<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: hobom</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hobom</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 02:44:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hobom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are taking in more than they are spending hosting them. However, the cost for training the next generation of models is not covered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:54:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847093</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta was strongly against the Australian social media ban.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:51:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383822</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sorry, the "they" referred to the hyperscalers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:13:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188028</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Even more extreme, that might mean they won't be able to offer Claude to non-US companies at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:53:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186991</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Facebook is cooked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article didn't suggest that the video mentioned was AI slop, it correctly recognised it as human generated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:58:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096689</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So the problem IS that people are putting in too much (even if accidentally) ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574752</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574752</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are several concrete proposals to regulate AI either proposed or passed. The most recent prominent example of a passed law is California SB53, whose summary you can read here: <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/10/california-sb-53-frontier-ai-law-what-it-does?lang=en" rel="nofollow">https://carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2025/10/california-sb...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077968</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Australia's soon-to-take-effect ban affects nine platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, but not HN. These bans often operate on the amount of users a platform has, so HN is unlikely to make the cut. Nobody cares about this site.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849800</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jonathan Haidt, the most prominent psychologist pushing for restrictions on social media use for children, is <i>also</i> the most prominent proponent of letting kids play and roam more freely. So no, those are not the same people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849764</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45849764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a fantastic way to write a post mortem, pedagogically very useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712245</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least in part, according to the article, because the not-yet-on-GLP1 folks are NOT customers since they are often denied coverage in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 23:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554827</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The West told plenty of its companies, through public pressure or laws, that they have to divest from Russia, and they did. Rationally they recognized that selling their assets is financially more lucrative than just closing their operations and making 0$. 
Now why would an corporation which alleges to not be controlled by a government refuse to sell and forego billions in income, even though it is against the interest of their shareholders?</p>
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<p>As far as I know that was a distinct, previous endeavor. Only afterwards did the Vinklevoi approach him to make the website, an idea which he then allegedly ran with on his own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:21:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301018</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301018</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42301018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does 4Chan also have bot BEHAVIOR detection (e.g. unnatural mouse movements)that google captcha has?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:47:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42278152</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42278152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42278152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article provides almost no hard data to back the headline up. They link a report on buy backs, but at least the abstract/summary does not provide support for the claim either.<p>Written in a very partisan way, although the description of how stock buy backs create bad incentives for CEOs sounds convincing to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:43:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488483</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "The forgotten war on beepers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW, I thought he did pretty well and came away more convinced of his theses. For most of Tyler's alternative and let's say colorful explanations of the data, Haidt provided different sets of data and explanations that were more convincing. As a libertarian and techno optimist, Tyler seemed pretty biased, for example when he offered as an explanation for the plummeting mental health of teens at the exact time smartphones get introduced a random " maybe everyone's mood just got worse randomly". The only thing Haidt didn't refute that well was Tyler's (imo overconfident) assertion that teens will just use AI to summarize social media to them and spend more time with friends.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:47:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076197</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in ""AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like the OP, I also greatly respect the work Rachel and you did for AI.<p>Nevertheless, I can't help but think that you are seeing this issue to negatively.<p>"The point of the article is that AI as a research tool is insufficient to result in improvements to patient outcomes on its own." This seems unlikely if you consider this question as-is. Past technological improvements has made healthcare better overall without requiring societal changes necessarily. Take mRNA vaccines, a technology that has improved Covid-19 outcomes tremendously. Sure, certain groups have less access than other groups, but surely even marginalized groups are better off overall because of the existence of these vaccines. Health is not a zero-sum game.<p>And I think this negative attitude also misses the potential of AI by default. Yeah it sucks that not everyone gets MRI access, but those that do will benefit, including marginalized groups. I guess it feels wrong to some people to express a positive sentiment at an unjust state of affairs, but improved diagnosis and treatments translate into lives saved.<p>You also have to compare AI to the status quo. Sure, AI will have biases, but so do humans (as Rachel points out!) and the decisive question is whether AI has less biases (similarly to how safety of self driving cars is judged). With AI you at least have a chance of analyzing the decision making, and making it objective. We should be extremely excited about this possibility!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:27:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585121</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39585121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's basically all present in the article</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 19:48:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192416</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and violating Code of Conduct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While true in general, it is really not that necessary to have a representative sample for checking whether your software works. With large enough sample size a convenience sample will find almost all of the bugs that telemetry would have found.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:46:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773288</link><dc:creator>hobom</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hobom in "The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Comparing against 1990 is wrong though, as we should compare against the start of widespread social media use (2010 at least), and it's also pretty likely that other OECD countries are lagging behind with widespread adoption by a few years. 
If we don't see an increase from 2015 to 2022 THAT would be counterevidence.</p>
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