<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: impalallama</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=impalallama</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:28:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=impalallama" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The smallest violin in the world for Sam Altman, and Musk</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:48:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576665</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I won't say too much about the person posting this because they got a new toy and want to use it but man this is like a certain extreme of Parkinson's Law or something as far as using up compute resources.<p>You got a whole data center doing god knows how much compute running billions of matrix multiplications all to solve a trivial css overflow bug in a text box. And this includes the LLM itself writing custom web-servers programs and python scripts when the best estimate guess from a google search probably would have given you the same result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504738</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48504738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually like the 4.7 the most, interestingly enough. Not like you can "objectively" weight artistic output like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:38:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315889</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could use the argument to justify installing functionally anything. From a key logger sending over everything you type to a crypto miner mining exclusively for google. I download a browser to browse the web. An AI agent is something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 04:02:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058402</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Postgres IDE in VS Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Biggest thing that JetBrains has over VSCode for me was their very clean built in database tooling</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 15:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073930</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well this is terrifying</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051667</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051667</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Man pages are great, man readers are the problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the crawlers are working hard today because I got lead here just by searching for a better man page on kagi<p>I liked the idea of using nvim but i rewrote it with bash function for easier argument handling<p><pre><code>  nman () {
    if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
      echo "Usage: nman <command>"
      return 1
    fi
    command nvim "+hide Man $1"
  }</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:16:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636431</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43636431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Pix has spiced up Brazil’s fusty banking sector, but it gives the central bank a worrying amount of power<p>Economist what you think central bank does exactly that this is somehow too far?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622991</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "A look at Firefox forks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zen seems interesting but their website crashes when I try and visit which is a bit of deal breaker when it comes to a web browser</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366708</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43366708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the same president that wants to give the death penalty to Drug Dealers but I guess that's fine so long as you use crypto.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:03:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794926</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "I Don't Have Spotify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no tidal support yet but looks very useful for one off uses</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:08:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116706</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42116706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>caffeinate -d is incredibly useful for work... uh reasons</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:04:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068484</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Moments in Chromecast's history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is very annoying. Even with the prevalence of smart tvs some tvs just don't come with all streaming apps I want and Chromecast was a great inexpensive option. They are discontinuing it in favor of a product that appeals to a totally different market in mind at 2x-3x the price. Roku still mostly fills that niche but I don't see the logic in this move at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171761</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41171761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "People should just stop" is never the right answer. You might as well be commanding an engine to stop overheating.<p>1) I don't understand this argument. As if we don't absolutely do this all the time. Theft as a concept is impossible to completely prevent yet we still know it to be illegal. Same with Vandalism. The supreme court just made it legal to prosecute the homeless. Hell there are countries were suicide is illegal.<p>2) You say this as if a room temp superconductor is something that endless dollars aren't spent on trying to achieve.<p>> They shouldn't be set around "morality," they should be set around established civil liberties.<p>These are not whole distinct things. They are two overlapping circles. No one but the most unscrupulous of lawyers conceive of these a 2 wholly distinct entities.<p>Unethical or "uncivil" behavior is something that happens and to act like we have are hands are tied and shouldn't adapt to address this because our hands are tied because there are unintended consequences is asinine and impractical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 02:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013597</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Either there's some unstated sarcasm or the person above made the most hn libertarian-ass comment I seen in a while.<p>Yes I would like functional civil institutions that are able to protect me from the unethical behavior of others. Welcome to Civics 101 today we are reading John Locke.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:21:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010114</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41010114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "What Was Chevron Deference? (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s been explicit goal of Conservatives for decades to remove “over regulation” and now thanks to this precedent newly instantiated corporations in the Texas 5th district can shop around to whatever judge they want and effectively strip any regulation now and forever; which has in fact already happened with a Texas judge ruling the FTC can’t ban non compete clauses<p>(<a href="https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/10/preliminary-injunction-ftcs-non-compete-ban-marks-narrow-key-victory-opponents/id=178700/#" rel="nofollow">https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/10/preliminary-injunction-ftc...</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:32:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930577</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40930577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, immunity for "official duties" sounds reasonable until you read all the justices own words and realize how purposely broad and far reaching these duties are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849981</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Testimony or private records of the President or his advisers probing such conduct may not be admitted as evidence at trial<p>Wouldn’t this have made it impossible to prosecute Nixon for Watergate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849372</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The question becomes what if the President then uses their power to jail/execute political rivals? How would you rule that as unofficial? Tons of dictators jail rivals on the “official” business of maintaining order or peace or some other nebulous term. The presidents role to enforce law is so broad that it can be used to justify almost any act.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849291</link><dc:creator>impalallama</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by impalallama in "Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like the biggest outcome is that as we all know Congress can't pass laws, so the judicial system just go a huge amount of power to interpret ambiguous laws (I'm not sure how controversial this but language is inherently ambiguous...).<p>I expect a lot of court shopping to judges in Texas to get favorable result to abscond with any regulatory oversight</p>
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