<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: crowcroft</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=crowcroft</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:22:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=crowcroft" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is a general misunderstanding of how common law legal systems work.<p>The extent to which these are or are not generalized is decided by judges based on the merits of individual cases, and while a written law might sound broad the way it's interpreted is up to the accepted precedence.<p>I suspect a porn site would be ok because it's clearly labelled, and isn't trying to entice kids to engage with it. However if you're social platform deliberately trying to increase engagement with under 18s, and then promoting sexual content to them...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:49:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205016</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine if there was some kind of way to cryptographically 'prove' your GPU is doing some kind of 'work' here and contributing to the network.<p>You could even hand out some kind of digital 'currency' to the people proportional to the amount of work their doing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:41:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016218</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Tailwind and slop apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tailwind just happens to be a common way to write CSS.<p>If Tailwind didn't exist people would just be writing the same article about {{ insert most common css tool here }}<p>Most people create generic similar looking websites, and most people that making a new website today use Tailwind. Correlation is not causation, and linking the two in any meaningful way is just a pointless discussion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:33:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498737</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess to this point the argument for the valuation is just, do you think Elon will beat the (very bad) odds?<p>I wouldn't take that bet, but I can see why some people would.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:44:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456090</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "The advertising cartel coming to your web browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The issue is that problem one is real, but not in a way that's beneficial to other advertising products.<p>Search, social and app store ads are over rated in that a lot of brands should probably decrease their investment, but things like programmatic display ads are absolutely not under rated. The correct number of dollars that should be spent on those placements is close to zero.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377197</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, they're not a public company, but there are still laws that exist...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 10:45:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321442</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two issues with this.<p>- Search ad pricing is inelastic and auction based (supply goes down price goes up).<p>- A jump in traffic to DuckDuckGo does not mean Google is experiencing a decline in search volume. Number of queries per session has increased since launching AI Overviews.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:29:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302198</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Important context: In terms of total share of search a 28% lift for DuckDuckGo rounds down to zero.<p>The flip side is that multiple AI Search engines have overtaken and lapped DuckDuckGo many many times over in the past year or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 23:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302180</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Ferrari Luce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cybertruck and Jaguar have not been sucessful.<p>Luxury car makers should look to handbags for inspiration. If Ferrari wants to expand the market and reach new customers they shouldn't be making something that looks like an upbadged BYD.<p>It's like if Hermes started making a Jansport backpack, absurd. Instead they sell lower cost, but still premium designs like the Picotin. The Lamborghini Urus might be one example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 02:25:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274263</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48274263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Part of what I’m getting at is exactly your point that we used to think about what compiler to use and didn’t always blindly trust them.<p>If you have enough tests at what point does AI rewriting software in a different language become close enough to ‘deterministic’? Maybe never, maybe not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 10:51:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246586</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why I require all my software to have bespoke compilers otherwise how can I trust the devs know what their code is actually running!?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 23:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242734</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "The IBM-ification of Google?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is pretty common across social media as well, surveyed sentiment towards it often negative while usage is high. I suspect it's because of the addictive quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 01:27:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230867</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48230867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This never occurred to traditional search results so highly doubt they’ll start now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:15:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220756</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's a very common misconception among programmers that the law is a sort of natural language 'program' where you can consistently deduce that x input generate y output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216950</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When some countries tell them 'You need to make sure the product is safe for children', or 'you can't let people under 16 on the platform' Meta stomps their feet, says it's impossible and/or bad for society and spends millions on campaigns to influence the public against the govt's position. In some cases going as far as threatening to leave the country.<p>So yes, they absolutely have a choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216939</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who are the experts in the field, and who decides they're experts?<p>"More doctors smoke camels than any other cigarette".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 04:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175655</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, but what about Meta and X etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117433</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think the govt should be able to set rules that limit and control adult's freedoms with computers.<p>I don't think the govt should be able to set rules that limit and control children's freedoms with computers.<p>A child can't enter a nightclub or a liquor store. The closest digital equivalents are basically permanently available to them though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102762</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Agents for financial services and insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't wait for Claude to submit fake tax records for me so that I can commit fraud legally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:06:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030899</link><dc:creator>crowcroft</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by crowcroft in "Xbox CEO ends Copilot AI development and overhauls leadership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One turn away from 'Hey Copilot can you play my game for me'.</p>
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