<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: hansonkd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hansonkd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 20:18:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hansonkd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Resisting Cognitive Surrender"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean more or less to an extent if you expand by what you mean by "out comes". With Amazon, a carpenter can type in any furniture he wants and have it arrive in a matter of hours. Almost equally as magically as well as disruptive. People still use carpenters to make tables, but for the majority, the ease of same-day delivery and cheaper prices are worth it for a sacrifice in personalization and character.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:00:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348602</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50348602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I concur!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:05:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344534</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344534</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50344534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the ultimate case for AI. Intelligence is partly scored based on predictions/planning, so if AI is really intelligent it should be able to tell what remediations are worth it and then lower your insurance cost based on following its recommendations. and back it up by backing those premiums itself.<p>Home insurance can benefit from this too. I just got a quote on a property i looked at with a $20k/yr premium, partly because of being in CA with a slope and age of the property.<p>At $20k/yr, there should be some economic way of an insurance company essentially saying "instead of $20k a year in premiums, here is a $300,000 30 year loan to do preventive measures on the property, and if you do them, your policy will drop to a more normal $3k/yr" or something along those lines.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:27:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306253</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50306253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the other hand there should be some actual cost of changing everything.<p>I see people ship a half baked feature then spend the next weeks ripping and replacing huge pieces causing all sorts of issues</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:01:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258525</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258525</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thats assuming the people using automated tools don't have legitimate complaints and putting the blame on them for their government's failure. If the system was designed better and responded better, maybe less people would have to turn to spamming the IRS line (as an example) when it opens for a glimmer of hope of talking to a person.<p>Same with the job search. if so many companies didn't make it a pain to input your information, maybe they could get more sympathy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:24:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250392</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "GPT-6.1 Terra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hate Opus 5.5, constant overreach and over-engineering for any project</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248475</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50248475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not saying you are wrong, but I just wanted to share that if you build the software for yourself, a lot of requirements just vanish. like you dont need payment providers or support multiple users, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:26:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247520</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those other things aren’t activities people are currently doing. Bird watching is a social activity with clubs you can join right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:41:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244559</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Why I'm Short the AI Buildout Even Though I'm Long Computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dark fiber has many more layers of incompetence and greed than has to do with people we’re happy with speeds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:53:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237625</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think they are saying its regurgitation, but rather that the "approaches and patterns" used to build a python interpreter are in the training data because the training data asks the llm to build one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229461</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well for one the main rationalist figure head argued with a straight face on how many people should be saved from getting dust in their eyes to justify torturing a person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102270</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I preach this. One dentist in US said I had 5 cavities, went to Latin America, they couldn’t find anything. No problems at any dentist since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:09:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095317</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, tried ubuntu. Probably gotten over a hundred of their free CDs in the mail over the year to give out. Milage may vary based on exact hardware. It works until it doesn't is the story. Too much variation in consumer hardware for linux to ever be reliable for majority. So many combinations of motherboards, graphics cards, wifi cards, sound cards, etc. I even bought lenovos officially linux supported laptop etc to try to fix the issues.<p>I bent over backwards for ubuntu, suse, fedora over the years. Sometimes it would be years of stability in between, but it would always come back to bite me if i ever tried to trust it as my primary machine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:54:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034144</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love Linux and use it for everything except my desktop for 20+ years now. Too many times even in the past I do an update the distro and then something stops working and then I have to spend a day fixing. Last time (6mo ago) it was my sound card. Small little annoyances that steal hours of productivity. LTS was going good until I wanted to update to the next LTS then the can of worms gets opened.  It’s fantastic when it’s fresh and everything works and you can blow it away easily and reinstall. I’ve never found upgrading packages to be reliable long term without eventually having to do some manually recovery or reinstall OS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033821</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Utah to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without human oversight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazon's pharmacy prescribes a large swath of medications over text. 
No call or video necessary.<p>To make things more complicated, every message I sent was responded to by a different nurse practitioner. So it seemed everytime i sent a response or question, it would get routed to a random NP and she would respond without reviewing the full conversation.<p>Works if you know what you need, and I can't imagine AI being a worse process than whatever Amazon is doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:28:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981547</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981547</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "GPT-6 Astra cracks 217-year-old Napoleonic code in six hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean is this good? How do we measure how "unsolvable" these codes are vs just unsolved because they are esoteric, uninteresting, and useless?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:26:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966965</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cortana was heavily integrated with bing. It was essentially a way to get people to use bing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:09:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958404</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Clef: Open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, these AI companies have some weird paradox that if they actually had a model that was super efficient and could arbitrage cost/intelligence of other inferior models, they would keep everything about it secret. If an intelligence research group had something groundbreaking, they would just dump their own money into the magic money machine.<p>Instead, to make up for the lack of economic viability of their models, they are forced to release publicly to get marketing to get others to pay based on hype.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:33:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924631</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel like Apple is always pushing the dev side forward in pretty awesome but small ways.<p>I’m super excited for containers. Yes they exist without Apple recreating them, but built in container runtime for the OS is developer forward thinking</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:55:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802382</link><dc:creator>hansonkd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802382</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hansonkd in "Astra for Law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, but they are responsible for all work being done under them. What is the point of paying a partner $2000/hr if the work of their subordinates is wrong?<p>Most interactions with big tech firms involve 4-5 people so a basic phone call is $5k-10k. It shouldn't be unreasonable to expect after paying $80k for a financing round that they issue the right docs to the right people.</p>
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