<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: infamouscow</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=infamouscow</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:26:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=infamouscow" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Don't paste the AI, please"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So how exactly are you supposed to distinguish needing to improve the documentation from the fact that half the population—through no fault of their own—might be fundemenetally incapable of understanding the documentation? You can only polish something so much. Without a limiting principle this becomes unfalsifiable and an endless time sink.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:23:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375954</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another commenter replied, but was downvoted by angry employees of Microsoft for a fairly anodyne statement.<p>Microsoft management knows this. It's not like there haven't been attempts to solve these core problems. The issue is GitHub was built by exceptional engineers, and none of those people are still around.<p>I maintain all these problems began when they migrated off Erlang and egitd. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:47:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356966</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "OpenAI's Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared with Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI just needs to stay afloat a few quarters after Anthropic's IPO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:43:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355985</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd emphasize their practices as being the culprit.<p>Migrating to different cloud vendors, while difficult, is something that people have done many times before. There's only finite number of incongruences that appear when moving cloud vendors. It's rather difficult to explain the ongoing problems <i>several years</i> after the fact.<p>Anyone that's worked at a startup knows that one of the best things about it is reflecting on all of the asinine, if not genuinely stupid policies of your previous employer so as not to repeat them. Without any insider knowledge, the practices and procedures GitHub had prior to acquisition probably look nothing like those post-acquisition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:38:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351445</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TFA explains why sardines sourced from around USA, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are harder to come by.<p>Where are your sardines be sourced?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:22:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279391</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Prison is clearly not a deterrent to violent criminals. Let the psychopaths do whatever to them. 100% sure the rate of violent crime drops precipitously when medieval punishment is  likely.</p>
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<p>The scam is usually a phone call from a loved one in jail or the hospital. It immediately creates a sense of panic and fully explains the random phone number. The voice doesn't have to sound like you either.</p>
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<p>Yes, but the strategy is a lost cause as we're seeing.<p>In virtually any other situation, companies would be able to successfully grease politicians. The problem for AI companies is they spent the last several years broadcasting that their tech is going to take everyone job, and consequently their livelihood.<p>No matter how much you bribe a politician, you can't hold and maintain elected office when the voters overwhelmingly do not want something.</p>
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<p>This is what I voted for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085584</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "West Virginia paid digital nomads to move there during Covid. Many are staying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't have known about them until reading your comment. Thank you, I now have some exploring to do :)</p>
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<p>They want to be the successor to Enron.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:20:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040459</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Em dashes are amazing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If someone accuses you of using AI because of em-dashes, reply with something condescending like "I'm sorry you were poorly educated, but some of us can and do read books." It does wonders to put jackasses in their place.</p>
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<p>Yes, had SCOTUS ruled differently in Citizens United, the scope of the ruling would have likely been narrowly focused.<p>Every time SCOTUS makes a ruling, there are thousands of extremely talented activist lawyers that immediate begin working on legal strategies to further expand a ruling in ways they believe are favorable to their political ends. You have to understand, there are lawyers who focus on specific justices and study the idiosyncrasies of their rulings/philosophy so they can reverse-engineer legal outcomes as they desire.<p>In <i>United States v. Jones</i>, Ginsburg and Thomas ruled that attaching a GPS tracker to a car and monitoring it was a Fourth Amendment search. Thomas believes physically attaching the device is a property trespass and constitutes a search. Ginsburg believed prolonged GPS surveillance violates a reasonable expectation of privacy.<p>Even though Ginsburg and Thomas are polar opposites, if you understand <i>how</i> they rule, you can still get the outcome you want with the right case.</p>
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<p>The problem isn't so much investors losing money, it's if this kills the economy.<p>A lot of elites are now unemployed with nothing better to do thanks to AI. Historically speaking, populist uprising are easily squashed except when you have a group of counter-elites supporting the movement. We're finally starting to see the results of that with the Deflock movement cutting down cameras.<p>If these AI companies tank the US economy, people will literally be cutting off Sam and Dario's head. For good reason.</p>
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<p>This would mean that all media companies in the US would be prevented from publishing <i>anything</i> that could be <i>perceived</i> as negative about any candidate running for elected office, regardless of factual basis and regardless of if it were satire.<p>A candidate would simply go to any circuit court judge and get an injunction against the media company. If the media company did not comply, the judge would find the officers in contempt. Marshals would then arrest and throw the companies officers in jail <i>indefinitely</i> until they complied.<p>That's what you're asking for. It's genuinely stupid. I say this as someone that would declare a national emergency on day 1 of being elected just to have the Air Force turn most media company HQs into smoldering craters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:22:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011167</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think there will be any bailouts for these AI companies. There's no political will to do so in both parties. The grizzly alternative is a DeFlock movement, but instead of cutting down poles, it will be people's heads.</p>
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<p>I could see someone sadly taking their own life over this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950478</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The charge-back penalties are going to be hilarious and hopefully bankrupting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:55:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949521</link><dc:creator>infamouscow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48949521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infamouscow in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this relate to TFA or GP's reply?</p>
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<p>This is easily solved by paying homeless people to destroy the devices.</p>
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