<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: mattnewton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattnewton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 17:28:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mattnewton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are betting they can sell the bag before the music stops.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 23:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016185</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> or instance, maybe you can't afford to take on more customers right now, Anthropic. Maybe if you are severely undermining the customer relationships you already have, you should just admit you can't sell any more 20x plans right now and only accept new customers at lower tiers until you have the necessary capacity.<p>Or just increase prices for new claude code users? Surely transparent upfront across the board price increases are easier to swallow than hidden context-based pricing changes like this?</p>
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<p>Idk about morality, but it’s certainly a way to stop dystopian mass surveillance nightmares if everyone capable of building one refuses.<p>So if you live in the US and don’t want one government agency in the US to have this power (that is ambiguous under current law), one way you can try to avoid it is by refusing to sell it to them and urging others to do the same.<p>It’s a long shot sure, but it certainly seems more effective than hoping the legislature wakes up and reigns in the executive these days.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937158</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "$1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My best guess is that for certain goods, people make purchasing decisions around major life events like getting married or becoming parents. If they have already crossed those thresholds those purchase patterns may be harder to unseat and replace, they may already be solving those new needs and have habits around existing brands.<p>My second guess is that DINKs have more disposable income.</p>
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<p>people are trying, especially for inference. For training, it’s just too high risk to tank your training I think.<p>TPUs are at least dogfooded by Google deepmind, no team AFAIK has gotten the AMD stack to train well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927159</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe-way-risks-of-choking-during-sex" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/07/no-safe...</a><p>> Now thought to be the second most common cause of stroke in women under 40, it can also lead to difficulty swallowing, incontinence, seizures, memory problems, depression, anxiety and miscarriage.<p>Looks like they are going after that too though.</p>
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<p>This exactly. I don’t believe the government should be censoring porn, but I have a really hard time arguing that principle against studies that suggest it is normalizing choking and slapping women among the young men exposed to it. Why is this roleplay fetish the beachhead and not something like that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:27:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721215</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d hope that average American doesn’t care about jobs they aren’t qualified for being filled by people paying taxes into their communities.</p>
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<p>Still undesirable latency for a lot of compute use cases, like image or video editing; it’s really only negligible for LLMs.<p>Since that’s definitely a big enough use case all on its own, I wonder if such a product should really just double down  on LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:40:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642572</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like gravity, there is some inexorably force drawing the state towards mass surveillance tools as it makes the job easier. Removing friction that fights against that force is real</p>
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<p>Seems like a slippery slope. Now the infrastructure is there to ask apple, Google and microsoft to confirm identity with selfies over the internet.</p>
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<p>sounds like the MacOS network utility. I've been bit by leaving it on after testing ios apps :D</p>
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<p>I think cli’s are more token efficient- the help menu is loaded only when needed, and the output is trivially pipe able to grep or jq to filter out what the model actually wants</p>
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<p>There were a bunch of intel atom ones IIRC. I got my degree with a used EEEpc with one of those.</p>
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<p>So you’re telling me we could do this all for just a few million dollars more than the price of the three fighter jets recently shot down over Kuwait, and provide good American jobs while doing so? Sounds like a deal.<p>(In reality it would be more expensive because you would have to source, train, and administer those people plus audit the results afterwards. But the government had said it would be doable before to the courts!)</p>
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<p>That’s the joke :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:40:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317763</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47317763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This analysis is predicated on a few things- that the estimates in the article are accurate, that 1 in 10,000 assumes that the process of deporting the 10,000 was the same that detained those Americans and not in addition to those deportations, and finally that those deportations were necessary and would not have happened without racial profiling.<p>I don’t think I agree with any of those points. Firstly the article is likely a gross underestimate from a few months ago. Since then a lot has happened - Americans have even been killed by ICE. On the second, we deported plenty of people in previous administrations without the racial profiling that lead to several of these Americans being detained. Finally, I don’t believe this level of deportation is making us safer or benefiting us economically</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302025</link><dc:creator>mattnewton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47302025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mattnewton in "Never Bet Against x86"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not what the article is talking about, but I think betting against x86 in terms of the investment of companies (not individuals buying PC parts) has been a pretty good bet!<p>Being long AAPL and NVDA has crushed AMD and INTC, and that's with AMD's gains which I would argue are mostly due to non-x86 chips. Even Broadcom + Qualcom + ARM has been a better basket to hold for most of the last 5 years.<p>While PCs still need x86 because of the standardization the article talks about, more appliance-like computers like mobile phones and even server hardware have stolen a lot of market share and I think are the dominant way people will do their computing in the future. This comment was written on a m2 macbook that I use to ssh into a gb200 server.</p>
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<p>When you were detained it was in service of understanding an accident. When these Americans are detained it’s because they were racially profiled. The courts may decide that’s due process now but they didn’t believe so years ago and there is quite an ugly history to that practice.<p>This article is from October of last year. It’s very hard to get current numbers. 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will" rel="nofollow">https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...</a></p>
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<p>Wait it’s not Dolt? I assumed it was named in the same vein as “Git” when I read it</p>
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