<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: iambateman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=iambateman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:04:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=iambateman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Degrees of Wealth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would say this is true, but should be understood in the context of sharecropping, Jim crow, and slavery as a long and continuous outworking of poorly-checked capitalism.<p>I’m not saying that you meant to say that it’s our first round with this…just pointing out that Americans have significant experience at maintaining a underclass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197991</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure there's some of that.<p>There was a moment where I made genuine friends through Twitter...people I worked with, knew their families, and really got to know over time.<p>Now, X is a mess and HN is intellectually stimulating but impersonal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:42:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197389</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are some of us who are old enough to remember Twitter’s true time of “unprecedented growth.”<p>I miss old Twitter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192129</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "A Sick People"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You and I both know it's not always that simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:20:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183344</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you call a building that can only be seen once in a hundred years?<p>99% Invisible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:10:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137932</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Claude Opus 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ask your doctor if Opus 5 is right for you. Side effects include occasional hallucination, security breaches and unwanted React apps. Some developers have reported receiving entire apps from untrained executives who may or may not know what they’re doing.<p>Stop using Opus immediately if you experience signs of dizziness or vomiting.<p>Opus 5…the people’s favorite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039499</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Parent had a good question and this is restating what’s already been said.<p>_how_ do you advocate? If I could avoid delegating to experts, I wouldn’t be in the situation in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:09:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029293</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is cool! Thanks for sharing.<p>What understanding about hardware did you start with, and what tools did you use to learn what you didn’t already know?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967649</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do I want to own one of these? No. I want my mechanic to be bored when I show up and need service…I guess that makes me a market laggard.<p>But I do love the pressure this (and Slate) puts on Toyota to restore some sanity to truck prices. There is a market of people who want reliable transportation without spending $40k++.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:15:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961260</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48961260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Focus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really liked this article. FWIW, I didn’t know he is the CTO of Facebook until just now.<p>But I can relate to the challenge of making decisions with a lot of competing interests, especially in comparison to the clarity that comes from feeling like you have a mission to accomplish.<p>I checked Facebook every single day for over 10 years, until I left the platform. Today, the only thing I use Facebook for is Marketplace, which still has the focus he’s talking about.<p>Hopefully we can all learn from their mistakes as we build products people want to use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:31:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855770</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Big Banana Car"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes but every good police officer had watched Arrested Development and so knows that there’s always money in the banana stand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601917</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I asked a question for my son about how mosquitos carry malaria and Fable was like “ok now hold it right there”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469984</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would never have had SpeedTest on my board of unicorns…that’s an unbelievable sale price. To all the agents who negotiated that deal, my hat is off to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 19:21:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339736</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’re going to go through the effort to write 5,000 words—-spend a bit more thought on what to do.<p>I am aware that the sky is falling and I am aware that there are foxes who would gladly replace 10%+ of global knowledge work in the next few years. I understand that there are cultural ramifications.<p>But what do we do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330310</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330310</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe we should update our lexicon to "NFT mania" –– far more people lost money in that phenomenon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322997</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48322997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ha! You can check my comment history, my Costco T-shirt love is genuine. :)<p>The second time, I was in the store and could tell these were legitimately great.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 20:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285492</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>About a year ago, I researched the most comfortable T-shirt. There were quite a few people who mentioned this specific brand I’d never heard of so I bought about 10 shirts and was sorely disappointed—-I got had by a smart marketer I think.<p>But a few other people mentioned the Peruvian Pima cotton shirts that are sometimes available at Costco. Generally they show up once per year, in February.<p>So when they finally showed up, I bought 11. I didn’t realize, until I had these shirts, that I’d never really owned comfortable T-shirts. I’ve worn these every day since I bought them and cannot recommend them enough.<p>Friends don’t let friends wear crappy cotton.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279128</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’ll allow yourself to go one step further in the pedantry, there is no such thing as genuine money either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083692</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The department needs to stay focused on the actually-important work they have to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:18:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075190</link><dc:creator>iambateman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by iambateman in "Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have something to say about it?</p>
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