 21:29 UTC: BBC has edited the article to include the following line: "In the final part of the video the car is seen veering down the road. The ICE agent swears." Again, that "final part" has been edited out entirely. It shows that the agent was not affected by the SUV, and maintains his iPhone in his offhand recording the incident without issue. "The ICE agent swears." is used euphemistically to obfuscate what he actually did and said, which was to angrily call the victim a "fucking bitch".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559376</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Vessel searching for MH370 moving at low speed in a specific area"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is 4 days old and Ocean Infinity has already given details — technical problems with one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) and poor weather and wave conditions. There will be many such changes in location and speed during this mission, including when deploying and retrieving each of the 3 AUVs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:01:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559265</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46559265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Clarification: Regarding the Performance of IQuest-Coder-V1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anchor to new information (HN strips it from the URL):
<a href="https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issuecomment-3705756919" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14#issue...</a><p>Context: Earlier this week a new model was released and researchers discovered that during training it had "cheated" on SWEBench by issuing git commands to find information it should have been blinded to.<p>Previous discussion:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:15:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490600</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clarification: Regarding the Performance of IQuest-Coder-V1]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14">https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490564">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490564</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/issues/14</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Ron Conway skewers Marc Benioff in board resignation after 25 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are multiple statutory routes to activate the NG, and nearly every time Trump has done so, it has been through a “federalized” route. Even red-state governors have requested this because it transfers the financial and legal obligations to the federal government. NG units activated by the governor must be paid, housed, transported, defended in court, etc by the state.<p>The catch is that the routes, as of yet, purport to impose operational restrictions on the federalized units. The administration isn’t exactly strictly following them, but they still exist and district judges are attempting to enforce them. The administration is hard at work developing a “colorable” basis to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to remove nearly all such restrictions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:04:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620673</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Ask HN: Can you uninstall Notion from macOS?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One technique I occasionally use is to look at the “zap” stanza of an app’s homebrew cask formula:<p><a href="https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e4207bb0ea8080225a7fbcd2c0db464/Casks/n/notion.rb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e420...</a><p>Based on the “notion-updater” I’m guessing there’s also a launchagent/launchdaemon that is “updating” (read: reinstalling) it whenever you manually delete it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456848</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Gov workers say their shutdown out-of-office replies were forcibly changed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Budget resolutions for quite some time have used the reconciliation process, which only requires a simple majority (but imposes some restrictions). The problem is that they shoved through the “OBBBA” using the process intended for the budget, and now it’s no longer available. You can only use the process once per year per subject (spending, revenue, debt limit), and the OBBBA used up all three.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:23:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455070</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Ring reintroduces video sharing with police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I think a bigger issue is that AI is being used to censor footage from the owners of the camera themselves. There's been stories about gunshots being censored from the owners of the camera by Ring.<p>Can you provide sources for this? I just spent a few minutes looking and couldn't find anything, but I'd be super interested in learning more about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:57:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610259</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44610259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that it's not the usual response, but given Musk's strong promotion of natalism and the fact that he has used IVF to select XY embryos for _all_ of his offspring...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456185</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't really solve the underlying issue. On long-duration flights, pilots have to rotate who is in the cockpit and who is in crew rest. They receive food and beverage service from flight attendants entering the cockpit. On very rare occasions, they are asked to enter the cabin and examine some part of the plane to determine if something is an emergency or not. Mantraps are perhaps a future requirement for cleansheet designs, but even that seems unlikely to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 22:07:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017371</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44017371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding of the purported reasoning behind the reversal was:<p>- They required airlines to implement cameras to monitor the hall leading up to the cockpit so that the pilot in the cockpit can verify who is requesting entry (without this, they still must follow the rule — Ryanair chose not to retrofit, so they continue to use attendants who can look out the peephole).<p>- In testing, they decided that the extra time that the cockpit door was unsecured during the switchovers in tight spaces was more dangerous than trying to solve the suicidal pilot issue with better mental health monitoring.<p>(My own note, we know that suicidal actors have no problems taking weapons to their copilots or whatever attendant is stuck looking out the peephole, e.g. FedEx 705.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 20:30:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016781</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't tell if this is droll sarcasm, but just in case not...<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 19:45:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976871</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43976871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The HTTPStatus enum example is a good one, but the backtick syntax is _rough_. I would only ever use the Type.case form in practice. The test stuff is basically a way to create BDD-style test names, which is kind of just a preference thing. I can’t envision myself using it for anything other than weird case names (I already use case `default` quite a lot because it’s such a useful word), but maybe some interesting DSLs can come out of it? I would not have prioritized that change personally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940912</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43940912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> or for someone not at all knowledgeable who is looking for an overview before they plan to do deeper learning/studying through reading<p>Yep. This is what I have used them (sparingly) for — a scaffold to build the deeper learning onto. My brain struggles to retain information when it doesn’t have a high-level understanding of how/why a system works and how individual parts connect and interact, even if it is all eventually revealed later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:24:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849604</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43849604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "GeoDeep's AI Detection on Maxar's Satellite Imagery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s possible I’m missing visibility into some part of the industry, but I don’t think this has been true for quite some time. There are multiple providers of Ground Segment as a Service that satellite operators can buy radio time from across the globe that are in the billions of yearly revenue. Most satellites are transmitting to the nearest ground stations in one or more networks live and transported over IP unless that capability isn’t required.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677791</link><dc:creator>bbatsell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43677791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bbatsell in "Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Almost certainly blocked by NDA; that is her inviting Congress to issue a subpoena so she has legal cover.</p>
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