<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: drumdance</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drumdance</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:07:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drumdance" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When was this? I lived in Denver 2015-2021 and the DMV was always quick when I went.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:07:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549473</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And government in general. Populist demagogues capitalize on the misperception that one man can just make all the "easy" fixes. DOGE was a good example of that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:24:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504587</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From my perspective, there is such a thing as "too much democracy." I don't know how to quantify the exact right amount for a given situation.<p>In the case of companies, a benevolent dictatorship is fine because employees, customers and investors can all exit and find other companies. It's at the nation state level where you need more structural veto points. (Arguably true for towns/counties/states too, but you still have the right to exit so...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:22:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504561</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For give my naiveté, but who pays for the training of these models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323615</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The spam results dominating Google, runaway popups... ugh</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922572</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47922572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Cloudflare Email Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, this brings back memories. Way back in the 2000 I worked on a concept to charge “postage“ to big senders and remit payments to receivers (hosts, not end users). I also looked at hashcash. I ultimately abandoned the project because I realized I would be spending all my time convincing big senders why they should pay and I knew I would hate that job.<p>Previously I was the spam cop for a big sender and saw up close all the ways our clients would try to weasel around it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:30:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812664</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a web site? I'd like to check it out.<p>I'm building an identity verification platform for age verification. I set it up as a nonprofit because I think this is a public good that should be provided by governments. It's mostly a proof of concept right now. My long term goal is to get state DMVs using it (or something like it).<p><a href="https://cardlessid.org" rel="nofollow">https://cardlessid.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:50:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366095</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could use this for a project I'm working on, but the Download link is 404 on GitHub</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366027</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47366027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That link only works for verified YC founders, not just members of the network.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275880</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47275880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Use protocols, not services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In theory yes, in practice it requires lots of different government services to get on the same page. How do you verify a state ID? Usually the DMV. Have they released an API endpoint for that? Almost certainly no. What if instead you're using a passport? Then the federal government needs to do it. What if your passport is from a country with weak government that doesn't have a lot of capacity?<p>And of course governments attract hackers because they tend to not be up to date on security best practices.<p>A single abstraction layer on blockchains allows more developers and security experts to contribute and innovate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089607</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are also SNRIs, which don't have the sexual side effects. I've done mostly SSRIs but in the last few years I've been on an SNRI called Pristiq and it's the best by far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:27:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809936</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Scott Adams has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men.<p>I've always had questions about this. Did he not look at the senior leadership and get a sense if that's true?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:00:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647879</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "The suck is why we're here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with this on a subjective level, but it also makes me think of blacksmiths at country fairs. I'm sure they deeply enjoy the work, but industrialized CNC and other technology replaced them long ago. It's a craftsman's hobby now.</p>
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<p>I've thought for a while that I could get a good sense of someone's potential if I could just read their email. I noodled on the idea of an oauth (Gmail) based AI to evaluate email but the privacy issues make it a nonstarter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:12:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778099</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Identity Is Fundamental"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for your input. Once we launch the the product itself we will make no mention of crypto for exactly this reason.<p>Lofty.ai used crypto as the back end for their fractionalized property platform, but there is no mention of crypto. I used it to sell a portion of my rental property. Here's a video I made about the process: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPLXFwhZbY&t=2s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgPLXFwhZbY&t=2s</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628698</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45628698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is something I should use but am not at all knowledgeable about. One thing to consider as a feature is creating an llms.txt file that explains all the details so its consumable by an LLM</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:53:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619698</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A decentralized identity platform for age gating content - <a href="https://cardlessid.org" rel="nofollow">https://cardlessid.org</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619634</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity Is Fundamental]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://djcodes.substack.com/p/identity-is-fundamental">https://djcodes.substack.com/p/identity-is-fundamental</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619566">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619566</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 8</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://djcodes.substack.com/p/identity-is-fundamental</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45619566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "I only use Google Sheets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My very first programming job was with Quattro Pro spreadsheet. It was a great introduction for someone who was self-taught and pre-internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463719</link><dc:creator>drumdance</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45463719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drumdance in "AI coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IMO the value of AI coding is less about what we're seeing now and more about what will happen once anyone can program their phone, watch or smart speaker just by feeding it a prompt.</p>
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