<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: hughw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hughw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:52:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hughw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  The assumption is that if you send people checks, they’ll find meaning in hobbies and community. They’ll paint. They’ll garden. They’ll finally write that novel.
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The author suggests it will fail because we'll all use drugs and booze and commit suicide. But it works for retired people. They love it.<p>Is this why we all have to work 9 to 5 drudge jobs? Because we can't handle the freedom?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330924</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly that's what's wrong with capitalism and property rights. We can understand what it means to own a thing like a piece of furniture, or a house, and "a person's home is their castle" rings true. But scale that up to individuals controlling resources that affect a neighborhood, a city, a country, or the world -- at each step their army of voters supports their right to own 800 billion dollars or whatever, same as they own their own houses -- it's only fair! And if they want to build a starbase and launch some rockets near your house and sensitive ecology they're just exercising the same rights you or I have, and attack on their ability to inflict damage on the community is an attack on all.<p>[edit] and the same goes for corporations owning "means of production". It's not the same as owning an iPhone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:09:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227548</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From E.T. Jaynes' Probability Theory [1] :<p><pre><code>  To understand the above Gödel result, the essential point is
  the principle of elementary logic that a contradiction
  Ā A implies all propositions, true and false. 
  (Given any two propositions A and B, we have A ⇒ (A+B),
  therefore  Ā A ⇒  Ā (A+B) =  Ā A +  Ā B ⇒ B.) 
  Then let A = {A1, A2, ..., An,} be the system of axioms
  underlying a mathematical theory and T any proposition,
  or theorem, deducible from them:
  
  A ⇒ T.

  Now, whatever T may assert, the fact that T can be deduced
  from the axioms cannot prove that there is no contradiction
  in them, since, if there were a contradiction, T could
  certainly be deduced from them!
  
  This is the essence of the Gödel theorem, as it pertains to
  our problems. As noted by Fisher(1956), it shows us the
  intuitive reason why Gödel's result is true. We do not
  suppose that any logician would accept Fisher's simple
  argument as a proof of the full Gödel theorem; yet for most
  of us it is more convincing than Gödel's long and
  complicated proof.
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[1] <a href="https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:41:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225569</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48225569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's easier than you might think. Not easy! But I've done it. Have Fortune <100 customers.<p>As others point out if you don't show your audit you have to affirm that you basically do everything an audit would check. So, do it.<p>I found Thoropass to be offer a deal that was affordable. You're not too small for them. Check them out.<p>You can form your processes any way you want! Use AI to construct your policies. Just document what you do.<p>I spent a probably 5 hours a month the first year. Learning curve and I felt I needed the hand holding from Thoropass... they were generous with time and explanations. Subsequent years, it's all set up, very little until audit time.</p>
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<p>Hear hear</p>
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<p>But it's so easy now to redo it all ground up, and if models improve, do it better next time.<p>I exaggerate only a little.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 23:15:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155161</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's for the safety of the children.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142930</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's much more important that government agents obey the law than it is that others do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 21:46:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101090</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bait and switch <i>is</i> a scam.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 21:14:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100781</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ran as a fresh new default user in a ubuntu:latest container<p><pre><code>  git clone https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag.git && cd dirtyfrag && gcc -O0 -Wall -o exp exp.c -lutil && ./exp
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Result:<p><pre><code>  dirtyfrag: failed (rc=3)
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Good news!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:05:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056263</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should I rush to Lambda or ECS and turn off all my containers sharing a host with who the hell knows?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 22:43:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056066</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While you're sleeping I'm practicing my skills. Enjoy being poor, suckers!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980024</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Your website is not for you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree. Show people your vision. Make them understand it the way you see it. Otherwise you're publishing the same ineffective pablum we see everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:08:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975000</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>well over the border</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878877</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>eml(x, y) pronounced... "email"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:44:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751171</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And why does /clear help things? Doesn't that wipe out the history of that session? Jeez.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:32:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740917</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where can i learn about concepts like prompt cache misses? I don't have a mental model how that interacts with my context of 1M or 400k tokens... I can cargo cult follow instructions of course but help us understand if you can so we can intelligently adapt our behavior. Thanks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740899</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tiny LLM is an oxymoron, just sayin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660163</link><dc:creator>hughw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hughw in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can turn it off.</p>
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<p>Agree only a smart person would the sense in it.</p>
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