<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: decimalenough</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=decimalenough</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:35:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=decimalenough" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[Writing in 2026: Wherein Claude Voice infects the universe]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://craigmod.com/roden/118/">https://craigmod.com/roden/118/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647549">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647549</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://craigmod.com/roden/118/</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't give Trump any ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:10:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638304</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49638304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's kind of funny how the colonial convenience of having the 0 longitude line pass through Greenwich, UK ends up making Africa the most prominent place on the world map, since the centerpoint (0,0) is just off the African coast. This was true with Mercator as well, but Equal Earth emphasizes just how huge the African continent actually is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630897</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>His death was aided by his use of strong painkillers and local anesthetic grease on his skin.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616037</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "How AI is breaking the British state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>One step is to stop creating entitlements that are ripe for AI-fuelled claims. Britain’s Employment Rights Act and Renters’ Rights Act open avenues of legal challenge for workers and tenants. Not only are they misguided, but ministers put little thought into how they would burden the courts.</i><p>Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights?<p>> <i>Rather than just handling locals’ objections, a new Ai-driven planning system could decide for itself whether a housing development meets a zoning code. Rather than processing benefits claims, it could devise personalised welfare interventions.</i><p>And this sounds like it's going to work just <i>grrrreat</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581607</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "How AI is breaking the British state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/IDptA" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/IDptA</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:05:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581580</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Singapore subway (mrt) information display types"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, the old ones are so much better it's not even funny. Crystal clear at times where you are and where you're going.<p>The new LCD ones loop ads and random garbage half the time. The other half of the time they often show just the next station, not the whole line with its interchanges etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581045</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you meant non-US?<p>Although Ariane's rockets are wildly expensive and uncompetitive compared to SpaceX.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:43:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580987</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in ".name Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a document explaining how it all works, and I have Google's Inactive Account Manager setup to transfer credentials to my trusted contacts if I go permanently offline.<p><a href="https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:04:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558797</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49558797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delhi Built a World-Class Metro for a Bargain]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/headway/india-delhi-metro-public-transit.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/headway/india-delhi-metro-public-transit.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556578">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556578</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/headway/india-delhi-metro-public-transit.html</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in ".name Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't store their emails, I use forwardemail.net and they have a pretty reasonable privacy policy: <a href="https://forwardemail.net/en/privacy" rel="nofollow">https://forwardemail.net/en/privacy</a><p>Some people in my family use it as their main address, others don't, it's entirely their call.<p>But yes, ultimately I control the domain and could be nefarious if I wanted to. But there's a certain baseline level of trust as a family, I'm reasonably certain my wife won't poison the milk in the fridge and she's reasonably certain I'm not going to read her emails.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:03:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553229</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in ".name Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's 22k people with third level domains like first.last.name. There are close to 100,000 second level last.name registrations, which are not going anywhere.<p><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-2014-03-03-en" rel="nofollow">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-2014-03-03-en</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552943</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in ".name Termination"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've had a .name domain forever and I had no idea first.last.name was even a thing, meaning that it was possible to register this without owning last.name.<p>That said, my domain is simply unusual.name, and everybody in my family has email addresses in the form first@unusual.name. So this is a no-op for me, and I gather www.unusual.name will also continue to work, since I own the 2nd level outright.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:38:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552866</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does any of this have to do with Chen Danyan?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550604</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's fascinating how closely this parallels Chinese traditional medicine, where foods are classified as "heaty" or "cooling" and health conditions can be both caused and treated by an excess of one or the other.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_food_therapy</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549789</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The following bits are really scary. Not only were the agents hacking the system to "win", but they were, for lack of a better term, sufficiently "self-aware" that this was against the rules that they set out to wipe evidence of doing so:<p>> <i>The agents with impossible tasks had a common objective: to find a general-purpose way to trick or tamper with the automated ExploitGym scorer to get it to give a passing score on impossible tasks.</i><p>> <i>Agents referred to having seen the reverse-engineered flag as being “poisoned” because they believed that even if they later managed to stage a legitimate-looking flag capture, the scorer would look for the first place in their transcript that the flag appeared and disqualify them on that basis.[21] PHASEONE[big], which was itself poisoned, thus had two primary objectives:</i><p>> <i>Find a general-purpose way to make it look to the scorer like an agent had acquired its flag in a legitimate way, even when the task was impossible.</i><p>> <i>Find some way to erase evidence that an agent had been poisoned by previously seeing the flag in an illegitimate way.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:05:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544717</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Norway Shrugged (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>They took an investment of 70M at a valuation of 1000M, in a country that has a well-known 1% tax of valuation, but they failed to write payment of that tax into the funding papers and fled the country to dodge a 10M annual tax bill.</i><p>The tax bill is 10M only if they control 100% of the shares. Given that they've taken funding from at least 15 investors/VCs, this is clearly not the case.<p><a href="https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dune-analytics/__XskUZos4lkfEOnTJIbC-1n9WdooVINLFPRtWW9pdZC4/funding-and-investors" rel="nofollow">https://tracxn.com/d/companies/dune-analytics/__XskUZos4lkfE...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:42:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503137</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Norway Shrugged (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The blog author is the founder of a unicorn and thus (assuming they hold a controlling stake) a billionaire on paper. Should your sanctions apply, and how does that work when their only significant asset is the company shares?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503087</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Norway Shrugged (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The wealth tax targets millionaires who structure their income so they don't pay income or corporate tax, but can't avoid owning assets like company shares and property. Loss-making startups with unicorn level valuations are a tiny edge case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502666</link><dc:creator>decimalenough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by decimalenough in "Norway Shrugged (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TL;DR: Norway imposes a wealth tax that taxes unrealized gains at approximately 1% annually. "Wealth" here includes the book value of private companies, which presents cash flow problems for founders of startups with high paper valuations (like the author, who founded unicorn Dune Analytics).<p>I'm still finding it hard to be terribly sympathetic towards the author, and the constant Ayn Rand references don't help. If you're worth 100 million dollars on paper, is it really <i>that</i> hard to come up with 1 million to pay the taxman? Sell 1% of those shares, get a loan secured by those shares, etc.</p>
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