<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: fooey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fooey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:21:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fooey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the lesson congress learned from the Hillary Clinton coronation getting derailed by Obama was to absolutely never ever vote on anything important</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:13:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486817</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>absolutely nothing in going to happen in the US congress until 2029<p>we're essentially one year of three into one of the least effective lame duck legislative bodies we'll ever see</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:10:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486800</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think owning GitHub is a prestige play, not necessarily thought of as a profit center.<p>Now however, it's competing for resources directly with the corporations core strategic plans.<p>GitHub having issues is embarrassing, but the shareholders don't really care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:55:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350792</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you're the uncontested market leader, you don't budget operations to be perfectly reliable, you budget to not be too unreliable. All those 9's are expensive after all.<p>The AI boom caught them napping though, and they're slipping well into the too unreliable category</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350712</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>cloudflares lack of spending caps and and usage alerts is a seriously unnerving approach</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:17:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214336</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214336</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I shutdown all my little informational hobby projects this year that I've tinkered with for decades<p>They all shifted from mostly paying for themselves (or being so cheap it didn't matter), to essentially producing zero income while resource usage leapt up in magnitudes<p>I couldn't justify the stress and hassle of making sites, that a few dozen people a day might find useful, into some complex hyperscalable obligations just to feed the bots</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214296</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the Tesla standard is 5 seconds, NHTSA says 30 seconds<p>Luckily, none of the Tesla data is available because they're currently getting away with redacting so much in their reports they're essentially useless</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029222</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Google changes its search box"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I expect a flavor of affiliate marketing where you can never trust if the LLM is giving you the best recommendations or the most highly bidded recommendations</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 19:38:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198340</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Utah senator smacks ABC reporters phone out of hand amid Data Center controversy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The proposed build out will consume 9gw of electricity, all LNG fueled<p>The entire State of Utah, *combined* consumes less than half that much energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:21:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055904</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>for my experience currently, I greatly prefer the VSCode Copilot extension experience over the Claude Extension<p>I think VSCode only supports copilot for "autocomplete" too<p>on top of that, you need GitHub Copilot for the PR reviewer functionality in GitHub</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927706</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>he literally paraphrased the 14 words after doing it<p>"It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured."<p>it's an absolute joke anyone disputes what he did</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707296</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the followup to that "censorship of conservative opinions" complaint is always "which opinions are those"<p>It's a perfect analogue for asking confederate fans, "state's rights to do what?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:07:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707211</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>New reporting that an A-10 ~was also shot down~ has also gone down (unconfirmed if it was shot down)<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump-oil" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/world/iran-war-trump...</a><p>> A second Air Force combat plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, and the lone pilot was safely rescued, according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters.  The A-10 Warthog attack plane went down near the Strait of Hormuz about the same time that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the officials said.   In that incident, one crew member was rescued and search-and-rescue operators are looking for the second airman.  Officials provided scant details about the A-10 crash, including how and where it happened.<p>there's some additional osint rumor mill that a blackhawk helicopter involved in rescue operations was also shot down but claims that crew been recovered</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630603</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The latest reporting is that only 50% of Iran's missile capacity has been destroyed<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-military-strikes-trump" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/iran-missiles-us-mil...</a><p>Doesn't break out anti-air, but Iran absolutely has a lot of teeth left.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:43:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630432</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47630432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's a race of parallel discoveries sprinting towards commoditization and indistinguishably<p>any real breakthrough will be instantaneously reverse engineered and replicated<p>none of the not-googles can win, because there is no win state</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:47:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999335</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "AI controls is coming to Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This quote is amazing<p>> “AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it,” Ajit Varma, Firefox’s vice president of product, writes in the announcement. “We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from others who want AI tools that are genuinely useful. Listening to our community, alongside our ongoing commitment to offer choice, led us to build AI controls.”<p>some people want nothing to do with AI<p>other people just want the AI to actually do something</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861552</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazon is so bad it's getting difficult to find the actual search results</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:12:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696436</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46696436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/HXmoa" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/HXmoa</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693893</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "Statement from Jerome Powell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's basically nothing the American people <i>can</i> do short term.<p>The US government is entirely non-responsive and only nominally representative.<p>Barring a wave of Republican retirements in the House, the absolute soonest there are any guardrails are after the 2026 midterms when a new congress is seated in 2027.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:03:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582992</link><dc:creator>fooey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fooey in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I keep asking our product team what the plan is when our API/Infra costs eventually skyrocket and our AI features become unsustainable, but there's absolutely zero preparedness.<p>We throw in all these cute little AI features to fill out marketing bullet points because they're basically free, but if they had real cost we're going to have no choice but to take them away.</p>
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