Hacker News: dmschulman

New comment by dmschulman in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

dmschulman — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:08:56 +0000

Someone knows the government infinite money machine, which Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, and many other Musk companies took advantage of, is about to get cut off.

Crypto and AI's $250M election goes sideways

dmschulman — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:53:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50366355

Points: 4

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State of HTML 2026

dmschulman — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-html/2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165958

Points: 1

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EZ Make Oven – Make your own reflow oven with this easy to build project

dmschulman — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:54:49 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.adafruit.com/ez-make-oven/overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026458

Points: 2

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New comment by dmschulman in "Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening"

dmschulman — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:11:23 +0000

It's another revenue stream for the car company. Data brokers love car telemetry and GPS data and the car companies know it. Both parties have struck up a rather cosy relationship: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/07/10/data-brok...

New comment by dmschulman in "Long-term nuclear waste warning messages"

dmschulman — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:04:40 +0000

Don't change color, kitty.

Keep your color, kitty.

Stay that pretty gray.

Don't change color, kitty.

Keep your color, kitty.

Keep sickness away.

Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

dmschulman — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:37:50 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927887

Points: 11

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One Silicon Valley founder bought the Bucks County school board

dmschulman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:58:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/show/bucks-county-usa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856624

Points: 2

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New comment by dmschulman in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

dmschulman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:47:03 +0000

The FDA was already in bad shape as far as inspections go. In 'The Secret Life of Groceries' (published in 2020) I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect around 5% of domestic agricultural and food processing operations nation-wide. That speaks more to the amount and size of agri-business in the United States than the FDA's capacity, but it also doesn't mean great things for the federal government's ability to preemptively intervene in most cases.

DOGE cuts to FDA, HHS, FSIC, FTC, EPA, and more have inevitably made this problem much worse.

Christopher Nolan's Finest Trick [video]

dmschulman — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:37:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livIbni7x7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483952

Points: 2

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New comment by dmschulman in "FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer"

dmschulman — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:36:01 +0000

My dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in December 2019 and thankfully caught wind of it in its early stages due to an eagle-eyed nurse going over some routine blood work and noting his liver numbers were off, he should talk to the doctor.

You can imagine how hard it was to be sick in the early days of COVID, much less have to go to the hospital on a regular basis to receive chemotherapy for hours on end. Our family was lucky that he responded well to treatment at least and we had a few extra years with him before he passed away in late 2023.

Cancer is a terrible thing but pancreatic cancer is especially horrible due to the difficulty in detection when you're in otherwise good health. The fact that intense medical research into retrovirals has yielded something so significant as the RAS-inhibitor is nothing short of miraculous.

New comment by dmschulman in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

dmschulman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:41:13 +0000

The purpose of the ACA was to get more people to sign up for health insurance by creating plans everyone could access regardless of employment status or income. Solving the healthcare crisis in this country from top to bottom is going to take more than an act of Congress.

Also necessary to remember the ACA was only passed because of Democratic support in 2010. Republicans hacked away at the proposal before it became law, kneecapping any real institutional changes it had contained, and have effectively killed it since becoming the majority in the House and Senate in 2024. That bipartisan support piece is required in order for anything meaningful to happen.

New comment by dmschulman in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

dmschulman — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:01:38 +0000

There's a multitude of evidence that points to the success of the ACA from a cost perspective (among other things).

Cost of healthcare for individuals is not a good metric to judge by. The ecosystem of hospitals, patients, doctors, insurers, health systems, and the federal government is complex and you're not going to get a clear picture of the overall impact of the ACA by looking as something as simple as cost savings.

One example, hospitals are required to treat patients whether or not they hold insurance. The hospital foots the bill for that care and it's a major reason why hospitals shut down (especially in underserved communities). Getting more people on insurance plans was a direct factor is keeping many struggling hospitals and health systems afloat.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/22/affordable-care-act-cont...

https://www.networkforphl.org/news-insights/the-affordable-c...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/chart-book-accomplishme...

New comment by dmschulman in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

dmschulman — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:07:34 +0000

I just launched my digital media shelf on my personal website, a catalog of my favorite books, movies, records, podcasts, and more. Lots of fun to build despite some false starts and fits:

https://dmschulman.com/shelf/

Calabi–Yau Manifold

dmschulman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:34:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabi%E2%80%93Yau_manifold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494549

Points: 3

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New comment by dmschulman in "The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers"

dmschulman — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:13:36 +0000

Funny you should mention this. Benn Jordan, on the heels of his Flock camera research, reverse engineered a non-flock ALRP unit and built his own system using some off the shelf parts, a tablet, and 3D printer. He did it mostly as an experiment but also due to the fact that Flock's algorithm for image detection is astoundingly bad and has a high incident of reading plates incorrectly.

There are a handful of open-source models for license plate detection, I forget exactly which model outperformed the rest, but it was an excellent watch and help me really understand just how inefficient these commercial systems are and how easy they can be to defeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

New comment by dmschulman in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

dmschulman — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:22:09 +0000

Have we colonized Mars yet? Asking for a friend.

Pope Leo's encyclical on preserving the human person in the AI era drops May 25

dmschulman — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-first-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178647

Points: 2

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Operation: Epic Furious

dmschulman — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.epicfurious.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109519

Points: 382

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New comment by dmschulman in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

dmschulman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:29:12 +0000

I read this as "why are they going after a soldier who made $30k when they could be going after guys who made seven figures off of expertly timed trades on going to war with Iran"