<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: iNerdier</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iNerdier</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:53:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=iNerdier" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ahh yes, much like abstinence only education worked so well for teen pregnancy rates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533952</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Didn’t the FT both vet his numbers and also publish on the same leak?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:26:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527681</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reports which are (un)surprisingly light on actual financial details regarding their AI ‘investments’ and any profits therein.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527652</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reciprocal tariffs alone don’t make much sense, it’s just making things for Canadians more expensive with an adversary that’s larger and can sustain them longer (although how long remains to be seen with guilt yields rising.)<p>If they really want to hurt them start making it legal to circumvent DRM on American products and allow build meaningful replacements.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:44:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399175</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Apple TV just added a bunch of classic movies to stream for free"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Several of the links go to the wrong films, almost all of which are not free?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:26:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283914</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Against Usefulness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reads like Dynamicland is no longer a thing. Their website seems to end in 2024. Anyone have any idea what Bret Victor is up to these days?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883366</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who says you need Ford to do it? Aging Wheels tried a prototype of a small electric pickup a year ago from a team making one without the support of a huge car company. I have no dog in this fight, other than wanting more of transport to go electric but if Americans refuse to buy vans which probably make more sense for transporting goods this might be a good option.<p>Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/1OgN_qctcGs</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:49:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472923</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48472923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "AI slop is killing online communities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You didn’t like the broader consensus views towards llm usage but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t ultimately a positive to their community that you left. It sounds as though there was a mismatch in what you and the broader group wanted so perhaps a non-confrontational split is the best that could be hoped for in this situation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 07:24:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059812</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is, on hacker news, easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism it seems.<p>This is echoing a term made by Varoufakis about an increasing amount of money being held by a smaller and smaller group, not a return to literal peasant existence. It’s not feudalism, it’s ‘neo-feudalism’.<p>The argument that labour can move is true, except where it can’t. Look at the entire towns of miners made irrelevant with no replacement to their jobs. Sure you might say they can move half way across the country to clean toilets but they have skills, a family and houses somewhere else.<p>Where the argument of a feudal analogy really rings true is the increasing attempt to do back to extraction of rent for everything. Subscriptions for everything, including homes are becoming more and more normal. Are we really okay with a world in this form?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656585</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46656585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Find a pub that needs you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here, at least three nearby no longer exist and are now flats already.<p>I guess prepare for an acceleration of the same.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:05:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630463</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Find a pub that needs you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amateurs. One close to me is at an +821% increase in its tax bill and rateable value at 613%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621537</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46621537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good for the time but dated. When your negative is the big it doesn’t matter as much but it’s absolutely not as sharp as more modern constructions.
It’s also arguably a step down to use his printed body versus the original Mamiya press in terms of functionality other than reduced weight. Still an impressive design though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:51:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261726</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46261726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Photographer built a medium-format rangefinder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It uses mamiya press lenses, the focusing helicoid and shutter are in the lens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254870</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s also worth seeing how many US superfund sites are on former chip fabs. Intel, AMD, Fairchild etc. all just dumped things down the drains.<p>Regulations can be bad but they can also stop environmental disasters from happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:31:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180388</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Rifling through the archives with Robert Caro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really hope this donation means the lost chapter of ‘the power broker’ about Jane Jacobs resurfaces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 13:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230343</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "British Brutalist Buildings – In Pictures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parking 2, aka Wellbeck Street car park has since been demolished to make way for a hotel. I wish I could have saved one of the concrete forms.</p>
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<p>Or the most money and access to lawyers to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:10:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034490</link><dc:creator>iNerdier</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43034490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iNerdier in "Redbox's Insane Bankruptcy Unwinding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While the story is interesting one thing struck me about the writing. The author for some reason mentions the wording in some eBay auctions:<p>‘“This Redbox lot is a must-have addition to any movie collection,” one of the sellers wrote, while another promised, “From action-packed blockbusters to heartwarming family favorites, this collection has something for everyone.”’<p>As someone who has seen the use of eBay’s questionable ‘help’ tool, this is clearly the AI generated slop auto description. I find it interesting that someone writing an entire article has taken it as real sentiment and not just someone taking the easiest way to try and make some money on used dvds.</p>
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<p>It’s a shorthand for news articles intended for laypeople but it gets the point across; no natural processes yet found break down these compounds and in small but measurable quantities they build up in our environment. It’s not practical to say, treat all sewage effluent or refuse going to recycling / landfill / incineration to break them down so they build up and we don’t really know what they will end up doing. So for most practical purposes, yes they’re not going anywhere.</p>
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<p>Yeah but he didn’t write it so it doesn’t matter, that’s why he has half a dozen links to his own work in a short essay.
The man isn’t wrong but the relentless self promotion Doctorow does always comes over as mildly off putting.</p>
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