<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: bickfordb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bickfordb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:24:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bickfordb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aside from an easily swap-able battery I would love for an iPhone with a double thickness screen that was less susceptible to cracking and built-in rubber bumpers so I wouldn't need a case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836939</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What evidence is there that he knows how to build an empire outside of fundraising?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774255</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Dioxus library seems really similar to me.  How is Sycamores model different?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:16:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600445</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also see these as reasonable since they are part of the negotiation of selling the business.  Non-competes as it relates to most ordinary employees in the US is typically a contract of adhesion: a surprise take it or leave it clause while signing an employment agreement, well after a job offer and salary negotiation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578633</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder what effect this will have on file sharing services like Megaupload?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519840</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Carmack was a shareware/proprietary software guy way before he was a open source person if ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:21:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372990</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Section 122 has rarely been used.  State AGs announced lawsuits today: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-tariffs-state-ags-sue-supreme-court-decision.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/trump-tariffs-state-ags-sue-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266131</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The latest temporary tariffs are also likely illegal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:09:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262429</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47262429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This shouldn't be understated.<p>Also, implicit in the government's requirements is that they require mass domestic surveillance capabilities.  Imagine a large government tool that for each citizen there is an antagonist OpenClaw-like set of agents surveilling and potentially acting against every public interaction and occasionally hallucinating.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190115</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190115</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In many cases they charged me ~$25 in processing fees to collect a ~$3 tariff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096429</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's hard for me to pay my taxes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091478</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47091478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Church goers using parking lots like this is a use, but I doubt it's a productive charitable use that should to be subsidized by localities.<p>Every other contemporary development in my area that faces real economic reality is ground floor retail, commercial/residential on top, and optionally underground parking.<p>There are certainly productive religious charitable efforts using facilities like this: homeless shelters, community low-cost/free clinics, soup kitchens.  I think these uses should be tax subsidized, but other mystical efforts should not be whether they generate a profit or not.<p>I think a good reform to the 501c3 system would be to make non-profits like these churches and hospitals classify their actual charitable activity and separate it from their other activity, just like individuals with a mix of personal/small business income/expenses are required to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:34:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056461</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my metro area it irks me to see the churches with large empty parking lots empty most of the week. We have a housing shortage and they seem to have no little incentive to convert their parking to more productive use.<p>I agree, the whole ruse that these 501s meaningfully does charitable work for our communities is laughable and their tax exemption should be revoked, at least with regard to land taxes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054215</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ozempic lost its patent in Canada and a generic might be approved there soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930603</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 1.5M number includes non-corporate employees (warehouse).  They likely included this number to soften the message.  The corporate workforce is ~300K so this is actually ~4% of their workforce.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797474</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mean pump and dump fraud</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749836</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The constitution has been absurdly broken by a cult of partisan federal judges claiming to be textual, but then inventing an absurd canon of non-laws no one can reference:<p>* Unitary executive theory.  Congress can't create a federal reserve, except for when the supreme court likes it.<p>* Major questions doctrine.  Congress can't create an EPA and give it open ended authority to regulate its way to clean air<p>* Qualified immunity.  Congress can't stop ICE agents from   murdering people<p>* Historical tradition as regard to the 2nd amendment.  Congress can't ban everyone from walking around with military assault weapons.<p>I don't see how Congress can easily fix this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686928</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Caltrain shows why every region should be moving toward regional rail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US needs a model for stronger state and regional authorities that plan and implement mass transit and zoning.  In California in particular, cities and counties have consistently bungled planning, locking entire communities into single family housing with low height maximums, ceded walkable downtowns to freeway strip malls dominated by a handful of national retailers, and few updates to mass transit since BART was built in the 1970s.  The example of the North Bay NIMBYs blocking BART expansion sticks out to me in particular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 01:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561857</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also: From what I understand the LFP battery degradation is essentially corrosion that is removed by recycling and you can retrieve 99% of the essential LFP elements and make it into a new battery.  So economically we only need to extract the LFP related materials for each human user almost once, instead of oil over and over again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:02:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351470</link><dc:creator>bickfordb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bickfordb in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have the same question.  It makes sense that they might need bespoke software, but how could they possibly be more efficient at creating chips than an AMD/Nvidia?</p>
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