Hacker News: pavel_lishin

New comment by pavel_lishin in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:37:42 +0000

Ah, ok, I wildly misread/misunderstood that. Thanks!

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-elementary-particles-are-there-really-20260615/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572674

Points: 3

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I Did the Animorphs Covers – By David Mattingly

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:35:35 +0000

Article URL: https://myadventuresasanillustrator.substack.com/p/how-i-did-the-animorphs-covers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571927

Points: 2

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Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-blacked-com-can-sue-meta-for-scraping-its-porn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571790

Points: 2

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Why do these Castro gay bars have TSA-style face scanners?

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:23:55 +0000

Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/why-do-these-castro-gay-bars-have-tsa-style-face-scanners

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571770

Points: 5

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New comment by pavel_lishin in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:16:19 +0000

Would the government be buying that steel, if they own the infrastructure for it? When I grab a cucumber from my garden, I'm not exactly paying myself for it.

And the property, business and income taxes still need to get paid.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:11:00 +0000

Can't buy the wool second-hand, gotta have government-owned sheep.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:10:16 +0000

Wouldn't that just lead to a whole parallel economy of government-owned infrastructure & manufacturing?

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

pavel_lishin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:26:12 +0000

One thing I've learned over my career is that engineering seems to matter so little to a business's success. As long as the engineering problems and failures aren't so bad that the salesfolks will get crucified in the town square and convince customers to leave, then seemingly everything can eventually be duct-taped over.

Obviously this isn't as true for things where it truly matters - encryption software, financial software, etc. - but it's amazing how little engineering excellent has to do with a company's success.

BNPLs: Businesses Needing Provided Legibility

pavel_lishin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:13:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/buy-now-pay-later/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496490

Points: 1

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Car headlights don't have to be this blinding

pavel_lishin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:55:59 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260611003046/https://www.theat...

https://archive.is/I4K0L

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491214

Points: 122

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New comment by pavel_lishin in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:26:43 +0000

To be clear, the book makes it very clear that Tyren was a bad person, and a bad manager, and that what he is doing is not something people should aspire to.

As far as logic and context? Every system has a place for... maybe "parasite" isn't a particularly good term, but there are places where one could get lost in the basement - hopefully with their favorite stapler.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

pavel_lishin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:04 +0000

> There was a point of equilibrium in any organization’s middle management, a fulcrum of responsibility that remained still while the upper and lower ranks of the bureaucracy moved around it. Tyren knew from experience that a shrewd official could find this pivot-point within the org chart and, once entrenched, enjoy near-complete autonomy with almost no responsibility.

From "Son of a Liche", by J. Zachary Pike.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

pavel_lishin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:05:05 +0000

> though this is not an exact figure

You mean, this is an entirely made-up figure.

L'Affaire Siloxane

pavel_lishin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-siloxane

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465154

Points: 3

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Anthropic Kept Every Promise It Could Afford

pavel_lishin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:06:32 +0000

Article URL: https://techtrenches.dev/p/anthropic-kept-every-promise-it-could

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48465029

Points: 16

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New comment by pavel_lishin in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

pavel_lishin — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:42:18 +0000

I wonder, if I asked the next dozen people I meet, whether they would have any idea about this.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "My Students Can't Read"

pavel_lishin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:47:40 +0000

> When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger

This reminds me of a thing my spouse and I argue about sometimes. She'd get mad as a kid when she turned in homework, because she'd get points taken off for now showing her work. My view is that the teacher doesn't give a shit about the answers, the teacher doesn't need to know what the solution to an equation is, the teacher needs to know that the students are learning the correct techniques to solve a problem, and without showing work, there's no way to evaluate that.

New comment by pavel_lishin in "Plans to stop children taking nude images"

pavel_lishin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:27:59 +0000

Reminds me of this short story: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-o...

Datatype – variable font that turns text into charts

pavel_lishin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:20:50 +0000

Article URL: https://franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447339

Points: 4

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