<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: hackeraccount</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hackeraccount</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:14:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hackeraccount" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "How the dark, violent medieval origins of Robin Hood were erased"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't find it but my favorite Robin Hood comic strip was one where Robin Hood robs from someone rich and gives it to someone poor.<p>I'm rich! shouts the poor person.<p>You're what?  says Robin Hood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:24:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629799</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice pull.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589556</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That last line,
"children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why."<p>fills me with dread.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586582</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah but more bright is more safe ... for me driving around with the light of a thousand suns coming out of the front of my care at night it seems pretty safe,  "good luck everybody else".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:12:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492332</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For the down votes I would have gone with the "Shocker that Jacobian finds something bad and puts the root cause to Capitalism" comment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:46:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434832</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't "data centers are using all the electricity" the same as "we're not pricing electricity correctly"?<p>Instead of a ban just make sure they pay what's needed to keep capacity where it needs to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:16:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372277</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah, there'll be a lot of people who think they know what happened and there'll be one person someone at BO who really knows what happened they just don't know they know it yet.  In the course of the analysis that person will hear a couple of known facts and there will be feeling in the pit of your stomach when all doubt goes away.  Worst case scenario is that it's something they signed off on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:25:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326350</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hear what you're saying but ... clearly SpaceX has made some broad technical decisions - I'm think of using metholox or making starship out of steel or falcon first stage re-usability -   that seem to have been the correct choice.<p>I doubt Musk originated these idea but he was the one who ultimately made the decision on them.  There were  a lot of other people who had the same choice and either didn't come down that way or took a lot longer to come to the same place.<p>Like I said, genius?  I personally wouldn't use that word.  He's not an idiot though.  He might be the minimum viable product for technical knowledge combined with a large amount of money but that's still pretty remarkable.</p>
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<p>No one looks at money that way. If it were I'd find a million dollars under the seat cushions of the couch that Bill Gate's owns.  No one is so flaked out they don't know that a 100 grand is a nice chunk of change or what the costs of staying vs. moving are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314443</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't say all the benefits.  I mean if I get a cheaper ride from the airport I'm benefiting at least a little bit from this, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 12:20:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293148</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Why are slaves doing work for their masters?"<p>Maybe drop that one from the list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 12:18:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293120</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48293120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They'll go to Florida.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185704</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked with a guy who had an internship studying the effects of some drug on rats.  He said he didn't have much of a problem killing the rats but also claimed that he knew his dog realized what he was up to at work.<p>It made me think he might have had more of a problem with it then he thought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 16:27:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181925</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "The AI water issue is fake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is regulation the word you're looking for?  It seems like you just need to get pricing right not regulation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:58:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172678</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any mention of typesetting should work to include Mark Twain's quote about his relationship with the inventor James Paige, who worked on a never quite working as well as could be wished typesetting machine that Twain invested heavily in.<p>"Paige and I always meet on effusively affectionate terms; and yet he knows perfectly well that if I had his nuts in a steel-trap I would shut out all human succor and watch that trap till he died."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:55:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172655</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Impeaching Every Federal Judge and Justice Who Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's probably impossible but bring back the judicial filibuster.  If a judge knows that get confirmed in the Senate they'll have to have bipartisan support then you'll end up with a group of judges desperate to appeal to everyone and alienate no one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 18:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162418</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "Show HN: Race to the Bottom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah.  I was waiting for something to get at the consistency of what I was clicking i.e. if I think A is better then B and B is better then C why do I think C is better then A.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:01:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148718</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "IPv8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's give up a lot of things for a protocol that seems more backwards compatible (but realistically isn't).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148679</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking at smoking rates for people in the US - it peaks for men in the 1950's.  I'm not saying studies and taxes and PSA's did nothing but on some level I think most people had a pretty good idea that smoking was no good long before they ever saw scientific proof.<p>I think those studies, taxes and everything else was as much an expression of that thinking as it was an influence on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140589</link><dc:creator>hackeraccount</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hackeraccount in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is my take (speaking of political preferences) but gender reassignment surgery is going to look like giving people lobotomies.<p>I don't know when but I think attitudes abut sex/gender in future will be really different - not your side won and my side lost but just different then we understand.  Like people won't do single sex sport different.  I think the model for sports in the future is things like those obstacle course shows - Men and Women both compete at the same time but viewers are just aware that they have different capabilities; so they know that a woman doing X is much more amazing then a man doing X+10.</p>
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