<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: mbac32768</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mbac32768</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:48:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mbac32768" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are great points. I would add that part of societal buy-in might involve driving the cost of hiring cars down by automating them, though I realize at the moment Waymo can charge a premium because people prefer to not have a human driver. Over the long term autocars should be cheaper than either Uber or owning a car yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635449</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For starters, how bad do you think it would be to unplug all datacenters? How many people starve?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624858</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. AIs are a lot better at coding than they are at writing. I author less than 1% of the code I push these days, but still write the grand majority of emails and posts. Probably I would do it 100% human if it was high stakes and I expected it to be read by millions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428734</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes some of us are having a hard time with it.<p>All of the years we've spent on immutable by default, strong types and dreaming about the lambda has to matter! The AI that just rips out thousands of lines an hour of imperative and weakly typed code just has to be leading organizations to ruin! You'll see!<p>We worked hard at honing our craft. It's still meaningful, damnit!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:35:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238623</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shouldn't tons of applications linked against musl be crashing all over the Internet if it can express this kernel bug?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:33:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140820</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually, if you implement a JavaScript runtime at all your choice is either too slow for modern web users or `unsafe` everywhere. Runtime values are often simultaneously either words that encode immediates or pointers to heap blocks and doing this the proper way blows up time and space. Doing it the fast way means you have `unsafe` everywhere and Rust's lifetime model can't help you at all. Everyone chooses the fast way.<p>Maybe Rust let's you encapsulate the unsafe a little better than C++ but the wins are going to be surprisingly small. If you had to build it today you'd maybe use Rust but the case for rewriting an existing C based runtime in Rust is not that strong.<p>Also for things like interpreter loops the absence of computed goto in Rust stable is a real performance killer. Explicit tail calls (the `become` keyword in nightly) work but maybe you don't want your big rewrite to rely on that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:34:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130553</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It’s there every time you meet someone new and one of their first questions is, “What do you do?” They’re not asking about your passions, your hobbies, or the mundane human tasks that take up most of your time. They’re asking how you make money. How you turn yourself into income.<p>For the longest time whenever I'd meet someone at a party I would ask "so, what do you spend your time on?" because I specifically didn't want to box them into asking how they make money. I wanted to hear about their passions or hobbies or even the mundane tasks.<p>Instead, pretty much everyone told me about their jobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093283</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GitHub is the worst place to host your code. Except for all of the other places.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016180</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if bong hits ever helped him with his Makefile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:32:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942779</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds a bit like surrender here.<p>There's no reason to read the code anymore.<p>The LLMs produce it inhumanly fast.<p>They can usually debug and fix problems faster than Haskell can compile the project.<p>Meanwhile the open source communities are in basic denial about AI, so trying to change things by making compilation faster or advancing a Haskell interpreter are going to meet with fierce resistance.<p>Whatever. Give up. Just ship Python.<p>I sympathize.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872325</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lyme disease is not the only tick disease.<p>There's alpha gal (red meat allergy ) and also ascending paralysis. And more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:57:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707301</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My child almost died from a tick. Other children do die.<p>I would gladly kill every tick on Earth and whatever relies on eating them so no human has to lose a kid to this again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707276</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707276</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the minimum I might say you only allow Chrome to access Google Workspace/SSO, which is needed to access like 95% of company resources. This is, in fact, the topic of the OP.<p>You can do additional device management to lock down the rest of the machine. You can force Chrome and restrict Safari/Firefox/etc on Mac just fine. Same for Windows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678113</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Charlie Kirk's legacy is a 30-year sentence for moving zines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's possible some people thought they were there to move zines. But then there's this.<p>> In addition to the encrypted messaging group chats, Song, Arnold, Morris, and others met in person on July 3 at a "gear check" at Morris and Arnold's residence. There, Arnold asked Song whether they would be bringing guns to the July 4 action. Song replied that they would because he would not be going to jail. Song repeated words to this effect multiple times throughout the evening, putting everyone there on notice of his intent to shoot at police rather than be arrested.<p>Some of these people had to know they were entering an armed conflict. The fact that their leader went on to shoot a cop looks real bad for the rest of them tagging along.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675235</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the correct answer. Having your users run multiple browsers by default (instead of with whitelisted exceptions) is now multiple attack surfaces the org has to manage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:46:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604688</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48604688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's incredible how hard it is for firms to migrate away from platforms. Clearly you could just give something away for nearly free for 20 years and then jack the price up and make bajillions.<p>Even better if you can charge a mildly high license fee for 20 years first and then jack it up to something outrageous and still have customers who just can't drop you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579798</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Dr Newman showed that the highest rates of achieving extreme old age are predicted by high poverty, the lack of birth certificates, and fewer 90-year-olds. Poverty and pressure to commit pension fraud were shown to be excellent indicators of reaching ages 100+ in a way that is ‘the opposite of rational expectations’.<p>Blue Zones absolutely destroyed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:13:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379459</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After spending years on end doing functional programming I used to stumble when looking at for loops until I got used to thinking that way again. It's funny how different the skills are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 04:26:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263384</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lisp actually kind of sucks and the community is insufferable but a lot of good things in computer science are unachievable without lambda calculus. Compilers, type inferencing, Rust's borrow checker, some parts of React, async/await desugaring all flow from monk-like practice of the lambda calculus.<p>You could possibly invent these things as a Turing machinist but it'd be by stumbling backwards into them and likely doing a shitty job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 05:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104394</link><dc:creator>mbac32768</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mbac32768 in "7 lines of code, 3 minutes: Implement a programming language (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>probably the best use of s-expressions is as an alternative to json which you can implement in 50 lines of code<p>e.g. pretty good for config files or basic serialization</p>
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