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New comment by mr_00ff00 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

mr_00ff00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:56:10 +0000

This is well thought out and a good point, it does feel like though there should be some “special case” for donating land to keep for public use as a park.

You are right though, how long can someone who doesn’t own that land, have authority on how it is used.

Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?

mr_00ff00 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:56:07 +0000

As title says, what advice do you have for someone who is a mid-level SWE (4-6 YOE) and about to become a product manager?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301886

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:24:28 +0000

Maybe a bit out of scope for this article, but seems like in every country “Younger millenials and Gen-Zers” are turning to gambling online while traditional gambling (like Vegas) dies.

I feel like this might be a net negative from the pure speed and access in which you can lose money online vs real life, but idk.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

mr_00ff00 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:19:30 +0000

In regard to number 1, it really is such a hard problem to get money and aid to those that need it. Autocrats and every person with power along the way is happy to pocket it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:59:29 +0000

“Tbh they could've just hooked up zig translate-c to c2rust”

This doesn’t work like you think it does. These things are full of errors and make the code very verbose and hard to reason about. It works with small apps, not entire rewrites.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:57:50 +0000

Having dabbled with both Zig and Rust, they do things so fundamentally differently, it isn’t possible to do exact lines like that.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "GPT-5.5"

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:08:34 +0000

Because you are worried about bills or are concerned about waste.

If we design an AI to do work, it won’t innately care about not working to preserve power.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "GPT-5.5"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:56:02 +0000

Saving energy is something we are biologically trained to prefer.

Computers won’t necessarily have the same drivers.

If evolution wanted us to always prefer to spend energy, we would prefer it. Same way you wouldn’t expect us to get to AGI, and have AGI desperately want to drink water or fly south for the winter.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:43 +0000

Not saying you are wrong, but you could argue they made their big move with the Metaverse. Then again with those crazy AI contracts to ML people.

Maybe Meta missed on those big plays and now there’s too much pressure to make another.

I don’t know if I believe that, but worth considering

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

mr_00ff00 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:45:00 +0000

> But traders weren’t just active on Polymarket: there were similar surges of oil futures trading activity just hours before Trump announced updates to the conflict that would lower oil prices.

Prediction markets are all the buzz, but banning them isn’t fixing the problem. This has happened forever. Let’s not forget there was an unusual amount of put option buying right before 9/11: https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jnlbus/v79y2006i4p1703-1726.ht...

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:41:26 +0000

I don’t know if just one instance means direct democracy is bad. For example, in the US referendums have been used a lot for issues that are popular for voters, but politicians won’t touch.

(Weed legalization in many states, Abortion protection in Missouri I believe)

You could also argue Brexit. Ultimately, most of the UK was okay with shooting themselves in the foot to feel more independent like the good olds days. Maybe was wrong long-term, but if it’s what the people wanted, then maybe it’s good. Politicians never would have done it despite the people wanting it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

mr_00ff00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:36:40 +0000

Layoffs.fyi maybe? Not sure if that’s the data you are asking for

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

mr_00ff00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:02:03 +0000

Untrue for polymarket. True for kalshi. No bookie fees on polymarket

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Plague Ships (2020)"

mr_00ff00 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:25:56 +0000

> 12 trading ships from Black Sea ports made desperately incompetent efforts to dock alongside the harbour walls. Then the reason became devastatingly clear; very few of their crews were still alive. The living were emaciated skeletons, covered with black boils that oozed blood and pus.

Can’t imagine what that must have been like to witness in medieval Italy.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:37:24 +0000

That’s like having your security on the frontend.

If someone owns the keyboard then they can fake those metrics and tell the server it is happening when it isn’t.

That will be easy to beat.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:34:11 +0000

My understanding of vibe coding is when someone doesn’t look at the code and just uses prompts until the app “looks and acts” correct.

I doubt you are making regex and not looking at it, even if it was AI generated.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:43:40 +0000

It’s trained on mostly internet content, right?

If it learned language based on how the internet talks, then the best way to communicate is using similar language.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:19:55 +0000

Anthropic is a good example of my point, judges are blocking that action.

The president has always had these powers, starting wars hasn’t been a congressional power since World War II. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq twice were all police actions by the president.

For the most part he can do what he wants at first, but the system eventually pulls back. It’s happened with ICE, it’s happened with Anthropic, it’s happened with interest rates and pressure to effect fed reserve chairs.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:59:36 +0000

Had this conversation with a friend, but I think as an America you can be very optimistic about the institutional strength of democracy in the country.

People are very pessimistic recently, but if anything, we are seeing that our system works well. A person got into power that a majority voted for, but when he oversteps, the courts and other institutions (even judges and fed reserve chairs he picked!) seem to hold him to the rules.

I get the pessimism, but for the most part, I kinda think the system is working.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:59:28 +0000

Are you saying this is specific to the US?

I think you would be hard pressed to find a country that didn’t get involved in some war that had nothing to do with defense.