<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: lelandbatey</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lelandbatey</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:10:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lelandbatey" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "I quit. The clankers won"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> They work<p>For some definition of work, yes, not every definition. Their product is not without flaw, leaving room at for improvement, and room for improvement by more than <i>only</i> other AI.<p>> There are no vulnerabilities<p>That's just not true. There's loads of vulnerabilities, just as there's plenty of vulnerabilities in human written code. Try it, point an AI looking for vulns at the output of an AI that's been through the highest intensity and scrutiny workflow, even code that has <i>already been AI reviewed for vulnerabilities.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:23:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602964</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reading around a bit, yes to Netflix adding anti-piracy measures, maybe to folks recording HDMI/DisplayPort.<p>Apparently, Netflix is using steganography/content watermarks in their 4k content itself to trace users who are pirating. This is from a totally unsourced Reddit thread[0] but they do reference a real company which claims to do this watermarking[1]. The claim is that in addition to Netflix requiring 4k content to be available only on platforms with Trusted Execution Environments[2], Netflix also encodes each ~10 second "chunk" of the video stream into at least 2 different versions: an Y and a Z version. Then, they serve each customer a unique series of chunks when that customer streams their content, e.g. YYZYZZZYZYYZYZYYZZYZYYZ. Then when content leaks, Netflix can examine each chunk of the leaked content to extract the ID of the user who streamed the content. Apparently, Netflix can encode a lot more than just the userID, they can also encode stuff like the individual device ID, the TEE key ID, etc.<p>I know you might be thinking "I could do something to defeat that" and you're probably right (e.g. take streams from multiple users and intercut them so that the bits of the watermark through time are being constantly shuffled), but I'll also bet that there's many layers of steganography we <i>don't</i> know about, and unless you get them all, you'll not escape scot-free.<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1rqkyjg/with_a_lot_of_people_waiting_for_pirates_to/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1rqkyjg/with_a_lot_...</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://irdeto.com/video-entertainment/irdeto-anti-piracy" rel="nofollow">https://irdeto.com/video-entertainment/irdeto-anti-piracy</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545831</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Flighty Airports"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree, I find that the "MiseryMap" from flightaware is less "pretty" but much more informationally dense. <a href="https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:22:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512405</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, when they work overtime they get paid more for that overtime than regular time.<p>The money doesn't somehow make it sustainable for the people burning out their lives. Working 7 days a week, including overnight shifts, for 20 years to collect a pension seems like WELL earned compensation.<p>That's seems unrelated to "we have so few" and "we enmiserate the one's we do have".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:25:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494631</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Chest Fridge (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly yes. Upright fridge and freezer designs trade off efficiency for convenience (rooting around in a chest fridge/freezer can be annoying). <a href="https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480343</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Chest Fridge (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The video down thread shows, the internal food-supports are all wire meshes with big gaps. The cold air is not squirted up and out like a syringe, it's more like the food is kept in a birdcage that's lowered and raised out of a pool of cold air.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:07:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480320</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fly is not saying "just ignore SOC2 compliance". Fly is saying "yes, get SOC2, we had to become SOC2 compliant, and also, you can work with your auditor to achieve SOC2 compliance in a more sane way than if you <i>just</i> do whatever is recommended upfront."<p>Basically, they are saying that you should tailor your SOC2 implementation so that it's actually useful without being a horrible overbearing process, that you have that option and should take it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:19:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462153</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who can know what the world will look like as we "transition"? I sure don't, but I'm thankful the author here has taken a stab at it. I feel like this is one of the first stories I've seen to try to imagine this post-transition world in a way that isn't so gonzo as to be unrelatable. It was so relatable (the human-ness shining all the brighter in a machine-driven world) that I cried as I finished reading. I've felt very anxious about my own future, and to see one possible future painted so vividly, with such human and emotionally focused themes, triggered quite an emotional reaction. I think the feeling was:<p>> If the world must change, I hope at least we still tell such stories and share how we feel within that change. If so, come what may, that's a future I know I can live in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419596</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right that this isn't some groundbreaking revelation. If you're using AI enough to be feeling it, you're feeling/seeing what they're talking about. The purpose of