<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: bshaughn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bshaughn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:09:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bshaughn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The number one value of MCP's is that it forced everyone align on an API protocol, but the protocol itself has room for improvement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 03:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332155</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Websites should have a lean markdown or .txt page for each human friendly webpage. A lot of the surge in bots is because of LLMs. Its insane that a technical documentation web page can use 200MB + of memory, when the core information I care about is << 1 MB of text. at the path of least resistance for many people is to have claude code hit 20 of such pages.<p>This is something that would be perfect for cloudflare to host and sell as a service - static web pages via their CDN network.<p>I do not work in web development, so im sure there are plenty of details im ignorant of, but the TLDR of "how to fight accidental DDOS because of AI tooling " is make it easier for them to get the content they want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:03:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269786</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've described the field of Psychiatry as trying to describe a building, using only its shadow (projection from high dimensional space to 2d space), with only a handful of choices for the building type. Ultimately only the building (the patient) really knows the full scope of complexity, but a doctor has to be careful in how they get info out.<p>I don't have a solution, as its an inherently hard problem with a lot of risks (like giving medicine to the wrong person). But I also think this desire to have nice categories for things can be counterproductive in a lot of cases.<p>I personally think rebranding aspergers + Autism to the autism spectrum was a mistake, as there's a huge difference between someone who's really good at their job but weird and despises certain workplace nonsense - and someone who can't take care of themselves.<p>ADHD is another great example of a bucket that makes non sense. We were evolved to be hunter gatherers that get many hours of walking or running, and other physical activity every day. Then we act surprised when 11 year olds don't want to sit still 6 hours a day, or getting people like me to write a JIRA ticket is like pulling teeth.<p>I think separating out these large categories into smaller ones is a good step, but ultimately I think the categories are a counterproductive solution to our human urge to find a logical explanation to things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 21:18:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001611</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This tool should finally make it possible to setup a good web interface to my obsidian notes. I have a hacky setup using github as the backend storage system but its slow.<p>Ive been surprised at how few people are interested in an obsidian browser tool, but its great if I want to read / write notes from a corporate laptop for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200298</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes it is, this happened before almost 20 years ago and the NBA ref went to jail. Yet somehow the whitehouse insider trading is. Did you know someone took out a $300M BTC Short position right before a trump tarriff announcement in October?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681289</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681289</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I completely agree insider trading is an issue, especially with the legality of sitting congressmen being able to day trade. But with the exception of elected officials voting for bad bills / policies, the "victim" is whomever loses money on those trade. Its reactive to world events, meaning the world events aren't being changed by the insider trader.<p>Polymarket is worse as it gives a mechanism for proactively changing the outcome  of events to a much more extreme degree, simply because someone can make money on it.<p>A benign version of this would be NFL employees betting $1million on the color of gatorade in the Superbowl.<p>An insane version of this would be Trump issuing a single airstrike on Iran after having a friend or family member place a $10M bet on polymarket that pays out $1B. It completely erodes the obligation our government officials have to not act in their self interests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:55:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672070</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you have completey missed my point. The stock market only allows you to trade securities, and (in theory) there is a lot of regulation and enforcement on who buys / sells stocks. Additionally, no one has the power to magically set a stock price to be a certain price on a certain date.<p>Polymarket all of a sudden makes it much easier to make money betting on an outcome people control. Looking at polymarket, I see bets paying 100-1 based on the number of tweets Elon makes on a given day. I see another at 100-1 on wether the US airstrikes Iran today with $66m riding on it. All of a sudden theres an incentive of a life changing amount of money for goons in the whitehouse to strike Iran for shits and giggles.<p>Did you know that in 2007 some NBA Refs were caught rigging games for just $2000 a game? Now Refs don't even need to be payed off when you can make a position anonymously with bitcoin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:58:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671555</link><dc:creator>bshaughn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bshaughn in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It gives people in power, wether it be the government or even an NBA ref, a vehicle to profit off of conflicts of interest / fixing games / etc...<p>Ive seen people point out White House press conferences do weird shit, like cut the conference 10 seconds before some polymarket prop bet of "how long will this press conference be".<p>Much more heinously, a few months ago right before one of Trumps asinine tariff announcements, someone took out a $300M BTC short position that was almost certainly from a WH insider.<p>I honestly don't care if someone loses all their money gambling, but the problem I have is how so many institutions are able to be undermined at a fundamental level do the existence of polymarket.</p>
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<p>You can do a lot of this in obsidian with the dataview and execute-code plugins!</p>
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<p>I've implemented a POC on exactly this and am working on something more sophisticated right now. Can I reach out to discuss more?</p>
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<p>Not exactly what you're looking for but I a few months ago I spent a day building a llama-index pipeline against my markdown notes with a really privative note crawling implementation, and had surprisingly good results for question answering.<p>I don't use an org-roam note system but I've been working on a similar and highly opinionated note system that I'm always making tools for. And I'm always interested in seeing people's ideal note systems.<p>my crude WIP Obsidian / Markdown note RAG tool: <a href="https://github.com/bs7280/markdown-embeddings-search">https://github.com/bs7280/markdown-embeddings-search</a></p>
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<p>Yes! Pikapods, which is a service to "self host" open source tools cheaply. I discovered and implemented this yesterday during lunch, took only a few minutes.<p>you get $5 in credit without entering a CC<p><a href="https://www.pikapods.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pikapods.com/</a></p>
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