<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: electrondood</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=electrondood</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:47:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=electrondood" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why would you attribute to genius what is more likely explained by idiocy?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405545</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Do U.S. Presidents Always Make This Much Money? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, Trump's administration is straight up criminal.<p>The guy has made ~3500 stock trades in the last 3 months, and there's a pattern of him publicly pumping stock by mentioning a company in a tweet or public statement.<p>The problem is, the framers of the Constitution believed the American people would never elect someone so criminal and unfit, so the President is exempt from many criminal laws, including those that would stop this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:11:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324102</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I support this. The purpose of a home is for people who live in the area to live in, not to be a speculative investment.<p>This is part of the reason we have a housing shortage in the US: 20% of available homes are purchased by investors, which squeezes the supply.<p>Airbnb has made this worse. There are areas near me where during the COVID ZIRP, people snatched up like 70% of the homes to turn into rentals. Those places are now ghost towns, unless it's Memorial Day weekend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313099</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "The Ask"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's only a certain subset of the population that speaks like this. It's pompous and ridiculous. Are the two syllables in the word "request" one too many for people working in Product?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312969</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A distinct people? That's a myth. Every American is an immigrant, or descended from an immigrant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253572</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> this administration clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into<p>All of the advisors in the room with Trump (Cheung, Caine, etc.) told him explicitly after the meeting with Netanyahu that attacking Iran was a horrible idea. His military advisors told him that Strait closure was the most obvious consequence.<p>The root cause here, is that all decisions are being made by a single biological neural network with a really high error rate, which is increasing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 19:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184686</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think so. During that time the potential of LLMs to eliminate work wasn't obvious. That was pre-hype explosion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 19:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163091</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Making America great again, again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:23:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136802</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ICE is now a fascist paramilitary operation, and in my view, they are no longer legitimate. They lost that claim when they began violating the constitutional rights of citizens and immigrants alike as a matter of policy. They must be abolished.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:22:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109646</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He keeps claiming falsely that he's "ended 8 wars," but at this point he's actually attacked 8 different countries.<p>Up is always down with these people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950415</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not only aid, it was a powerful tool for the extension of American soft power around the globe. But I guess we're no longer able to reason in the abstract beyond "helping people is woke."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950388</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By the way, this is just the estimate from Pete Hegseth, who has demonstrated himself to be an unreliable narrator. This administration seems to have difficulty with numbers in general, accurate numbers in particular. The real cost is likely twice this, or higher.<p>For example, roughly 50% of our missile stockpiles have been depleted during this "excursion."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950366</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>xAI is working on virtualizing white collar workers. I'm guessing this is part of that.<p>See also: companies buying up the Slack and email archives of defunct startups, for training data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856500</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great write up... curious about the RCA. Thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hardly a party trick. My car handles 97% of my driving and it's on old hardware. Have you actually tried HW4? It's definitely on par with Waymo.<p>Also, I guarantee you FSD would recognize a mattress as an obstruction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Advocacy of force or criminal activity does not receive First Amendment protections if (1) the advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action, and (2) is likely to incite or produce such action.<p>You'd need to say something which directs others to violate the law or commit acts of violence, at a specific time ("imminent"), and your statement must be likely to be effective at causing them to do so.<p>Protesting, encouraging others to protest, expressing your political beliefs, organizing a protest, etc. are not incitement to violence. Nor is "doxxing" (filming, identifying) a public employee. None of these activities satisfy those criteria.<p>Remember the "Twitter files" nonsense? I recall they were upset at the government influencing the expression of political views on social media. Not hearing much backlash about this from the same people, because this is what they were claiming, but 100x worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's an alias that only applies to Federal employees.<p>The Congressionally-legislated actual name of the department is still Department of Defense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:59:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902563</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly. "Department of War" is guidance that applies only to Federal employees, and the Department of Defense was named through Congressional legislation. That is still the department's name, whatever Trump decrees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:58:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902543</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun fact: The Department of Defense was named through legislation.<p>Trump's EO that "renames" it only applies to Federal employees as guidance. No one else needs to call it that, and it's still legally the Department of Defense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902523</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45902523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by electrondood in "How to rig elections [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was well-litigated by the Trump administration, and none of their frivolous claims held up. They lost ~60 of their 63 court cases, and the 3 they won were technicalities.<p>2020 was a free and fair election.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:39:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905440</link><dc:creator>electrondood</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44905440</guid></item></channel></rss>