<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, 08 Apr 2026 22:09:40 +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 "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is absurd. Iran hasn't done hostile expansion during its entire history as a modern state. Meanwhile the Greater Israel project is being aggressively pursued, with Israel currently (as in today, Wednesday April 8th) ethnically cleansing South Lebanon for indefinite occupation, as well as annexing the West Bank.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:32:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687637</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Anti-Zionist tag is interesting. It seems that it's actually an extension that would be used by Zionists, as it identifies anti-zionists, and the wording incorrectly claims that anti-Zionism is hate speech (whereas it is in fact Zionism that is hate-based ideology).<p>A lot of Zionists claim -- incorrectly -- that all Jews as Zionists. But certainly the major groups of Zionists are Christian zionists and Jewish Zionists. I would say there is a very very high chance that if you use the Anti-zionist Tag Chrome extension, that you are Jewish.<p>So it seems quite likely that Linkedin is actually tracking Jews with this.</p>
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<p>As I recall, Andreesen's descent started with his being publicly criticized during the cancel culture movement of the mid 2010s. This seems to relate to that - perhaps the criticism came so hard he couldn't take it, and his solution was to refuse to think about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:22:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602957</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What happened? Kroah-Hartman shrugged: "We don't know. Nobody seems to know why. Either a lot more tools got a lot better, or people started going ..."<p>Odd sentiment. It's pretty clear the tools crossed a threshold last year (in April as I recall) where they became good enough to actually write entire applications, and just accelerated from there. Today they're amazing and no-one I know is writing artisanal code anymore (at least, not at work).</p>
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<p>Tech for Palestine runs a (free) incubator for civic tech. Would encourage the OP to apply!<p><a href="https://techforpalestine.org/incubator" rel="nofollow">https://techforpalestine.org/incubator</a></p>
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<p>The author mentions the French revolution, and that is a really important thing for the elites to understand. Class mobility -- as much as it existed because for a lot of people it didn't -- is what keeps the heads of the elites attached to their bodies.<p>When the system gets destroyed, and when the wealthy extract all the wealth from society, a lot of desperate people start looking for reform. And when the wealthy control and limit all means of reform (buying politicians, limiting free expression on social media, etc), reformists realize the only remaining path is revolution.</p>
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<p>Exactly. and that's what development is becoming.</p>
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<p>Let's take the metaphor of writing. Would we say this guy is just a writer who started from another trade? No. Writing is something that used to require experts (scribes) and that now anyone can do and is just a normal part of doing any work.<p>Developers are scribes - we have sacred knowledge that is now being democratized because everyone can do it due to good enough tools. As a result, we won't be needed much going forward.</p>
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<p>Or we stop attacking sovereign countries simply because our allies (why are Israel our allies?) want to start wars.</p>
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<p>The US shouldnt be starting wars with countries, and bombing civilians, at all.</p>
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<p>Of course it is. There was no reason for the attack, except as Rubio admitted, Israel was going to attack so the US joined in. Why are we attacking anyone? Why are we dropping bombs on civilians in Tehran, destroying schools and hospitals, for no reason at all?<p>Same reason we did in Gaza - because Israel's goal is to destabilize the Middle East so that they can expand into Syria, and Jordan, and take over Palestine. Which is exactly what they're doing: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2026/03/10/israel-iran-war-west-bank-lockdown/" rel="nofollow">https://theintercept.com/2026/03/10/israel-iran-war-west-ban...</a></p>
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<p>It seems to be working for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:22:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338440</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good time to remember that Wiz' VC was accused of paying bribes to CISOs to buy their portfolio's software (of which Wiz is one).<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-built-a-cybersecurity-unicorn-machine-then-came-his-conflict-of-interest-mess/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...</a><p>> Two security executives told Forbes they rejected overtures from Raanan’s team after hearing about the firm’s “menu” of compensation. “I was completely aghast. It was against my principles,” one said.</p>
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<p>As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history.<p>Here's my full thread on it: <a href="https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068</a></p>
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<p>If you think censorship is gone, try to talk about Israel's apartheid in Palestine and see how far you get.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:39:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320555</link><dc:creator>pbiggar</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbiggar in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One issue is that he is indeed saying this is for America. But, like, there are many people in the world (most, even) who are not American. If companies are willing to throw non-American people under the bus, that's neither ethical nor good business practices.</p>
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<p>Notice that Anthropic doesn't support spying on Americans specifically - spying on anyone else is fine. Can't spy on three specific 300m people, but spying on the other 7.7B totally ok.</p>
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<p>Have a look at <a href="https://thaura.ai" rel="nofollow">https://thaura.ai</a>.</p>
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<p>Thanks, fixed my comment.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prominent_individuals_mentioned_in_the_Epstein_files#Sergey_Brin" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prominent_individuals_mentione...</a></p>
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