<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: bsimpson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bsimpson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:12:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bsimpson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are they actually made in the UK?<p>I'd presume they're shipped from China like most tech goods.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:10:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482763</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a whole big conversation to have about the bureaucratic state.<p>One of the things that appeals to voters is the argument that too many decisions are made by unaccountable bureaucrats.  Trump has been as effective at fixing this as with "drain the damp," and our elected officials clearly haven't been great about writing policy either. But one of the grievances that gets people to vote is "look at all this shit that some guy in Washington just decided."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:26:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467986</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's the link to submit a comment to the FCC:<p><a href="https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express" rel="nofollow">https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express</a><p>Ran a quick search and found a whole bunch of news articles, but nobody includes info that makes it easy to route your comment.  Feels like the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide:<p>> It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463229</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was a teenager when 9/11 happened.<p>Until that point, I thought wars were a stupid thing that humanity realized were stupid and stopped doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:04:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452036</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the referendum passes and the population crosses the threshold, Switzerland may need to remove itself from e.g. the Schengen area.  All the remediations mentioned in the referendum are about suspending immigration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:02:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452010</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448977</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447679</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Dopamine Fracking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's right - that phrase evokes what he means better than many alternatives.<p>But this feels like an article where you get all the useful info in the title. The rest is just a rant about the modern internet being bad for your brain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:23:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441312</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "GoPro warned it may not survive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago.<p>Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:41:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390525</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Debug Project"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad to see movement here!<p>It's been so long since I've heard about Debug that I was afraid it was cancelled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:43:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363071</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363071</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember when they first pivoted from multiperson multitouch tables to tablets.  It sounded like a really cool device - even got me to walk into a Microsoft store.<p>Then I realized that it used the same shitty Windows with the same shitty registry that I had mostly avoided for my whole life to that point.  I certainly wasn't jumping in on that tablet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:47:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360188</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is soon now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 19:47:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299561</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The performance envelope was already uninspiring. They said it does better than some big percentage of the people on Steam, but it's not an obvious upgrade over my 2023 Legion Go handheld in anything but a bit more RAM (and it's only 8GB discrete VRAM, which may be paltry for 4K).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298861</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It also used to be run as an independent company with access to MS's resources.<p>Now it's a unit in their AI hype machine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 12:33:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293286</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Probably because one of the main explorations of the articles is quantifying "young people."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:18:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283634</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Does anybody like React?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't FRP more like RxJS/CycleJS?<p>If you ask the people who work on any of those frameworks I mentioned, they'll tell you they're taking the React style and applying it to their platforms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280662</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Does anybody like React?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Flutter, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose: a whole lot of other platforms have been implementing React as their UI framework</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275155</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275155</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Supreme Court has recently had an appetite to overturn precedent deemed to be rooted in faulty case law/reasoning (controversially, Roe v Wade). It would be nice to see that energy pointed at blatantly unconstitutional notions like "you have no privacy when traveling."<p>Except for the parts that say "we get to be even more invasive for 'national security concerns'" and that they can compel you to provide a password, this doc seems mostly reasonable if you accept that they can search you.  Then again, it's not clear _why_ they should be able to search your devices. There are no foreign pests nor WMDs that exist as documents on a device. This is clearly just the government being nosy because they think they can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:06:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267749</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It says they're supposed to put it in airplane mode before searching. Of course, there's nothing preventing a Snowden-style klep the cookies and let a three letter agency reuse them later.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267623</link><dc:creator>bsimpson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bsimpson in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[citation needed]</p>
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