<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: mattmcknight</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmcknight</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:55:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mattmcknight" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps we can blame exposure to actual pathogens which resemble the pollen in some way, triggering a misdirected immune system response.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:45:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206788</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What do release trains have to do with SAFe?<p>An Agile Release Train (ART) in SAFe is a long-lived, cross-functional "team of teams" (typically 50–150 people) that plans, commits, and delivers value together on a synchronized, fixed-schedule cadence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 04:00:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045253</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48045253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"release train" ... "learn how to ship software faster"<p>SAFe is poison.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021405</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sort by controversial.
<a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/" rel="nofollow">https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/</a><p>Just need to find the right scissor statement to really get the debate going.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:56:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513932</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One person wants a list of their political enemies banned from software conferences, one of them doesn't want them banned. Which one is tolerant? The only intolerance and exclusion I see is from those requesting that specific people with whom they have political disagreement be banned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891161</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45891161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can we fix the title to be "scams and banned items"?<p>It seems like the banned items bit is misleadingly left out, and this title falsely implies it is 10% from scams alone.</p>
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<p>I am really tired of the lazy argument style of using "corporate" as a synonym for "bad". I too think it's bad to encourage addictive gamblers. I don't care if it is corporate, individual, or state run.</p>
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<p>It seems like things have ended up in a better place than they started.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651721</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45651721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me, the push to single page applications and the unnecessary complexity that brought with it made me just sick of fooling around with web things- we had solved the problem and they invented nonsense that made it harder. There has been so much to explore over the past 7 years in machine learning though- it just requires a lot more compute than most people have available on their desktop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303801</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"the postmodernists attacking physics"<p>The Sokal affair was a physicist attacking the postmodernists for attacking physics (and scientific realism) by showing the postmodernists would publish complete nonsense.<p>The current attack is saying the physics establishment is backing a theory that doesn't adequately make predictions (not adequately supporting scientific realism).<p>It can be viewed outside the realm of power, that's a very postmodern view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225358</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45225358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it depends a little on what your intended head is? Headless CMS is just CRUD UI for a database that has an API.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:34:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118450</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45118450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is where John Gall's Systemantics comes into play,  “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."<p>Obviously a bit hyperbolic, but matches my experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 00:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070992</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Anytime data is recorded legal is immediately asking about retention so they don't end up empty handed in front of a judge.<p>In my experience, they are setting automated 90 deletion policies on email so they don't end up with surprises in discovery.</p>
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<p>I have 10 Claude agents running so I am able to develop years of experience in parallel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45042303</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45042303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45042303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They sued both.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901274</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am trying to explore the ways in which the IPO, in particular, separate from the continued operation of the company, is evidence that blocking M&A is good. I have seen nothing from you supporting Khan's position that the IPO is vindication for blocking M&A.<p>Her particular claim was that it was "a great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought up by existing giants, can generate enormous value.” However, the IPO price was $700M less than the value the company was at three years ago, which, given opportunity costs and inflation, would not seem to be an indicator of enormous value being generated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:15:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777566</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They were independent the whole time and it wasn't considered a success. I suppose IPO is an indicator they might stay independent longer. Now that they are in the public markets even Adobe can buy a few shares. I just don't feel like the IPO event has brought any particular benefits to the consumer and Khan is incorrectly looking at post IPO stock price bounce as some kind of financial indicator that it was a better deal for the company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:32:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776486</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But how is the IPO a sign of success in that case?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:05:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773739</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But the company only sold the shares at $19.3B.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 03:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773726</link><dc:creator>mattmcknight</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattmcknight in "Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So blocking a sale at a $20B valuation so the company can IPO at a $19.3B valuation 3 years later (a loss of $700M in value over 3 years) is a success?</p>
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