<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: foobarchu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=foobarchu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:42:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=foobarchu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Because I hate to break it to you, they could have zero drop in quality by just not incorporating US data...<p>This is so false and unsupportable it's comical. The same goes the other way, if you claim they would use no value by <i>only</i> incorporating American data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393074</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> when you pay for an AI model you are paying for the marginal service of building a model off that data, not for the data itself<p>Well no, you're also paying them for having done the work to "acquire" that data. That acquisition arguably amounts to the greatest theft in history.</p>
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<p>At the same time, the amount of disagreement an opinion gathers is an extremely important channel of information for determining whether you agree with someone's position. Silencing the disagreement with it gives an outsized benefit to harmful and malicious statements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:42:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360128</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I'm more worried for people spending all their income on high rent apartments or quickly depreciating cars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:49:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329059</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the question was intended more as "what does PE have to do with Wikimedia", not "why is PE a problem".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 23:09:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287281</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As others have said, there's even more at stake with a nonprofit. Charities famously milk their employees dry by emphasizing what good and important work they're doing, to justify overworking and underpaying them. If someone chooses to work for a nonprofit, that should not be interpreted as "willing to be a human doormat".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 23:02:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287211</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Being elected by a majority doesn't negate crimes committed, as much as a certain president would love everyone to believe that. Being elected shouldn't have anything to do with being punished, whether they won by 1% or by 99%</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:32:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215193</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using AI to identify the ideal neighborhoods to sell meth in doesn't mean it's legal to sell meth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199288</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The difference in my mind is that prediction markets and gambling are betting on outcomes, not long term behaviors. You could make the argument that they are the same, in the sense that buying a stock is "betting" on a company to do well, but I think you'd be making a silly argument. Stocks are intangible these days, but they were traditionally a physical thing that one would trade. If you're betting on prediction markets, there's nothing to trade after the event happens, just payouts.</p>
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<p>As a complete non-expert, as far as I can tell, the only true agreement out there is that certain very specific substances are bad for you if you consume them too often. That's tobacco, alcohol, painkillers...and that's about it for consensus ones, with alcohol having wiggle room among the public thanks to some poor studies.<p>Just about every other piece of nutrition advice out there can easily be categorized as controversial. Not in the sense that one side is obviously stupid or malicious, but in the sense that both sides earnestly think they are right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:05:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016123</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see why this matters a single bit. You can easily flip it around and say that the businesses were clearly fine with all this because they kept importing, so why shouldn't the entirety of the tarriff refund go to consumers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896561</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sales pitches are literally the same thing as "the selling point".<p>Neither of those is necessarily a synonym for why you personally use them</p>
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<p>It's a new problem in the sense that now executive management at many (if not most) software companies is pushing for all employees to work this way as much as possible. Those same people probably don't know what stack overflow even is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:51:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818429</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Farmer arrested for speaking too long at datacenter town hall vows to fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where's the bootlicking? I'd the article chooses to lie about why he was arrested for no reason (and try to paint him as "a farmer" rather than a known activist), then people are going to focus on the untruths and wonder what else the article lies about.<p>There was no need for this article to lie. The actual events were already worth being upset about. It only serves to distract.</p>
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<p>That is <i>A</i> solution. To be "the real solution", it needs to be within the grasp of a regular person. Self hosting your entire digital life is absolutely asking too much of the vast majority of people<p>This is like saying the real solution to bad practices of food companies is to exclusively grow your own food, or the answer to anti-repair practices is to only build your own devices, vehicles, etc. Contractors cut corners? Don't try to regulate, just learn carpentry, plumbing, and HVAC plus codes!</p>
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<p>I looked at buying tickets for a local hockey game last week, and the venue goes through Ticketmaster. The service fees were exactly the same as the actual ticket cost, maybe the total 200% of the list price.<p>I ended up going to the physical box office, where they still charged an extra 40% of the ticket cost in service fees.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786079</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Git is buggy<p>Citation needed on this one. Every problem I've ever seen arise with git came from someone not understanding the model or not knowing all the commands. Those don't make it better, but they don't mean it's buggy either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743206</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what I can gather, Hunter Biden was guilty of tax evasion, possessing a firearm when he shouldn't, and lying about drug use.<p>He shouldn't have been pardoned, sure, but you cannot possibly believe that's more corrupt than what Trump, his family, and his cronies do on a regular Tuesday afternoon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:41:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733851</link><dc:creator>foobarchu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by foobarchu in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> puts candidates they know aligned with their views, resulting in 'just wait until my turn comes and I will do as much as damage as possible' cycle.<p>There is exactly one party in the US that does this, and it's because they have dedicated themselves to blocking the other party from accomplishing much of anything when they get power.</p>
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<p>I can think of few things <i>more</i> synonymous with capitalism than Wall Street.</p>
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