<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: masonic</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=masonic</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:17:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=masonic" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "More than 1500 journalism jobs have been cut so far in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actual title: "The aftermath of ChatGPT’s launch leaves media industry battling profitability with layoffs"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:26:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891372</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note that your link is <i>your</i> link as the position owner and requires an additional clickthrough to get to the posting.<p>This is an example of the downside of putting your postings in a walled garden like LinkedIn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2023 04:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009124</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Show HN: Find your perfect domain using AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the third such Show HN in the past 20 hours</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2023 06:11:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734069</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36734069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "US infiltrates big ransomware gang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Press release:<p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-disrupts-hive-ransomware-variant" rel="nofollow">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-department-justice-disrupt...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:45:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540503</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Keystone pipeline shut after 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I’m shocked that what everyone said would happen is happening.<p>What did "everyone say"?  Are you confusing Keystone with Keystone XL?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:19:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918933</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33918933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "I told my team to pause our $750K/month Twitter ads budget last week"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they've been spending $3 million/year on <i>Twitter</i> ads, are they that bright in the first place?  I've literally never made a <i>single</i> buying decision that had anything to do with a Twitter ad. Ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:55:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785208</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33785208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "After a Decades-Long Ban, San Jose's Lowriders Are Ready to Cruise Again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>In 1986, the city implemented a ban on cruising to address gang violence, crime, and traffic-related accidents. But San Jose’s primarily Mexican American lowriding community has suffered the consequences of the ordinance, which many say facilitated discrimination.<p>This is a crock. The ordinance affected <i>only</i> stretches of San Carlos Street and Santa Clara street and was implemented because the resulting gridlock rendered downtown businesses utterly inaccessible (even discounting rampant crime).  The entire rest of the city (and county) was open to them, even Stevens Creek Blvd.<p>It's going to be very interesting to see this conflict revitalize if the so-called Google Village west of Market St. ever happens.  Right now, downtown is mostly a ghost town at night anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784124</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Airbnb has a plan to fix cleaning fees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> hosts don’t like charging them<p>This is a crock. Since AirBnB has <i>no search filter for "Show price with fees"</i>, it encourages hosts (literally every superhost in my searches on a recent trip) to show an artificial rate and then a "cleaning fee" upwards of 50% of the base rate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:25:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784006</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33784006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Epson ditches lasers and goes all in on inkjet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The IBM 3800 was a highly reliable laser printer.  It was first deployed <i>46 years ago.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 05:02:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783895</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... and China's more ruthless powers of Eminent Domain to acquire land</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:33:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783717</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are.<p>HSR is at 300% of original budget without even a credible schedule for completion of that original plan -or- source of funding.<p>Long-distance "high speed" rail is going nowhere in CA without constraints on air travel, especially short-hop flights, that includes taxation for environmental consequences. Nobody flying the Bay Area or Sacramento - L.A. corridor is going to spend 4X as much to spend double the time in transit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:30:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783698</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "‘Do You Want to Rebuild at 80?’ Rethinking Where to Retire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"But the intensifying drought and wildfires in Northern California and escalating hurricanes and storm surges along the Southeastern coastline drove the couple to sell both houses."<p>This is a crock. HMB is no more subject to drought or wildfires than anywhere else in the country.  They fled to NC for the same reason my retired Apple executive neighbor did -- lower taxes and higher quality of life than CA now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 04:58:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702142</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33702142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "California can't save every burned town"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many Republicans can you name who were on nationwide radio <i>in the 1980s</i>?<p>In other words, it <i>was</i> made up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2022 09:38:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006139</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Why Is the Central Valley So Bad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Downstream</i> refers to liquids, or concepts.  Perhaps "down<i>wind</i>" was meant?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981178</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Presidents just appoint one of these individuals as director.<p>The President's nominee doesn't have to be from existing rank-and-file FBI employees, Special Agents or otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2022 09:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981161</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32981161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Cruise driverless vehicles involved in 3 separate traffic incidents in SF"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>3 is a pretty low number<p>3 <i>complete shutdowns blocking traffic</i> in <i>one city</i> on the <i>same day</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:15:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969964</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969964</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Since 1935 there have been 16 directors or acting directors.<p>Number of directors is irrelevant.  <i>Number of terms/years of party control</i> is.<p>Since 1935, 13 of 23 Presidential terms were Democrats.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 07:40:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969644</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "FBI misled judge who signed warrant for seizure of $86M in cash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your "quote" is meaningless without attribution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 07:37:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969636</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "California ban on gas furnaces and water heaters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>California utilities are just pass-through delivery agents for natural gas -- they just charge cost + % to service.  Gas prices can vary greatly depending on demand.<p>What the current push against consumer access to natural gas ignores is that there is a lot of natural gas produced as a byproduct of producing other oil drilling products, and if not consumed for useful purposes it just gets burned off into the atmosphere directly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 07:14:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969550</link><dc:creator>masonic</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32969550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by masonic in "Mega landlords own majority of the San Francisco Bay Area"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Chronicle was bought by Hearst in 2000.</p>
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