<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: pbiggar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbiggar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:53:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pbiggar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similarly, Meta is paying violent illegal israeli settlers, who commit attrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank in order to steal their land. Same mechanism.<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jewishvoiceforpeace/posts/meta-doesnt-just-permit-settler-and-extremist-israeli-pages-to-publish-violent-r/1421321073371388/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/jewishvoiceforpeace/posts/meta-does...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:05:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271096</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This has already happened. It appears that Israel has poisoned the Common Crawl.<p><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatb...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:12:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172614</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>America had a violent revolution. So did practically every other country. Are violent revolutions de facto bad?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:28:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046025</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49046025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We evaluated Bitchat and determined it would be a really useful tool for Gaza - Israel controls all internet access to Palestine and would frequently cut off internet access to Gazans. We tried building our own but when Bitchat came out we focused on that instead.<p><a href="https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messaging-without-internet/" rel="nofollow">https://updates.techforpalestine.org/bitchat-for-gaza-messag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037200</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant section:<p>Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to
their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision making and surveillance and analysis capacities. [99] In October 2023, when the Israeli internal military cloud overloaded, [100] Microsoft, with its Azure platform, and the Project Nimbus consortium stepped in with critical cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure. [101] Their Israel-located servers ensure data sovereignty and a shield from accountability, [102] under favourable contracts offering minimal restrictions or oversight. [103] In July 2024, an Israeli colonel described cloud tech as a weapon in every sense of the word, citing these companies. [104]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:18:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036055</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft's human rights stain will take decades to wear off (just like Meta, Google, and Amazon).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844209</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48844209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sad to see Intercom/Fin's CEO, Eoghan McCabe, did not face repercussions after credible allegations about sexually harassing his employees came out in The Information in 2019 [1]. Some quotes:<p>> When the woman said she, too, wanted to go home, Mr. McCabe told her that he wanted her to remain, the people said. After the other two employees had left, Mr. McCabe made a lewd remark to the saleswoman and said that he would like to sleep with her, the people said. She declined and eventually left his home, they said.
> Later, the saleswoman said Mr. McCabe’s actions had frightened her, according to one of the people who spoke to her about the incident, who declined to be named.<p>> During the meeting, Schuur said she told Mr. McCabe that his behavior was inappropriate. The Intercom CEO cried during the meeting and said that he hadn’t realized there was a power imbalance between himself and the young woman, Schuur said.
> “I felt like I was just a guy at a party and she was just a girl,” Mr. McCabe said, according to Schuur.
> Two former Intercom employees present for the harassment training seminar said Mr. McCabe didn’t attend.<p>> At an Intercom party around 2014, Schuur said she witnessed Mr. McCabe slap the saleswoman’s buttocks. At a different event around that time, another former employee said she saw the Intercom CEO place his hand on the same woman’s thigh.  Four former Intercom employees, including Schuur, also said the woman told them of the advances, which she said were unwanted.<p>>  A key figure in the company’s culture was Mr. McCabe, described by employees as both brilliant and temperamental, with a tendency to cross boundaries with junior female employees.<p>> Mr. McCabe, through an Intercom spokesperson, declined to be interviewed for this story, but said in a statement: "In the early years of the company I demonstrated some poor judgment. I apologized at the time [...]"<p>> But early employees said he also showed flashes of temper and vindictiveness. He was known for occasionally writing scathing messages to employees in group messages, according to a former employee who saw them. On at least one occasion he told another person leaving Intercom that he intended to tarnish their reputation in the tech industry, that person said.<p>I previously tweeted about this and McCabe threatened to sue me.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegations-against-intercom-ceo-sparked-departures" rel="nofollow">https://www.theinformation.com/articles/harassment-allegatio...</a><p>cached content: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zsAytvQRuEwc0ftY3OtlXwvjvNL4T28TR9labbWeeig/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zsAytvQRuEwc0ftY3OtlXwvj...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:45:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542081</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for catching that, should have done a better job vetting that. The rest of my post is still true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479580</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[edit] Removed as my link was to a different Eric Ries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478346</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Facebook is also paying far right israelis, whose content incites violence against Palestinians.