<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: gavinsyancey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gavinsyancey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:12:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gavinsyancey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who's going to fund that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:47:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966424</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you can plug your car into a standard 120v 15a outlet that will give you about 35-45 miles of range overnight. Unless you have a really long commute, that's probably enough on average, and if you have a week where you're driving more you can supplement your charging by going by a public fast-charger. 240v 15a gives you twice as much charging and probably doesn't require very expensive electrical upgrades, just finding a circuit you can dedicate to the car and swapping the breaker+outlet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838799</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49838799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are other AI smells later in the article, and the author talks about using AI to help with writing...</p>
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<p>And as noted in the article, while that helps a lot with <i>most</i> of the issues, there are some corner-cases they still don't handle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:23:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751572</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "Copying login keychains between Macs fails on Secure Enclave Macs with Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't rotate my keys if I lose access to accounts because my computer died and my backup is useless.</p>
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<p><a href="https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843#m" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:20:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620941</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49620941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are a lot of fools out there. The real question is whether a clickwrap indemnification would hold up in coult; I suspect it wouldn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600396</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49600396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You should really be running the most popular browser<p>This amounts to giving Google effectively complete control over the web. I'm not sure that's a good idea. IMO it's important that Firefox and Safari remain popular enough that webdevs are forced to support them.<p>I'm somewhat sympathetic to "If you want to 'customize' your web experience, you shouldn't be surprised when things don't work right." in terms of turning off commonly-used features, but the request isn't to make it work right. OP just wants a helpful error message.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:35:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593598</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many municipal water systems are wholely in one state. Does the Constitution grant Congress the right to control municipal water quality?<p>Also it's kind of a moot point if federal law has not granted that right and does not seem likely to.</p>
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<p>Not the first place I'd heard that, but I found it ironic that the parent comment's own link refuted their claims in the first couple paragraphs. And Wikipedia tends to be pretty reliable -- in a 2005 Nature analysis, Wikipedia was found to have on average less errors per article than Encyclopedia Britannica: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/Nature_compares_Wikipedia_and_Britannica" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/Natur...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560378</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "The browser's main thread is expensive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is actually plausible as a way to prevent adblock.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:53:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560339</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's the first clean sheet airliner to be flown in any category, electric or not, uh, in the US in in the last 18 years.<p>Uh, what about the Bombardier C-series (A220)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557276</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hedging is not insider trading. Insider trading is trading based on material non-public information <i>in breach of a duty or obtained through fraud</i>. In that sense, it's more of a principal-agent problem.<p>Also -- hedging is generally not done based on material non-public information, but rather to guard against known risks. Joe the farmer sells a bunch of wheat futures when he plants his wheat, not because he thinks the price will go down, but rather because if it does he goes bankrupt and he'd prefer to accept a known rate-of-return now.</p>
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<p>Most competent people at the DOJ have either been fired or left. And the current administration seems to love insider trading, so long as they can be the insiders doing the trading.</p>
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<p>That's enough of an oversimplification as to not really be true.<p>They developed an issue with explosive decompressions, because at the time we didn't fully understand how cyclic stress caused metal fatigue. It is true that they had square-er windows than modern planes, but they knew that and added reinforcement. The stress concentrations inducing fatigue cracks were around square cutouts for an antenna, not the passenger windows. 
Also, the windows didn't pop out of their frames. Large portions of the fuselage ripped open.<p>And they lived a longer service life after <i>the fuselage was reinforced in the areas that cracks were starting,</i> but had trouble overcoming their bad reputation from the earlier explosive decompressions.<p>Source: the introduction to the Wikipedia article you linked. Read it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:53:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545059</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Anyway, i just wanna get on record that i predict an ai bubble pop event in the next 12 months.<p>Certainly possible, but I feel like you're very much going out on a limb predicting anything that soon. The market can stay irrational for a surprisingly long time if there's enough money floating around.<p>But I would be stunned if we don't have an AI bubble pop sometime in the next decade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:30:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533877</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Are these materially different?<p>A hack implies an adversary, and intentional targeting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:31:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514529</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "Creepy Crawlies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point of Anubis isn't to prevent bots from accessing a site, but rather to prevent dumb bots from accidentally DOSing a site.<p>If someone adds an Anubis solver to their spider, but then also makes it respect cache tags and stops crawling random old commits through a git-web interface, that's probably still mission accomplished.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508185</link><dc:creator>gavinsyancey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gavinsyancey in "RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CPython needs you to also be running an operating system. And while it might be  theoretically possible to get a NoMMU Linux running on an ESP32, that's generally not very useful for practical applications compared to micropython or something that's actually designed for a microcontroller.</p>
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<p>The trouble is, there are three different "versions" of "the search didn't work," only one of which I would say is definitely a bug:<p>- The thing the user searched for doesn't exist, so it wasn't found. This is not a bug.<p>- The user did a good job of searching, using relevant keywords etc, but the relevant thing (which exists) didn't come up. This is a bug.<p>- "Search didn't read my mind" -- if search is a core competency this is a bug, but otherwise I would consider it a deficiency or a missing feature.</p>
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