<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: jpadkins</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jpadkins</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:47:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jpadkins" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "The European Union backs Italy's right to make Meta pay for news"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the 90s, the business model was bundle the news with classifieds (classifieds were the main profit source for print newspapers, inline ads only covered the cost of paper, ink and distribution).  The web unbundled news and classifieds, and we have been without a working business model ever since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 17:05:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138108</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>can't have communists in the western hemisphere. They give up authoritarian communism, we will be magnanimous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:59:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138048</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>clearly you just need to have your agent review, summarize, and take appropriate actions on the docs being sent to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138006</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "A History of IDEs at Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not that the $2B business isn't interesting, it's competing with GitHub would be a major undertaking and the opportunity cost of doing that is probably more than $2B.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137906</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>someone has to pay for administrators!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137696</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48137696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mostly stopped using Reddit in 2016, and was site banned in 2019 (for posting "gnews.com" in answer to the question of which site has the Biden laptop leak).<p>I didn't say "signal processing", I stated 'signal prediction machine'.  This is not my idea, I would say my more source is the book On Intelligence, written by neuroscientists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence</a> but this idea is hundreds of thousands of years old.<p>Prediction as intelligence is hardly a fringe topic <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-021-00538-5" rel="nofollow">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-021-00538-5</a><p>Try to not be insulting when you post here, this is not reddit.</p>
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<p>I cannot.  Please explain the difference to me. Everything I've read about neuroscience is basically the brain is a signal prediction machine. The harness, signals and incentive (hormone) systems may be different, but predicting the future is basic building blocks of intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109869</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:24:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109694</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>do you really think the bombings and kidnappings are new as of 2024?  You think what we have been doing in the middle east and Guantanamo bay since 2001 are moral?</p>
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<p>legally and in practice, they cannot. Even considering the 4th amendment, in a time of war the military can commandeer a service as long as they are compensated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:46:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043429</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congress passing a changed law, and it holding up in court is how it's supposed to work.  The people's reps (specifics interpreted by the courts) should be the ones that set the standard on as a country what type of weapons systems we want to deploy vs. what is immoral. Precedent is nerve agent weapons, landmines, etc.<p>Honestly, Anthropic's stance feels like an oligarch stance.  We have better morals than the American people, we will decide what weapons systems the military will use or not use.<p>It's perfectly understandable if they don't want to sell weapons to the government. That is a noble thing.  But Anthropic wanted that DoW money <i>and</i> wanted to determine what is moral vs. not</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043404</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>whenever I see headlines like this, I always think: great opportunity for someone to create transparent trusts then?<p>am I super biased or fully drank the Kool aid if I believe entrepreneurs are the solution to many of society's ills?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:36:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013847</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is the value the working outputs or the inputs?  A prompt alone would not let you recreate this project.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009655</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Ask.com has closed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ask.com hasn't been an independent search engine for decades. Its results and ads came from other companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009542</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you elaborate? What is the modern tech feeling?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 14:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009353</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Grok 4.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>guess I've been under a rock.  I avoid a lot of corp media. I know about the DOGE thing, but that seems like a pretty weird reason to hate the guy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:19:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980482</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980482</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "For first time since World War II, US national debt now larger than its economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> One thing would be that GDP per Capita would fall<p>Why?  What is the mechanism that links being the reserve currency and (real?) GDP per capita? 
I can see why being the reserve currency is an advantage for the finical sector, maybe international trade.  But I don't understand how if the world stopped trading in dollars and switched to gold or Bitcoin or some basket of currencies, GDP per capita would be majorly impacted.</p>
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<p>why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:17:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976518</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why do you think we are stuck on Earth?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:54:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720837</link><dc:creator>jpadkins</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jpadkins in "I still prefer MCP over skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>too early for standardization.  resist the urge.  Let a bunch of ideas flow, then watch the Darwinian process of the best setup will be found.  Then standardize.</p>
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