<p>> a new report titled “Monetizing Occupation: Meta’s Financial Enablement of Settlement Activity and Violent Rhetoric Against Palestinians.” The report reveals how Meta allows Israeli far-right pages, settler-affiliated accounts, and extremist media outlets to generate revenue through its platforms, despite publishing violent, racist, and inciting content against Palestinians, and despite many being directly linked to promoting illegal settlement expansion, as well as widespread violence and attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.<p><a href="https://7amleh.org/post/meta-monetizes-settlements-and-violence-en" rel="nofollow">https://7amleh.org/post/meta-monetizes-settlements-and-viole...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:09:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458123</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every Big Tech company employs hundreds of "former" Israeli spies - Google just brought on another 900 via their acquisition of Wiz (to add to their existing 6000).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428064</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Defensive missions? Was the UK under attack?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396496</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We work on helping people move to Signal from WhatsApp. It'll be easier once they have a Communities feature, as WhatsApp is very far ahead there.<p>The main advice we got is that although you need to migrate individuals, the main focus should be on migrating channels. If you have a family group chat, that's the target. Tell people about how Meta spies on them, etc, and then support everyone in the channel to individually set up Signal if necessary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356627</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Definitely. Not to mention that their major investor, Sequoia, has been war profiteering and Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire has been publicly islamophobic and a huge supporter of the genocide and occupation in Palestine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 11:47:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292798</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "2009 Aftonbladet Israel Controversy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Before eventually admitting to the theft of organs, the Israeli government initially denied the allegations and called them antisemitic.<p>This is basically the MO for anything. Call out a genocide - you're antisemitic! Call out the endless crimes against humanity committed by Israel? Antisemitic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:11:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291618</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "The user is visibly frustrated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best advice I saw on this was to think of the LLM as simply a tool, and if you get bad results, it's because you -- the user of the tool -- are using it wrong.<p>After that, I'm less angry at the AI, and turn more towards a constructive "ok, this machine is stuck, how can I unstick" it approach. Calms the frustration a lot too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 08:22:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276749</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They mention Vibecoded compiler, here is one: <a href="https://blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimizing-compiler-with-ai/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.paulbiggar.com/full-optimizing-compiler-with-ai...</a>. I continue to work on it in some limited spare time, but it continues well. I'm currently working on building an orchestrator to continue building it, as babysitting the AI still takes a lot of time. Need to figure out how to put the strategic direction into that though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:34:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178202</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48178202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To get a flavor of what Ahmed Eldin speaks about, here is one of the last episodes of his podcast before his arrest.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9poJrS_VgI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9poJrS_VgI</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 19:52:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172634</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disagree on his characterization of Claude as being much better than OpenAI (a very low bar), esp from a sovereignty perspective. Here's what Anthropic's CEO had to say (from <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-full-transcript/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-full...</a>):<p>> We are patriotic Americans. We have done everything we have done for the sake of this country, for the sake of supporting U.S. national security... We believe in defeating our autocratic adversaries. We believe in defending America.<p>and<p>> So, you know, Anthropic actually has been the most lean forward of all the AI companies in working with the U.S. government and working with the U.S. military. We were the first company to, you know, put our models on the classified cloud.<p>> We were the first company to make custom models for national security purposes. We're deployed across the intelligence community and military for applications like cyber, you know, combat support operations, various things like this. And, you know, the reason we've done this is, you know, I-- I believe that we have to defend our country.<p>and<p>> And so we have said to the Department of War that we are okay with all use cases, basically 98% or 99% of the use cases they want to do, except for two that we're concerned about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:48:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121221</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>CircleCI seems to not have the same problem: <a href="https://status.circleci.com/" rel="nofollow">https://status.circleci.com/</a></p>
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