<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: jsutton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsutton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:14:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jsutton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Take a second to think through why it might be bad for a 2nd grader to seek high schoolers as social peers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:03:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025083</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025083</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "White House ballroom construction to continue through shutdown, official says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you actually believe that, I have a bridge to sell to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443508</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45443508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They aren't auditing anything. Programmers/engineers don't audit budget and spending. If they were doing an audit, they would have accountants on their team, which they don't. If you bring coders/engineers into a system, it's for accessing/manipulating data/code/infrastructure. This is an enormous and unprecedented overreach.</p>
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<p>Do British citizens get to vote on who each parliament party puts forward as their leader?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 21:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41028390</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41028390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41028390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Yet another project management SaaS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one takes .so seriously even after notion.so. Hell, I'm sure countless people  still try .com before giving up and Googling "notion" (or maybe that's just me, but I doubt it).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 20:24:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505211</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40505211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Terrible take. You want the USA to follow the same policy on speech that Communist China follows?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 08:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155059</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "YC: Requests for Startups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We get it, you don't like crypto. You would be better off leaving the snark and sarcasm at home if you want to get your points across without sounding bitter. 
Your last line completely contradicts the previous point you were trying to make-- it's clear to anyone that's paying attention that crypto economy has objectively grown beyond speculative trading and scams.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39375066</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39375066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39375066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Key point: on weekends. Northeast corridor is high demand all week long. And much more of the national economy flows through that region. LA <> Vegas is mostly leisure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573102</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38573102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first paper on AI and Neural Nets was published in 1945. What's your point? 15 years is not a very long time for deep tech.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:31:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156052</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37156052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A normal database isn't able to be easily disseminated by the people who need access to this data, which is enormous. Then who gets to host it? Real Estate associations are too many, too fragmented, too entrenched to agree on one or even a handful of companies with the privilege to host this information.<p>A blockchain (assuming you can get buy-in/critical mass from the agencies) has the ability to align some financial incentives of all interested parties to open up access to real estate listings while still holding ownership and profiting from that access.<p>Instead of real estate companies protecting their listing data, they could offer access to their listing data in exchange for a fee or revenue share. Instead of out-of-date listings parading as up-to-date, there's a public temporal record of updates. Instead of buyers getting restricted or partial information, they can obtain access to the listing data via alternate sources.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 03:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142653</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone said the same thing about ML/AI 5+ years ago. Hard things take time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141971</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Real estate markets scramble following cyberattack on listings provider"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed, this is the kind of use case blockchain excels at. I worked on a project that attempted to do something like a distributed MLS, and we had major industry leaders on board indicating a large degree of belief that blockchain could revolutionize the industry. MLS is,  after all, just a legacy federated system running on inertia.<p>Unfortunately, it's so difficult to get a critical mass of inventory to succeed; it requires either a massive upfront investment, or partnering with RE developers from the beginning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141558</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37141558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>it merely aims to be a new mechanism by which value is transferred, which by most objective measures it's very bad at doing.</i><p>What objective measures are you using? Over $3 Billion in value is transferred over the Bitcoin network every day. There has never been any downtime, nor has it ever been hacked, and fees are flat and transparent (just a few bucks to transfer unlimited value across the world).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2023 02:39:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413718</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36413718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Not Forgotten: ChatGPT isn’t the only important trend in technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's been a few examples of use cases said by others in this thread, and your financial settlement use case is a great one. Any time you need to move money around multiple parties based on a clear set of rules or criteria, blockchain could be useful. Insurance claims, international remittances, lending, to name a few. Anywhere a valuable process is still dominated by paper (and there are surprisingly many).<p>Generally, being able to program the management of money (i.e. if personA meets a certain criteria, send $X to personA) in a transparent system can be incredibly powerful.</p>
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<p>On the contrary, there <i>is</i> a there there, it just takes a tremendous effort and coordination to get to a point where it's actually useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:35:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525751</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35525751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's nothing absurd about a company seeking to legitimize a component of their business.<p>The crypto industry is not built around avoiding government rules, that's a myth propagated by its many detractors. It was born to address a failure of the banking system that hurt regular people the most.</p>
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<p>Without the sarcasm, yes :)</p>
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<p>The same place that took trillions of dollars in exchange for low-yielding treasury bonds. The same place that effectively devalued said treasury bonds when they decided to rapidly raise interest rates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144163</link><dc:creator>jsutton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsutton in "Bill Ackman: The gov't has about 48h to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're not talking about poverty. We're simply talking about restoring the bank deposits of early stage companies.</p>
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<p>We're not, we're bailing out startup companies. You know, the main audience of this social media platform we're on?</p>
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