<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: politician</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=politician</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:05:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=politician" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "Why are we still using Markdown?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>_underscore_ for italics conflicts with most identifiers in most languages.<p>Markdown was created in an era before the web had easily used components for structural syntax highlighting (tree-sitter) and where reliance on regex-based approaches was more common.</p>
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<p>I think we'll be able to quantify sentiment from the data, and I look forward to doing so. There's a few other datasets that I want to look at such as whether there is evidence of participation suppression via rate limiting on a per-profile basis.</p>
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<p>This is great. I've soured on this site over the past few years due to the heavy partisanship that wasn't as present in the early days (eternal September), but there are still quite a few people whose opinions remain thought-provoking and insightful.  I'm going to use this corpus to make a local self-hosted version of HN with the ability to a) show inline article summaries and b) follow those folks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:10:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430798</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47430798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’re not missing anything. I’ve worked with many developers that are clueless about error handling; who treat it as a mostly optional side quest. It’s not surprising that folks sees the explicit error handling in Go as a grotesque interruption of the happy path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:54:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329797</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In your understanding of the constitution, is the executive branch subordinate to the other two branches?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:04:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241032</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The OP said that they kept what they liked and discarded the rest. I think that's a reasonable definition for signal; so, the signal-to-token ratio would be a simple ratio of (tokens committed)/(tokens purchased).  You could argue that any tokens spent exploring options or refining things could be signal and I would agree, but that's harder to measure after the fact.  We could give them a flat 10x multiplier to capture this part if you want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199827</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Most of the code gets discarded." If you don't mind sharing, what's your signal-to-token ratio?</p>
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<p>This is a decent approach. My concern with TDD is that writing tests necessarily implies designing an API upon which those tests operate. Here, the agent is instructed to "not write code, write tests", and yet, in doing so it defines an API. This will cause the AI to hallucinate the API.  Layering in yet more tests on top of this will cause that API to deform in strange ways that pass tests but that the adversary will not be able to cope with because it runs too late in the VSDD process.<p>I've seen this exact process play out in my own work. The AI generates code and tests that pass with high code coverage and honors invariants set by spec. I look at the code and find a rats nest / ball of mud that will cost 10x more tokens to enhance should I ever need to add a feature.<p>So, I think you're on to something, but I think the process might be discounting extensibility and resilience under change.</p>
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<p>Bingo. You don’t have to read much into this if you remember how the DoD uses the word trust. In their world, a "trusted" system is one that has the power to break your security if it goes wrong. So when they say "unrestricted use," the likely meaning isn’t just fewer guardrails it’s that the vendor doesn’t get to monitor or audit how the system is being used. In other words, the government isn’t handing a private company visibility into sensitive operations.</p>
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<p>No individual, whether a colonel or a CEO, has inherent authority over national security decisions. Authority flows through democratic institutions. A contractor can choose whether to participate, but national defense policy is determined by elected institutions, not private executives. If society believes AI should or should not be used for certain military purposes, the venue for that decision is democratic governance not unilateral corporate refusal or approval.<p>On a CBS interview this morning, Dario defended his position with the claim that he must act because "Congress is slow." CEOs can and should make decisions about what their companies build or refuse to build. What they cannot do is substitute their judgment for the constitutional processes that govern national security. We must not vest de facto policy control in unelected corporate leaders.</p>
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<p>The posters question was itself a deflection - and your response is moral blackmail.  Why don't <i>you</i> answer my question? Why are <i>you</i> deflecting? See how that works?</p>
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<p>Unlike Europe, the USA is not a technocracy.  If you want to learn more about the 3 branches of government and the scope of their powers, ask your AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:06:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190701</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you an American? Do you understand that your safe easy life depends on a mostly autonomous nuclear deterrence capability maintained by the military you oppose? Deeply think about why you still have right to free speech, and what it takes to sustain those rights.</p>
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<p>"This has never happened before." US could compel Anthropic to act; simply not doing business with them is restraint, not escalation.</p>
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<p>This is ridiculous. These aren't unreasonable demands and the government has tools to compel tech companies to support the country regardless of any "collective action" shenanigans -- ask your AI to tell you about the Defense Production Act and the history of its use.</p>
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<p>I simply do not understand why Americans tech companies and their employees will hew and cry about supporting the military. For those of you who support their position, have you ever stopped to consider that your safe, comfortable lives of free speech and protests and TikTok and food and gas and Amazon Next-Day deliveries is enabled by a massive nuclear deterrent operated by the very military you oppose?<p>It is just so disappointing to come here and read these naive takes.  Yes, Anthropic should be compelled to support the military using the DPA if necessary.</p>
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<p>Wow, I never bother with using phrases like “deeply study this codebase deeply.” I consistently get pretty fantastic results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:09:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107736</link><dc:creator>politician</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by politician in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Other people are dumping on you, but I think you're getting at where the real 20x speedup exists. People who are 'senior' in one type of programming may be 'junior' in other areas -- LLMs can and do bridge those gaps for folks trying to work outside their expertise. This effect is real.<p>If you're an expert in a field, LLMs might just provide a 2-3x speedup as boilerplate generators.</p>
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<p>Global human populations are in decline; fossil fuel use will decline along with us.<p>If humans no longer use as much carbon (because they no longer exist in large numbers), doesn’t that alone adequately address the climate change concerns? Does it really make sense to overhaul the global energy generation infrastructure given these conditions?</p>
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<p>"Maybe you should [get some education], because [my anecdotes]" is rude and not particularly convincing.</p>
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