a paper/retreat like this it get it all together and written down on paper, then to disseminate it to the wider world. I think the paper does a good job of collecting info that isn't wrong, and which has enough info to help guide folks making decisions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:53:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403966</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "“This is not the computer for you”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't downvote, it certainly did for me. My first computer was a MBP 13inch from 2009, as I was apple obsessed like the person in the parent article. Time passes and I realized I really didn't like either Windows or Mac, and for the past 10 years Ive been linux only. It really does happen, even if rarely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:06:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360242</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that's the joke</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337050</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the timelines are too short for trends to be completely apparent yet. You can typically hire people faster than you can scale your income sources, even in the face of tremendous demand. Right this moment there's factors pushing folks to fire, but I also do see some companies delivering more (not a lot, but noticably more) and seeing increasing sales as a result. Those are in conflict, and we'll see which way the trends push through time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:40:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289711</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Stop using grey text (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This takes me back to "contrast rebellion" back in 2011:<p><a href="https://contrastrebellion.com/" rel="nofollow">https://contrastrebellion.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271078</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "A standard protocol to handle and discard low-effort, AI-Generated pull requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I advise you read the article, it gives many specific examples of things that qualify for such treatment:<p>> A 600-word commit message or sprawling theoretical essay explaining a profound paradigm shift for a single typo correction or theoretical bug.<p>> Importing a completely nonexistent, hallucinated library called utils.helpers and hoping no one would notice.<p>There's plenty more. All pretty egregious</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:40:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270942</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author of that post effectively re-defines "memory"/"RAM" as "data", and uses that to say "accessing data in the limit scales to N x sqrt(N) as N increases". Which, like, yeah? Duh, I can't fit 200PB of data into the physical RAM of my computer and the more data I have to access the slower it'll be to access any part of it without working harder at other abstraction layers to bring the time taken down. That's true. It's also unrelated to what people are talking about when they say "memory access is O(1)". When people say "memory access is O(1)" they are talking about cases where their data fits in memory (RAM).<p>Their experimental results would in fact be a flat line IF they could disable all the CPU caches, even though performance would be slow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256762</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Github continuing their recent trend of less-than-one 9 of availability: <a href="https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/" rel="nofollow">https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/</a><p>87.85% of across-the-board availability for the month of February. Maybe March will be even lower.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:11:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237244</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone built an archive of Github statuses to show aggregate uptime, last month and this month Github's uptime is below 90%, not even one "nine" of availability: <a href="https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/" rel="nofollow">https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/</a><p>87% uptime for Github in February 2026. They've got to get it together.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:09:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237205</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "PCB Tracer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are wrong. You can upload a file to a local web page for example, see this offline only image editing tool I made: <a href="https://lelandbatey.github.io/scrapbook_img_print_layout/" rel="nofollow">https://lelandbatey.github.io/scrapbook_img_print_layout/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:56:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190642</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They do have a billing check, but that check is looking at "eventually consistent" billing data which could have arbitrary delays or be checked out-of-order compared to how it occurred IRL. This is a strategy that's typically fine when the margin of over-billing is small, maybe 1% or less. I take it from your description that the actual over-billing is more like dozens of dollars, potentially more than single-digit percentages on top of the subscription price. Here's hoping they tighten up metering <> billing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:52:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171863</link><dc:creator>lelandbatey</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171863</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lelandbatey in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you change the zoning, people will build to take advantage of that more flexible zoning. I own land in the city, I'd absolutely pursue the financing and coordinate the redevelopment of that land if:<p>- I could make more money<p>- if the zoning allowed it.<p>As it is right now, it'd be profitable, but the zoning isn't there for it.</p>
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