Hacker News: mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mitchbobHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:43:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Luis Alvarez's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs"]]>https://archive.ph/uzJ6b

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:00:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601954mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601954<![CDATA[Luis Alvarez's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs]]>Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n11/steven-shapin/barrel-of-greenbacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601953

Points: 3

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]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:00:01 +0000https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n11/steven-shapin/barrel-of-greenbacksmitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601953<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Sam Bankman-Fried's Prison Experiment"]]>https://archive.ph/rsnCk

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:53:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559172mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559172https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559172<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "University System Went All in on A.I. Now It's Tearing Itself Apart"]]>https://archive.ph/tewyK

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:20:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387684mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387684<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "How to Silence the Federal Workforce"]]>> The Trump Administration Wants to Frighten Would-Be Whistleblowers

> A proposal to push federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements is part of a bigger effort to hide government secrets.

https://archive.ph/m29Oa

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:15:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387622mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387622https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387622<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Chokepoints: How the US came to rely on its economic arsenal"]]>https://archive.ph/waUKT

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:49:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372762mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372762<![CDATA[Chokepoints: How the US came to rely on its economic arsenal]]>Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/11/damming-the-big-ocean-chokepoints-edward-fishman/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372761

Points: 3

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]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:49:14 +0000https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/06/11/damming-the-big-ocean-chokepoints-edward-fishman/mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372761https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48372761<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms, so he created his own"]]>https://web.archive.org/web/20260531192855mp_/https://www.th...

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:30:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363480mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363480<![CDATA[Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/tech-billionaires-california-elections

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357140

Points: 24

# Comments: 5

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:15:35 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/tech-billionaires-california-electionsmitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357140<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?"]]>https://archive.ph/S4JwH

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 20:13:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349296mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349296https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349296<![CDATA[Are 'mind children' the future of reproduction?]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/31/are-mind-children-the-future-of-reproduction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348444

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 31 May 2026 18:44:19 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/31/are-mind-children-the-future-of-reproductionmitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348444https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348444<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find"]]>https://archive.ph/nwsJW

]]>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:15:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340195mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340195https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340195<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game"]]>https://archive.ph/2026.05.27-164806/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:13:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298197mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298197https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298197<![CDATA[The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else's Game]]>Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298196

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:13:22 +0000https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/david-runciman/trivial-pursuitsmitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298196<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "CBP updated its electronic device search directive in Jan 2026"]]>Link not working, but it looks like this is the page:

https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/...

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260455mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260455https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260455<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Capital and the Debt Trap"]]>> The first four chapters provide a general summary of the economic instability afflicting the international economy at the time of publication (2011), noting that cooperatives have on average performed better than traditional for-profit corporations. The next four chapters describe four different cooperatives in four countries.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:11:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260133mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260133<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and His Supporters"]]>https://archive.ph/GwN1E

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 18:11:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259648mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259648<![CDATA[A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can't]]>Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/deep-springs-college-ivy-league-education.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255741

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 09:03:42 +0000https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/opinion/deep-springs-college-ivy-league-education.htmlmitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255741<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "It is time to build a new internet"]]>Getting a 404 for this, but it's available from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260522023015/https://mrmarket....

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 05:38:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245038mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245038https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245038<![CDATA[New comment by mitchbob in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"]]>https://archive.ph/LSWjV

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 05:34:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245026mitchbobhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245026